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Part One436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWCvsu2xDNX
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlvGq8IrkBL
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt5NdXzglwa
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPKNqQjUHRo
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ud05xhtRT
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeEjksh8yd3
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6KBNtYUkzu
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpA4iOJhAli
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP3YuxfSslK
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuZrwVuerRK
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxYWDqxAJL7
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs97SI5785N
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYaMXtHQi1h
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYSyKss1X6e
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz0hLZHJEXJ
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU2gkcA5iEz
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxBKAwM8A20
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHyR0gw2GbW
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIL51MV0B63
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD3d5WRcXZW
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsMn2Qk8Xse
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzO4lYfws97
seem to the smallest of listeners.436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxdPlcNl7Fn
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ63r0hTn9TC
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0meYsRTme5
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhVocEFlYP8
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBtr6s5LbsH
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFcz0UlqC1z
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEF2Yl1SKj4
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3pyogRC04I
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx7PAgUO8b5
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgFbEgLN1Db
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7fCMEkCl5v
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡahIxEmVuF5
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7KZlvfh9Hp
from their desire to create?436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDaDblgnbYT
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR0u3n4GI1l
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqZLmuGAHwd
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpGP7CP2Sj2
single corpse?436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaKAqK4l5W4
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqThEAvwqDS
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAGvi31PTD4
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbHOK0NMwGt
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa6Cj11D5xy
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQLiZsrNHCr
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ULYbZ7UWq
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY2o37rE82t
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcm1YWq58Gx
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP3lv1O9GZg
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the436Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJvZCB42w6W
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
