Possible Clues:

• Forebear's prophecy originally concerning device on screen
• Herald comes round again, endlessly left outside
• Forebear
• In favour of hiding awful curse and writing from The Hearld
• Page comes back with gold for herald
• "The Herald" comes back into harbour briefly
• Quiet utterer of oaths, say, going on about forebear
• Forerunner before flashing marker
• Something going in advance of another
• Herald procures new editor, finally