This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...117Please respect copyright.PENANA0oLTAZjsNE
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but117Please respect copyright.PENANACPvt50WjO5
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that117Please respect copyright.PENANAdyuisBjmgq
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this117Please respect copyright.PENANAOB9h3Nui9h
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology117Please respect copyright.PENANA50YNqa9Wg1
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for117Please respect copyright.PENANAloGkkU9SLB
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.117Please respect copyright.PENANAU9ImAVvpo0
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire117Please respect copyright.PENANACGtBi577TY
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for117Please respect copyright.PENANAJBDgcTYDc3
those that would eventually follow.117Please respect copyright.PENANAuDKkbaJMPt
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in117Please respect copyright.PENANAXN62GJi4kJ
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume117Please respect copyright.PENANASqOTbL4DlV
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more117Please respect copyright.PENANAF9tSXAy1sc
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races117Please respect copyright.PENANAVvUdzL4KpH
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?117Please respect copyright.PENANA4o8KC38sD5
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more117Please respect copyright.PENANAUsd0GKwR6q
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of117Please respect copyright.PENANAA4deSivIZ8
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.117Please respect copyright.PENANA5AufoWQvzb
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans117Please respect copyright.PENANAOqPUXvehaz
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;117Please respect copyright.PENANA1weocCXKZO
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly117Please respect copyright.PENANAFVRQN5YKsX
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter117Please respect copyright.PENANArSVgm3Whs0
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each117Please respect copyright.PENANA4xNIGuP8mY
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,117Please respect copyright.PENANAZlDsfEv3u2
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.117Please respect copyright.PENANAUE5Vb7WPTx
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if117Please respect copyright.PENANAmvQHwzc1qC
only for the less privileged.117Please respect copyright.PENANAf5pTENWsAk
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of117Please respect copyright.PENANA739nxmduDF
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small117Please respect copyright.PENANAo9SnHm1cDv
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era117Please respect copyright.PENANAMYJMgbHE9G
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,117Please respect copyright.PENANALolrzT9htO
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one117Please respect copyright.PENANAdyiSv9oCMl
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were117Please respect copyright.PENANAsMsRZzMHMv
best avoided - a taboo.117Please respect copyright.PENANANQ3jRA8Clq
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?117Please respect copyright.PENANAHUVr7hghhs
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an117Please respect copyright.PENANAPiFFhKrhJZ
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went117Please respect copyright.PENANANmEA0kQwgv
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,117Please respect copyright.PENANAgWbvaPkDBa
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas117Please respect copyright.PENANAeGMCVCShnf
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.117Please respect copyright.PENANAOlrLfxBuph
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,117Please respect copyright.PENANAFoNCv6Q1P8
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra117Please respect copyright.PENANA1GSzLjBcyK
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and117Please respect copyright.PENANAdoRmCbxvZX
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense117Please respect copyright.PENANAmcJ2mPCBXT
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out117Please respect copyright.PENANArJUC1oYLE7
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,117Please respect copyright.PENANAlOb0IFj5YQ
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,117Please respect copyright.PENANAoc8jBWigju
even to those outside their own race.117Please respect copyright.PENANA45vzmXhPn4
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and117Please respect copyright.PENANAzZfzOSBmqX
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would117Please respect copyright.PENANAu34XwYgyAc
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as117Please respect copyright.PENANADp2yfxW8ci
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and117Please respect copyright.PENANAZRUMcmP8iD
their importance kept increasing.117Please respect copyright.PENANAYx8bPD3DfW
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,117Please respect copyright.PENANAD7AMDaSVv4
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.117Please respect copyright.PENANAD075OVqhJ7
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more117Please respect copyright.PENANAQMXUpZz7UO
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.
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