Terra is the Alterworld most students reach first, and the one the Academy spends the least time preparing them for. That is deliberate. A Seam does not wait for anyone to feel ready.
Chimeras drift through Terra’s undergrowth in combinations no Entis biology text would allow – a rabbit fused with a chat, temperamentally somewhere between the two. Hug, the students call the most famous one, and feed it when the Rangers aren’t looking.
The T.A.C.I. expedition tests more than a student’s Ferito. It tests whether they can stand in a genuinely alien world and still remember why the Overworld is worth protecting from the Underworld’s reach.
