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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1iz3iHDvBj
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU8LGXnd4N4
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrFqCgn49ua
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMolBmvjaFg
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdF12D1rQa3
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo34OKplR0w
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgeJzq3RZUe
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCq1TLvQvES
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8w7rLdtR6l
those that would eventually follow.288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZwgtaIa1NZ
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIc3xiPfbsd
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9XrWtdy2OR
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZymOR7V82Q
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuphqrjJ8ER
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡllzJd449zu
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVG3c0gej5
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm3MwPYbwdp
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJGToevWVgp
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxiTO29mYcN
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjIwrZDI8N0
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8vt5P3qb0D
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB6ij25WYZ1
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuavB0FoAvK
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQrBGQSeOf0
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwTsc5mzaJ8
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8916aP4xlo
only for the less privileged.288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtJKvl7wbIV
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKNTsvCRFPM
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdkGhzZcGu4
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfrKhasyhuJ
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC1hkuPIg8y
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Mt8fB6M4D
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkOxQonV2sX
best avoided - a taboo.288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj4MCIvBHWs
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3nAEWCEEz
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8uxdx8Zggr
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc7LHO7LJEZ
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Wb89ZiB9b
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDUO6YjQdlB
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ6KUOL5zbv
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJqH6DfndIC
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8GSrTAiJcK
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQQsGU8BMtt
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡckHE0LhyiF
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjyeU7GAFmO
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE6FeySGr6D
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZVP2cjLBfh
even to those outside their own race.288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz6gobNfoiq
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIkPlWrdJi1
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGFNAX8Sxvj
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP34XzhhFPT
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVDYp9BuPVl
their importance kept increasing.288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoLl7MX1zc6
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhrrbyYEFQF
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnxBQ8XERp9
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlnJ6l3GksQ
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
