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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsYbtqMaJyf
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeId4CV5v84
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxMC9l86ddg
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnWtL1PHv8Y
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8STWgDDcNL
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFKxHf7Hx8k
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoEuLwxy9z0
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD7UkHpHk45
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeKnw0TGSqH
those that would eventually follow.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJwxEq1R9Sc
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNbRrygzRbO
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLloIlAXEwo
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOgQW8BkeHD
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcomAT3LyyC
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ43Oj9KMH7l
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpqhOl7oEmK
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGaYlvXuORx
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ZcPsrQWxR
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD5HjMUXJ5s
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjWZNdqUxH8
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDTrthY7JVx
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ySzaWpoec
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfPgvD0E58P
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfNniOHLlsw
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGFD0nfvU3g
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwR9Kqs19CG
only for the less privileged.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFftXPmbOi2
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgy3jKLvdRP
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiovTD1FbeG
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ohukD74wL
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpSqFBLrwAb
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtuMnjj0wEQ
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIVPP1ltK1M
best avoided - a taboo.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbFSRbr6eck
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡewYFbwkfHZ
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3pz0RTcdJC
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYiDyk9fkGi
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFD4Da0qRg9
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz8yD6YI5lf
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwcgyYzwRyR
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF158J48SX7
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaA7mIpcFUT
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoldaP2iGzN
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJe4DJGZeb
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ77SFKGXmzV
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmFFHzVNVea
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPz3W1wKsxi
even to those outside their own race.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJbq7j3Q5r8
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡquOg0dvgE4
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLxWdJcv2RU
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1jsIRONjPL
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOaIRR78jyf
their importance kept increasing.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZxaGjYByFz
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJU9BwXqlZ4
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYthctaNIRl
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLMnnVKCijP
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
