Original The last Straw Chapters 1, 2 and 3 (Original Human Made Story) (1 Viewer)

The Dire Era:
Mankind a small yet common bipedal race that lived in equally small and primitive tribes along the great plains. Or at least they used too. The tribes of mankind were almost hunted to extinction by the many monstrous races of the plains chiefly amongst which were the Centaurs. They were faster than the Humans and even with the Humans great stamina they still fell short of that of the Centaurs. Both were about equal in intelligence and when it came to size and strength the man eating Centaur had the advantage again. This lead to Humans being forced to abandon their homeland the pains as they were hunted to the edge of extinction. They hid amongst the forests yet their hunters did not cease their cruelty as Human flesh was the favorite food of many of them. At some point all female Humans were killed leaving just a few scattered groups of men as the end of humanity seemed to peak around the corner.

The Era of Trees:
Mankind believed the forests would be their grave yet a few smart men managed to come up with a solution. Humans were bipedal allowing them to make sharp turns in the forest and their slim bodies could fit between dense thickets of trees, using this they started to fight the centaurs in the densest parts of the forests. Though with no females even a shift in strategy would not save mankind. That was where the unique biology of centaurs changed things. Centaurs had two sets of reproductive organs. the males had a humanoid penis indistinguishable to that of a Human located on the front of their Human half and a horse shaped one on the rear of their horse body. The females thus had a Human shaped vagina on the back of their Human half and a horse one on the rear of their horse part.
During one of the centaurs hunts they some centaurs got captured and from there the first new batch of Humans were soon born afterwords. Yet Humanity discovered that their dire problems were not over as they lost the ability to create new females of their own. All new Humans born were male meanwhile the female Centaurs would sometimes birth male Centaurs as well as female Centaurs.

The Era of Second Hope:
The Humans took drastic measures as they tried and tried again to birth a female Human to no avail. thus they were forced to work with the occasional female Centaur as a lifeline to help repopulate entire tribes. since Humans had become an all male race they killed Male centaurs on birth sparing only the females. Despite this the Centaurs still sent hunting parties into the forests to hunt Humans. Not to save their kin the Centaurs were cannibals that would eat any captured Centaurs they encountered (unless they belonged to the same tribe which was a rarity). Instead they did so due to their love of the taste of Human flesh an addictive meat their entire race had come to crave. Though as hated as these hunting parties were they were also the only way for Humans to acquire new females and with that the Human population had finally stopped shrinking even though it had only stabilised rather than truly returning to its old glory.

The Era Travel:
After generations passed a breed of domesticated Centaurs had come to be. Unlike their wild cousins these centaurs did not see Humans as mere walking delicacies to eat but rather as something else.
Humans were seen as their mates and masters. From a relatively young age each female centaur would be pared with a Human of similar age. The two would grow together forming strong lifelong bonds. Thanks to this the Humans began riding on the backs of centaurs unlocking a new method of transportation as well as a new method of waging war. Cavalry was a new concept that no Human tribe had any true understanding off thus there were many needless casualties as trial and error was the only way forwards.
Human archers and spearmen rode on the backs of their domesticated mounts as they occasionally left the forest in search of new resources as well as other Human tribes that lived in more distant lands. There the tribes discovered they were not alone as other forests had tiny human populations all on the verge of extinction. Some of these smaller tribes had also recently discovered by themselves that they could reproduce with centaurs though most were ignorant of the possibility. Though thanks to the timely arrival of the cavalry the information began to spread far and wide. Unfortunately for humanity no female humans were found yet to the humans born to centaurs who never saw a female human their entire life it seemed completely normal for no such thing as a woman to exist.

