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Part One268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwnInJmQrQK
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5vjIVKBhaA
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOU6gZ84qZS
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGNvUeeSIyu
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP5auz4JEIB
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd1nYphq9y5
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYEpMDycTG
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiJMO6djf99
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdQ7g9vrFtQ
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9YIjOOWtkn
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnN62ZqOCnx
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuBWaMzSqBf
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpn3QEWKxa3
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYR6gMTKqHw
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk3PSSNrvoW
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3DOGBs2zEk
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvv29uM9wNV
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjolzowABwU
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeabBlxwAqq
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRD4rsIGbea
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf09iilrA2c
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwozhv0jE4f
seem to the smallest of listeners.268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVbmlbQRuXI
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ04XpEauAaf
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2J9HhqAfjq
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFnk73RtyCi
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtbfkhdqsnE
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpJcparZjQ6
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ2FEFF8ZTu
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Z4u1FnTUO
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ66FxWFxnzh
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvfPeElEhUg
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxTIdNxvpuf
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtkF3dPwYqQ
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNfR9OO1fb1
from their desire to create?268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMoTANMMnQu
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjauQLFOVDs
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfdPjg8Sngr
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOBCaMaFu2L
single corpse?268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIwom5i6eOj
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMn25PkGcYP
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPKE99JlHno
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLJ0BAZbBFq
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtCk0MQdboJ
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJZV2VyQao
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAZd2NhW1jw
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmiXYlpJmAW
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA0wDIQWQOg
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXwRiQBG6N8
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the268Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVE9yVBee2j
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
