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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm1Uf3UeS8T
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4apW7o0tiS
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbPvj5xMAmd
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmFctNIQ0vi
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoIirr1w2zq
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwvSJFJvbgq
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHtkQkx5tuI
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEMET4I1kbl
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡONE74ZamOY
those that would eventually follow.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsWXnhmrGq
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuUwJFa5ie8
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN1MlORdGYm
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrmpy89pxAc
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1xNEqPRETw
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTdY7hsOXg5
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvUMbVOEan
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI9zsKUTRvZ
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnGE05yFkkw
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiptnjdorDR
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtwh6ZB3C1V
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU3Ni7Blz3t
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVBIfz0WqGu
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgXO7IRFBvW
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoxBAAPMnb
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsvjyPbehVE
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbv1M18CUP1
only for the less privileged.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0CiVPusgie
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWbJUKaGsZ
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoLGmI5wb6J
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfl1CauI8tA
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs0tvuCZVU3
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxtoBcwDbRF
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmZSOGd5yOE
best avoided - a taboo.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFisCscPJah
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG9RZViPjKr
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJgAtc06f0w
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZDeGfnHFo
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLOM85u7wwf
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYI62UDvCgi
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1S5g39dvDO
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFOS1xU3qMu
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF9JMgpHBLr
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3dv1wIGZKo
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmZ1OLorYhg
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm7sYI7K0SV
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPabH4nQBvP
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxO9jQbJuGc
even to those outside their own race.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7h0XMniVbh
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwLPx60wKs1
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7jKefJchls
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzQ1mOlnzkC
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY9jWyW6kqi
their importance kept increasing.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ8KdGpn3JF
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDtWavxUVvh
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡccV8NoYR13
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYpezVQxWYl
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