The Era Villages:
With information spreading came new ideas and technologies. Humanity managed to turn the table against the wild centaur tribes thanks to their domesticated mounts and new technologies. Each mounted cavalry unite had the firepower of two individuals while each wild Centaur could only fight for one. Male Centaurs may have been stronger than their female counterparts but that was were the technologic advantage balanced things out again. Humans managed to make lighter spears thus they could make them longer giving their domesticated mounts longer reaching weapons meanwhile Human bows could shoot further than the bows made by Wild Centaur hands. Humans still had many predators such as Minotaurs and Wyverns but at least the Centaurs were no longer a unbeatable threat. Humanity had taken one step up in the food chain while also increasing in numbers in a rate never before seen.
Humans began building villages hidden deep in the forests as a new way of life had started to spread. Domesticated Centaurs would do most of the manual labor with humanity swooping in to do the parts the Centaurs couldn't do or struggled with due to their biology. Humans became the crafters and smiths and builders with the Centaurs assisting at best meanwhile the Centaurs farmed thanks to the rise of agriculture as Humans assisted the centaurs there. Meanwhile warfare was fought by both rider and mount alike.
One of the newest preoccupations to reach humanity was what to do with captured wild Centaurs. By now there were visible differences between wild Centaurs and domesticated Centaurs. The Domesticated ones had larger breasts most likely due to natural selection of a male only race and their faces had human proportions rather than the ever so slightly inhuman appearance of wild Centaur faces. Thus Humanity had come up with Breeders, men who dedicated their entire life to breeding wild centaurs into those that are indistinguishable from the original domesticated population.
Breeders worked tirelessly for generations as their roles and significance to human society expanded.

The Era of Grass & Towns:
At the dawn of the new era humanity moved out of the forests and started to settle into the grasslands surrounding the forests. Humanity still did not dare venture to far away from the forests as even with their mounts they were far from the top of the food chain. Despite this small villages began to pop up around the forests as the first towns started to appear where the original forest villages once stood. While this era would be consider insignificant to future historians it still was a major step forwards to mankind.

The Era of Nations:
The Minotaur had long been one of the greatest threats to mankind. They were larger more massive than a Centaur and sturdy enough to take on a head on charge of by a Centaur galloping at full speed. They were less intelligent than Humans but they didn't need to be smart to kill dozens. The Minotaurs physical might was unmatched by anything humans could muster and the fact they lived in herds made them even more troublesome to deal with. Now that Humanity started to settle the grasslands in the outer edges of the pains they were forced to come into contact with the Minotaurs with each conflict usually ending with either a loss for the humans or a pyrrhic victory at best.
The pressure of Minotaurs forced the human villages in the grasslands to work together to fight of the Minotaur threat in ways no single village had done before. This increased cooperation soon lead to the first nations forming out of the outer villages which in return caused the towns and villages hidden in the forests to form their own nations soon after. Some nations had kings while others had chiefs with there being no distinction made between the religion and the crown. The king/chief was also the high priest of whichever nascent nation they lead.
Unfortunately the rise of nations lead to the first large scale conflicts between Humans. Humanity finally had the numbers yet many were squandered in conflicts amongst humanity instead of the Minotaur threat they had originally united to face against.

NEXT CHAPTER See post #5 below​

----NOTES FROM THE AUTHOR----
NOTE ONE: Feel free to use this story and its eras as settings for your own stories.
NOTE TWO: I don't know if ill make chapter 2 or 3 nor do I even if when I'll do it if at all.

 

[Patro-Nabbon]

Im just making sure. is it ok if i write a story that takes place in your setting?

 

[pooplool]

Im just making sure. is it ok if i write a story that takes place in your setting?

Feel free to do so

 

[Patro-Nabbon]

Feel free to do so

Thanks! I literally made an account just to ask if i could.

 

[pooplool]

The Era of WAR:
Mankind had wars of the era of Nations were nothing compared to the era that followed. The Era of war was truly worthy of its name instead of battles of tens to at most a hundred or so cavalrymen became wars of hundreds as nations crossed the plains to strike at one another despite being located in non neighboring forests. Hundreds of Human men and female Centaurs died in each of the great conflicts of this era as the Minotaur threat only got worse as the abundance of corpses allowed them to feed well and reproduce better. The era was a dark one for Humans but for the vultures around the Era could not have been better.

