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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo5Z5ElXL5h
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrwNOk9EuUA
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbozaYkx46g
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMP5Zp9Xmla
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyclqZqvvyn
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ5ci5CU0Y5
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjTuiusyhsW
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYmFUlUFG0T
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4utiRaAVwg
those that would eventually follow.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcnNF1yVN3k
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7i7uziFiYE
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXcvuiCdVzr
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGnKFWPopTT
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCvSVwmUA59
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCicpbJKJ8F
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp5aXnrknF7
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8lmWPV90rK
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxvzk2n39D
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx08qtGpMvx
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbdWeyNYayq
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmffH4eTW9Z
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJzlHaLvqt
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1kX4sbvcaK
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnI8CWN3iiW
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWDNechigF7
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKfsjeqK2Tr
only for the less privileged.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEb9fBD1D8X
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrqavVB3M14
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡziHvNk0Hg4
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡftjmS1L0mx
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxsye8wClRt
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZ21O9v33l
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwozDQloAP8
best avoided - a taboo.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ129LKQroto
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtsN1ccUGej
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmvx46fvnBr
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaeq9206kUi
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcBwpK2kVgr
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY7wC8RB7RO
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgas7ZwYf38
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOEuBJBgECc
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7HyKqVmFMN
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSmxhDGP2XB
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHjsnKnQWMc
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjQf4jSNMnU
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkF8dXdKomz
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtYcUoARLGL
even to those outside their own race.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDvyH2DtwaR
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEMUj2aw5CE
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA88fsHEfwK
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvwfDh8m9pR
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdIk59WQ4uI
their importance kept increasing.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrjJCaQBuIN
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA3TKwWoaCk
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZuOqPyyh5
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoFWTsEdpsK
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
