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While most of the members of the two races on the planet were simple; in life and belief, they all belonged to a major force on their side of the planet.

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At the heart of each hemisphere in this planet was a faction, a grand city, each city housed an idol and was a marvel of technology and civilization, they were respectively, Sandaria of the sand walkers and Terraria of the forest dwellers, two forbidden cities.

To enter the city, one must be of a certain standard, mental and physical. Each parent brought their newborn child to try and gift them a wonderful life in the forbidden city. Those who had the aptitude were selected, their parents compensated, and the parents will strive to birth more good children because when those children reached a certain level of power and influence, they could bring their parents to the forbidden city.

The only reason those from the forbidden city ever included new blood from the outside lands was the degeneration of bloodlines, they had once been ruled by inbreds and dimwits born of superior bloodlines, but such dilution and degeneration were barely noticed until they almost took over and destroyed the world.

As such, the custom of injecting new blood from the world came to be, as long as new genes of certain standards entered the gene pool, things would not go too bad.

The opposite also happened, when those born in the city had no aptitude, they would be given to those living in the world, making sure only those who were superior lived in the city.

What had the forbidden cities used to trade for the new blood and the other things they acquire from the population? They used things like cures, pills, training manuals, and general knowledge.

A clan of sand walkers would prosper if they were able to give birth to a sufficiently good child, or a number of good children, to trade for a manual that taught them how to identify the rarer metals and resources, and a clan of tree dwellers could prosper if they gain the techniques of rearing animals and fruit trees.

Clans would die out or be robbed, killed or simply assembled, thus, the level of technology could be kept very low. if the people residing outside the forbidden cities had no time to upgrade their technology and had to work hard for a living, the forbidden city would disseminate technologies at a pace that would never threaten them.

It was rare for a clan to assemble three or four techniques before they are robbed and killed for the precious manuals they traded their children for, that way, it would be hard for just one clan to dominate, although it happened that some clans were capable of growing to a certain extent, they no longer feared the power of the neighbouring clans, the forbidden city would bring them down no matter what, even going as far as to wipe out the entire clan and call it divine retribution through natural disaster.