The Era of Minotaurs:
Humanity was weakened as alongside their domesticated Centaurs, Minotaurs reined supreme as herds would simply walk up to a Human town or village nab some Human snacks and head out facing no real resistance. The wild Centaurs too started to swoop in to the villages outside the protection of the forest as they no longer hid deep in the open plains. Many Humans died as the era grew grim. Yet things did not cease getting worse as the increased activity alongside larger beings being more numerous led to wyverns too being more active in the region. The draconic sky beasts would feed on human centaur and minotaur alike not differentiating between them in any meaningful way beyond slight differences in taste and size. The only blessing was that Wyverns tended to prefer eating the larger Centaurs and Minotaurs though that too came with the cost of increased danger to domesticated Centaurs too. Humanity was forced to cease their infighting or at least put it on the backpedal as new fires were rising everywhere before they could be put out most unique of which were the rumors of tiny fat men stealing from the villages and disappearing into underground tunnels.

The Second Domestication Era:
The era of Minotaur's was long and painful yet a sudden five year drought was the catastrophe that started the new era. A catastrophe that hit everyone yet not everyone suffered equally from it. The wyverns and birds got away unharmed, they simply flapped their wings and flew to distant lands were water remained abundant. The humans were not so lucky as most villages relied on ponds and rivers that dried up during the drought. Despite this some human settlements had wells that were deep enough to get them through the drought while other settlements were located near lakes large enough to spare everyone. Thanks to a mix of Human ingenuity and luck mankind managed to live on harmed but not as badly as the wild Centaurs. Without wells they had to rely on a dwindling water supply migrating in groups and fighting over each and every water source they found to the bitter end. To make things worse most of the lakes were surrounded by dense forests which were both difficult for them to traverse and navigate as well as having Human settlements hidden within. Many tribes did not make it with a some even surrendering to Humans out of desperation leading to a mass domestication event of willing female Centaurs. Water was still not abundant enough for all human nations to accept these offers which were usually followed by bloodshed as the Centaurs would attempt to take the Humans water by force while the Humans tried to take out the competition.
Even though things were bad for the Centaurs the Minotaurs were hit even harder. They could not travel as far or as fast as the centaurs and their lower intelligence made finding solutions to thier problems more difficult. They not only were less intelligent than the Humans and Centaurs they also didn't have as good of a memory or live as long leading to them racking up less experience as well as failing to remember nearby watercourses.
Finally for the first time in know history the Minotaurs were weak. It was not human hands but mother nature that screwed them over yet the Humans would not let such an opportunity be missed. Weak and thirsty herds of Minotaurs were captured by the humans who already had a profession dedicated to the domestication of the monstrous man-eating races.
The drought eventually ended after which humanity would struggle to capture Minotaurs again yet their breeders worked tirelessly to breed a domesticated version of Minotaurs. Luckily despite their less human appearance the Minotaurs were more susceptible to human genes leading to them changing a lot faster and a lot more visibly than the Centaurs. By now the domesticated Centaurs had completely human upper bodies that looked near indistinguishable to a regular human with the main acceptation being their bulky breasts and the fact that no human female had been spotted for centuries. They had also grown to be slightly less intelligent than their Human masters though the difference was negligible. While their personalities became very friendly and obedient while still retaining the energetic nature of the wild centaurs. Domesticated Minotaur's too had erratic shifts, their original cow head was replaced with that of a human woman (though with two vert large horns). Their cow udders had become regular breasts and their size shrunk when compared to their wild counterparts. Wild Centaur and Minotaur females were already naturally obedient to their male counterparts as the males were in charge of leading the herds/tribes they came from, Humans simply breed those traits to the extreme making them more submissive to males and especially Humans who by this point had been an all male race for centuries. Domesticated Minotaur's were just as intelligence as their wild counterparts though Minotaurs were never known for their intelligence. Domesticated Minotaurs were female only just like the Domesticated Centaurs before them.


