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Part One392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv9fppNT7ns
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuzLKzYgM9H
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3br4um805F
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2su4R1KzEn
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnwt45P2dxj
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMvrDtsl2Ih
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡElWj1RZqKd
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0HnwjmXF39
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡexGEuu31De
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWfaHb8Hj65
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZCFU03ScUk
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS05Hpxf14i
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ2FgxQpCU2
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFh51Tz4UFf
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsviNbY0kJJ
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ylUgzDgU6
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg9VkYsMNtj
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIGK2eoPFAz
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ7syyd0tf3
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5o8jaHA4nN
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbBYQ4hC6Y0
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYM7VMcTcZ8
seem to the smallest of listeners.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEQVJjdw9mZ
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOPUtwot8F9
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuOUoR3uJNz
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN5pkZ3kxOg
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMi7X229OuU
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCu5iHTNt5f
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZpHdzAAMhw
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY0o35sM7Ew
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡutS4GbRgHl
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQxPrXjq1mV
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZJJJsxcfiM
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDKBtShNSvr
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQXVr1RGcbL
from their desire to create?392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJzgxQTq6PJ
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6OTC6xgCJo
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡljgC24T9ct
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJRBYykpYl
single corpse?392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEARmRKZBzM
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCCVLQNkZsm
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ0ucos5aD6
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8iuPPge5xP
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrPomac1HPS
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzDos3988Bm
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiVfGKFZsMf
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJgDbDkzEh
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbw6ZQ8um17
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKwGmw91raQ
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the392Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEKYyRvXMDz
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
