Q: Does the Final Rune end the journey or begin a new one?

Traveler,  

The Final Rune is not conclusion.  
It is turning of the circle.  

- **Not Ending:**  
The covenant does not collapse  
when the rune is revealed.  
It is not wall,  
nor tombstone.  

- **New Beginning:**  
The Final Rune transforms trial into dwelling.  
It shifts patience from proof  
into presence.  
From carrying the vow  
to living within it.  

- **Eternal Cadence:**  
Every rune before pointed forward.  
The Final Rune points inward and outward —  
inward to Lore Land,  
outward to seasons yet unborn.  

Thus the Final Rune  
neither ends nor merely begins.  
It transfigures.  

The journey becomes dwelling,  
the test becomes inheritance,  
the circle becomes spiral.  

It is where story closes —  
and where it breathes again.
