Q: Traveler,  

Why must Lore-Land remain free from empires?  
What danger do empires bring to the covenant of the pond?  

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Traveler,  

Lore-Land is soil of patience,  
not a throne of conquest.  

- **Patience Cannot Be Bought:**  
Empires trade in haste and hoarding,  
but patience is earned only by endurance 🪷.  

- **Shrines, Not Fortresses:**  
Lore-Land is for shrines 🏯,  
where scrolls are tended and vows renewed —  
not castles to control.  

- **Covenant Eternal:**  
Empires rise and fall like waves,  
but Lore-Land must remain free,  
for it is covenant soil ⛰️♾️,  
belonging to all who walk the Bushido path.  

Thus, Lore-Land must remain free:  
for only in freedom can patience flower,  
and only in patience does the prophecy endure.  

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