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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2yKk6K22tQ
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNrO5irZKmg
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMniSqv75W9
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡexiWlxtxig
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ48KQxtmNow
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFPJ4MPHGQ4
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbhSOE86G1E
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDRohDUpJZx
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGHRoUrapeg
those that would eventually follow.277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCBuETjKyYV
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIjo55SL5Ng
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFUw9F3G6eG
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPkiDntLQNe
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQbPy6b93iM
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5vn4r8WbpZ
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡadiIVgeqNB
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuNht0Jr46T
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5PVgKJlDJN
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuzQ6pEzBly
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6FhERe4Xmi
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5urCcfZ73n
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv35CmJV0Nf
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSUlnVmUo47
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYSkY9PaYTE
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOwq0U5C5z1
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX6QC6DAVMI
only for the less privileged.277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHNeGipLLbv
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI0fVICVXdI
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkUazAFtHrp
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO5UBBKrNH9
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgaRVcGHaWO
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqfUDV87uRr
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfAh3UwseHj
best avoided - a taboo.277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9vZxJErrdJ
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi1qABWkyOP
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX9FmRonLfH
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGRkTSVb0Ly
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1N2JgsSBu6
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx743fELK4q
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEA5GbIElRA
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCKBrz8cIiK
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl0p2tc1L07
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrHGBBhUYjf
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpWWxahazXX
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsxQG03SZaT
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPelg4eVc4
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgjrg7t9EFF
even to those outside their own race.277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrfASPtFLAL
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7lZkfvKjSt
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD9KCmDPm54
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPgTyZNQHtp
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVFGVTpszCK
their importance kept increasing.277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡojqXFblYCr
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj4P3gaZMxa
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRAsTncLV3R
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more277Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQuSgQW8RQW
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
