And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.118Please respect copyright.PENANAwFf2fQ8mP1
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the118Please respect copyright.PENANAxFiIKkfidR
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one118Please respect copyright.PENANADxb8bT0ewx
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and118Please respect copyright.PENANAnUcreeOCqr
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of118Please respect copyright.PENANADRtBnov7aK
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and118Please respect copyright.PENANAvSIYHdpNqN
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to118Please respect copyright.PENANAFFL33HkY8w
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.118Please respect copyright.PENANAHNau5B8egA
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for118Please respect copyright.PENANAILLom0KNOx
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy118Please respect copyright.PENANAm5tJISyxhg
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could118Please respect copyright.PENANAJxpQdM1hUX
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.118Please respect copyright.PENANAaSHl9NT7vX
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not118Please respect copyright.PENANAkcgfFzgIhs
meant to last.118Please respect copyright.PENANAOraPe7ONB0
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race118Please respect copyright.PENANA9z0Az4s3F3
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began118Please respect copyright.PENANAo8mIOaJueq
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders118Please respect copyright.PENANAy3OwMAxUKW
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.118Please respect copyright.PENANADh7fI45hwZ
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they118Please respect copyright.PENANAcD4WRUyMOr
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead118Please respect copyright.PENANAoIqvORkwuL
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires118Please respect copyright.PENANAozMM49OVZw
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the118Please respect copyright.PENANAhSJQ1Dfcth
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.118Please respect copyright.PENANAe4dFVlYcOJ
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...118Please respect copyright.PENANAgfapNbR8hB
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming118Please respect copyright.PENANA8M66Jw3Ilg
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and118Please respect copyright.PENANArGqFTLYvTJ
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human118Please respect copyright.PENANAhA02WXWOJA
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.118Please respect copyright.PENANATMCetgcZ1b
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,118Please respect copyright.PENANAZ6TZArTCme
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their118Please respect copyright.PENANAQzIM4UTaAH
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,118Please respect copyright.PENANAEBKUmIvWLh
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen118Please respect copyright.PENANA8s2LdwbrMV
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work118Please respect copyright.PENANAdCt3a1PtmH
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared118Please respect copyright.PENANABDZ9Tzpv2D
equal rights.118Please respect copyright.PENANAu0L8Jy2zbr
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their118Please respect copyright.PENANAw8ltYbcPEM
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is118Please respect copyright.PENANAH9ThChkIc4
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.118Please respect copyright.PENANAqM7Rj4mqw2
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to118Please respect copyright.PENANAZSTl7PQIbq
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken118Please respect copyright.PENANAPYBshEwjwL
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of118Please respect copyright.PENANA2kRNB60TlC
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who118Please respect copyright.PENANA2l37Gi2kc8
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and118Please respect copyright.PENANA3Bjp0M2XZY
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with118Please respect copyright.PENANAPlz9anGeKw
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the118Please respect copyright.PENANACB60gGCPEi
edge.118Please respect copyright.PENANAwMhmRRxku9
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all118Please respect copyright.PENANACn7nSZUqn7
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is118Please respect copyright.PENANA0BARwiKr9X
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their118Please respect copyright.PENANAEiP4cHl1oh
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it118Please respect copyright.PENANA7uYiGVQaoO
is this way even now.118Please respect copyright.PENANAmLENbRySgH
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as118Please respect copyright.PENANA0e1TZ930uo
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed118Please respect copyright.PENANAkBP8MyNNaw
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely118Please respect copyright.PENANAvxiefHH4He
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings118Please respect copyright.PENANAI8qoin4HOU
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them118Please respect copyright.PENANA8r12RJmFMk
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.