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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,123Please respect copyright.PENANAycELE5bIgy
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their123Please respect copyright.PENANABwUjQ5Dr7W
greatness is known to all.123Please respect copyright.PENANAt5qaSXDKuB
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and123Please respect copyright.PENANAGwB2ID0oIJ
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless123Please respect copyright.PENANAdDVMRGSgSf
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his123Please respect copyright.PENANAKfNZPWTJUE
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.123Please respect copyright.PENANARXJ2TDblXj
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.123Please respect copyright.PENANANYL5Lxt4kK
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,123Please respect copyright.PENANA9D4cqUiMbh
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.123Please respect copyright.PENANAHWyLJ4PyFo
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest123Please respect copyright.PENANA6eDd8vQBFS
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is123Please respect copyright.PENANAZBP8HeXUB4
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of123Please respect copyright.PENANAge2oSdueJJ
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any123Please respect copyright.PENANAXei6nLVgrz
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come123Please respect copyright.PENANAGQksvafWK7
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has123Please respect copyright.PENANA5nC4XDxreF
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.123Please respect copyright.PENANA20qMbBImPs
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost123Please respect copyright.PENANABZU7l1r3Yq
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?123Please respect copyright.PENANAsE3kZ9zgVG
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant123Please respect copyright.PENANAsmGT1UhDgq
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in123Please respect copyright.PENANAxJfYu0DoN6
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally123Please respect copyright.PENANAIdMHjPJwRJ
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the123Please respect copyright.PENANA5oH8uVUez5
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.123Please respect copyright.PENANAlHE9OQNXDx
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by123Please respect copyright.PENANAM7zc8Xt51S
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and123Please respect copyright.PENANAU88ul0pYWF
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing123Please respect copyright.PENANAWxZvbvu4un
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.123Please respect copyright.PENANAvzOTmSneng
He is a dangerous man.123Please respect copyright.PENANAMpiXhbP0ai
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human123Please respect copyright.PENANAslNKfMwNIx
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels123Please respect copyright.PENANAqiKaKnj8e9
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens123Please respect copyright.PENANAmGxigY2zS2
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the123Please respect copyright.PENANAf7A6qu0aBF
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of123Please respect copyright.PENANAGvD1XgeKK1
starvation.123Please respect copyright.PENANAaiL97Tzwck
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing123Please respect copyright.PENANAKUjveQ12L5
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the123Please respect copyright.PENANAAQ0m7oSd8w
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting123Please respect copyright.PENANAE60HfBTbuL
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for123Please respect copyright.PENANAkbr1l2T8oF
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely123Please respect copyright.PENANAnMZKB3GsiJ
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they123Please respect copyright.PENANAvp1KJ6Wdjw
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their123Please respect copyright.PENANANu92U6LVLL
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.123Please respect copyright.PENANAiEFAcpTy6d
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth123Please respect copyright.PENANAJplEvg4yVd
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention123Please respect copyright.PENANAShpwOXOBC1
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions123Please respect copyright.PENANAwhJI3FEG22
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is123Please respect copyright.PENANAovLGCWqH0D
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses123Please respect copyright.PENANAA02Rh0j9IN
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the123Please respect copyright.PENANAyfLwQAWvz0
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover123Please respect copyright.PENANAG5Vm3F67AE
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...123Please respect copyright.PENANAUImMWIiyfu
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses123Please respect copyright.PENANAIlXeXWffaN
and dark continents waiting to be explored.123Please respect copyright.PENANA8SPl3R6EiG
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size123Please respect copyright.PENANAxFtRltdyjA
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much123Please respect copyright.PENANAmVDAJJioru
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps123Please respect copyright.PENANASMTTjohmzd
advancing so do their means of exploring.