
And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.296Please respect copyright.PENANAdpLfj7wHhv
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the296Please respect copyright.PENANAJOSHNsSyJo
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one296Please respect copyright.PENANATVOmuFqpqX
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and296Please respect copyright.PENANAgqqhfnuOTe
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of296Please respect copyright.PENANAn1Ox1wcTzN
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and296Please respect copyright.PENANAw95oH7t6mN
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to296Please respect copyright.PENANAwcdM6PrR9m
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.296Please respect copyright.PENANAuYhFVK5Tuq
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for296Please respect copyright.PENANAWAqJB5VEQl
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy296Please respect copyright.PENANALeeuPJeJbF
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could296Please respect copyright.PENANAroUrr8cYOE
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.296Please respect copyright.PENANAMTa12Lrxov
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not296Please respect copyright.PENANAShQMP0GnbO
meant to last.296Please respect copyright.PENANAIjmIGcMM3h
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race296Please respect copyright.PENANAZcqOvQo2K4
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began296Please respect copyright.PENANAx0y4VFIXkC
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders296Please respect copyright.PENANAlHjXCJ0iF6
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.296Please respect copyright.PENANASntMGokxSN
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they296Please respect copyright.PENANAsr1cd8cHGT
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead296Please respect copyright.PENANANvZpYGS75U
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires296Please respect copyright.PENANAfbaPrPDw5o
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the296Please respect copyright.PENANAz4x4pPYwzF
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.296Please respect copyright.PENANAEe2jZXgpsf
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...296Please respect copyright.PENANAQ0yGg5iHS1
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming296Please respect copyright.PENANAd9czecWoDo
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and296Please respect copyright.PENANAx5t1mF4oOd
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human296Please respect copyright.PENANAK96AsiNF6x
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.296Please respect copyright.PENANAJXQQRrmOiJ
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,296Please respect copyright.PENANAWsxvF85Lrp
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their296Please respect copyright.PENANATyY9VShv5K
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,296Please respect copyright.PENANA70Xeddi71U
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen296Please respect copyright.PENANAOL5f1Ax2Up
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work296Please respect copyright.PENANA7y0g3ZIsH5
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared296Please respect copyright.PENANAdLr3g5Q6xs
equal rights.296Please respect copyright.PENANAk3QROhRpca
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their296Please respect copyright.PENANAOkrpyg9jpP
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is296Please respect copyright.PENANAZdbGSCnWH8
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.296Please respect copyright.PENANAOkUab3rcJA
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to296Please respect copyright.PENANAWKao4YExSW
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken296Please respect copyright.PENANAdUHk4u4kNc
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of296Please respect copyright.PENANAt3E1s4JJjG
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who296Please respect copyright.PENANAQfeHM8ymfl
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and296Please respect copyright.PENANA9yEblbd0fg
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with296Please respect copyright.PENANAjniI7qPJw3
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the296Please respect copyright.PENANAYECAk6G8rq
edge.296Please respect copyright.PENANAcCVAby5Y7L
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all296Please respect copyright.PENANAgbajz1608S
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is296Please respect copyright.PENANAtkAt0VTorP
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their296Please respect copyright.PENANAWSU9iz4eoP
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it296Please respect copyright.PENANAZd9JJyVcjp
is this way even now.296Please respect copyright.PENANAAkxoQNic6K
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as296Please respect copyright.PENANAfWLGlkBOZc
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed296Please respect copyright.PENANAsBwFTfYIIV
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely296Please respect copyright.PENANAVKfURdLTH1
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings296Please respect copyright.PENANAYPdPSeECEe
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them296Please respect copyright.PENANARXnRvGg3BH
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.