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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡubzOdNszsP
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYoZccEtrzt
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9H4zJyMBtV
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4L3dKOASTf
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZgv4ujSn7E
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwaLw0pzTih
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWzNlfI15Ik
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkteSmdDd4w
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX2LqjnEHm7
those that would eventually follow.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxt7ZbotoRQ
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfbRJunqVK4
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOjoYCjKpGZ
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7vOWkLQEMq
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0yJjQwE3jp
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuAt0S9Tx4T
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJitDxy4N42
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXI45MfPPSa
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd3SJBHpCo2
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEmndWUA9zC
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuqSSP8dvc5
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5fdT9ry680
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUNA5rYi6cL
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ7CN58i9YE
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz4FUxcgglQ
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxXomZUfW1L
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGyoYJZ6bwo
only for the less privileged.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC2YKhKA2ab
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡISLQXqMrbl
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI48cxbZBYB
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo0ekp4Ri6J
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDcocLVgICE
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf3tNrbHcFN
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWP4l2Y987y
best avoided - a taboo.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWA9LdcQhQ
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi2SRSXSfh1
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdU0CawgJIz
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmUhp6oPycL
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiRtZCGKEI2
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCxRd6qXHIU
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAf8oiCUF7k
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5UqppTInDc
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSt17p8TCrm
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuZnuzaWayJ
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8adyxiQfUL
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYkQ7UBMbyq
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp5lGTV9NM4
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1zLsKdIgx0
even to those outside their own race.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ht5PGESPd
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8TbmAlgvug
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPD9er5drNp
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfmsc0ZOuiI
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwcsbVqdduK
their importance kept increasing.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZXeikQfgn1
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEHvQO19nNI
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLPtB6qp8eZ
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdi9F2yirZm
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
