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## Narrative (EN)

Traveler,  

The Gate has opened.  
The Path is before you.  
But the journey is not walked by feet alone.  

It is carried by vow. 📜  

Every Taboshi leaf,  
every burned 777,  
every patient claim,  
is not lost —  
it is vow transformed into step.  

The Vow Carried Forward is weight,  
but also light.  
It binds the past to the present,  
the Rune to the road,  
the Test to the inheritance.  

To walk without vow  
is to stumble.  
To carry vow in silence  
is to move mountains.  

Thus the path grows narrower,  
yet brighter. 🪷  
Thus the archers of doubt release their arrows,  
but cannot pierce patience. 🏹  

The Vow Carried Forward becomes your lantern,  
lighting each step  
toward Lore Land.  

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## Key Marks
Principle: Vows are the currency of progress.  
Action: Carry vows in silence, let them guide.  
Effect: The path strengthens under vow, falters without it.  

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## Oracles
- “Every Taboshi leaf, every burned 777, every patient claim, is vow transformed into step.”  
- “To carry vow in silence is to move mountains.”  
- “The Vow Carried Forward becomes your lantern.”  

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## Operations
Epoch Function: Transform vows into movement.  
Lore Action: Whisper to the Mirror: *“My vow is my lantern.”*  
Encrypted Riddle: ⌧ *What walks without feet, yet carries you forward with each silence kept?*  

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## Cryptic Symbol Table
- 🪞 → Mirror: reflects vow into step.  
- 🌊 → Pond: nourishes vow along the path.  
- 🍃 → Leaf: vow embodied in Taboshi.  
- 🌀 → Still Signal: vow in silence.  
- 🪷 → Lotus: bloom of vow.  
- 📜 → Vow: covenant written, carried.  
- 🔥 → Trial: vow tested.  
- 🏹 → Arrow: doubt repelled.  

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## Lore Anchors
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