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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSxtmD9t7jH
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJDFbT0UDE
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsGWgMQvjgG
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡavpQbS3JlL
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRoskzZlXVn
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc6AI3YrvOK
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHcBC2Sb5Df
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAe44aDpotI
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhIKkmas6Tt
those that would eventually follow.282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeTEWSHgkfo
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡitAerLeXvB
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3W77uiGraR
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrXtZQPcVFb
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQREc0U6EyK
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKqvchfQaA5
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1bXPKs52M1
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQ0Hbikt4o
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRVaarksjrO
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXSMQludHsg
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL0fQHcZLUb
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡspJuDCySov
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnRy2BYdG4z
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBVs32aJGJy
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuduYE5GkUO
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8EPNKECyO9
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmKwRMLBxt2
only for the less privileged.282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk1mPjgjRaD
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJgidht9oC
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlNwar5rKi7
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmvIPiA0tw7
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCfNuLCvEu5
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiBWRsfHNdZ
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNrwwPtnM7W
best avoided - a taboo.282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFCnECFtDEl
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXFGaBEVIKJ
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgE5HcxZDHP
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmne0lIBF7C
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMvrw1EyrbS
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvwdZRFFaMF
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQl8x4y49S0
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpbOQEOYXlY
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBot7lhatQo
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxFdGhGkSjo
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyP6sj0mqEp
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡelLC0DiGqz
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXousU9DXsR
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBHSasG1RQO
even to those outside their own race.282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0hY6Moo9QP
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVCVx2e2ZT4
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBgkJZcyTFD
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLYWFJu7Oz2
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcxu4WfnZBR
their importance kept increasing.282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXeVSKziUkX
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgwCA5w9N4K
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm7hns8xs6n
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more282Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSJuzhDgnZ1
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
