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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6UsUgIFkIx
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5iWL8ZQpVr
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmycevG3Iq7
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4jLHucTQzZ
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSYZI2Z3oxs
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wcgjIHlb2
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTJj5WUVDcU
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ69ulciK0V3
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx1QAKA6YAQ
those that would eventually follow.284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvD2KxxfDJS
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNtR95Vezfe
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbtfyldKxHO
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjTjSPGUgzC
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs2VCCj3Td6
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfqszuzJtPt
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2vIbPkIXcu
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7cc5Fkcyx5
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSySxO2jv0b
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLwN1VQRtSW
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDHa1g3bZiI
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRfoqf9yuU6
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmcSBOEOuQ5
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4yAHrQ0dFs
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxRYZ0wXlTU
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmANMkQzq6y
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa2TYHu6WPp
only for the less privileged.284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAdK00QJ5hA
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ol7SLIrmg
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLrwhs3KSBE
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCwJpBPMa9F
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDl3oaH6MWf
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuV1PnDEBA1
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzI0JkBvrEL
best avoided - a taboo.284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHVA5pQuFK1
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnf0q0i4YXd
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Jh16xrtLM
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH0GUtLs7d1
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqBHlFjMyq
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDYEGzm5Gmd
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM7syCU76iA
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7N31P6viA1
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHB7pcVUfSw
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡssDoK6EhF6
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHhxc4JKFmq
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJb21uaFUHo
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYjrxl7xyu8
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡleVRDAHxT9
even to those outside their own race.284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkVVcdNl2Jp
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUAKfjvNG4F
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkLwEOF62BF
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpumoKDdMYL
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRZw5L92Df2
their importance kept increasing.284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT4gz1HtcFa
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp8blBizwPK
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoiFPTzPZce
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more284Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5NR3dXleIi
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
