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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCVCac4lky2
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTrSrJ8C1FJ
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa8xDh3FRMT
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGzrwXFfTfy
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYPU6chlEt4
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ2lqfQSiKI
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNQDO6CawmV
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeBRvsyHHe3
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAcNbZ6qmC
those that would eventually follow.366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8bPA2FO2o
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVGQIlbGvYG
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhEek6xJUKv
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk6oDTRdxm1
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLpUmHJVXhu
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5KhauIsgBm
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoiCijOQJ7v
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ZYFV2a1fb
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKGaifs7smT
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS9wk29NOn5
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA8fbz3gnH2
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ruCNewpWZ
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTKBoh44uKu
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBnzrRcep3c
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtOPs1bRlVB
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwJ3FDEa7On
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPIMryEP8W9
only for the less privileged.366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuBeydf2zGB
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKKNjBPoF3j
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQOAoowaXhz
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Og3b1hjZB
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1dscbD71b
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJMyaStEVXM
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6QmGhNyShe
best avoided - a taboo.366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpE4MUfCM9V
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSOvW6Dbbc0
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvvN3ohQsSK
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx9HxJhGlOT
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwvzRnddsIQ
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcUlVQt8uXl
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMzYHJILOen
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdWJl09Leyw
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIIYMkfwiLw
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2GGF8xrUOX
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡznzLCP4pg4
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgbNSssYdzu
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaaJwyg73MH
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1HaAwxeCAv
even to those outside their own race.366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIDSl4jkRqa
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjdXuzlADrS
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPCryWSmvmG
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa9YIMIkXFG
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BUuccpXVb
their importance kept increasing.366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA7yQyoQ53J
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwVjIOez8qc
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5sPiI5bvNP
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJdZfTd4Bza
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
