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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,129Please respect copyright.PENANAqSJgMGpfgx
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their129Please respect copyright.PENANATM47vS6qO0
greatness is known to all.129Please respect copyright.PENANAHbFerXIDww
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and129Please respect copyright.PENANA48YAi9I5it
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless129Please respect copyright.PENANA1YYMFR9w4k
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his129Please respect copyright.PENANAiWkDs6wN3j
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.129Please respect copyright.PENANAa75h4ujqCv
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.129Please respect copyright.PENANAzSK2T2lmxu
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,129Please respect copyright.PENANA0TS3HFl2Zn
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.129Please respect copyright.PENANAiUfzKy1keE
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest129Please respect copyright.PENANAPhiOwqF3Nu
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is129Please respect copyright.PENANA82I0CEy3j9
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of129Please respect copyright.PENANAYqMFppPfWt
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any129Please respect copyright.PENANAJrs8tPKsdT
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come129Please respect copyright.PENANA5VCib8iodh
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has129Please respect copyright.PENANAAbWkAdMHVO
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.129Please respect copyright.PENANAqdzKwD0CtQ
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost129Please respect copyright.PENANAxXvbtmBX8Y
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?129Please respect copyright.PENANAzgo6MB8GcD
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant129Please respect copyright.PENANAmhJx6yrV3M
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in129Please respect copyright.PENANAF3ohPedk6D
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally129Please respect copyright.PENANA5XUMnMFHD4
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the129Please respect copyright.PENANAfoUEpuWlCm
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.129Please respect copyright.PENANAXBfObVLtdY
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by129Please respect copyright.PENANA47oBqD7vnK
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and129Please respect copyright.PENANAH26E3FTmil
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing129Please respect copyright.PENANABZHOs9LU0f
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.129Please respect copyright.PENANAqkAS2wgWEQ
He is a dangerous man.129Please respect copyright.PENANAJt4c9xMi7v
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human129Please respect copyright.PENANA4KlXAKyrVl
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels129Please respect copyright.PENANAfZ9TFWGD1l
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens129Please respect copyright.PENANA96V4hvWbeM
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the129Please respect copyright.PENANAA1hutWMZwX
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of129Please respect copyright.PENANAIrEpTlKKGP
starvation.129Please respect copyright.PENANAoSMbsIiinY
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing129Please respect copyright.PENANATox5cUSEMU
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the129Please respect copyright.PENANAnvGrHbQ1U0
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting129Please respect copyright.PENANAeeuZPbjAgs
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for129Please respect copyright.PENANARz2GTOj9cR
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely129Please respect copyright.PENANAVW63Y1cX5D
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they129Please respect copyright.PENANAl0wtJ3HOVW
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their129Please respect copyright.PENANAx3ZWvGLEDT
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.129Please respect copyright.PENANAFdeOxT5hLm
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth129Please respect copyright.PENANATJjhwM4w6J
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention129Please respect copyright.PENANAMVY0n4jtNV
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions129Please respect copyright.PENANAbkVevi3vCr
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is129Please respect copyright.PENANAiO1unLnYMG
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses129Please respect copyright.PENANATPxL7sYWpM
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the129Please respect copyright.PENANAhnsAZsONLb
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover129Please respect copyright.PENANAeTg1yD7MHd
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...129Please respect copyright.PENANAs2ku7C6kQZ
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses129Please respect copyright.PENANAYfkeRips4U
and dark continents waiting to be explored.129Please respect copyright.PENANAqTGJLiJySx
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size129Please respect copyright.PENANAQSkscUQ528
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much129Please respect copyright.PENANA0Y8aXcph7y
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps129Please respect copyright.PENANAGH3DuDKfbM
advancing so do their means of exploring.