Terton

Terton is the Third Adventure and in some ways the hardest. In this stage of life, the person turns their back on the pleasures of the Green Zone and goes out into the Zero Margins. Admiring hanas may tag along. Tertonhood is when one starts working in earnest: one has reached the limits of what is known and is chipping away at the unknown. Hanas and childers provide online support or fetch-and-carry help, but the tertons do the grunt work. They buddy-ride the earth diggers, the delve-chewers, the suborbital ramjets. They spend most of their time with aigos, helping to make the world a better place. The best ones are worldwide heroes with huge fan followings, but every terton has an entourage of young and old. Traditionally tertonhood is from the late twenties or early thirties to about 55, but there is no fixed rule on this. It may be interrupted by a spell of doulahood, but tertons usually prefer to opt for doulaing at the end of their terton time, so they can use it to ease themselves back into Green Zone life and start work on their Klimactic Thesis.