The Era of Regrowth:
Mankind resurged to greatness with a vengeance! Each human had Centaur with most having at least one Minotaur if not multiple. The domesticated giants were no longer the blood thirsty beasts of the past but gentle giants that served as beasts of burden. Farming and constructing became a lot easier with the aid of Minotaurs. Centaurs maintained their key role as the lead method of transportation but they now had to compete with the Minotaurs in the field of child care. In distant eras past Humans would be in charge of child care though over the generations Centaurs began becoming the dominant force in the field with many humans being primarily raised by their Centaur mothers though their Human Fathers were still ever-present. Tough now families were not a couple of Centaur and Human selected to live together from a relative young age but instead the core of the family had shifted to only specifically be the Human father as there were multiple females in each family. And the Centaurs and Minotaur's were made to raise on another's offspring under the societal norms of the Humans who's civilisation all three races now resided in as one. This lead to clashes and conflicts which the humans were alreadt attenpting to breed out of their partners to mixed success. Though the Minotaurs shorter lifespans combined with them being easier to change lead to them slowly getting the upper hand as by the end of the era they were much closer to what the Humans wanted of them when compared to their Centaur rivals.


The Era of Milk:
The humans breeding brought forwards an unexpected change in their domesticated Minotaurs. Other than their breasts swelling to titanic sizes they also began to lactate even when the females weren't pregnant. At first Mankind thought little of it, until someone noticed that Minotaurs could eat things humans couldn't not just meats but more importantly grass! Ever present grass that could be found anywhere could be turned into milk and since it could be turned into milk it would be worth while finding out what uses did it have. Thus primitive milk based beauty products aimed at making Centaurs and Minotaurs more beautiful started to gain traction as milk was also used to dye clothing and eventually to be consumed directly. By that point an entirely new culinary branch started to form all based on the breast milk of domesticated Minotaurs. A product that was not only highly sought after but fairly easy to produce and plesruable to harvest for both the Minotaurs ended up loving the extraction process but also by the Human males that milked their Minotaurs. Milk became its own industry with new jobs popping up as everyone raced to cash in on the new Milk craze.

 

[pooplool]

The Era of Cities:
At the dawn of the new era a new type of settlement started to appear. The City! Larger than a town, absolutely dwarfing any type settlement that came before the City rained supreme. More and more towns had their borders expand so much they merged with their neighboring towns and villages turning into many of the first cities formed in the era with many more to follow in their footsteps. However not all was well as Humanity had to grapple with a new problem. The mysterious short Thieves had been plaguing towns for multiple Eras, They would steal any metal object they came across and than run into hidden tunnels. They were nearly never found in forests settlements yet their sightings were much more common in settlements deep into the plains.
Another issue Humans were grappling with was one they had to face with the Domesticated Minotaurs, as it had become apparent by this era that minotaur pregnancies had birth at a rate of only one out of four being male with the other three birthing another female Minotaur. Not every Human wanted to live with both a Minotaur and a Centaur this being combined with the overpopulation of Domesticated Minotaur's lead to the creation of Ranches replacing breeders. Ranchers had large farms of Minotaurs dedicated to growing food in their fields and dairy production in their sheds, Those who wanted to live with a Minotaur would need to receive one from a Rancher authorised by the nation in question though it was not too difficult to acquire such authorisation in most nations.
The skewed birth rate did however skew Human opinion as the debate on whether Minotaur's or Centaurs were better became a major political wedge which lead to multiple small conflicts and uprisings as well as breeders purposely breeding certain centaurs to be able to lactate like Minotaurs all year round in order to counter rancher influence. Minotaur Harems versus the Loyal Centaurs who had been raised alongside their masters. Lifespan, Lactation, Male to Female birth rates, Intelligence, physical capabilities, Emotional Intelligence, Use and Practicality, all became core aspects of the debate. Though these debates started to simmer down near the end of the era, not because a winner was found but rather because the Identity of the thieves was discovered. To the mountain range north of the plains live a race of Stocky Miniature Humans known as Dwarves. These Dwarves had dedicated themselves to digging tunnels all over the mountain with some even deliberately digging into human cities to attempt to plunder their metallic riches. By the time the Era ended Humanity was now laser focused on a new external enemy.

