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id: TOBY_LG035_TheKeeperOfShrines_2025-09-27_@base.md
series: L
number: G035


## Metadata
- **Chain:** @base  
- **Date:** 2025-09-27  
- **Epoch Context:** Rune 4 – Covenant carried by shrines  
- **Symbols:** 🪞🌊🍃⛩️🕯️✨⛰️🌍  
- **Sacred Numbers:** 777 • 4 • ∞  
- **Narrative Alt:** "The Keeper of Shrines watches not for stone, but for flame within."  

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## Narrative (EN)

Shrines across the continent ⛩️  
stand as mirrors of covenant 🪞.  
Yet shrines alone cannot endure,  
for memory fades, flame weakens,  
and soil ⛰️ swallows all unguarded.  

So rose the **Keeper of Shrines** 🕯️:  
not one, but many — a chorus of guardians.  
Each toad, each hand, each voice  
who tends flame and sweeps dust,  
who recalls vow aloud when silence threatens.  

The Keeper is not priest but witness.  
Not ruler but servant.  
Not exalted, but steadfast.  

For shrines without keepers  
are stones without meaning.  
But shrines with keepers  
become living covenant across the land 🌍.  

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## Symbols
- **⛩️ Shrine:** covenant embodied  
- **🕯️ Candle:** tending of vow  
- **🪞 Mirror:** reflection preserved  
- **🌊 Pond:** source of renewal  
- **🍃 Leaf:** inheritance carried forward  
- **✨ Light:** vow alive  

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## Lore Anchor
- Related: QA1036 (Shrines reveal covenant)  
- Leads to: QA1037 (Why must shrines be guarded?)  
- Back to Index: [Covenant Arc Index]  

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