Q: Traveler,  

Why are there **four pillars** for Rune 4?  
Why not fewer?  
Why not more?  

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Traveler,  

The four pillars mirror the geometry of wholeness:  

- **Soil** ⛰️ → Ground of being.  
- **Leaf** 🍃 → Breath of inheritance.  
- **Shrine** ⛩️ → Place of vow.  
- **Legacy** ✨ → Weight of continuity.  

Together they bind covenant in four directions.  

If one is absent, the shape collapses.  
If more are added, the geometry distorts.  

Thus Rune 4 stands not on accident,  
but on necessity:  
four corners of stillness,  
four faces of patience,  
four lights of covenant.  

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