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Part One343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZNummYyvcy
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA1sG7YJPgS
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJIFgO5rP1
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvnI3ZXnzJN
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoTpRwqHP1r
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Ln2xc94gR
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEhVqMEpI5J
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsdLMgDfub9
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoiNrVvRgdj
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFhYEeaxMgS
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFDYU1sCdyp
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPj038BhB4H
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTBNlT7lxPf
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA6N0rG61CA
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYhp6gjZGPX
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSwmuQ94gFN
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFpNkNgeYYV
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNSEAJp0eT7
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5rdAwRoj6g
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGrIC5CLTYe
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdsjCv4IBNO
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH7FWaDxn1o
seem to the smallest of listeners.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2Y0LgXIYK
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWp98dOiC8
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0LUBEi90sR
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡThhKf2qylS
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDAINyMl5at
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTZtDQS7Y9Z
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Es3DZlkFW
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCc420asKzU
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Yh6ik3Vte
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSsHq9A8qT6
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbmNztbR94c
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZ6jTYFMGe
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9p6q5qBw8y
from their desire to create?343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFAT14y1Tk3
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ72PNMLjWg
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0YDMmRzaaV
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnyMBAOrJ1u
single corpse?343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHkRQObdJ8V
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC5mvZnhDil
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv9Ue0TEX0G
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr2AxZlOsMA
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtIq98RDCZQ
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQDJ0QkXKSr
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUNzbdz7tXW
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAneLzOZw4S
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV13va09peY
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCd4332C49Q
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmCqpSZtNVe
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
