
And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.357Please respect copyright.PENANAW8ndsribQa
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the357Please respect copyright.PENANAVL2I5gG0Cq
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one357Please respect copyright.PENANAen2hElugiI
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and357Please respect copyright.PENANAplsnrojQtc
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of357Please respect copyright.PENANAF7ErI5B6Fi
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and357Please respect copyright.PENANA8bcGXLp0Bo
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to357Please respect copyright.PENANAPMv018kplE
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.357Please respect copyright.PENANAGjAgUXZDhK
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for357Please respect copyright.PENANA8bIMG03Qc1
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy357Please respect copyright.PENANAUx9piNcjE6
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could357Please respect copyright.PENANAObnLMNNHge
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.357Please respect copyright.PENANACzw8EAZmwB
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not357Please respect copyright.PENANA541Hmq2slt
meant to last.357Please respect copyright.PENANA5TC9c3EmQ9
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race357Please respect copyright.PENANAiHZKDU3TLF
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began357Please respect copyright.PENANAzHLZqfReRj
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders357Please respect copyright.PENANABhBjQZiHbj
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.357Please respect copyright.PENANA8WLPX6Md9c
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they357Please respect copyright.PENANAuQh06gqM94
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead357Please respect copyright.PENANAXxEBw6ScS3
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires357Please respect copyright.PENANAkQ7KMenR9v
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the357Please respect copyright.PENANAvd23NHAWSQ
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.357Please respect copyright.PENANAYY2bx2eR7Z
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...357Please respect copyright.PENANAmAu8JgbYfr
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming357Please respect copyright.PENANA0ltU0JpE9V
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and357Please respect copyright.PENANAN3synnZdQg
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human357Please respect copyright.PENANAH01jdPBAp2
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.357Please respect copyright.PENANAI7xeHOcX93
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,357Please respect copyright.PENANAIBN12sKdrl
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their357Please respect copyright.PENANA6uuHGQeYJa
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,357Please respect copyright.PENANAuvJAqSv6ns
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen357Please respect copyright.PENANAaBkjFwdQUn
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work357Please respect copyright.PENANAwx9clrwPgW
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared357Please respect copyright.PENANAL1zN0aN7Eg
equal rights.357Please respect copyright.PENANAx65H0M6peP
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their357Please respect copyright.PENANAo35gWPOIlD
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is357Please respect copyright.PENANA0BJqRCRreH
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.357Please respect copyright.PENANAcxWO015ZWJ
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to357Please respect copyright.PENANAKHNuQShUhF
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken357Please respect copyright.PENANAMgTC4iZvw3
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of357Please respect copyright.PENANAB1PrsJLZIX
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who357Please respect copyright.PENANAnPftEI7HTo
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and357Please respect copyright.PENANArxUmrXdBUP
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with357Please respect copyright.PENANAZIyaea61jT
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the357Please respect copyright.PENANAH9gAzUuWqM
edge.357Please respect copyright.PENANAGnTeZLedTa
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all357Please respect copyright.PENANAQS1SXU8D0y
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is357Please respect copyright.PENANA75ImfOrZTl
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their357Please respect copyright.PENANAfMoKmucUX9
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it357Please respect copyright.PENANAxrzS86EnlA
is this way even now.357Please respect copyright.PENANAGqRi2hqbXr
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as357Please respect copyright.PENANAOLpcLRwQOJ
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed357Please respect copyright.PENANACPR7FDYkGA
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely357Please respect copyright.PENANAFKmJk8qc0i
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings357Please respect copyright.PENANA1C15RM3v8I
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them357Please respect copyright.PENANA3KpBa5gk32
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.