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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.119Please respect copyright.PENANAir5WxGu6Fv
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the119Please respect copyright.PENANA94Fwp4YSG4
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one119Please respect copyright.PENANAORIaJ46UaK
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and119Please respect copyright.PENANAWALWuahPHg
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of119Please respect copyright.PENANAejSY1m1lyC
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and119Please respect copyright.PENANAQO2s3GUJJc
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to119Please respect copyright.PENANAR8VRq87c1g
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.119Please respect copyright.PENANAMEyAlsvTtG
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for119Please respect copyright.PENANAg51SE3uS9o
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy119Please respect copyright.PENANAONany32Ouc
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could119Please respect copyright.PENANAq3Rh5eOblV
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.119Please respect copyright.PENANAzXmOsKcHi3
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not119Please respect copyright.PENANA7YLyhMJ4nQ
meant to last.119Please respect copyright.PENANAVmgvPPBGuz
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race119Please respect copyright.PENANAEQsYX3Wot7
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began119Please respect copyright.PENANAvIjgYWdd4R
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders119Please respect copyright.PENANArMGEAoyouB
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.119Please respect copyright.PENANAm8v5Oq2wSw
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they119Please respect copyright.PENANAnDmfB89lXI
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead119Please respect copyright.PENANAmuvtydl7we
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires119Please respect copyright.PENANAsWUjEn9aAD
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the119Please respect copyright.PENANAJADdBfg2vC
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.119Please respect copyright.PENANAj3YB4KySl1
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...119Please respect copyright.PENANAfXQNUUtKyp
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming119Please respect copyright.PENANAZFK01GJzuM
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and119Please respect copyright.PENANAanVPhavjzU
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human119Please respect copyright.PENANATKy5mK5177
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.119Please respect copyright.PENANAvO8q7UxRp6
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,119Please respect copyright.PENANAn16ho5PwnW
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their119Please respect copyright.PENANAEQiUBHy6Ic
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,119Please respect copyright.PENANAqKYLSau69q
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen119Please respect copyright.PENANAPhSCuCZdJk
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work119Please respect copyright.PENANAdctc9Ss9RF
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared119Please respect copyright.PENANA1WfFZyGFLA
equal rights.119Please respect copyright.PENANA5Av3w3GVmM
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their119Please respect copyright.PENANAZHfjiD9n7F
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is119Please respect copyright.PENANA6PEU7bcojw
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.119Please respect copyright.PENANApmpOV0qFA8
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to119Please respect copyright.PENANAr9U4zhvOxz
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken119Please respect copyright.PENANAkGnk6Q6ZUg
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of119Please respect copyright.PENANAZgVgQYm7AR
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who119Please respect copyright.PENANA9Rx3DFc1xy
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and119Please respect copyright.PENANAq7P0AU9mxi
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with119Please respect copyright.PENANAX6EQgz3mWx
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the119Please respect copyright.PENANA5Wsfh2FyDW
edge.119Please respect copyright.PENANArtDhs5dIGE
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all119Please respect copyright.PENANA4dvkfZl6v5
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is119Please respect copyright.PENANAYNMdx1mwjF
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their119Please respect copyright.PENANA1KMFGXjmif
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it119Please respect copyright.PENANAmv1sP2w9QG
is this way even now.119Please respect copyright.PENANAyFdCpVY3la
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as119Please respect copyright.PENANAeSwwzmrOTH
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed119Please respect copyright.PENANAziDjKVog9q
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely119Please respect copyright.PENANAh3R4igr35S
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings119Please respect copyright.PENANArCan8hwxkL
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them119Please respect copyright.PENANARpsvlOexBm
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.