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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.126Please respect copyright.PENANAy6r5D8Ctfv
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the126Please respect copyright.PENANAY6QVGETjWk
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one126Please respect copyright.PENANAViHjlIQ1t1
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and126Please respect copyright.PENANAPV5D8hHdmJ
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of126Please respect copyright.PENANAotFz93sxCv
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and126Please respect copyright.PENANALpprkVomI7
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to126Please respect copyright.PENANAljqUawiEOJ
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.126Please respect copyright.PENANA50UyIZjEub
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for126Please respect copyright.PENANAQ9JsPXYkwf
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy126Please respect copyright.PENANAbhaIHFcpLC
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could126Please respect copyright.PENANAC7FqPP7QAw
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.126Please respect copyright.PENANAxNN4P45QYl
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not126Please respect copyright.PENANA68y4MtfMRI
meant to last.126Please respect copyright.PENANAbzkIA5qfvU
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race126Please respect copyright.PENANAC1UWIWB2ZX
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began126Please respect copyright.PENANAJIyWSaxhlD
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders126Please respect copyright.PENANAuRt7qm0hpO
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.126Please respect copyright.PENANAaAKCsmHEQp
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they126Please respect copyright.PENANAs2Gd79sAaF
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead126Please respect copyright.PENANAzXApjbpQNz
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires126Please respect copyright.PENANAS627jWpgJw
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the126Please respect copyright.PENANA1FBaa9dSf5
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.126Please respect copyright.PENANAvXG1A3HvNF
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...126Please respect copyright.PENANAX5EvZElkgM
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming126Please respect copyright.PENANAu4TGrFcbSg
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and126Please respect copyright.PENANAqoaYWxQwxx
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human126Please respect copyright.PENANAuoNYtpP9mT
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.126Please respect copyright.PENANAdYHN0G7LjL
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,126Please respect copyright.PENANAe5LVvCPjkc
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their126Please respect copyright.PENANA90jKw8BqJB
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,126Please respect copyright.PENANAD8i6vw02yC
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen126Please respect copyright.PENANAeZpPUkIbAi
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work126Please respect copyright.PENANA2qcy7KDWkt
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared126Please respect copyright.PENANAPMKWJUYpaz
equal rights.126Please respect copyright.PENANAEAKSBIuuou
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their126Please respect copyright.PENANAO1J9wygeAM
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is126Please respect copyright.PENANAyE3hmGrM9B
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.126Please respect copyright.PENANAV9cE5Oe8o5
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to126Please respect copyright.PENANAgmN8IcpbcV
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken126Please respect copyright.PENANAmyKp2LDo1T
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of126Please respect copyright.PENANAGVeCr2r3h2
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who126Please respect copyright.PENANAlImsaKdIhs
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and126Please respect copyright.PENANAck0pEClMPM
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with126Please respect copyright.PENANA5O3ByIUlqv
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the126Please respect copyright.PENANAHAjIEzQsgm
edge.126Please respect copyright.PENANA2GLtHDsdhy
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all126Please respect copyright.PENANAu5kP3IECzb
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is126Please respect copyright.PENANARMx8BoQfYm
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their126Please respect copyright.PENANAnkT1n24Lc5
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it126Please respect copyright.PENANAATjXSDxlV9
is this way even now.126Please respect copyright.PENANAK5ziR46FPA
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as126Please respect copyright.PENANAKoY2W6hWrf
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed126Please respect copyright.PENANAVwkFTFg4le
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely126Please respect copyright.PENANAo34jwhHuzm
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings126Please respect copyright.PENANA8IuzXDWeGn
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them126Please respect copyright.PENANAU5nO5aSwqX
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.