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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,130Please respect copyright.PENANA0DQMWcdnsw
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their130Please respect copyright.PENANAGcBMtT7vRA
greatness is known to all.130Please respect copyright.PENANA6rnE3pWrmd
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and130Please respect copyright.PENANAshdIrsVB6u
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless130Please respect copyright.PENANA7Atfsrbazn
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his130Please respect copyright.PENANAebYXNr67dE
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.130Please respect copyright.PENANAF9sUw9UVGr
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.130Please respect copyright.PENANA4bD7GqfcIX
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,130Please respect copyright.PENANA9nUl78pXlm
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.130Please respect copyright.PENANAMQ5lBAVky2
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest130Please respect copyright.PENANA4YvUZXB0ef
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is130Please respect copyright.PENANALDbafFCCAy
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of130Please respect copyright.PENANAKkIEku7fgq
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any130Please respect copyright.PENANAyTqTjWxsuy
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come130Please respect copyright.PENANAd72PGT8Rlo
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has130Please respect copyright.PENANANNfuBpfa8N
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.130Please respect copyright.PENANACMwIbGZM20
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost130Please respect copyright.PENANAH3ReZFu45B
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?130Please respect copyright.PENANAYoLV7uYxDb
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant130Please respect copyright.PENANAYB4429Cfb1
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in130Please respect copyright.PENANA8bnczGGgb0
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally130Please respect copyright.PENANAlgXw3PwZeT
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the130Please respect copyright.PENANAFYUCeTqNx8
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.130Please respect copyright.PENANAQEtxpRTpuL
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by130Please respect copyright.PENANAhVcWwBSnyd
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and130Please respect copyright.PENANAxhTIKfiSKk
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing130Please respect copyright.PENANAIqql0MKNwF
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.130Please respect copyright.PENANAYdMoxxSkY3
He is a dangerous man.130Please respect copyright.PENANAgE7wBBkU88
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human130Please respect copyright.PENANArM8X7FbEXt
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels130Please respect copyright.PENANAmbqDLGIUdT
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens130Please respect copyright.PENANAKfkzs6C3Up
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the130Please respect copyright.PENANA5EbtJTubEO
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of130Please respect copyright.PENANAYqPzGamYsQ
starvation.130Please respect copyright.PENANAor6hekpMPa
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing130Please respect copyright.PENANAx5tfiLvIS7
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the130Please respect copyright.PENANAfZypPqFHkT
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting130Please respect copyright.PENANAHnj2qvpXOg
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for130Please respect copyright.PENANA8zImbCqC4r
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely130Please respect copyright.PENANAsr7QP2Ms9Y
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they130Please respect copyright.PENANAYORoGh3y7L
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their130Please respect copyright.PENANAmDPQ7q6pSH
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.130Please respect copyright.PENANAV4frN0vGax
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth130Please respect copyright.PENANArryrzSjcFm
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention130Please respect copyright.PENANA4OaTACwiA7
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions130Please respect copyright.PENANAZ5CXpc1WvN
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is130Please respect copyright.PENANAGrEHBB6L2C
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses130Please respect copyright.PENANAp7o41axOv8
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the130Please respect copyright.PENANAXkfEjN6ofJ
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover130Please respect copyright.PENANAqfCLzwgQEx
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...130Please respect copyright.PENANAAhu3qcaUFL
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses130Please respect copyright.PENANAcRpfE0HQIc
and dark continents waiting to be explored.130Please respect copyright.PENANAKCxlY7mJot
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size130Please respect copyright.PENANAhDuk1rCQgD
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much130Please respect copyright.PENANA1cgfgYnT7I
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps130Please respect copyright.PENANAuNKPtjt96A
advancing so do their means of exploring.