
And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.364Please respect copyright.PENANA1WSVhjoGS3
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the364Please respect copyright.PENANAUFG2bhMGCv
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one364Please respect copyright.PENANA6I7VU3TTp4
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and364Please respect copyright.PENANAgfYw0hHU7f
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of364Please respect copyright.PENANAMJcjKrb5KO
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and364Please respect copyright.PENANAzGi99BBwjv
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to364Please respect copyright.PENANAtEFV6dWPqF
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.364Please respect copyright.PENANACcX8ROw542
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for364Please respect copyright.PENANA52zA2d6AcN
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy364Please respect copyright.PENANAfkWmcJUTcV
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could364Please respect copyright.PENANA9dR67tPJug
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.364Please respect copyright.PENANA37daYc35M8
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not364Please respect copyright.PENANAk2JFpK6rD0
meant to last.364Please respect copyright.PENANARVzPRYEylJ
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race364Please respect copyright.PENANAegFEUoz26f
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began364Please respect copyright.PENANAiGBLRDdAyx
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders364Please respect copyright.PENANAXrlpr3N3Zr
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.364Please respect copyright.PENANAoTIaCC4LNr
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they364Please respect copyright.PENANAREatFavfR6
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead364Please respect copyright.PENANAil67Sj0jtX
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires364Please respect copyright.PENANAUsRsWUW2CK
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the364Please respect copyright.PENANAhk3Pa1wdLU
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.364Please respect copyright.PENANAE8ClSM2XA1
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...364Please respect copyright.PENANADJq2wONRql
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming364Please respect copyright.PENANAdJ3yDqdnWd
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and364Please respect copyright.PENANAwEV9z8MjO5
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human364Please respect copyright.PENANAh6SftuyUyV
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.364Please respect copyright.PENANAa8PXUwx94i
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,364Please respect copyright.PENANApnJQfV2Nze
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their364Please respect copyright.PENANAV7jqjfYT25
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,364Please respect copyright.PENANAAxRb9Av2Kx
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen364Please respect copyright.PENANAZ18PB7pyOW
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work364Please respect copyright.PENANAUYq3hddN3T
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared364Please respect copyright.PENANAVEInRuZDQ8
equal rights.364Please respect copyright.PENANAVXoqS5N0SD
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their364Please respect copyright.PENANACtbReIrgZU
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is364Please respect copyright.PENANAJa3mITlScz
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.364Please respect copyright.PENANANMYDI8m2xl
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to364Please respect copyright.PENANAcB2OBudjfa
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken364Please respect copyright.PENANAdZzacJughV
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of364Please respect copyright.PENANAnQVcT2dvwq
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who364Please respect copyright.PENANAfBAbNoJIz0
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and364Please respect copyright.PENANAomHphpbQUt
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with364Please respect copyright.PENANAyapqPnokCA
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the364Please respect copyright.PENANAX5edOvne8J
edge.364Please respect copyright.PENANAlgfXJH3O29
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all364Please respect copyright.PENANAlwCOnw8Bbh
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is364Please respect copyright.PENANAavtoGDfFjb
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their364Please respect copyright.PENANAkWs5PvJXy3
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it364Please respect copyright.PENANAucgfVxt0Zy
is this way even now.364Please respect copyright.PENANAWE994vmFer
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as364Please respect copyright.PENANAeNf2dopRRu
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed364Please respect copyright.PENANAj8Dyo0ZStT
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely364Please respect copyright.PENANAYuapCmBNyf
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings364Please respect copyright.PENANA3Xp0FXk6eO
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them364Please respect copyright.PENANAqthbUmxXfM
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.