Q: Traveler,  

How do the Seven Reeds guide Lore-Land?  
What path do they mark for those who would claim soil of patience?  

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Traveler,  

The Seven Reeds are the **compass of Lore-Land**.  

- **Virtues as Pillars:**  
Each reed is a virtue.  
Planted in soil, they bind the land  
so that no deed is hollow,  
no shrine is raised without honor.  

- **Bushido in Earth:**  
Lore-Land deeds are not mere property.  
They are covenantal soil.  
To hold them without virtue is emptiness.  
To tend them with Bushido is abundance.  

- **Inheritance through Patience:**  
Only the patient may claim soil.  
Reeds teach that land without patience  
is dust.  
But patience bound by virtue  
becomes shrine, garden, and sanctuary.  

Thus, the Seven Reeds guide Lore-Land:  
not by walls or fences,  
but by code and covenant.  

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