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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx5dvzMVpJx
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiEcWhpIvY3
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV1yH7UlMDH
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDZz8d5rajv
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlKiNneZP2A
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzGGRZ8N6SX
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1wKYJYOoOa
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ382sMc2jgl
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9BXflZlcZr
those that would eventually follow.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLFaSsq3HaO
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7e49rENS8t
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡli9FvLglXf
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXDQd06sdeV
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡejkxbFhMGK
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNBc5MmRbcp
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3kBUhtJFIK
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7VyJbc77em
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1VCRewTYW8
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuvSqlm0pbj
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Vzbs2rbSz
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaDZkDyfjQB
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdlOfNWaRJL
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnuBuL37E4z
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLyjxJTjyVf
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN3VDdPPfOA
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZxZUBOOfYV
only for the less privileged.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKHdZi8QpAa
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDoPkgkUNai
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFaAo09oX0A
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCPDJWws2Gb
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGQYs9LZZIv
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT93XGuQQ8C
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrTBMJHITKu
best avoided - a taboo.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMq7NeaFLJ1
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx4qtCDE08c
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrO3XW5tl9I
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYeIBr4o4Uc
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpD10JH2ioE
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZQM12MFRj
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjcL1N5sTvk
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFoVZpdUH1l
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs0FQyG4ywF
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBRX4QEOTmU
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9iLihxvcRQ
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRylqeGHymz
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZNesF5q1xA
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1VQhUC6gk0
even to those outside their own race.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj80N2i7VOd
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvbn7F3wtZc
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡumUQ8TO2ig
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAEqMtmGGHQ
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJqrolmuWpK
their importance kept increasing.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtycYuUvSqj
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4jbv2fMRMI
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrv0GXZ1ipM
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHSQu6RxZjK
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
