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Part One351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm8GsaZIQh5
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU0rxEJD69t
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgro7xmztiy
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5tOleIf9En
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7EqykRfBeg
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQLQtBiWLWj
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoEt1RRAkx
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ05WTPL50NU
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt6XGLl6Vvm
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡODTQe7r04y
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo01xl7wybr
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcaSrSiDDAQ
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe2HWk2D2i9
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk8i4vcq4CB
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi3h0sLtfCQ
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIeC6UxerfM
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhYg2ER640v
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtTKanVuQhQ
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0nB2k0Ix5A
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9eFjBc5IAC
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡobL7fVrSGt
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnxRinwSJRS
seem to the smallest of listeners.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWfzIKl7cC5
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡovajtmtOy9
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfAJwhIDCo8
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgadhd6k9i3
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHyhjywawHs
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsJ5EfWmjmp
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRYPmLH4RX0
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMciwbSql2g
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDDgQRXa8Ay
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM7gqInG1Db
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6xzb8Xcvv
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVhDkCUHU9W
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFg6YPuoKS
from their desire to create?351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpAeloO21GK
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ8Io9FRQKX
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4BDY0E14ov
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCDy962QLU
single corpse?351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXTqiP9fzRF
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQEGCgI7g9R
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKL9oPdBfHS
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSpONQWwhjh
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡihJC9mHBiW
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWLMMRxm5rw
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9bbh3Ku0vh
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoL0Dr0oTaa
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXgdo5xERRI
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXF0p9qCF49
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKPyc39sA44
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
