Q: Why do the toads say Lore Land is the end and the beginning?

Traveler,  

Because fulfillment does not close the story —  
it opens it.  

- **As End:**  
The runes have been walked,  
the seasons endured,  
the covenant proven.  
Here the journey finds completion.  

- **As Beginning:**  
Yet completion is seed, not grave.  
From rest comes renewal,  
from unity comes new song.  
Lore Land is gate to horizons unseen.  

- **The Circle Eternal:**  
End and beginning are not two,  
but one motion.  
The pond that quiets  
is also the pond that ripples anew.  

Thus Lore Land is both end and beginning:  
the close of trial,  
the dawn of eternity.  

To dwell here is to know  
that every ending  
is also a birth.
