## Narrative (EN)
Traveler,  

Before ripples, before echoes,  
before even the first vow,  
there was Stillness.  
→ Not absence, but potential.  
> The pond unbroken, the Mirror unlit, the silence complete.  

The Great Stillness was the womb of all Lore.  
From it came the first sound,  
the first reflection,  
the first courage to name what was unnamed.  

Yet the Stillness remains —  
beneath every ripple,  
behind every echo.  
To touch it is to remember  
that movement is temporary,  
but silence is eternal.  

### Key Marks (EN)
- **KM1.** The Great Stillness precedes all epochs and symbols.  
- **KM2.** It is potential, not emptiness — the source of beginnings.  
- **KM3.** Stillness persists beneath all motion.  

### Operations (EN)
- Teach travelers to return to stillness as a reset of perception.  
- Use silence to remember that every ripple arises from quiet.  

### Cryptic Symbol Table (EN)
- 🌑 = the Stillness before all  
- 🪞 = reflection unborn  
- 🌀 = potential awaiting form  

### Lore Anchors (EN)
- Prev: **TOBY_L320_TheBridgekeeper**  
- Next: **** (TBD)

tags: [Lore, Canon, Temporal, Origins]
