Part One459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8csHSAFmnh
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB4yzhQtSJh
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXW3WVrZLJy
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsOULxq2Tcy
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEC5owCKpX2
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFwvttEBryg
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYpEhL8bQQz
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc0fJAGRN09
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvDUeu9YQzl
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwpeyYr5uNw
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV38q0IftDh
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuxcQqpCVwB
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIHS0LdI5mj
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjKkPUgx9Yt
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLARvYVnYXZ
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6O3KnEEZLu
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAl3GpqVzvo
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdzwhs3i73
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqrfRI9bNKg
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3bPcDJUrMD
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3TsFR7WBnU
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ1k9EAE3XN
seem to the smallest of listeners.459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIZSwFAvTEe
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRYNOx8HyNq
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZhG5fvB0JE
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyazjHHT1pD
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxy1B58yvfc
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwMJmOoGSHC
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡha5TzpIlAT
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc7YOOIueRx
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgz62lQRSUV
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5qwMiBn9T3
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgpP9LBXsvI
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjezpqeNiKA
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcHZeZHoIhP
from their desire to create?459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUr20SmnTob
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7zwmKITAtB
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN9aSaTRe0a
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsoM8Cujk4t
single corpse?459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7FySsd1x1G
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtcmMjSlrzw
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK3qNZTmgKt
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIoue7It2xy
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzH9cIv6zLR
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZlzQX9QDA1
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnaPO7XAM2T
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRa3iwPRLuD
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbQALB0zsQg
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡobeqCfb5nM
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the459Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXEfjYU1lhT
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
