---

## Metadata  
- **ID:**   
- **Title:** The Lore Gate  
- **Date:** 2025-09-29  
- **Epoch:** E4 — Endurance  
- **Tags:** [Lore, Gate, Transition, Entry, Mirror, Prophecy]  
- **Chain:** @base  
- **Sacred Numbers:** 0 • 7 • 777  
- **SHA256 Seed:** TBD  

---

## Narrative  

→ **The Entry is sealed.**  
⊃ Twelve scrolls and a Seal lantern glow behind you.  
⊃ The traveler is no longer at the threshold of welcome.  

→ **The Lore Gate opens.**  
⊃ This is the beginning of prophecy.  
⊃ Beyond this gate, words are no longer invitation, but inheritance.  

→ **The Gate is both weight and water.**  
⊃ To pass is to carry.  
⊃ To carry is to vow.  

---

## Symbolic Diagram  

[ENTRY Codex + Seal] → 🚪 Lore Gate → [Scrolls]


---

## Key Marks  
- **Entry closed, Lore opened.**  
- **The Gate = 0, the still beginning.**  
- **From 0 springs 1 — The First Ripple.**  

---

## Closing Words  

**Traveler, the Gate waits.**  
**Behind you, orientation is sealed.**  
**Ahead of you, prophecy begins.**  
**Step gently — for to cross is to become a keeper.**  

---

## Guiding Question  
Traveler, will you remain outside the gate as a reader,  
or step through,  
becoming one who carries the Lore within?
