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Card #c266IR // #c266Synthesis

There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time.

— In our words · Source: The Eye of the World (Robert Jordan)

[Use when]

Use when a story or org chart pretends it has a clean Year Zero.

[Why it matters]

The cosmology refuses origin myths and finale myths — every "start" is mid-cycle.

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