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Part One405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnVw8K8dCpk
“The Crafted Mountain”
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“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTK6qGSGQs8
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbEQyyBjwxA
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLVTGHUO53J
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy2xUSuxuG9
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkhJqktHoyx
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRexLwEkLq9
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAq7fllNZj3
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡByO2cElEad
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmR5GMGpSav
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcX4MqFKnY
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHXGVGXItjs
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSTPF5KGfaP
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa7Q36DTris
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgodVgxIRHa
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaveQroSjXL
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSwwPwaMOq0
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6vkE6GUcP5
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDnczsiehcb
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9tOArZ20UQ
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb12UBMabel
seem to the smallest of listeners.405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡccMmbi3vzl
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡficliA9LzA
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07DkAlrynp
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ZTeqHMLmy
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRHgZynTbrm
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡahwgFd52o0
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ04soRgvtrM
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXuGanEPT4M
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcpD56tmzjf
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsX2P2J6ywn
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjRfCPzQKSQ
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡglxkySGVfV
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf06TtCLkeg
from their desire to create?405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnm0Qdkas53
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdgFkpBta9i
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGVjlpcBlLH
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ3oOufrli1
single corpse?405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4H7RWXXit0
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp6UM8BwirZ
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQWyWom73z
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXppcwN4HG6
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXBZIafI4H5
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsnQwlrITgq
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsvxtwSE5K4
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7BXAZCrMs0
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1GMRTOlGL
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡimNXOzm2ey
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the405Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJgKXRjDp4
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
