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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...118Please respect copyright.PENANAaFRPw4clPH
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but118Please respect copyright.PENANAOSYren6Cu9
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that118Please respect copyright.PENANA0mkHxw6V1e
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this118Please respect copyright.PENANAdkKiPkfqvd
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology118Please respect copyright.PENANAzDnBLYPOv6
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for118Please respect copyright.PENANAiTSl6kLtS3
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.118Please respect copyright.PENANAUbudq8xbWu
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire118Please respect copyright.PENANAOE0PiWM892
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for118Please respect copyright.PENANAoIUbpOQl27
those that would eventually follow.118Please respect copyright.PENANAXwQlz23Mkx
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in118Please respect copyright.PENANAPzHlRqGrOP
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume118Please respect copyright.PENANAXIIypcUoez
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more118Please respect copyright.PENANAAX24uuNzvQ
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races118Please respect copyright.PENANAgIhYNVkPRj
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?118Please respect copyright.PENANAluhCBFcAlc
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more118Please respect copyright.PENANAQQJCKALeej
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of118Please respect copyright.PENANAzng5IPpJZ8
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.118Please respect copyright.PENANAniCpeYV0ku
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans118Please respect copyright.PENANAXWZKjnAeOB
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;118Please respect copyright.PENANAAlzVqE8duJ
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly118Please respect copyright.PENANAMOwQrWUsyL
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter118Please respect copyright.PENANARJNdsQ7JWE
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each118Please respect copyright.PENANACMT3w8M2GB
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,118Please respect copyright.PENANA5XUNyS4i2S
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.118Please respect copyright.PENANA3bHtlEyWNZ
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if118Please respect copyright.PENANAMzIj9SQXmK
only for the less privileged.118Please respect copyright.PENANAcPOgjAZEOt
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of118Please respect copyright.PENANAVR6Qloq3uf
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small118Please respect copyright.PENANAk276toUVIl
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era118Please respect copyright.PENANAnM39s7qhez
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,118Please respect copyright.PENANAEWbQ4LyYEp
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one118Please respect copyright.PENANA0OZgf8FOuu
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were118Please respect copyright.PENANAPV7zqanIpe
best avoided - a taboo.118Please respect copyright.PENANA8Pg6PgQtNO
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?118Please respect copyright.PENANAKxSkIlo2dk
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an118Please respect copyright.PENANA6fhpmDnLBy
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went118Please respect copyright.PENANANXuxNo3PVF
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,118Please respect copyright.PENANAFJeRQo4m6g
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas118Please respect copyright.PENANAagqWHglWY7
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.118Please respect copyright.PENANAnqpNoMHm6o
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,118Please respect copyright.PENANAAv5UbdcFhV
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra118Please respect copyright.PENANA55nqOaPRYu
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and118Please respect copyright.PENANAV2Iup6zcPh
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense118Please respect copyright.PENANAjQOC4cOMQz
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out118Please respect copyright.PENANAQMsgV4pZBE
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,118Please respect copyright.PENANAdn5hEDfKua
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,118Please respect copyright.PENANAJcmVwPbyz4
even to those outside their own race.118Please respect copyright.PENANA4c9LALwCZc
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and118Please respect copyright.PENANApE3H0fwlhh
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would118Please respect copyright.PENANAO8teoFZHQA
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as118Please respect copyright.PENANA8yItn7kRgJ
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and118Please respect copyright.PENANAmcy6TtLBpE
their importance kept increasing.118Please respect copyright.PENANAEwbvEeM8MM
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,118Please respect copyright.PENANApBRzT6Q9Vd
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.118Please respect copyright.PENANAE7ykNpwW3U
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more118Please respect copyright.PENANAvQU8mYwMVb
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.