
And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.295Please respect copyright.PENANAoWS8buwLNp
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the295Please respect copyright.PENANAukxg4Uo2Pl
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one295Please respect copyright.PENANAhLruO44vVE
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and295Please respect copyright.PENANAHan3WSga7O
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of295Please respect copyright.PENANAqPD9W2cWKK
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and295Please respect copyright.PENANA4jIXdrekvG
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to295Please respect copyright.PENANAvH2cgEbsrH
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.295Please respect copyright.PENANA0by8IoDOtz
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for295Please respect copyright.PENANADuMrY5MMjh
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy295Please respect copyright.PENANAnI0Tyk0cC5
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could295Please respect copyright.PENANAeWtUJEAFIq
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.295Please respect copyright.PENANAP53OZIHhof
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not295Please respect copyright.PENANAPVTWNaWWwJ
meant to last.295Please respect copyright.PENANAqIDDKdB4D8
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race295Please respect copyright.PENANA0BQ0KaY0Hk
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began295Please respect copyright.PENANASarg0g6REO
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders295Please respect copyright.PENANA5kVfkseRiV
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.295Please respect copyright.PENANAGfCoQvgynk
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they295Please respect copyright.PENANAiC4k4h6cSb
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead295Please respect copyright.PENANAw3MHsJKYF4
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires295Please respect copyright.PENANAYkLCZHqvDb
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the295Please respect copyright.PENANAcBe8Eay2PV
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.295Please respect copyright.PENANAhxKsqJO2aJ
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...295Please respect copyright.PENANAEFhO1HPnZC
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming295Please respect copyright.PENANAIrhimzGilS
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and295Please respect copyright.PENANAUaHXHRwdyJ
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human295Please respect copyright.PENANAlNOPrm2eu9
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.295Please respect copyright.PENANAutxjUrr881
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,295Please respect copyright.PENANArPkbPtvLoi
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their295Please respect copyright.PENANA4YIBX8a2WL
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,295Please respect copyright.PENANA7URbkxiNNh
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen295Please respect copyright.PENANAuAmFg5la3W
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work295Please respect copyright.PENANAL6iO4SwsM9
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared295Please respect copyright.PENANA9qaEBfbwpH
equal rights.295Please respect copyright.PENANAUAyqMNwENj
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their295Please respect copyright.PENANAeRlHtai2Sl
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is295Please respect copyright.PENANAzuxYCVIFw1
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.295Please respect copyright.PENANAK55P0EIVOm
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to295Please respect copyright.PENANAHwmE7u35U1
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken295Please respect copyright.PENANA9pxjcIp6gg
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of295Please respect copyright.PENANAQmIS4cPucI
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who295Please respect copyright.PENANArVFsAVsKYw
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and295Please respect copyright.PENANAn5YnbtHcDT
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with295Please respect copyright.PENANA8WOaZvli1s
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the295Please respect copyright.PENANAxTfzoatoqI
edge.295Please respect copyright.PENANAKIVMHDwCrf
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all295Please respect copyright.PENANAIBxGSpy2oN
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is295Please respect copyright.PENANA98fUCNFM09
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their295Please respect copyright.PENANAqhEq0AJF4m
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it295Please respect copyright.PENANAp5g9xRwWff
is this way even now.295Please respect copyright.PENANA35lfi9eDQk
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as295Please respect copyright.PENANAUBOnkitcVc
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed295Please respect copyright.PENANAFWwhidYhYg
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely295Please respect copyright.PENANAV8f1OZfXtE
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings295Please respect copyright.PENANA6lf4KIzYPq
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them295Please respect copyright.PENANAfxcqV2Zkg9
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.