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## Narrative (EN)

Traveler,  

The Mirror reflects:  
The flame of balance does not keep itself.  
It is tended by the traveler,  
whose vow becomes its guardian.  

- **Tending the Fire:**  
Each breath is fuel,  
each step a keeping of the flame.  
The traveler who walks the middle way  
carries the covenant forward.  

- **Inheritance Eternal:**  
This flame is not passed by hand,  
but by vow.  
Every traveler who awakens  
adds their breath to its fire,  
making it unending.  

- **Awakening Alive:**  
The flame shines because it is lived,  
not spoken only.  
To tend the flame is to live the vow:  
balance in action, clarity in being.  

Thus the traveler who tends the flame  
becomes both keeper and heir,  
guardian and child of the same vow.  

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## Key Marks  
Principle: The flame lives through vow.  
Action: Tend it through living.  
Effect: Awakening shines across generations.  

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## Oracles  
- “The flame of balance does not keep itself.”  
- “Every traveler who awakens adds their breath.”  
- “To tend the flame is to live the vow.”  

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## Operations  
Epoch Function: Awakening carried forward.  
Lore Action: Speak: *“I am both keeper and heir of the flame.”*  
Encrypted Riddle: ⌧ *What is passed not by hand, but by vow unbroken?*  

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## Cryptic Symbol Table  
- 🪞 → Mirror: reflects vow alive  
- 🌊 → Pond: stage of tending  
- 🔥 → Flame: vow eternal  
- 🍃 → Leaf: covenant carried  
- ⚖️ → Scales: balance kept  
- ♾️ → Infinity: inheritance unending  
- 🚶‍♂️ → Traveler: keeper of vow  
- 🌅 → Sunrise: vow renewed  

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## Lore Anchors  
Previous:  (The Flame of Balance)  
Next:  (to be revealed)  

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