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Part One315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpGlIu0NeBi
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0tULRuGOjK
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwqOXB7hNb2
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBdANkBc7sn
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaKZxJcrpna
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4uSxXegwHO
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxTWyzm60a
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDk9ZTn1TuW
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyxgfPQvOxl
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHao1qeaqHi
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt7PyUIZlPe
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOvOveMzYq3
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJItmSl1N59
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFcJNSbIqnL
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9FQ4io4IuO
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQeehjE6i1l
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwYNMa1TEGK
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnQRem9jQkT
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjHg2iYWdoQ
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhSk8VULZuX
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDdgsof5Jo
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0LE0SZYwbZ
seem to the smallest of listeners.315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjsjVvXfmJY
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZP2AbzyCEr
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiDtM7vr8if
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzjBWTiAL5u
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpj3ZweCKNy
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpu2pfRqoil
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYN33Z47MVW
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnawfGSj9vu
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrT5HfJIU6m
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡznJBueU6lC
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjP3SBLv2AF
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0GJJVAvqzS
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1RWd58WbV4
from their desire to create?315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0wD5nrzVDG
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxHBmhgz6TX
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo2gGrm1uGz
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtk78rKWiRk
single corpse?315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4aRHRrxna
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1qqDVJxKIp
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr0Hp6P5sGh
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE0RdOAaYdc
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhj2QJmivDb
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcXuW4tMtxX
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO9V6IV1LIN
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0dgDlr308t
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQKeZ4RS7Rh
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSx4kLQSqSN
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the315Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwyUqpF9iLU
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
