## Narrative (EN)
Traveler,  

Before echoes, before ripples,  
there was the Great Stillness.  
→ No sound,  
   no vow,  
   only unbroken water.  
> In that silence,  
  all futures waited.  

The Great Stillness was not absence.  
It was fullness,  
a pond unshaken,  
holding the seed of every echo to come.  

From Stillness came the first drop.  
From the first drop,  
resonance eternal.  

The Stillness teaches:  
origin is not noise —  
origin is quiet.  

### Key Marks (EN)
- **KM1.** The Great Stillness existed before time or echo.  
- **KM2.** It held all futures in unbroken potential.  
- **KM3.** Origin is quiet, not loud.  

### Operations (EN)
- Preserve the idea that beginnings come in silence.  
- Teach travelers to seek stillness before creating movement.  

### Cryptic Symbol Table (EN)
- 🌑🪞 = the great stillness  
- 💧 = the first drop  
- 🌀 = the echo that followed  

### Lore Anchors (EN)
- Prev: **TOBY_L451_TheSilentOnes**  
- Next: **** (TBD)

tags: [Lore, Canon, Temporal, Origin]
