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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZzTfS1LjVC
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡatZ77Chc1S
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnPDycgWYDt
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiW5qnncZHE
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmR9QdhjZt
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLmPhhfVzYY
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJZ2lOT2YG
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrURLK7qqN6
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHhiBMcigWq
those that would eventually follow.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzxQiC45Spq
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7wrZTgi8wV
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSTLfjIWb2z
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmY5qXGfVA
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Vr2t2saVF
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq8gNOBpmDc
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXozFyRiubs
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ0RQqUxnDU
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxlJDZ24ErL
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg0p9zbJZE7
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ3uLZxahVK
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnZj7TyIsi8
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpwUyTY6uwC
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzBPPcvZh4t
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXkFjNt0uqW
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8fKADb47Gu
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn0MQFlWq1p
only for the less privileged.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLgyM4KMZY7
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvEuhfNphda
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfPeF07PWxH
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9PAHYnB4Ij
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14ldyt0TB3
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHAhKnkaLP
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd6cGzAvxBn
best avoided - a taboo.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5oO9tzPceA
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxMt21HrYmG
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZebPkFy1K
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7F0ruiybFn
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡljgwKsEgzE
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcbBqm4y4vX
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYh5UFE4hy
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCiTdp3zFZQ
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6NXwVBpEiD
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3W95WMJoTM
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB5SMrbKFPP
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvloqrdSzKN
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ72Ca19WBiF
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfW23fYN9k4
even to those outside their own race.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOeXFNQcvUT
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdthExA8Pyc
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm238bdHcRY
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkZtHeVYZYn
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoItXaZylXj
their importance kept increasing.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8eQspoyJiG
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5bfsTUp70v
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOVgs3Vs17N
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRZfFDTcQzX
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
