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Part One432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqzfgo35Wys
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh3XxN0gSYa
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡocfyciicpR
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrQbLRro8JP
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsrkGZDh5z3
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSuBJ3S8ly4
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQVbnppLmG
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡckmhqFjXS7
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpQ6bRSKPjZ
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZmHG5ANIRO
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2EJb94cmTg
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4U8TtpHeeL
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwFHPOk2K4F
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8W2C7FwdJD
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0nmzBKlY6W
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXRNG21ES7t
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUn84IvXlpe
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXmyeWe04A
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5eyjVM9bA0
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXEvqgy6OHE
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBkQo0C9R60
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFh8ENzUQIo
seem to the smallest of listeners.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu1Am9cd6dD
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxSMcgRdJU9
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ870sa6Fead
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhxCCBnq241
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVjfdhtXHdr
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXnI3B1jmFU
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWmameHU7Os
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡajZDR3tsIO
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd8ElxkRaaa
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgDGYOOG1YL
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJZ008CiYmc
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVFScHdfl0v
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBun6lHc5q
from their desire to create?432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZFTipfrFr
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzU2ayt0LLW
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdbESL6tJII
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRvNhMBCsfO
single corpse?432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGNE5EEGyDh
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGL6MFYfcBS
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyPFCZWZMiW
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPI9ixL6JiJ
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZOiiKtdGw9
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKSgiZdoaC0
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXIrBnQoHjf
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6kHFxaZf0P
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIDbBmSLz5M
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUMwFxLWFno
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the432Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3ZzAjdPSY
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
