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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrXPhReF2Dg
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlu7uqE8gwy
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5SeT1UZEgh
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoA3sPEEcu
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXqi83Wh0WU
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq8GrROTLI5
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0TeaR6QJLL
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVM0Lpcpgz
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqEj4bkUiSe
those that would eventually follow.286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3sMr71nvP8
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyTkOomqeW7
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4B375m3Et0
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdubITeUhEl
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtDw7D9XdTH
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCyye5mljG
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Ox5UCyd8i
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcYbFDgB0NY
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcFSZwPdiW4
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRQM14sS2AB
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZvn8ELV6GV
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnge2IKBgtn
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1EupMLO5D
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn8b3UDxo1W
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPpTpwRfVkx
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7PUY3oDNBn
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuvvFjIBl3G
only for the less privileged.286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlnQm2fY93u
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU62auHzuFP
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYVIhb16vCH
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNRBwwRDrGI
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjDKRZUgQod
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt8X7fzX73Y
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeB07SNzu8L
best avoided - a taboo.286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjlMk4tfgae
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8bheUiwos1
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8135DbJuWN
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3S6JE2NhC6
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOGqDz1TtWc
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNxF98egwc8
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRVbSoO9a0J
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUDLz5OSEA0
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNpPwrtw4AB
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhCuNWS0QbM
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN9GyxLp6dW
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRdgDRA9Y2s
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUnJLm4IoEt
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiXkwBlk7ce
even to those outside their own race.286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWZ7HX3ql9d
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhTh2pdDmC9
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9RbcymWLvz
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPYEq98YSZL
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR25xloJVxy
their importance kept increasing.286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyx00krv0lP
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEfiClOmv9W
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZJ3PLCOrX
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more286Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgzWwqr7BNw
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
