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Part One373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6oArmMRhgG
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzgXigf1ZXB
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeDDVszxei1
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ61Q4IIvrgz
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXkLa1LJky1
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOKDWVbpQxy
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmiaE03DBU7
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJorofPM7O
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4NxleWUIXw
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs18WMIqLDC
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZfjB4kqXQl
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHBWAfWnydo
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU970q1zO2H
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfPV2xKca6
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzXAelbyLxV
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyilJDgkqAd
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzVTK8QVYot
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZCskfygjAg
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz013tuUMe5
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzwzfriZVXV
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaCTj8uyc6S
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzIflnn7DSP
seem to the smallest of listeners.373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMoiAP5C7gG
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiDLIpO5636
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0VV3fga4G0
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2UrJHOWD51
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3cmrr3eRDC
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ29fHXqR6sj
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBschhBhVGJ
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1PIV7QLc3D
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvgKLg2enC0
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXYdAB7kb7R
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAHyaVP0qyN
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlulW25iqdR
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmRGryNPRzt
from their desire to create?373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWCREl2UtP3
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXZ39HeViVe
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUwtOe75JDm
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOzvPStgCDY
single corpse?373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZeiS9LAnw
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTzTkfAK52Q
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZopldzN9Up
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡliq4Rng1Ym
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEYRlk7c6Sq
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTXC9zal49X
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQQ9qwBIVng
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwJERyUtHCh
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3HLwpzz3Kz
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrf1IIzHthX
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvlNpFkn4LY
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
