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Part One318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYF2k1foFAn
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcXpdzTY75E
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfOcgPAGZ7d
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWT8BtTugN
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0XvNAY4Fz4
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW031TtFdyn
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3LIYOQSOlj
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8r0JqeFoca
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Cb6H0d6C0
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQd4FD9cFVj
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUl5pupkgnm
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFxselP9kUL
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrf5E4LF3GS
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBfmI7VFOrb
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmB6leRMAg8
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuC20XjQqGh
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT1CgA1fDgk
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqkdsVc7dGw
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsJHhWMJFkk
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPanbpcMmI
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrHrSZ4OF1i
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrfw4fiHmCc
seem to the smallest of listeners.318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf0ynjr9jyH
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU44Xr2JEIp
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNB4yHb80VH
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb632dVXEZP
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ6Ob0Tb8f2
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmYjGKorDs3
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSmf0EUcbuD
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd8EOTZ4rLo
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQP74cWvpkY
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡifPNl6ToQv
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMLJsvYA8cG
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSbTRtppK0z
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxosRmPvHAP
from their desire to create?318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbjN4aRatFc
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRVRcjQppBv
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqiXJWxBPZU
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡchmi4jkdrB
single corpse?318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD0y9NCUrbV
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX5LSQ9Dk8E
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ49X3KJ9lSk
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBqvErbJiHB
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtaamOT6vP5
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZDbFKUrl0
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz5yLPkKQB7
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq57dNUDLLY
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd6eNiNUzOe
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2nClDjHgdJ
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the318Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoGXWiJDsG9
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
