
And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.344Please respect copyright.PENANAKhCfsOs568
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the344Please respect copyright.PENANATgGoPlB2Is
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one344Please respect copyright.PENANAQIxdt8uMVy
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and344Please respect copyright.PENANADMRlTHA46N
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of344Please respect copyright.PENANAytW20CyYdm
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and344Please respect copyright.PENANAHv1t1VAywO
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to344Please respect copyright.PENANA96KwDL4y8a
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.344Please respect copyright.PENANAlA1wTcEk7N
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for344Please respect copyright.PENANAjbwo425AR3
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy344Please respect copyright.PENANA8XzRb6uU0U
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could344Please respect copyright.PENANAWygksu8IRa
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.344Please respect copyright.PENANAtkgNvjKxTM
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not344Please respect copyright.PENANAgfHmKHQeJh
meant to last.344Please respect copyright.PENANAnSXispgFPp
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race344Please respect copyright.PENANA3tC7VTNvlz
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began344Please respect copyright.PENANAO3EtnCRRpI
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders344Please respect copyright.PENANAiTsBsKvOb1
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.344Please respect copyright.PENANABWZGG0aljn
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they344Please respect copyright.PENANANTx7qGHcWv
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead344Please respect copyright.PENANAf7rYJr2vZC
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires344Please respect copyright.PENANAsBVgQL6tOV
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the344Please respect copyright.PENANAruy0Esrkn3
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.344Please respect copyright.PENANALoncLmRl5K
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...344Please respect copyright.PENANAB4z6FaMVIz
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming344Please respect copyright.PENANAmdWMdl7MhP
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and344Please respect copyright.PENANAYvGHj8LiRa
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human344Please respect copyright.PENANArQeO0vYmw9
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.344Please respect copyright.PENANAHQYDj5kVRH
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,344Please respect copyright.PENANASHAVdyqgqa
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their344Please respect copyright.PENANAOZewq9ltyJ
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,344Please respect copyright.PENANA2GBddVrj3d
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen344Please respect copyright.PENANAKRZABI666L
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work344Please respect copyright.PENANA7CZvsuOQm1
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared344Please respect copyright.PENANAvUflisgfYe
equal rights.344Please respect copyright.PENANAKefJUKho98
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their344Please respect copyright.PENANAQPOH8sDoyv
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is344Please respect copyright.PENANAaXFH51JLRX
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.344Please respect copyright.PENANA5KjPMv2lTP
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to344Please respect copyright.PENANAcdG38wzxSo
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken344Please respect copyright.PENANAys6LjSbOYv
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of344Please respect copyright.PENANALn8kqyTwwS
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who344Please respect copyright.PENANA3eUnVVuHkn
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and344Please respect copyright.PENANANhrSuEYqYu
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with344Please respect copyright.PENANAKmGTjZXo7N
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the344Please respect copyright.PENANAm6QzGO1vCj
edge.344Please respect copyright.PENANAo2beJQUTpi
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all344Please respect copyright.PENANAYoVDuPMBsq
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is344Please respect copyright.PENANAn5gn7MmSp4
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their344Please respect copyright.PENANAguEW47Wowv
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it344Please respect copyright.PENANAk4rSaYJRtG
is this way even now.344Please respect copyright.PENANATGW5F05gz1
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as344Please respect copyright.PENANArgdxh4KANJ
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed344Please respect copyright.PENANAb1pnJ5IACU
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely344Please respect copyright.PENANA4wD7X6PcFN
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings344Please respect copyright.PENANAVA1IXXzQAH
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them344Please respect copyright.PENANASedcSpBLXK
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.