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Part One313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDAlVWXxqCd
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4AAuADVwGG
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdLLtTA072p
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5044B32tcM
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRzmq9Zjfo1
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG2ApLN6IAF
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡygiYujflZh
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqa3R56lCb1
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUVPhlbK3BV
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJKdQanh5xK
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOYY1J3AVdl
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ625LuxgruD
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKNdXcK6VI
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIkM4LIfBC1
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn1vAHIeo8V
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Oz5Uhweyz
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSV9dY4RcuK
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ36DAQddozW
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNTUZj1CSXr
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡahQG5WRLtf
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXVBzXsLQxi
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCXlGrXmEd
seem to the smallest of listeners.313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXKap9OaBVr
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEXupNh7iZf
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVtefUrrymI
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxIsqHWf8Ry
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4MwEkoORQw
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNnMgr7Mb5k
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb5e5qQiZWQ
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNn1A3jLuKD
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv85feYikQS
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJvmybfSWda
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQsAp7l9BTk
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYuIgWudFW3
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqR5TNwpOkz
from their desire to create?313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgJK00svLXM
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAGWch4fyG7
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK4jYGq0snC
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn8ZvXbn1zJ
single corpse?313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvjcbsKzIlq
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgpXQwK913D
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeIs0FiYoJa
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYD2XiJTQwa
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8bdp2GCzPU
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA9to7tLUt8
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO7OXPQJJcM
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxWSfpqfUrI
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkD9dgjiYwm
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSIx7A8gOcM
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbKlnFpB4Qp
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
