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Part One403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOMWDqtQsBI
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkcHu8X9kB5
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq9OshQIqP8
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAwtSDfGOPH
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyeyUm7g0pq
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIgFyGhjNIh
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgam2XXCXVY
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPhLFRYnAvb
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcxbdhzEgB7
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrOIaXTylWV
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiHGFFXdrcd
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRgtqrevlxJ
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt9PoHQ1s3S
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDMrIBXv3J2
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc6PBmUyqnZ
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDtgtOHpAiY
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzGp9NhcRAz
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXqe33TkXzV
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0cewPsEdLa
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡozwcAHUvb9
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnzLC976EyD
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTRjOUIxvrj
seem to the smallest of listeners.403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡycCY01r2uc
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeEOCk0LEqA
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ56KtJAnku2
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgz6aXMav2n
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW7QuVwfy0t
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD1yvxPkAnN
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYl0gA7hEI8
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhblLX3y8QN
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi2zFJG4xHA
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUBJ5RyvRHs
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVOENK0r1PY
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbnjgVmULMk
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKheIDUP5C
from their desire to create?403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmDuT7Y2I93
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJKjYxTuyaR
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ60srN2uKWY
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNRy30iOlZy
single corpse?403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlVo13GlQH6
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH2iTS60nqU
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZJJlIXJKr9
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1HyNWmJIhq
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuH6PBlIRv8
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJVkweIedQg
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSQp2G2NMfz
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9VcHdqXOvJ
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlOc334pSKv
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjhgZ1Lsy2R
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the403Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV5O3to3ORZ
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
