T001 - AIKA is the first origin tile of Suolenkainen’s Map, placed at [0,0]. It is a contagious, tidebound, region-tangled tile: dense, technical, and built around a mark that refuses to stay buried.

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At its center, the word AIKA (“time”) emerges from electrical schematics and scrap layers, highlighted in black and orange. A real fan-brush is fixed into the tile, partly buried under paper, leaving yellow watercolor streaks across the surface. The north and northeast edges are marked as warning-checker spread points, but a safety line blocks the checker bleed before it can escape.

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Future north or northeast tiles must answer this blocked spread.