
And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.354Please respect copyright.PENANAGVJCNITH9W
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the354Please respect copyright.PENANAOge9al1ey5
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one354Please respect copyright.PENANAL6OEVznMHj
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and354Please respect copyright.PENANAwFYKjXygMm
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of354Please respect copyright.PENANAjyFB3D06Ro
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and354Please respect copyright.PENANAWhcwUt1i53
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to354Please respect copyright.PENANAya0LXOWE2N
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.354Please respect copyright.PENANAeQaUMCtXj8
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for354Please respect copyright.PENANAsszvAP5gxd
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy354Please respect copyright.PENANAXlTwbrAZcq
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could354Please respect copyright.PENANA8VRJQR7CAB
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.354Please respect copyright.PENANAgI7LdYHUMn
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not354Please respect copyright.PENANA62JWksumTc
meant to last.354Please respect copyright.PENANAjVEwgedQPL
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race354Please respect copyright.PENANAeTk8Nbw7mK
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began354Please respect copyright.PENANAvw9SHFcNIm
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders354Please respect copyright.PENANAWFgjkE02KE
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.354Please respect copyright.PENANAX7ewgBRw1r
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they354Please respect copyright.PENANAbQHBvkSuBz
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead354Please respect copyright.PENANA1JYJePduIZ
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires354Please respect copyright.PENANANg9B7I6H98
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the354Please respect copyright.PENANA2rtX6vmE8Y
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.354Please respect copyright.PENANAbIbxKNHuTV
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...354Please respect copyright.PENANAdVr3OylOHh
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming354Please respect copyright.PENANAapgNMRruaA
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and354Please respect copyright.PENANAHJVcLjCR3m
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human354Please respect copyright.PENANAStbv18n3zA
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.354Please respect copyright.PENANA1YTe6dJgKN
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,354Please respect copyright.PENANAwrR4MiHv7e
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their354Please respect copyright.PENANASUvGRiBYum
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,354Please respect copyright.PENANAJV1IzLgL2n
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen354Please respect copyright.PENANAxubYyR5wrl
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work354Please respect copyright.PENANA1WjdJoOYNt
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared354Please respect copyright.PENANAkBlgxtqUvc
equal rights.354Please respect copyright.PENANAhLg4JUWobQ
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their354Please respect copyright.PENANANO6wEBNJhS
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is354Please respect copyright.PENANA5faoXlM5iT
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.354Please respect copyright.PENANAE0A4A2yqK8
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to354Please respect copyright.PENANAss1kOU4Vql
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken354Please respect copyright.PENANAQZsLHl7CaH
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of354Please respect copyright.PENANAHGsysbxyZ6
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who354Please respect copyright.PENANAxk3Yb7saNc
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and354Please respect copyright.PENANAfYXBw7l6DG
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with354Please respect copyright.PENANAQqrUWF1WmW
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the354Please respect copyright.PENANArbCqOxL7eH
edge.354Please respect copyright.PENANAPenA2XG4LI
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all354Please respect copyright.PENANAdQgwFFIpWq
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is354Please respect copyright.PENANArDpLDoXHrt
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their354Please respect copyright.PENANAEhAPO8meh7
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it354Please respect copyright.PENANANShMNR0QNt
is this way even now.354Please respect copyright.PENANAPMC2zdhdvU
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as354Please respect copyright.PENANAgsicwIkA5l
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed354Please respect copyright.PENANAW0mihE1XZ3
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely354Please respect copyright.PENANAYvx4CWkBUB
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings354Please respect copyright.PENANAkbkNdbOtxw
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them354Please respect copyright.PENANA9TfYNs5s2B
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.