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Part One348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQx58GCO6IX
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ1XbryhUAI
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7i4WzP3Kfv
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlEZ5LcAvpH
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIbRQ7ZZN6I
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQKQfhGHZog
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPzsSHEXWGX
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJGwmCjh6ox
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuhD9qG6QpD
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡks4eUDFPxf
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0E8fWdGKuq
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmJdiJaniug
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn7MLYEksey
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQDB2tIYedp
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlVjtSZXImk
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyUgvPS6Y64
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ25bxfxZNb6
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2QmqPGkRmU
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzlY16ebpCi
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCMqr4TdZkN
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkpEtVEm58l
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpuehM5FUfM
seem to the smallest of listeners.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9qcPphgOjn
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ugSQiqvtN
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUNDhuCBDbT
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyF9oXTUmM7
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhZK7tYpAfK
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2P0L3BOBvV
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhwVCQeONOL
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQCd3XGhk7x
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYAoicZdpTi
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbIfXZLgmIa
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeKdnydfyXD
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRfscmy9yp9
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCwiZMR1nAQ
from their desire to create?348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpCk2FGtwqS
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡflUX7nKq9G
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsYk05d3fi
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0wiAsWqiJm
single corpse?348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRsozdqpGi7
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQidAyPewKQ
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡStL0oQkwRE
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3VnX1EtkPe
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlHqV6qM8XM
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZFigt1yqEy
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtK3IEmocrp
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3dOn8ORiD0
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMtgYqivIOl
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEbTJjiyeYZ
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIdycUHkTry
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
