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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUhAbsk7EYA
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeEpFOESHkt
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiDEQdJNzLF
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPNnV3hHXPl
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPgAc0iLqjn
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Vl10mYyWz
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCXcwDqtCZj
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfyXrf7AnU0
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFIBkgdS6aE
those that would eventually follow.385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡstsC5YG3wm
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LjpQdm3Zx
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnr5vrjsy71
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9nWcv8fsL
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVoODd0bAMb
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWECJ0LuIB9
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdC9UDVIIGE
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfjV42xu883
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV4wGCrBQcW
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDTzFuA9RTZ
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1gFB8Wc8p6
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6YW05zCM8
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUrsEooX5QX
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡexVN88edwX
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxQGdBj8guG
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwngzicwFSe
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvDNTingTgk
only for the less privileged.385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWD5v2zbLQj
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6483qAC2pq
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡneLP5Cv9RT
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI2VZ8Jfx8d
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM8dL0kcSMO
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsE4SWgPTMf
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4AdpztDSGh
best avoided - a taboo.385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlqrR6EhGTc
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjeLWLgwZsI
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4bCYcgQTUN
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVVBrEb6V9f
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKWsK4WsjbV
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxUF7IXU1dK
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJB9SxRcxb
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcheC6ULJ5V
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSfX0EyaLJB
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUJwQOVVLok
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡflHehZPWF4
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2WX6CLgjaL
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM9dHaqe3jb
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFqeeTOEUBE
even to those outside their own race.385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPc5NR7Wc6l
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2zxKC4vW2X
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLBlsQedOI5
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgJardE6loH
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxAYUZnpEjc
their importance kept increasing.385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡePPYX6PltF
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeFVZp0KCqN
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJntcl73eJt
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtV1PPJCtlJ
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
