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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTHyrCsmMuo
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrpjPxjvF0h
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdUjrK7WlWu
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡghgKkVYBf1
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Mmzz5HZTc
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFbYG8urcpQ
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9XqrqqHJcz
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ17fka1Al5Y
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUoZ7pU4PSU
those that would eventually follow.367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcqGOGX4sgx
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMaO7BtUHxS
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuDLGizJEn
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV9m6ZUd92X
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgMWwnKZASt
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXZopYdUVxG
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxGWA8BxdyZ
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkSBbpDlH9X
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2DZEx1Y6X
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQNMPWvvhBb
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHhpUZZhFer
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqsLABtouEG
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbIbAJ50hL6
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh44tYPczbM
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPrhv3wEyrY
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFv6g5vZzCY
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNt9BufMXzo
only for the less privileged.367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNKQCJkTdqI
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5pU5AGjwki
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGIifhhw5PG
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZo74bGNmEO
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf9mIzwxZqn
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8RSKzRHvwC
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfRdVMBxTFx
best avoided - a taboo.367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoP89QeCvAa
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIekHpLathu
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK1I7oqFtYZ
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ9ltW0XQfF
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQMakrpeaEE
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡboPTBKbqTR
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiggOsW9VY4
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAeafzyHG0s
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7PXvABTAX4
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ7nT0dsoOk
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡptUmdvAS28
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnKROp2KmtM
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ47ko0YEiet
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUasH8rqWoV
even to those outside their own race.367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEvHWt4PXvN
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjSNhT9gpYH
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDjYh7JZFsK
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWP3HjYXax5
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGMFZX5r8q7
their importance kept increasing.367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkfO6axJKKJ
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmIGCzuwvPA
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz2ZDuOfEYP
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more367Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2W1TBXVROE
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
