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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz2347sv7tO
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEgt7roPrNZ
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDVFOJFOlJg
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQjYuClxBwe
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyQJcdBZdis
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPdNyUbyIi9
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu1pzqTfFFh
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzYlZyW4JP2
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfidXuG9OiW
those that would eventually follow.307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW5mmAtQ6iq
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcMhLYVFbMN
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaGMB6TpJz5
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVWz1ScpEhK
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhfUWlNlKAP
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqZBW9H7BQ7
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsVDWK7upUW
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUtWIgj5Dhg
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkkm1JCvaGE
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlgDmmgGFFm
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA9woK2ObFB
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk9UmiiIA6y
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfDbPh4Vg9c
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMcPAv9uyDB
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlza5uyxJqn
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFae1DDXMSf
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk6E5NVGvUc
only for the less privileged.307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTHVhLL0eHs
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4IJYVpLAN4
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy9zfoc7mvS
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyh5sAo0zfe
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZASVtdQ8pB
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb7xThYTwhp
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6q0VlbJqa2
best avoided - a taboo.307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Rw9U5TtLy
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCPA18X9Yyq
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBP5gcp0pdJ
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ZO42d32Ox
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfb4dkGOIsd
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3mIqYczMo
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzZsZU3NwNO
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkShleUvYrr
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6TADU1EMWl
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡok53sqWXBN
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyFpsjfqhbz
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡezL649kRaj
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKOlbEmER57
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh2b3iwI0zm
even to those outside their own race.307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS1uGcvoYtw
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0qzUeNKg0u
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgtN93iK8sP
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUTxRk5zvgX
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡez6pLizntO
their importance kept increasing.307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2jow36yhxQ
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXOZbhASzuq
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqY71ndntyH
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more307Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtyUJs9R0Ul
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
