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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡln4vHSs9Rh
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhCHzRHZ1Aq
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9oJp8jrRoe
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqia68LbP97
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYSvHBLoB14
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhbOLv2PjWw
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZ67YxSiGB
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2PI1ABJZ72
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN09WBlIp40
those that would eventually follow.340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFkInzZoGVx
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQMfYT7mK0e
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG96YZESeCP
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnYLaqEaUcs
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNQKxtpH8g8
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1AqM90OlT
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYr4oXQ9PQa
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHe9PIrH1pJ
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2P41FmUoLV
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5BnAPjPPTG
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5vSi6WgTc9
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmzzjVgcaCI
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq5slfSXQif
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡujbTfkr2v3
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6pu3FWuS5U
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNkQXixTNU1
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRZAkWnnzx5
only for the less privileged.340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEXmN6U65v1
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNVAIRAc98Z
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlivzic1ZdP
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1Evm0UGkT
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiCXBqm2bij
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Lea9Qf5te
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGnk1nL6DWA
best avoided - a taboo.340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9nD05ZctUE
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXHai3uA8Rm
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvEqno9Z71T
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpEFVQSlWZF
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszmP0ke1gn
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9wATrD9bs3
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeLTMtq86pS
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQa2FbbjUpd
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGCLZDHBh3Y
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcc8cNc9bf
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEmNdDQpRFD
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMyhUEO8ulq
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGraeEHRptR
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRhu7JRkVff
even to those outside their own race.340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqDT24CTba7
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFJQ2bGrp3c
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw2Ok8Mj27A
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhoO4HPylnx
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ94orib4HtD
their importance kept increasing.340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZrUmVBk1Nr
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIVaI0vxNRP
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLIv2q537t
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more340Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVyjW7lEWrC
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