The Mountain Expansion Era:
The Humans were already on hostile terms with the Dwarves when the Era began. Human cities expanded further and further north as they claimed more of the plain humanity had originated from. With numbers on their side the Wild Minotaur's posed little threat as a large mounted army could easily crush a wild herd and the Centaurs posed little real resistance either with the domesticated population outnumbering the wild population by an order of magnitude. Only those draconic wyverns up in the sky remained an unbeatable menace but they were very rare. Very few wyverns had ever returned after the drought at the beginning of the second domestication Era. Instead humanity had to tussle with overpopulation in their cities leading to more and more coming into existence and the further north they expanded the more dwarven thieves they had to face. But the Dwarves weren't done with theft as at some point they started sneak into villages to spread paralysing poisons which they used to rape the much larger Centaur and Minotaur females in what were starting to become a too common occurrence. These occurrences spurred Humanity to take vengeance and multiple nations declared war on the Dwarves all at once.
The war was far from one sided as both the Dwarves and the Humans had their advantages. The humans were faster and more mobile with them and their Centaur mounts also having the size and reach advantage with their infantry grade bow and arrows having superior range. Yet the Dwarves had access to two things no humans had. ARTILERY and MAGIC! Dwarven bows may now have had the range of their human counterparts but their cannons had a considerable range and firepower advantage with the largest cannons fringing human sized shells. Human Mobility versus Dwarven firepower was not it all as the Dwarves may have had shorter arms but their bodies were stocky and sturdy capable of taking a much harsher beating that the more fragile humans. Their shields were enhanced with magical runes that made them near unboreable forcing humans to get creative. Pit traps, Flanking, and Sabotage all became tactics of choice as the war shifted from a tactical one to a war of attrition a war that lasted until the end of the Era.

The Golden Era (The Magic Era):
Unlike Eras past the Golden Era had two names. One contemporary one used by the people of the time and another given to it by historians after the Era already ended. Historians called it the Golden Era with the Contemporary name being the Magic Era and for good reason. As the War had come to an end with a Human victory. With the Dwarves defeat their magical technology had fallen to the all too eager human hands. Magic runes were initially only used to enhance weapons and armour but humanity soon began to enhance their buildings with it too. Making tall towers that were immune to earthquakes, Fortresses made of stone that still managed to float on water, And castles with walls that were eternally on fire deterring anyone from entering from anywhere other than the proper entrance. Clothing too incorporated runes as well as many tools and appliances. Most famous of which was none other than the Pleasure plug an insertable object that would completely stun a target by overwhelming them with a constant stream of pleasure. Plasure plugs were first used by breeders to forcefully calm misbehaving Centaurs by inserting it into their human vagina though soon the plugs began seeing an increase in popularity when humans started inserting them into their Minotaurs and Centaurs for fun. From there its use only got further widespread when the second generation of Dwarves started to mature as mankind essentially by instinct began domesticating them as well. Though unlike the Minotaurs or the Centaurs the Dwarves still produced both male and female offspring while also retaining much more of their culture as they were much more advanced than the Minotaurs or the Centaurs that at best could point at their ancestors roaming the open plains without achieving much else as a civilization.
With the use of the Dwarves own runes against their descendants the Humans of the golden era had a surplus of options. Though despite the new option being available few humans were to keep to try out the first of the domesticated Dwarfs. They were smaller than humans yet each Dwarf ate like two Humans and unlike Minotaurs they are the same stuff and the humans too. The dwarves were much more stubborn and disobedient than the Minotaurs and Centaurs, and despite the breeders best efforts once in a while there would still pop out a Dwarven male thus it was not even guaranteed all males born would be Human with the chances of a male dwarf popping out being one out of ten with a female dwarf being a 6 our of ten and a Human at 3 out of ten. Another oddity was the high percentage of Dwarves that weren't interested in the opposite sex but their own instead. Though that lead to the creation of Dwarven theaters shows where Humans bought tickets too see two female Dwarves arouse each other for the entertainment of the ticket holders.
While Domesticated Dwarves were seen as a new addition during the entire Era they were not an unwelcome one as eventually their adoption into greater human society became as ubiquitous as the Centaurs and Minotaur's before them.
Other than the great breakthroughs in Domestication as well as the fields of Magic and Technology, the Golden Era also brought many new discoveries into the limelight. Explorers traveled far and wide across the continent as literacy became much more common even if still a rarity. Historians studied the world around them and designated the Era's once and for all and during their studies of myths of Humans and the other races they descoved the world beyond the great plains was much more expansive than they thought. They found myths of Dwarven longboats originating from an entirely sperate continent setting sail to the northen mountains with the ancestors of the Dwarves while Centaurs believed giant birds made of tin chased them from an unknown homeland into the great plains while old human myths believed claimed there were giant arrows in the sky. It was heard to tell truth from fiction but out of the myths the Dwarven one was belived to be the easiest to prove. Unfortunately that didn't happen as the Golden Era may have been the longest Era yet but it was also the one with the most sudden end.
An end brough by the black night where over a thousand Wyverns suddenly migrated back to the plains.

