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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,125Please respect copyright.PENANA2deUAMHpez
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their125Please respect copyright.PENANAajE8gzPXfN
greatness is known to all.125Please respect copyright.PENANAw75d13nH80
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and125Please respect copyright.PENANA0FFNbIDA6o
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless125Please respect copyright.PENANAcMuv82WnhG
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his125Please respect copyright.PENANAd36z5EXIRQ
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.125Please respect copyright.PENANAVuVMuyZEOd
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.125Please respect copyright.PENANAiOSl7UlkNI
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,125Please respect copyright.PENANA8dhzqGVuel
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.125Please respect copyright.PENANAqRkzInSZYJ
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest125Please respect copyright.PENANAPFamsr0J3f
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is125Please respect copyright.PENANAe9VOYkh0Gy
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of125Please respect copyright.PENANALDJxGSwrOI
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any125Please respect copyright.PENANAAzD9Y1V4wO
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come125Please respect copyright.PENANAxtqwOQ8gUr
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has125Please respect copyright.PENANAPcB6HZjdbp
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.125Please respect copyright.PENANA7fBGnwM8kF
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost125Please respect copyright.PENANAA9M0AzB0CE
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?125Please respect copyright.PENANAyiWcQZbKq5
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant125Please respect copyright.PENANALMsRVIh25i
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in125Please respect copyright.PENANASz0jTyJ5Sg
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally125Please respect copyright.PENANA1UvnKngA1r
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the125Please respect copyright.PENANAiZl58mzW45
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.125Please respect copyright.PENANAPFbeSIMzkM
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by125Please respect copyright.PENANAi08ge3QYVh
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and125Please respect copyright.PENANA319TtYq96t
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing125Please respect copyright.PENANAIeWYuZnn1H
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.125Please respect copyright.PENANAavLxq74pEL
He is a dangerous man.125Please respect copyright.PENANANY9BOnPJ7e
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human125Please respect copyright.PENANAxakzNQfuU9
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels125Please respect copyright.PENANA8inME0GRvN
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens125Please respect copyright.PENANAZxAANd9PdI
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the125Please respect copyright.PENANAu6SiIKQrrK
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of125Please respect copyright.PENANAdO3E7NpNA5
starvation.125Please respect copyright.PENANAZstYMVcNyv
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing125Please respect copyright.PENANA2sa7hTg3r6
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the125Please respect copyright.PENANAiUxKnlIMdC
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting125Please respect copyright.PENANAMGb3Gs155b
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for125Please respect copyright.PENANAIer2wElLpf
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely125Please respect copyright.PENANAic7Dojb5yP
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they125Please respect copyright.PENANAzPpQzqM7ZU
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their125Please respect copyright.PENANAqDMyx2OzhF
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.125Please respect copyright.PENANAKaNaBGEowS
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth125Please respect copyright.PENANATkQPoaVIyg
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention125Please respect copyright.PENANAjOcuZ9ujqr
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions125Please respect copyright.PENANAJijUGCFanT
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is125Please respect copyright.PENANAMG1pDxVWbX
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses125Please respect copyright.PENANARMMeno8q1i
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the125Please respect copyright.PENANAFKMOFo9R0f
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover125Please respect copyright.PENANAiPJehSgFnR
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...125Please respect copyright.PENANAVKtYYZXGP5
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses125Please respect copyright.PENANAhIpVATxcNQ
and dark continents waiting to be explored.125Please respect copyright.PENANAFC26pYxDG5
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size125Please respect copyright.PENANA7O9vmzq7De
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much125Please respect copyright.PENANApXMy7bIuqs
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps125Please respect copyright.PENANAflkbzO5jrq
advancing so do their means of exploring.