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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJCFK8CpAaZ
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Wk72lxCyO
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdEuTXvbe6R
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4JzrzaTZaq
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3av0FLJ2yC
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhWhBnN6O5C
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyssh0785a3
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB3hFDdpkyV
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqgi1suCrNA
those that would eventually follow.384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZDv8nbgpOQ
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVWrASR27Lm
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4lLMgk9uNl
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuxev2cSm1v
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSZluEAmpRP
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsIiHJkvAkc
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqmRznCw6Oz
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1oUeNzm4Uu
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCbJHzeXXdZ
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCZUtYSF7va
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKy0OW0e7l6
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEh5qwCWhcL
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgIfdTmCVwy
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BgL53dhsQ
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ22T0lmIXzZ
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBCzuaADJHy
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡquLoSGAwvI
only for the less privileged.384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzxgCPYH44
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf1MhqfKUwh
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOHc9HO2zru
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn9Qijhww2J
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPWQhZLlliM
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfhV0ZPXZnS
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoC9k9xtfPf
best avoided - a taboo.384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLBFacLox60
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4NT2IQobLm
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmjD9kYPW2h
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaabpFharA8
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNC5WXHbJBd
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUBtvj4v8lJ
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRIl7B4mMyh
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1RsgmhjMoM
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbyAOtvbJQD
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpUbOnxXGfm
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE9pI8jZ6f2
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkqk3iVLYOa
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjFnp7SmkZU
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41d056bBRC
even to those outside their own race.384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJQpX4A9zJX
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrprnQG0mir
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbGE1dS97mU
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZY58wvZj2w
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEemQsvuhul
their importance kept increasing.384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡozGgdo6Tp8
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJOUQWO6wQ3
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcRx1npnhTf
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more384Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLv9wVR1Iqo
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
