And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.127Please respect copyright.PENANABJe1P6S3mL
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the127Please respect copyright.PENANAT6kTorEf32
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one127Please respect copyright.PENANAFBVqCxTVHr
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and127Please respect copyright.PENANAAKkAuhsWDJ
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of127Please respect copyright.PENANAcB1g4WNCKh
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and127Please respect copyright.PENANAViSV3gX6Qm
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to127Please respect copyright.PENANA203LOtcgpM
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.127Please respect copyright.PENANAHgDmKerQ91
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for127Please respect copyright.PENANA6Q0P6GJ0d5
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy127Please respect copyright.PENANAV0w6ya5usm
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could127Please respect copyright.PENANAkI0oyqL9uZ
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.127Please respect copyright.PENANAdKIHUdW7rp
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not127Please respect copyright.PENANArNuQ8gsDou
meant to last.127Please respect copyright.PENANAQec4LvkdxI
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race127Please respect copyright.PENANATCqQI4pUoC
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began127Please respect copyright.PENANAUykOM8hj0f
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders127Please respect copyright.PENANAGspaf1fsZO
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.127Please respect copyright.PENANALan2JQQEyJ
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they127Please respect copyright.PENANAdhLlalPKbj
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead127Please respect copyright.PENANAcislP3uLkV
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires127Please respect copyright.PENANAR1jE5FGDaa
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the127Please respect copyright.PENANAOdRLyDXmDt
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.127Please respect copyright.PENANAatxiXQrzqa
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...127Please respect copyright.PENANAocMqpqV2Sg
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming127Please respect copyright.PENANA9vAr34UGF5
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and127Please respect copyright.PENANANRTNmWGRYF
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human127Please respect copyright.PENANA3Za5j0tyTg
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.127Please respect copyright.PENANAe2k28DNLcT
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,127Please respect copyright.PENANA5xi545lOO6
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their127Please respect copyright.PENANADVZphvuWrx
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,127Please respect copyright.PENANAvbfFlkLZOR
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen127Please respect copyright.PENANAlEDoizs2N6
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work127Please respect copyright.PENANAM3lEg351Iw
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared127Please respect copyright.PENANACJ0B3Kc7RP
equal rights.127Please respect copyright.PENANAiUtbCRRduH
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their127Please respect copyright.PENANAK3zbeFoVLJ
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is127Please respect copyright.PENANA1lQAh7unW0
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.127Please respect copyright.PENANAurAn3mu0Wt
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to127Please respect copyright.PENANAlQGkHIPpQx
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken127Please respect copyright.PENANAbZ9jVY6Fwx
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of127Please respect copyright.PENANAlmzucrGEdy
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who127Please respect copyright.PENANApW7qarI9Kf
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and127Please respect copyright.PENANAwd08wKDrrd
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with127Please respect copyright.PENANAP2WOYQaOJw
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the127Please respect copyright.PENANANWeVr7lYnx
edge.127Please respect copyright.PENANAjdqVNXleja
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all127Please respect copyright.PENANAEkj1mruh4W
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is127Please respect copyright.PENANAtmy7NiXUPD
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their127Please respect copyright.PENANAgtXqdsUHLr
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it127Please respect copyright.PENANAOb7F1pjo0A
is this way even now.127Please respect copyright.PENANA5viTlZ7PC4
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as127Please respect copyright.PENANAOjOz3diYFo
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed127Please respect copyright.PENANAzci4sGKRPl
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely127Please respect copyright.PENANAEKKm4n10sI
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings127Please respect copyright.PENANAY4FS0a2p5S
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them127Please respect copyright.PENANA8U5Nj2Ah37
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
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