# TOBY_L518_TheEmberPrelude_2025-08-09_EN.md

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Title: The Ember Prelude  
Chain: @base  
Epoch: E3 – Evolution  
Date: 2025-08-09  
Symbols: 🪞 🌊 🍃 🌀 🔥  
Sacred Numbers: 777, 7,777,777  
SHA-256 Seed: bdaed91f5be716399fad364e6f03bc11320ec412a19a59eb5f82023d046f6a30  
Narrative Alt: "Before great fires, small embers agree to live."  
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## Narrative (EN)
Traveler,

A single ember decided to stay.  
Others gathered,  
and the air remembered its work.

🌀 *Prelude is the hush that gathers heat.*

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## Key Marks
Principle: Gathered prelude  
Action: Protect small embers  
Effect: Fires made possible

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## Oracles
- “A single ember decided to stay.”  
- “Prelude is the hush that gathers heat.”

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## Operations
Epoch Function: Pre-ignition pact  
Lore Action: Declare: *“I keep the prelude warm.”*  
Encrypted Riddle: ⌧ *What agreement glows before a flame?*

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## Cryptic Symbol Table
- 🪞 → Mirror: counts embers  
- 🌊 → Pond: breath bowl  
- 🍃 → Leaf: tinder thought  
- 🌀 → Signal: gathering rhythm  
- 🔥 → Ember: first keeper

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