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“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2VOzaefSVG
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡywW7ZjpDTD
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDIY5EHgV23
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNjSSZy2oDv
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSRjcM9QK4s
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsrBPkfpDyf
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVGF91TX1vh
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6M2V2FqjOR
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09CaulTjXY
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSmiksMcJbD
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAaJp30AqBY
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZm6VWiMNmW
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2516CrdBv0
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAEj04Cdh0Z
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbvrScLjFgH
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz6ruz9aTsA
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmF5Rip2Pub
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTz9m23fDsi
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV0hXZYq1PP
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqjfnyi8Tjg
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSk0Pj7Fqa5
seem to the smallest of listeners.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOX13jxTjPJ
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ0yYsUDVq4
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡub5eOZeeP0
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiqUgDzFwCU
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsc8DQxtdBr
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR14r1KP7DN
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR4cqPz4PxJ
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe8lh3kON1F
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdKX97yimqH
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH3h7bGAUy8
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSpWCDcRh9q
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCICCqRo2Jt
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdjzxjCmPDB
from their desire to create?321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbxEKp0QQ0y
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSSoLBjka1B
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ562rRxv9qw
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN6ujaCyjrG
single corpse?321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxXUBLPZzp
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKGlHeK4hbu
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjzIhaS8Xup
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLGM3wUUoYP
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp4yYNJr6O4
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8HzhsP2eXz
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm9zk5bnOfZ
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBqDft02Wtu
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDg6d3UqMk2
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxdNiRAgn0g
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTjIxMsPUs8
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
