
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...