
And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.401Please respect copyright.PENANA5OxXNuo0HB
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the401Please respect copyright.PENANA6SZytR0tpM
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one401Please respect copyright.PENANAMrKtRBq5jr
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and401Please respect copyright.PENANA0PXrC7BDJG
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of401Please respect copyright.PENANAKJdYUqbLI3
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and401Please respect copyright.PENANAU7HZNN1ajW
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to401Please respect copyright.PENANA2nTLyaGxbp
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.401Please respect copyright.PENANAQx9nj81v4X
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for401Please respect copyright.PENANAURpMRp74bs
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy401Please respect copyright.PENANAT6FsEOn2ja
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could401Please respect copyright.PENANALnvKbAsSEL
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.401Please respect copyright.PENANAZOjEHpTbWO
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not401Please respect copyright.PENANAOOgpR12sAd
meant to last.401Please respect copyright.PENANAVpGLhHEG4D
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race401Please respect copyright.PENANANnT0E7w6p3
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began401Please respect copyright.PENANA2UZvzALZ0c
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders401Please respect copyright.PENANA8ubYBhyCBP
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.401Please respect copyright.PENANATfUpD0ApvV
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they401Please respect copyright.PENANA8Bwh6Yoz7W
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead401Please respect copyright.PENANAev8jlpEPeR
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires401Please respect copyright.PENANAM4QZQGLZsa
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the401Please respect copyright.PENANA7OiCihjkx1
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.401Please respect copyright.PENANAls9nOIvDDu
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...401Please respect copyright.PENANAOzZImNPgJz
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming401Please respect copyright.PENANAlAzIUcmypM
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and401Please respect copyright.PENANA4uDmubSJKg
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human401Please respect copyright.PENANARRTgV9Tjq3
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.401Please respect copyright.PENANAKlkRskNnKJ
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,401Please respect copyright.PENANAAP24gRZyjg
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their401Please respect copyright.PENANAspEAqaAziP
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,401Please respect copyright.PENANArjJb6Sz3eW
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen401Please respect copyright.PENANA9tQWjnDRhk
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work401Please respect copyright.PENANAgzdYTAzmT0
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared401Please respect copyright.PENANAteDnEaq8bD
equal rights.401Please respect copyright.PENANApaH3vi9roQ
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their401Please respect copyright.PENANAaP7SGS4dcV
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is401Please respect copyright.PENANAqsfssMwIh8
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.401Please respect copyright.PENANAyQmNyGcavL
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to401Please respect copyright.PENANAAE5MeZUm7T
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken401Please respect copyright.PENANACor8DQ7GYc
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of401Please respect copyright.PENANAGvriZjaQtR
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who401Please respect copyright.PENANAOnMpmdg1fn
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and401Please respect copyright.PENANAK1RtPLcjt1
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with401Please respect copyright.PENANA8OWW1zvyKD
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the401Please respect copyright.PENANAl8uXVVUCZc
edge.401Please respect copyright.PENANAn4y1P2nuYH
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all401Please respect copyright.PENANAqoNpT7gOBs
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is401Please respect copyright.PENANA1UPWKW9XIS
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their401Please respect copyright.PENANAsWlUwRitvp
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it401Please respect copyright.PENANAhS5bb59D5t
is this way even now.401Please respect copyright.PENANAJ7khITYGGR
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as401Please respect copyright.PENANAyXRBEgkbzj
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed401Please respect copyright.PENANA9oeLTpWrO4
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely401Please respect copyright.PENANA24yV5RNedf
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings401Please respect copyright.PENANANWihhheedH
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them401Please respect copyright.PENANA1mqTAltq8Q
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.