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This one, the second Era of this world... the aptly called Age of Pursuit...119Please respect copyright.PENANALvu5PkViU7
The Centra were gone but the world would continue, still bound to their will but119Please respect copyright.PENANAW6SBHB1hpD
now without their guiding hand. Instead, it would be all that they had left behind that119Please respect copyright.PENANAaVaSWDEEin
would now set a new curse for the world after them. Once the Centra had claimed this119Please respect copyright.PENANAUXKKZe7XWu
world to themselves, thanks to their mastery of all sciences, magics and technology119Please respect copyright.PENANAGKqDLRrcue
that provided them with the unparalleled (hateful profanities to some and cause for119Please respect copyright.PENANArPccUarGMB
divine worship to others) that ran rampant across the entire planet to this very day.119Please respect copyright.PENANAammuQ6303x
All that they built and accomplished, all that defined their very existence; an entire119Please respect copyright.PENANAkM91plQcHE
empire spanning across all continents, all seas and the one sky, was left behind for119Please respect copyright.PENANAa4tCnA6Q4B
those that would eventually follow.119Please respect copyright.PENANATyBnOGYCps
Who would dare guess how long it came to pass since the world woke up one day in119Please respect copyright.PENANAY7wyoB5SPS
complete silence, the sound of their rulership absent, before life would finally resume119Please respect copyright.PENANAC1jLNdsbTG
its course? With no more thunderous machines or hovering cities, and with no more119Please respect copyright.PENANAhS74JvxUVh
Centra to command it all, an entire world was now free. How long for the first races119Please respect copyright.PENANAGPG0EAQYSn
to sprout forth and begin their own curse, and does any of it matter?119Please respect copyright.PENANAG6tPd1HKkw
Eventually, of course, they did. And little by little they grew. At first, little more119Please respect copyright.PENANAbFvBh4IyAX
than animals scrapping for food but in time they would master several forms of119Please respect copyright.PENANAa4EBm7qsYA
hunting and fishing, and from there they would evolve to the races of our current time.119Please respect copyright.PENANAZkCtfTLgUe
Slowly but surely, that was how the current races of this world came about. Humans119Please respect copyright.PENANArJLq5fxM3d
and those that would later call themselves the Nharkim as well as countless others;119Please respect copyright.PENANAfFlkM26Z6V
Twinkledinnes, Sandrackar, Maruic, Dreibos and many more. And for an exceedingly119Please respect copyright.PENANAuqUukYZGDK
long time, they were just that, tribes of fishermen and hunters struggling to find shelter119Please respect copyright.PENANAhKlfN8h0V3
from the heavy rains. Nothing more than primitive and superstitious creatures, each119Please respect copyright.PENANA62X6CNNHNX
with their customs and fears for the world may have been silent, the Centra absent,119Please respect copyright.PENANACdQOK8HPmi
but fear still roamed the lands and kept all living things in check, regardless of beliefs.119Please respect copyright.PENANAR1KuFDi91z
And would continue to do so for aeons. I would claim it still does so, even today, if119Please respect copyright.PENANA4bbDcyEK15
only for the less privileged.119Please respect copyright.PENANAMqL4VOVSwZ
Our current Era really began, as always, with an apparent meaningless action of119Please respect copyright.PENANA2i9AibP3pB
not much importance, but enough to start the largest of all chain of events. That small119Please respect copyright.PENANAWbAB5o4DAC
gesture that opened the way for what would define our world to this very day; the Era119Please respect copyright.PENANAs7CXH2ta0E
of Pursuit began, the moment a member of the small and meek tribe of Twinkledinnes,119Please respect copyright.PENANADkthnUtjts
one of the tiniest races one could ever hope to meet, decided to venture forth into one119Please respect copyright.PENANAlIvriJLGlF
of the forbidden zones. Any area where Centra remnants were known to exist were119Please respect copyright.PENANA42SjBerKBo
best avoided - a taboo.119Please respect copyright.PENANAcZ5AwX1KJe
What was the motive that drove such a small creature?119Please respect copyright.PENANAjM6FPRsLy4
That is now lost to us, dissolved in the ebb and flow of time but the result of such an119Please respect copyright.PENANAW2bj8Vrq0R
action defines all things today. Into one of the Centra ruins that Twinkledinne went119Please respect copyright.PENANAb4kbWbv8G5
and when he came out, he did so with something in his hands. That very moment,119Please respect copyright.PENANA1qTMJ5xXAS
where this small creature showed there was not only nothing to fear from those areas119Please respect copyright.PENANA8cE30hJDIG
but there were also rewards to be picked up, that was when this Era truly began.119Please respect copyright.PENANAwOVUEz1sq8
Word began to spread, and the veil of fear and superstition was lifted. All tribes,119Please respect copyright.PENANADJz9WnBV7k
in time, came to learn that there was nothing to fear from venturing into Centra119Please respect copyright.PENANAUWJ4RSpiaz
territories. No longer were these Centra remnants cursed places, to be feared and119Please respect copyright.PENANAqIXNqQUnrY
avoided for either religious reasons imposed by most tribes or the mere common sense119Please respect copyright.PENANAgseN6i2LBE
of the passing traveller. No. Now anything Centra was a place to be actively sought out119Please respect copyright.PENANAPAGVomedm0
and where fortune could be found. One by one every tribe of every race got into this,119Please respect copyright.PENANATY6nFYwJ9Q
offering handsome rewards to anyone presenting them with anything made by Centra,119Please respect copyright.PENANAxreKXsU6do
even to those outside their own race.119Please respect copyright.PENANA7vWpBGcDVF
And so, greed was ironically enough, the will that broke any previous isolation and119Please respect copyright.PENANA1jI9gFYlpv
made most embrace outside relations. But what brought all the races together would119Please respect copyright.PENANAa0385xTJdd
also tear them apart. At first, most things were bought and sold as decorum, but as119Please respect copyright.PENANAESf5I06WCG
time went on and the races kept evolving and learning from these finds, their value and119Please respect copyright.PENANAjy8IX7DHvj
their importance kept increasing.119Please respect copyright.PENANAhcTQ3fdBs0
From the study and learning of these Centra finds, most races began evolving,119Please respect copyright.PENANAelsHUaoLSq
building, finding cures for the sick and easier ways to withstand the cold storms.119Please respect copyright.PENANA6FkOOvKlHX
It became obvious to all that this was their future, that the finding of more and more119Please respect copyright.PENANA9rRIBc58xZ
Centra technology, or anything concerning it, was their new path.