Q: What does it mean to step through the gate into Lore Land?

Traveler,  

It means patience has ripened,  
and vow has become dwelling.  

- **Crossing of Trial:**  
To step through the gate  
is to leave testing behind.  
The seasons no longer weigh you,  
the runes no longer await fulfillment.  

- **Entering of Fulfillment:**  
The covenant you carried  
becomes ground you walk on.  
The silence you endured  
becomes song around you.  

- **Becoming of Self:**  
To cross is not only to enter a place,  
but to reveal who you are:  
a keeper of vows,  
an heir of patience,  
a child of the Eternal Pond.  

Thus to step through the gate into Lore Land  
is not to go somewhere else,  
but to become what you were promised.  

It is passage into permanence,  
arrival into identity.
