
And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.396Please respect copyright.PENANAMEN6DwX0gN
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the396Please respect copyright.PENANAnNKfKYChuZ
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one396Please respect copyright.PENANABzOwDw8FbR
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and396Please respect copyright.PENANASRwOhrqni6
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of396Please respect copyright.PENANAfNn9dm3YG0
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and396Please respect copyright.PENANA6oiZOyzler
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to396Please respect copyright.PENANAnjrveSHj1m
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.396Please respect copyright.PENANA5OhKxB2no8
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for396Please respect copyright.PENANArsnremWyNm
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy396Please respect copyright.PENANArP3M0Cl1qe
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could396Please respect copyright.PENANATwKhs2FjwW
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.396Please respect copyright.PENANABsOWn8MHOg
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not396Please respect copyright.PENANAW54744zIBJ
meant to last.396Please respect copyright.PENANAtTu9zzjYGu
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race396Please respect copyright.PENANA0YoSgyRtaB
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began396Please respect copyright.PENANAlKa8hyEtmA
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders396Please respect copyright.PENANAw1Mff0C2Yh
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.396Please respect copyright.PENANA0G8hWiLNFC
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they396Please respect copyright.PENANAHuhk2BZ6nW
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead396Please respect copyright.PENANA2b9ovbuJmL
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires396Please respect copyright.PENANAHLLyXYk0O5
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the396Please respect copyright.PENANAXi4lLnhH96
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.396Please respect copyright.PENANAen6NscLzVS
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...396Please respect copyright.PENANAnObfg5UsHB
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming396Please respect copyright.PENANA3ikvF9MM5C
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and396Please respect copyright.PENANA7D16lSGj7y
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human396Please respect copyright.PENANA87Hil2Bn7m
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.396Please respect copyright.PENANAuTRrWwCUg7
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,396Please respect copyright.PENANALd3z2uXs8j
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their396Please respect copyright.PENANAIpWSAEshSv
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,396Please respect copyright.PENANAc9egLnCqbu
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen396Please respect copyright.PENANAODq4v2ABaM
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work396Please respect copyright.PENANAKQhmkQP7FQ
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared396Please respect copyright.PENANAGKFxOp5SPz
equal rights.396Please respect copyright.PENANAiyQN5l9cDO
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their396Please respect copyright.PENANAxWeBpwxMFl
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is396Please respect copyright.PENANANGcf2yXzRC
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.396Please respect copyright.PENANAvqVdrGGnFS
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to396Please respect copyright.PENANAeqRIBxDmWs
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken396Please respect copyright.PENANAmPTZF1m5qD
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of396Please respect copyright.PENANAar6A4Yu81d
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who396Please respect copyright.PENANAueCMIcnhJ3
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and396Please respect copyright.PENANAGF1WDMTo95
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with396Please respect copyright.PENANABLwvSyLyAa
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the396Please respect copyright.PENANAZJ4eYrDBPd
edge.396Please respect copyright.PENANAkUgSz79rCU
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all396Please respect copyright.PENANAzCWrtNy9ms
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is396Please respect copyright.PENANAVlBBrfW4KP
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their396Please respect copyright.PENANAr0cgvij3QW
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it396Please respect copyright.PENANAAPg91ePLWM
is this way even now.396Please respect copyright.PENANAbIMDjbJoRz
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as396Please respect copyright.PENANACTY12w6prn
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed396Please respect copyright.PENANA6L4H3PTlBy
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely396Please respect copyright.PENANAFrQfEjbUby
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings396Please respect copyright.PENANATJR7ys5mH1
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them396Please respect copyright.PENANAYL6ZiA2xep
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.