And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.99Please respect copyright.PENANAvCk7Q0ODLL
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the99Please respect copyright.PENANACVYtsGDAB3
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one99Please respect copyright.PENANAuCM8K8Zrvv
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and99Please respect copyright.PENANAhXintEYre8
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of99Please respect copyright.PENANA8CkXpnbHUh
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and99Please respect copyright.PENANA5StmiddWPm
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to99Please respect copyright.PENANADKW723w1hl
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.99Please respect copyright.PENANAnEStg1feuK
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for99Please respect copyright.PENANAh2nxfjXJwu
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy99Please respect copyright.PENANAazM46dEF4I
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could99Please respect copyright.PENANAKi0WnZ51aX
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.99Please respect copyright.PENANAUTfKoc4lRx
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not99Please respect copyright.PENANA1rMzYv2vgw
meant to last.99Please respect copyright.PENANAbooq5njMkt
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race99Please respect copyright.PENANAujZYACPbRb
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began99Please respect copyright.PENANAxKDGhRYMPz
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders99Please respect copyright.PENANAFrDV3chZSU
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.99Please respect copyright.PENANATNEdOMymaT
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they99Please respect copyright.PENANAQQ05GHgSLS
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead99Please respect copyright.PENANAJZGIegUeHp
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires99Please respect copyright.PENANAn623udnixZ
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the99Please respect copyright.PENANAfUW07gOrko
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.99Please respect copyright.PENANAux272E57XF
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...99Please respect copyright.PENANA9UW5q8zfT3
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming99Please respect copyright.PENANA1auViqCp8r
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and99Please respect copyright.PENANA7OUCXj9i2z
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human99Please respect copyright.PENANA9ZFBlyHwOh
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.99Please respect copyright.PENANAvF1PV5mWsN
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,99Please respect copyright.PENANAiNQ7F9LwVr
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their99Please respect copyright.PENANATAAm8pMzSY
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,99Please respect copyright.PENANAYCx2xMixtD
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen99Please respect copyright.PENANAdaQowcbh2c
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work99Please respect copyright.PENANANOvg7FKTqk
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared99Please respect copyright.PENANA4Wl5WeDJvp
equal rights.99Please respect copyright.PENANAPi0AYDVknz
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their99Please respect copyright.PENANAmlXIC3O8mx
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is99Please respect copyright.PENANAKKdhTZrIlG
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.99Please respect copyright.PENANAFG1mvEzCXa
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to99Please respect copyright.PENANAPYdkg50NMU
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken99Please respect copyright.PENANAGFR4fvOWkq
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of99Please respect copyright.PENANAti3jI6DLXn
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who99Please respect copyright.PENANAzwNYOK6J3W
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and99Please respect copyright.PENANAK2qppLnpDT
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with99Please respect copyright.PENANAszOeIUc94x
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the99Please respect copyright.PENANAsexCMJqfOv
edge.99Please respect copyright.PENANAnTbHY29AUR
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all99Please respect copyright.PENANA2lsce1QBaX
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is99Please respect copyright.PENANAjmj6VjDkek
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their99Please respect copyright.PENANACHJmko1uwz
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it99Please respect copyright.PENANALADZNYy7rz
is this way even now.99Please respect copyright.PENANAlMN7ZHohTs
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as99Please respect copyright.PENANAyHFnEBv1F1
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed99Please respect copyright.PENANARqqZcqlVpj
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely99Please respect copyright.PENANASdZuHgNz8r
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings99Please respect copyright.PENANA9mcHa9hNhB
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them99Please respect copyright.PENANA3i18hOvaQe
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.