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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIWDkkAk8TU
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpJQHKfMUeJ
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡivRG2HmVK3
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCyC0cDVICM
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfOBtUMJjMb
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Jgji3ftaD
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmU5Xa1PLG
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKwfMM4YAbE
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ftLX3T0cb
those that would eventually follow.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy211P0xldh
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQVS1YrE4LI
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGoEPEZUogp
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8k6rYh6i33
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1mH815O4r
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDXyU5sxsS0
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJk1hIkDbn
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6rvIqnXI41
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcqVZx4A590
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxbsNMtaRXc
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaZtTLcsmN7
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8YHahzm7Zz
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLSxWGw2oR4
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxgz4rGomWZ
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdpt90fRuFd
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSDZEbWEgPu
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJH3ghOZJcO
only for the less privileged.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCGTMxL7qqA
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJGUFGjxLfY
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCUe0Bo9DRO
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8sCiapRvOq
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAa7ZtZQxnM
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡftbOwzoDvt
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgb8Fd1Jden
best avoided - a taboo.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEmiOg8mmtT
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7FjWosul3q
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUJtCJ3I3Ul
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKEMxGIkAZF
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQfTY1B0515
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXwxindsZYE
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzoYjZP4Eld
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTWzn6kWiEB
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmbNeSVYq9O
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5RyGrFucmM
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdsfY39naB1
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxrs5zy4hxP
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO1KUIjdF1L
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm5sLUKOiXN
even to those outside their own race.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTySIIW2wYn
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIwfXLRDMPM
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRltBnkilQ2
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh8ikyMR0l9
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjflrVrN2W
their importance kept increasing.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXOu512FLrI
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0icjTHzgIY
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnWkc8M2QSY
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM1UaXzKJuz
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
