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Part One423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnlNqzXoEk5
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1GZ9GgXlw3
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDeDqHX3ViB
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEjMfUoAShS
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjriYhZcGcC
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxqTf1n33qq
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMd0cwoigxN
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQfpetYLZde
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHwQKXBorQN
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6oyfCnk5X0
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwYL0fcSqlj
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyHsuadSsQ1
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7XwdJXZHT2
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYq11113GR3
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVRmxWlLPLn
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7jZuaXeXd2
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0G13ipM8EB
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd2QlIZKz4T
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrdu7KZftWn
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdR5sEtpdkr
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkMJJF0vdSe
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwVa1EPotp0
seem to the smallest of listeners.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1fjH1mpBw8
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxZNDNvbDJ
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc2UGDCkySO
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhhGu1QE1NO
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfK3EzO9Yez
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuGWmEIFB2x
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpPbJzslGur
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVq6QloWpED
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPunYy2FViz
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfsbMoAWos
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpTnBozjjU7
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJDTFPa9i2O
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDwjgeXOFyU
from their desire to create?423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡewrit3pGoQ
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzaVuICBpCl
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFSeuD5a09
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVGz7JfjVHh
single corpse?423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8rlgKRKWR
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ44M7aPr3G
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdny9kBS6gU
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSMmy6OHaeE
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfz6lOWWSb8
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxPrK1Jb92c
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPoFftQwH9W
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWAmYW862h0
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0PblzGpgZ1
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSdXzeVMCzn
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqs95495kwC
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
