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Part One421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZl8NAU7S1h
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHUky9cnOrI
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpeGUK4IUMD
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWunPfRcZa7
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHVtxoi3xx3
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV7nPsZEwtu
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07HMRZdcwy
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7d44hVh20t
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWoBqNQD1Rk
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeSh0oKxrNJ
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvyvwtoyOXF
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQFlmFml2Yh
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnx0AdaFkiA
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJE0iB8rQAg
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4i7vJQW1c8
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡESYXfkyZIx
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh4ik8COzrf
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5E6x6TTIaq
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXipEB4Sawn
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcbAHmOtHUJ
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrLHLsavsWh
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2XvkpGITWf
seem to the smallest of listeners.421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxFzcSlziJa
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJfCXaOxPyf
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1DzM5IHocU
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlJnujVz9dU
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTRzUZ8yeBd
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpxH02mTS67
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡThn8lQ9S2X
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVrYDw4y714
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡorUpItJPDp
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXyMrahZbni
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBHGZegequV
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoZ3jb3VrQo
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMvuL0sXPoN
from their desire to create?421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡroAfRW5jYi
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFO9ZVz7BKG
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZb9cKwUluu
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD0adX62Ti9
single corpse?421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVavqXrRmfl
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNsvzo3dwnR
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Rj4ERgl2j
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZtBMFRtZ9v
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡelNCTY3Shr
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvJejSfaB2F
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWDk0q7DWM9
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoZ4gru9dXT
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIa7C2CkqDf
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNZAr2s3JbI
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdS4gENg5Wi
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
