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Part One287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHUBU90PtCC
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTJDEQVM8J
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuOyG9MBnjG
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJsonz3eIDt
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUZMiSmPUD
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1BOQwWmMdU
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnSQGF5Gt7e
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAxLiybFeod
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3WSRzTejjW
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4O5EpHY3xR
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXo7runUYqe
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgmmFdR7uLp
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVhnFrzTxSP
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvWnEWUkecG
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZBLIj32AP
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2mZI2HFAGD
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtY6awTZppM
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyXbXzzEpNF
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzFAPBX322W
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoRHKxupWzE
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5FahbsHx2i
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxGhiEP8P5y
seem to the smallest of listeners.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGUiZ0tk7CK
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtjkgqV2etu
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcFzzKCLdVf
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡScWBkUjbPN
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8XOFKa6vBA
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlb1OMiwNUf
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVrQtNJYYaf
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxrnF2mNVF
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRd51vZTNol
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3RwxlnrmQH
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0mknErFov0
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSiKN7nE8Wx
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTq9Ko67g7q
from their desire to create?287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUqM2KbVdqO
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqkZg7vie1
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjC27w300Fp
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQw7QN3KENG
single corpse?287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfIXysqdxA9
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRNvTsegllO
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp2WbZtz52c
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3T1VjPpgVE
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmiZQASodVh
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBIyvDiNtw4
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoH82H6vWaU
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMBXQU1IJke
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKfszsn5Ik4
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtCN2b9xikp
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0acNrnCCh5
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
