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Part One402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs9SqS0GaRq
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ32R4igDcW
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPYRRdYybbo
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDsGJCMuM2y
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMebuO5ZUB5
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWWjpp77et
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡazFb15NGFN
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgm26UeggyN
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNikIt4IuwL
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu0XhWmRFlQ
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQcI2jZI36Y
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ157RNBX3mg
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWqZgcAro8I
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC6K78WG8o2
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQZjtrtV3IH
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPoMBLvhNY2
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfvDuP2naWr
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLCN97ekfps
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3KonxM1jho
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtxLO1UvCmS
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXRn0d7KIFO
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnfQCAUEuqF
seem to the smallest of listeners.402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxs4rPrPJo9
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNfcvN5RqTj
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3K8yt6iVuL
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJbsYh4J77A
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnd4NxhLilN
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmr0zQEveC2
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlmZTIAGjVC
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuDQCncUOR1
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIUKzDpVWzc
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyEYjjmvZeA
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCdyl9JavM3
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSWabQZ5GUD
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc3eh4gVNwb
from their desire to create?402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjyInovTpqB
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRYQEZZGUS
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡawJPdh1NJm
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCsNfEmsBBm
single corpse?402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeyqjPW8yv4
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD9eoEAugei
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtuJCPlKiwS
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8USYTvDT56
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgexk8S3abK
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ84rGVb4HQj
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX5L7w86ylg
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb9bqxeFUdK
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHmcNQTRwxV
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq4tpBF06oW
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the402Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3lmM2XzUvF
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
