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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.125Please respect copyright.PENANAncCP62iUdN
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the125Please respect copyright.PENANA325YeiTowD
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one125Please respect copyright.PENANAOzSnhAtpO1
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and125Please respect copyright.PENANAwJHFFnk3eV
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of125Please respect copyright.PENANAqHgguwol8m
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and125Please respect copyright.PENANA9XP9HColf5
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to125Please respect copyright.PENANAnxlMA3X6A2
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.125Please respect copyright.PENANA1885A5rUQf
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for125Please respect copyright.PENANAqL2UeaBK0H
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy125Please respect copyright.PENANARjFfU1NkJb
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could125Please respect copyright.PENANAJYxbkQ6gOV
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.125Please respect copyright.PENANAf1U4J7hoOs
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not125Please respect copyright.PENANAZO3WK3fF2s
meant to last.125Please respect copyright.PENANA89HhBwZu6w
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race125Please respect copyright.PENANAbMCBowd8uF
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began125Please respect copyright.PENANAewTW12fEIj
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders125Please respect copyright.PENANADdGTkL9nr4
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.125Please respect copyright.PENANA4ytgRlxoAa
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they125Please respect copyright.PENANAttsd4my259
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead125Please respect copyright.PENANA32OH5sYEvM
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires125Please respect copyright.PENANAHknlH3JFVY
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the125Please respect copyright.PENANAfPd0R11kZp
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.125Please respect copyright.PENANApdD7QSoUfC
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...125Please respect copyright.PENANAm3bJxn52lA
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming125Please respect copyright.PENANAmCmEA2Buv7
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and125Please respect copyright.PENANApnX8E2M2JU
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human125Please respect copyright.PENANA3jh8LUPcE6
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.125Please respect copyright.PENANAcgR4vb35uu
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,125Please respect copyright.PENANArMtMf9DsBl
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their125Please respect copyright.PENANA60xyqKwPPq
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,125Please respect copyright.PENANAeaEWSX3fcN
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen125Please respect copyright.PENANAgsC9pZ423M
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work125Please respect copyright.PENANAzuEamz1oXk
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared125Please respect copyright.PENANAsGnOaPHdcK
equal rights.125Please respect copyright.PENANAhhcB5fAKrv
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their125Please respect copyright.PENANAWSH23WSgMJ
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is125Please respect copyright.PENANA79pdgB2z1j
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.125Please respect copyright.PENANAOUGpjI8mOZ
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to125Please respect copyright.PENANAPAx4ne6vlx
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken125Please respect copyright.PENANAzyEy0y70xk
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of125Please respect copyright.PENANA6QKuMaQtwI
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who125Please respect copyright.PENANAQ5JdEvlDOc
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and125Please respect copyright.PENANABToN5J78Rr
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with125Please respect copyright.PENANAJon7Q4uxsa
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the125Please respect copyright.PENANAg9xWR0clFx
edge.125Please respect copyright.PENANAiMotSOZBUo
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all125Please respect copyright.PENANAslipcAjilC
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is125Please respect copyright.PENANACQuc0JQ6Om
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their125Please respect copyright.PENANA1fUfcZwvfQ
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it125Please respect copyright.PENANAb1vfASpqAg
is this way even now.125Please respect copyright.PENANAF1Vphr3Pl7
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as125Please respect copyright.PENANAu0dItM0FkC
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed125Please respect copyright.PENANAHmkW4zrPd9
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely125Please respect copyright.PENANADh4FybBQQo
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings125Please respect copyright.PENANA1GTkxRNrRe
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them125Please respect copyright.PENANAWZG02AcsOv
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.