
And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.328Please respect copyright.PENANAuK6VFMeNbW
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the328Please respect copyright.PENANAS5P8fxz6Fo
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one328Please respect copyright.PENANApb9rfEPfOG
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and328Please respect copyright.PENANAC40871vQCn
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of328Please respect copyright.PENANACU08FbGTiz
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and328Please respect copyright.PENANAHHvIGzRKVt
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to328Please respect copyright.PENANAOleqU3ld7O
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.328Please respect copyright.PENANAhYQFItEUra
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for328Please respect copyright.PENANAZLdJtB5Uvm
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy328Please respect copyright.PENANAdu7R4VTP4x
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could328Please respect copyright.PENANA0yqX1JXsI7
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.328Please respect copyright.PENANANlOP7y2OQC
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not328Please respect copyright.PENANA36sxqdbBtl
meant to last.328Please respect copyright.PENANA0uHXnJRfKJ
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race328Please respect copyright.PENANAPyTns5ge8u
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began328Please respect copyright.PENANAjfnm9UQ8ud
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders328Please respect copyright.PENANAXutXUj5EIs
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.328Please respect copyright.PENANACC8Mej2yMn
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they328Please respect copyright.PENANA7iHytUPpj0
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead328Please respect copyright.PENANAQCJ3AivdDc
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires328Please respect copyright.PENANAM70yQbL9rw
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the328Please respect copyright.PENANApEqWpyNpDx
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.328Please respect copyright.PENANA6NDWqE2LZa
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...328Please respect copyright.PENANAQFBYBOHYdW
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming328Please respect copyright.PENANArXQ7PhOdlY
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and328Please respect copyright.PENANA9p4fZzGF9f
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human328Please respect copyright.PENANACLuj0K71Uv
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.328Please respect copyright.PENANAbpOSq4x9PL
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,328Please respect copyright.PENANAWixjdMFWdj
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their328Please respect copyright.PENANAKHQDQQbyOS
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,328Please respect copyright.PENANAeLddqzACMd
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen328Please respect copyright.PENANApXKQwsdYDB
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work328Please respect copyright.PENANAmq0Tvj9Yfq
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared328Please respect copyright.PENANALC9h3SLKRr
equal rights.328Please respect copyright.PENANAOsKbyx1gUy
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their328Please respect copyright.PENANAcJY9m0oogc
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is328Please respect copyright.PENANABUBBSBYns7
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.328Please respect copyright.PENANAJx1ZCJBEbj
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to328Please respect copyright.PENANAVIZSTLMuIc
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken328Please respect copyright.PENANA0hoC06gBc6
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of328Please respect copyright.PENANAgCsQYAo5IP
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who328Please respect copyright.PENANAFzHR7D54LX
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and328Please respect copyright.PENANAA0Mprfrt74
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with328Please respect copyright.PENANAieyhNepKar
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the328Please respect copyright.PENANATs441w2jDb
edge.328Please respect copyright.PENANAVJaLFTgmMP
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all328Please respect copyright.PENANAmBrDMbO4Tg
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is328Please respect copyright.PENANAJPbI0X2WaT
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their328Please respect copyright.PENANABHEVoX77Fq
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it328Please respect copyright.PENANAB49Tz0kMxT
is this way even now.328Please respect copyright.PENANATGietReFL8
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as328Please respect copyright.PENANADE9eDoRo7O
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed328Please respect copyright.PENANA36d53bppDr
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely328Please respect copyright.PENANApRArPVbeUL
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings328Please respect copyright.PENANAlgG3ym57MS
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them328Please respect copyright.PENANAgGrQnd9Dqn
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.