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Part One397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKXqW3W0ONt
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIykuE7QrSg
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXSPLLXuoTH
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnv00oxYzXM
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYXrcEjezHf
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCbJq5KuXv
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjvNEkP263K
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ0ec1ymYNx
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpg0FdQCTDi
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4hmCF3qlTT
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGyvpQCdAyy
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3MR4MvEeU
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEaytc0MgLK
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFRs3MTOnrJ
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwWheXmi6WL
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9RIEyf6Mnl
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5z6c0ULhud
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhIRyrNbUTP
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKHuNUXASkX
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtEez3xoVLE
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBTFt8Xm9Zp
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3tzM1vYo8Q
seem to the smallest of listeners.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5saET5TNGE
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYyAsseEB3o
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGFqb59B1rp
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFVugpcHl21
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFaMxbUl6V8
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡolLOuZ3Amb
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ38bJuDQl0U
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtP0FEbAbpI
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxpTzjAwZYz
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkOYEg8yKey
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf6HaTgoQIr
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiiEe7DsJlL
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRk1bP03ELK
from their desire to create?397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfs9taFsZkG
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcwrZXg0FQU
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh2V4xUohmx
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHENxNKyKG0
single corpse?397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfiN8vrLQMB
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4dj9gNV5R2
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRemT045ZU0
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjnMVblYC3K
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeC2zTNscGr
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡETPNW0bfYo
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3rF9eawpE
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfhSFRMGYId
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBTbVUbB6Jp
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2NBfeJZAdX
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk0CX5LvRsq
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
