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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdUY3v7QPn0
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP1wXnDtDBj
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhPEWbUC1HA
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiBN64QN0P3
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtIzyGrqwXa
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡukhMvjLyv2
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIumPTZYCWt
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ98zSD7JhSo
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW6nFYu9dCB
those that would eventually follow.223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB2SyT6aES7
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLMp96uD7Jk
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwizZAIyOTp
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKWpshp78cp
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8FNcZJbxKP
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4BqwQVhjZO
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRLicuqc6tQ
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmybqPng72K
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHcwjUM8Yax
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡovbE7wS8rR
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGCZLraDh9N
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDeuW1js7CS
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaNUiZ7fFRC
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYCNttKUjYy
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCjLtJN62KB
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCsI6ROSNu5
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTdf7XLXizp
only for the less privileged.223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1IxKjnnbUP
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEGR9rwFd8f
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAqcUsE9i4m
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWt6HA3Zpb1
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqxMzFyOh1a
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8vzWw5P4wd
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMlwwwDmK7k
best avoided - a taboo.223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvP4dL02p7m
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHglf2m5BfS
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡztLqNpu1Mt
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡit1JHz37Ux
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWcd0eg2yc
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEmaPgC1WCB
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwbNzKRTuMA
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOp22tDg3W1
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiaEdtYnCwk
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR78XSeH1z7
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuRREaFhUNl
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDgQlts7PbP
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnkvcQO9Qun
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb2MqfbNAzY
even to those outside their own race.223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfqXpnVvo3A
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJLezo6oWIq
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWjRa5CPU20
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2f6TxRlMPB
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡroiKzv8dnQ
their importance kept increasing.223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV0AjdBMUcB
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAacoboNNz
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi2dYD1Ywh2
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more223Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7VypXeATZy
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
