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Part One358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuN3HwNpUdy
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8hSdncTss
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeVjURgzWyg
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ06GoX0ZJRX
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe4aQ3hEoA4
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMx3aBTA1tk
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ38OdHlX2y2
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkvUMAFoycL
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNl5jLM7Sc
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpzYEjTDpZY
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqrYbWSwBP0
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFC7Fmhtkvo
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1SpC75Figy
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5EXq8dd8V5
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbPhvDtwN4a
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe0vNxoGeCk
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡINseQbKadA
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbs77uuts6U
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4lUyfHIMly
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ82ck0ol7vI
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkW1Q6ugf0N
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡksHRlcIHHq
seem to the smallest of listeners.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5878vTgO7C
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOQQAHZivOC
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcJpnGrcKh9
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnCnXr6zmpW
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbpHo4TOiyK
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6MHkkyQoz5
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsryyd8YhTq
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ58JgAav1gw
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG16PnZa7BZ
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzmzZIStOxp
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxA3krwEaKk
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQK6QQhYCaf
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtPRa0lnn4Q
from their desire to create?358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0h5KWTjBkl
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy7AnxEG18q
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZTzTqvQT9
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsZnF1jyfkX
single corpse?358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCdMHruQ7LJ
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9LLmSTDyUn
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyrx3VKwCqu
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtGrmkVAQO2
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwy4gG12E3R
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhpQZSk4ltU
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzrdyr3CnR6
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqdl61AbpGz
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpYXO5M6V4H
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3fHcsmtKiT
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH7qvP8FUVb
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
