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Part One248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb38QxMg4Eu
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw3YqxX1pxD
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI2q4cXB8e4
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvHyi10TVCd
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2QzOwJ7iNz
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfqO5Dcb9xg
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtvSIvraUDj
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWlDKPbRGdt
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9MDfttKdNa
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdDOISOv1NM
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCGPswNNEBE
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ27T5yZVk0L
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn9DPzgxuqi
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgRcmZyIC08
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOmWflBqHTS
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuXqbQwlUB4
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJefjQwzcYc
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdRljv0TuAp
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxOLQkcFlFq
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJKVaTSsFhi
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjRywoycsd
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTjJrbkky6t
seem to the smallest of listeners.248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJC7YOpEiBe
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5eNK4OdOUU
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3P8uEHid0p
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcU8cEk36uw
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm7e47qiJrl
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEMRPOG6MHS
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGtbHjjgD94
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡClK4bi9so1
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1WGsGrKrTQ
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHZXcxLIlOv
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiUNHxT29aM
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB2wPCUYBzm
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkNZcnKNj7C
from their desire to create?248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8oQXgNbwMH
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMKybaJw686
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW9h6yOu1Rg
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzU1INYs3mv
single corpse?248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJOipuwdFP
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdyjHzipH8
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwnYfRFMz9K
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMJAOSwT4Id
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkCGptXEXcG
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeCUrJmcnLy
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnkjNLB0Wi8
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKxq0VQIFO3
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkMzEM4XILP
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ78fFrhUWYt
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the248Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkHqWWtwOmE
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
