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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9OYOIs4ZVj
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXXXM7juwSC
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEqZnYc9BOH
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVOeQixAmm
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡotDhb8q33g
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5pWsrYj3q5
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡngY9cqWVSw
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqOkT6fZuQi
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbuNCtJ1Hfr
those that would eventually follow.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Gz6ZpVr0o
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmXnsPoD4ph
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8dHseZKC3o
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvjTLiiisSs
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbpH6ElQIFZ
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOYHITl27fa
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuQmGOoZey3
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXS7EziEMdS
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUjx4CXEGuQ
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi32upOtWds
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAGr2ZPel4T
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPSyMM8T2oz
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1QeiXnHrO5
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGR2JlNvrQI
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ99jQyqZuMk
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2nN6EbWrF6
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDY2hYNISAD
only for the less privileged.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4C80pBm5Wf
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUvRAiweYrX
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPMoYZqsofr
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFh6177pTBJ
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb80PaSbI0D
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSA4ZIcZUmA
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfm9E0ULAoF
best avoided - a taboo.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9HouYTP7Rf
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdGib1sXizC
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoEykECtRI7
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaPRpId6QFY
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq90bW3LHY1
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ30dMt6sv70
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSo3HfSokrV
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsGoPxCWlVd
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB8mKPxmgMg
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJhUdD3iA6n
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK7bQdUqakf
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhOYzM3gyV
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqnpB1eKlwO
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRAmM6RjVKi
even to those outside their own race.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5otqaJp925
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrxFcaPS6S9
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8HPqlptJXX
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ89OEd1RYN1
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhhtTRnog0x
their importance kept increasing.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIfbpOEaAkm
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9arhbtb7Vz
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ636W3AdA6q
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more215Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIZikFy2pRO
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
