And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.158Please respect copyright.PENANAdnJ5CFqv1R
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the158Please respect copyright.PENANA8yfXqIvbLe
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one158Please respect copyright.PENANAtjM2jwZmQN
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and158Please respect copyright.PENANAcbYYHtbUzY
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of158Please respect copyright.PENANAaYOkbgyD8T
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and158Please respect copyright.PENANAQKokGpnzAY
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to158Please respect copyright.PENANApgoyDI5T1v
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.158Please respect copyright.PENANASW1RZeYXSc
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for158Please respect copyright.PENANAIFj2N6TH1r
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy158Please respect copyright.PENANAKWNMx7rP44
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could158Please respect copyright.PENANAG2DfCf0qDJ
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.158Please respect copyright.PENANAW1nJRtUZNS
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not158Please respect copyright.PENANAcpEfIZgVlR
meant to last.158Please respect copyright.PENANAgTd3gzyQGW
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race158Please respect copyright.PENANAM12Hi54BIf
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began158Please respect copyright.PENANA60USbMUFcj
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders158Please respect copyright.PENANA09i6HrBkzv
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.158Please respect copyright.PENANAhju2xG6zze
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they158Please respect copyright.PENANAIypR6l0GwS
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead158Please respect copyright.PENANAYSJaQiYXTr
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires158Please respect copyright.PENANArU25JwtAUk
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the158Please respect copyright.PENANAqd2vwEnBsS
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.158Please respect copyright.PENANAywylNm5lut
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...158Please respect copyright.PENANAFfXBBvOxCB
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming158Please respect copyright.PENANAqQJBUvt9At
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and158Please respect copyright.PENANAEyBQO4ZIU9
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human158Please respect copyright.PENANA3Tfqs2nhFx
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.158Please respect copyright.PENANAzyTyuxF9C1
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,158Please respect copyright.PENANAoXyzMaXMZZ
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their158Please respect copyright.PENANAksWHwulT1m
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,158Please respect copyright.PENANA9OdVVC2qqO
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen158Please respect copyright.PENANAjVVsCdyMoo
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work158Please respect copyright.PENANAdcoq754z0r
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared158Please respect copyright.PENANA3dPkEwde2l
equal rights.158Please respect copyright.PENANAuVqKvNPRur
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their158Please respect copyright.PENANAjNFr0Nil5p
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is158Please respect copyright.PENANAxECS5Z8hpb
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.158Please respect copyright.PENANAFYwEhXvUTH
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to158Please respect copyright.PENANArcbf55CVe9
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken158Please respect copyright.PENANA3BLcE0lLMG
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of158Please respect copyright.PENANAvrAWhNXrvL
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who158Please respect copyright.PENANAueQbQ7HgXe
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and158Please respect copyright.PENANA009pYfEVZp
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with158Please respect copyright.PENANArCeRxiSUNe
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the158Please respect copyright.PENANA8IelS1SYTD
edge.158Please respect copyright.PENANAMSIu9tiKVQ
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all158Please respect copyright.PENANAxPrTV7PcoM
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is158Please respect copyright.PENANAaaFobja3nN
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their158Please respect copyright.PENANAQsynrT5fdT
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it158Please respect copyright.PENANAQmDx4mlLHQ
is this way even now.158Please respect copyright.PENANAu7fK2dL3gL
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as158Please respect copyright.PENANAGPmRoPievT
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed158Please respect copyright.PENANAdaaMOcUVLT
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely158Please respect copyright.PENANAVlR4jRPha4
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings158Please respect copyright.PENANAFv5lPjhmMT
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them158Please respect copyright.PENANAvrJh0zpkLj
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.