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Part One249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNqdi2cHQJk
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyJQNk8rxyj
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡagmDDiG7Bi
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqAfrZoUJJt
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOrcafmui9a
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVr5cDsWTow
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5y82fZfvFE
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxD2ozJTnCv
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbdPwJg26ep
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡofKKQglEDK
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5zg1K5eiwG
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz3jAuG3ewN
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdKZKqqWoMl
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFEJ9jQLbwI
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOckvq3TzLG
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnFCHP3zITw
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL7qMyCFIlT
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH1Rf95U3Pm
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwNSokFNH6l
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmvRBAnlNGT
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡheJa1Pz4Ya
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQGpm2GqLj
seem to the smallest of listeners.249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ61hlCa5ENN
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRjPCumWzEW
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcqui68111n
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwNc6vrKSAb
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbBOHyXnFfL
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSNpPdrDjL
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWxqjcnqAAf
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX9U3S2okCP
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeUFVvA1rtf
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwA3YBf6RrA
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdghLVOKAS
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBqu0BnFQmU
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡae99B9nsLv
from their desire to create?249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmqHp2mpoK0
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ34reosFRt1
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡacrxgUueVY
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfQQv0kWfRU
single corpse?249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjyO6n8FUj
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU1F5OV8WzG
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGwLSg0oQfc
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjloTafam4P
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH2LREeJfd9
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBwI9Gh4YxL
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4efvx8BWHe
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoVBk3OIoo5
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhtTpOi55w3
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmMRjk9ugyq
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUwHJofS5Gk
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
