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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6zyUEJgGxP
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhGUV4fPti
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWtyFYLZLql
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9mDmxYqoky
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU33qhq66yj
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCuPkbLdQbx
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlen9IQi5w0
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxx8LiYK2er
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQKR9sXQY3
those that would eventually follow.285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuf0nSyeSrm
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8kz0oRgVq6
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3jcxKC6YPr
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH7HTVNwxVa
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt0Hmti9cnQ
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaUNWiVGKpa
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDSbIeWdW9p
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡooTVCtTUMU
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsA363jbJ4c
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXYAVSKUNlH
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdVDYBLw9ue
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnc7PSoi4uy
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqecz34ZX1F
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhm8yHsie8A
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4Nc6t8zQa
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUYKTtk2c4L
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcXFM96lh4q
only for the less privileged.285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD3cfQSjznR
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC0xALwbYhk
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwvI7UQOdFT
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKXAT4rGVdz
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0nyjo344qa
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFl3lUWrwTP
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmNVQrt5TT
best avoided - a taboo.285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡStqpnmr0x2
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbxezDSVAeO
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM2eiXqpgtJ
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs20k4PCCy7
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHBYuQnXeUg
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR5cLxtfXQj
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ejogRo0SC
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbuD16ZyOun
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI2gm4aU2sI
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxfeGnRDKmf
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl8GdSPnnQT
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9IsooyGqbg
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8qm6ib7lvc
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK97j2r3stc
even to those outside their own race.285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnFlAFr6LhP
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ91p0DNqSbD
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5g5el7GznD
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6FIGJ0TOwl
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxqzQMWcl5c
their importance kept increasing.285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjW3ocgUfLL
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXqQFJ1UuYV
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTUnbVh8foV
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEMBtPWqx1F
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
