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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWHPsqJXysC
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwJMSlKPrRm
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiZ7gKjjctG
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvRczmg1o1B
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEnAIPQx3y9
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeQCEoLWz8i
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1AGvmRwAWM
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3hTgGQytqB
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqriZuzvwHc
those that would eventually follow.334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd48ECgoOq8
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvCqj6RRj0Q
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDw04xiU4dO
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdRE7og03a6
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8wgE3iWqek
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ95PiSiirXT
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE247koWE1T
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxpHpmp1ed8
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKqdtIRK11L
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡut5A4gOWPf
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjK4A3lOuce
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhGnpMSXE9i
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwtRe3owERH
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjDJW5JLOkk
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMbccvBLxdn
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡprGYIHyfW5
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyQKGdFbLSg
only for the less privileged.334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtyri95ibFq
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY2DA1US5eR
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpaUIPo931r
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMLbgs0LA9M
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1721Jzllkz
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoAK5RAZUBx
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3MvXlq9lgd
best avoided - a taboo.334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9bur03zn4p
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNYTTFn9ME
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjcgdNohQDW
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG4Ga8c7d1m
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuy1VJH585Q
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkEqHlfHbop
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ4qFPOZhPS
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDrLWXH5bLG
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc260dkpR1L
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXq4D2jpdO0
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8zAx2JSbK5
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3fzeOBIWhd
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgrTvWLKqFR
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoaQ8oOMjdU
even to those outside their own race.334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvwkhRm8Lmy
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCmLQZXcsUz
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvcnrrjGZ3c
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRDHmTINoTU
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRsDTCfoOkI
their importance kept increasing.334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJYWZzC7mKY
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUaPSVNcQdO
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡljPvw0kyrf
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more334Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiXwhQxP68J
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
