And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.101Please respect copyright.PENANA6J6ceNMz5Z
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the101Please respect copyright.PENANAAhwDgvhN0X
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one101Please respect copyright.PENANASpYM9DNLgk
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and101Please respect copyright.PENANAEyBDQ0nCqo
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of101Please respect copyright.PENANA5sbuB96Tvn
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and101Please respect copyright.PENANAmqRulcWfOE
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to101Please respect copyright.PENANA9iHtgDDXJ8
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.101Please respect copyright.PENANABXwGzHwdXt
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for101Please respect copyright.PENANAfpybGIO7yD
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy101Please respect copyright.PENANAleCgmeMZjH
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could101Please respect copyright.PENANAmQ203iasAA
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.101Please respect copyright.PENANA4xUB7keP4C
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not101Please respect copyright.PENANACWNcy5bfoX
meant to last.101Please respect copyright.PENANAem7uit1SDr
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race101Please respect copyright.PENANAUnGHfamPIU
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began101Please respect copyright.PENANAw60u4mO7F7
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders101Please respect copyright.PENANA9bYT2uLKp7
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.101Please respect copyright.PENANAfUyYAr28NZ
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they101Please respect copyright.PENANAZVo2JqL8o5
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead101Please respect copyright.PENANAWe9pEEuHEo
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires101Please respect copyright.PENANA8PkXEBOpbh
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the101Please respect copyright.PENANA5GAiKLaqJF
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.101Please respect copyright.PENANA9cVtQRPAD9
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...101Please respect copyright.PENANAZw1NOCqLVn
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming101Please respect copyright.PENANAL06kY9GSoC
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and101Please respect copyright.PENANAQIqelD2uWX
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human101Please respect copyright.PENANAigPtOCAuwv
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.101Please respect copyright.PENANAHkwgKsEKGQ
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,101Please respect copyright.PENANACdpBiBQHhx
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their101Please respect copyright.PENANAqiuyminyCB
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,101Please respect copyright.PENANAqJexM1thKd
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen101Please respect copyright.PENANAtlRRnkQ8Oj
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work101Please respect copyright.PENANA7m43GXq8Bz
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared101Please respect copyright.PENANAbrJVDPyOQj
equal rights.101Please respect copyright.PENANALkcm4Mddfr
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their101Please respect copyright.PENANAz2gr9jvM9O
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is101Please respect copyright.PENANA8KvjjJXJ5T
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.101Please respect copyright.PENANAXcUeMYhzou
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to101Please respect copyright.PENANAhvtmCH1gcO
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken101Please respect copyright.PENANAfvFgnQ3k8J
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of101Please respect copyright.PENANAx84bdmfNWP
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who101Please respect copyright.PENANA8j8Qc9NMXw
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and101Please respect copyright.PENANAkdnHGBeQXE
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with101Please respect copyright.PENANAQhsqgDSXDZ
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the101Please respect copyright.PENANAojVDK2kqXy
edge.101Please respect copyright.PENANAfXZGObTnII
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all101Please respect copyright.PENANApXqrMtKZnV
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is101Please respect copyright.PENANAmqLLQ0tqva
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their101Please respect copyright.PENANAlBx4ozrFkn
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it101Please respect copyright.PENANAn7MBa7xqJ8
is this way even now.101Please respect copyright.PENANAt7LgH52Vj0
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as101Please respect copyright.PENANAerl6TzpinS
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed101Please respect copyright.PENANATVUQE0LHMk
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely101Please respect copyright.PENANAO22ClWLr4j
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings101Please respect copyright.PENANALMwAR5gJiZ
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them101Please respect copyright.PENANAIfKzEt1mLD
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.