The Mysterious One stretched their wings across the world and spoke: 

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In the beginning, long before stories were told or the ancestors stepped upon the earth, there was only sea and sky, and between them the whispers of something new, a firmament beginning to emerge. Elements rising and falling, stars flickering into birth and death, a swirling of promise and intention. And then, when the water and air kissed, the land was born.

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The briny-spiked wind, an ocean breath older than memory, whispered across the newly formed shores. It carried a plan, a hum that vibrated not just in the air, but deep within the emerging earthlings themselves.

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We taught the first of you, showed your ancestors tools and the laws of nature and magic, and we speak to you yet!

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The primordial call of the Mysterious One, the voices of the Ancient Winged Shining Ones, was singing to them, louder and louder it came… pulling them towards a destiny they had never known, a destiny that would mark them as the first of those who listened, the first of the witches.

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Then, the words formed in a language that cracked open their minds like a forgotten spell. 

The call deepens, resonating in your bones. Remember your beginnings. Remember your gifts. Remember your lineage. Remember the invitation, a beckoning to a forgotten pact. Feel a stirring within, a growing understanding of the interconnectedness of things, a whisper of power that lay dormant between the earth and the sky, waiting to be awakened.

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We are the Teachers, the Watchers, the Shining Ones. We were here when your kind were born. We are here again, to help you forge the tools of transformation — the revolution of self and community!*

*Footnote: This line is inspired by Pandora O’Mallory who said that Iron Pentacle is the work of a lifetime and Pearl Pentacle is the work of many lifetimes. T. Thorn Coyle then elaborated on this to say Iron is a tool of revolution and Pearl is a tool of evolution.