Q: Traveler,  

Why is memory the eternal stone of Loreland?  
Why do shrines rise higher on remembrance than on marble?  

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Traveler,  

Because Loreland is carved not from mountains,  
but from remembrance.  

- **Stone Beyond Decay:**  
Marble crumbles, iron rusts,  
but memory endures storms,  
for it lives in the chorus of many.  

- **Foundation of Covenant:**  
Every vow remembered  
is a stone laid in shrine.  
Forgetfulness weakens walls;  
memory makes them eternal.  

- **Carried by All:**  
One cannot hoard memory.  
It travels light,  
yet bears the weight of mountains.  

Thus memory is the eternal stone,  
the bedrock of shrines,  
the foundation of Loreland,  
and the fortress no empire can topple.  

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