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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡos3ePrAtyG
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDoL3D4kaRn
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI1E5O8zHht
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFNBjTbMj1L
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTI1ERsq45S
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLlP7U7lRPh
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZs6aICzDbO
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWjozBuQnq
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ83IDjVw7PI
those that would eventually follow.370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNjH916UOrQ
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡstnwa5KBqy
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1aMecgDp0C
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO0zSDXC4aa
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsmOcKErovZ
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAh2D6pgAgL
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXUTpYWL8Pt
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSpsVhBwUng
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpVJw3BJkPJ
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh0AXT58qt1
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD2twaQ4DN5
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnwhGChhMsO
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIA46VFrPwz
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzEA2uswSV
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWV25ooh3Kr
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRPWZ7wWmWe
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCUUkl08FhV
only for the less privileged.370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLp2bUmbwQz
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVC3cJcrEnE
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAH1fg4iSb0
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVfKgkoTTG9
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLmtHozg2WN
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKMjCBs3cNL
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNK0CYoF3xI
best avoided - a taboo.370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPdAWvvb0gl
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtZMG4ji7VT
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkZsVehhviV
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4Oq37tUe7
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqCQP1yuX8B
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLtzKLm2SYw
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdvBaQ7y8ZU
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCzyjcend7X
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx3V2fC2PcA
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIn9JfHDauV
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBdA0CvmJGM
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTJTwFoIQG6
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd3KLCr6ED0
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwuZEDsKo4v
even to those outside their own race.370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCAq5Gvh9wv
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡen0QmrGzj7
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡipHJ8gNnjl
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2QnRbniKFB
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW2jDTiXajG
their importance kept increasing.370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNiDHmtSE6V
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjGnM4nLoz3
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6p0jgalzT2
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more370Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYwknarFad5
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
