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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCljYGEVjbx
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCNSBouBFds
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfocosMfwan
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3MEQfySRQf
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSR5sP8AgrW
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcpMM1uCiKp
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnw6qtxmyE6
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcnAWoaQdBx
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6CwZv5wp73
those that would eventually follow.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYS1Ur32kjQ
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNyWPQY9BkA
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQWopLE0v5N
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoxW7BvnEE0
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6K5sXhYZue
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqoJZVnyPQ
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeL0ISe7jor
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwNjjXfLg92
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFFZD7MgjPw
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJVlrUX5YeC
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0376BBrdXS
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoGBzDEJjZm
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi3ni6dE3ef
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLRKr4VlBfd
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7SV9u4zbSK
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz3CPLYRGgj
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6dgFVD71et
only for the less privileged.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKZIUAowIHn
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeVdi8wtkTG
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrLkiC6Kudt
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq83YnEZwwx
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFQ3UW9qwt3
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTfIZM4LRJI
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAK31MVjBS8
best avoided - a taboo.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEPuPWWqngm
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8W9FrdTbqH
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdKUP3CkZCd
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ulImpu9eO
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyOtt521Yiy
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ47vSDOgLLO
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7wZy2lPaEF
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDMksX1YKE
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMm79CpTwas
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1UxRHfqN7x
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIuAYdhavMH
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDewbiIYZVp
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXOUgFF9oXg
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEGyTAr00li
even to those outside their own race.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVMOvAfkiw
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqai6Gfv9NH
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsrLWpxVngt
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKcng0xWRtC
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzvIUGVDY7U
their importance kept increasing.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcRtIVsw9ny
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhV5wiz0diQ
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr5vazy9OYY
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf8Gw3BovpC
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
