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Part One211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjKqckQSKO9
“The Crafted Mountain”
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“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeajhInDzq9
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjul3OG1PJ6
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCuK6WtHXtd
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtLyzN4OFon
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhL8KRSV9IN
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCyMBw6dKW7
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfRK4vRxw6P
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ97ewMH8pgH
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxYIDg2kf9M
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVvg1WZlWo7
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIlKMfa1SzC
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8kzCN8WywT
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwrPuYmyPTZ
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJq2DX50Ej4
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Y7mHdJ4og
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjVqItlBuDd
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBNzPKnxd2r
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFE0SQsb3Ps
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxLTkVY0g2C
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ73tz1YWFxh
seem to the smallest of listeners.211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdgRNkGrDxp
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEC1FWpw1CB
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYCU9VXz9gJ
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVNzKhmlQgr
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXnbdN2EU2I
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡub4knwnpcK
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡORhu6bwkyo
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlemgHQgjSL
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8v8JBXnK7b
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡND4UIWT3Dz
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8s6IRr2q46
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXMKEsrzyTG
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3AYWtyU6xu
from their desire to create?211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3IyVeYe4R4
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAAZXMVTa2N
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzkjJ0XilKh
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1RkJUyygfr
single corpse?211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK5ExBFPbMs
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Ra7liYyLb
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRa4x9XyYAV
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAqslvMp53h
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqGlFO0Jev5
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ56oZNh6z2u
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkB1p59rR7e
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjunw2faA7z
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsDOV1VvXeZ
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwQusoJBHRa
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the211Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRzhvC9lisr
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
