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Part One357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOzMSgq4uj
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGDLpR7XKsf
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡst1iSL5V5v
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBRAhMxP0pE
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡysuDAxsXWs
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡku37nKOfkP
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWNRgy3D5S4
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2WvZVgwNml
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXbuWM6HBQA
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzxtNH0x7ir
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡibcYTYhTAL
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3IEMxneZZC
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhYwlWg0EBa
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7vInyoTpiG
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDq3T0SKjiD
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi3xRZiq6IU
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHleu6BOaMA
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9pQ7YrYAIX
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRg0qJVbaOv
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbKFHtkWaYX
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpQCmFTd8GK
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvysG7sgBU3
seem to the smallest of listeners.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuXT84sZAD2
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ33oxf8a703
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrnLF32Eozl
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbHscQD2rpM
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡone18nb8Cg
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcVh9GgRCkV
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQz3vRr5d4a
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYNNUfHv0TI
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnyXW8uEHXq
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡetXX9jHGHP
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJiDYnSOoRq
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3krMxugYkF
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFQd1rmbkm
from their desire to create?357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6SPPuXIwQ8
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjvW9U1B79D
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBhMQ98PIZ4
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRlZTdFMAzQ
single corpse?357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1WjJEFU3N6
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyJINPdrKuo
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNUMLZmxcz
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD2KO36V3Zp
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrwjEzwaNBF
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTYomHhIJBw
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwtosw91NF0
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCk9PIuzkrG
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfjVMIhmw5d
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz0t8qbWIvP
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7t5hwRRpbx
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