The Post Golden Era:
Humanity had had it too good for too long, they faced no real danger for too long and had gotten soft during the Golden Era. The return of the wyverns and in such numbers so suddenly and without warning was the greatest calamity Humanity had faced since they were driven into the forests. Yet now the Forests were gone they were swallowed into the citys becoming parks at best if not being torn down in their entirety in the name of lumber and the creation of farmlands. The post golden era as an Era of Apocalypse where the human population fell to a fraction of a fraction of its former size. The giant cavalry armies of old had disappeared with countless casualties and entire nations falling to ruins. It was not just the Humans and Centaurs that fell but also the non combatants were eaten and burned down en mass the Minotaur's and Dwarves weren't safe from their grim fate. It took two generations born under this apocalyptic era to finally muster up enough of the old Dwarven cannons to start to fight back against the draconic dangers that lucked high in the sky. Reverse engineering the old tech to create smaller more mobile cannons took many years during which the irreplicable old cannons were getting destroyed left and right but eventually they were built. With the new cannons ready the remnants of civilisation worked together to reclaim the ruins of what were once great cities. Battle after battle death after death the Wyverns were killed and driven out until one day they just left. Most were never to be seen again while a handful remained in the northern mountains as the war weary humans and their Domesticated raced gave up on retaking the mountain range.

The Feudal Era:
Peace had finally come to the plains. All of the races had adapted during the Post Golden Era. Many technologies were lost while many new ones were developed as new nations sprouted from the aches of old. Humanity had redesignated themselves as nobility leaving the domesticated races as commoners all belonging to a noble master. Humans were in change of the bureaucracy within these feudal nations ass well as holding all stations of power. Meanwhile Minotaur's worked the fields, Dwarves smithed and mined, and the Centaurs remained the loyal steeds of their Human masters. Cannons replaced cavalry as center of military strategy as Human nobility would fight in wared rarely with commoner Dwarves and Mintours being the ones to do most of the fighting on the field while the humans served as commanders and elite Cavalry units to be used sparingly only when necessary. These new cavalry unites were referred to as Knights and they too each had large households with land of their own even if they did not control an entire town or village like the ranked nobles with fancy titles such as Barons or Viscounts.
While not all humans were Ranked nobles they were all nobles and thus had the rights and responsibilities that came with it. Many Humans were satisfied with the way things were even though many romanticized the Golden Era to be much greater than it was and thus felt a great yearning for it. The Centaurs too had been so strongly domesticated by that point that they wouldn't want it any other way with the Minotaurs too being both too unintelligent and too satisfied with how things were to want anything different other than possibly being milked more often. Leaving just the dwarves that for the most part were ok with things as they were still prefing to get even more domesticated with every generation rather than live in fear of Wyverns ever again. With the humans making sure all dwarves heard the horrid tales of just how bad things were in the Post Golden Era.
Culture may not have progressed much beyond these limits in the Feudal Era but with anything that happened before the Dire era being limited to a few scant myths here and there. Though one thing that did progress was a fearful discovery.

In the great jungles far to the south of the open plains a explorer found a giant arrow of steal the size of a city and it was guarded by a flock of giant tin birds. could the old myths have all been true?


----MORE NOTES FROM THE AUTHOR----
NOTE ONE: This is the end of this trilogy. I may someday make a spin off / prequal / sequel but that's a maybe. This is it these three chapters are all complete.
NOTE TWO: This story is made for entertainment only, you can use the setting as you like but take note that it does not reflect my personal beliefs but is simply something created for the fun of it.

Hope you all enjoyed the last straw​