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Part One319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡETTJvx3ddK
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡONeEU2OJ5x
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ50L0hstklq
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzn4sI3eZpg
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN2rU4ZIUh1
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSYTFgWKfAe
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1CDflLuXYz
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtrc6mZaag3
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhDVKFkLi0o
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDYuVLRSnpM
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡskEpwWIfFo
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgsT9DvyF3w
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAe45I888x
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZbJTnlWYTR
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBj8xg3zZXp
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn3Yrkg5GSi
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIFuREmlqk
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxl7R0SIKen
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4XKT35LdKT
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6urFPydSoF
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKSKVdUP1zi
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoxCfk4B6PB
seem to the smallest of listeners.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo39AdfUBfQ
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTL53DxIO6V
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGG4zdREJKu
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH0Kp7qczCJ
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡia3GDQ3MTS
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxmtJeICg75
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGFm2itrqMp
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Irc8k25yg
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqW1yPVXAj
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs1jkRVBNV9
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSifaM94ggp
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPH6Ps4IIWT
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWgOn7L0cJm
from their desire to create?319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGna1wZ4OtL
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA2HlalPuHT
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR6vfVuzCyU
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMRz9xVxXd4
single corpse?319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsIeHs7IoGB
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwFllE3MqHc
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5QvmxsR5lV
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLrOj3nczsv
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSJwnSR7DWq
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzteHHWUlEZ
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiF5cRjLKGy
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcKjnKIlwuG
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPc0R5IUZbP
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQfNgMkfesO
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQU9eP6tryx
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...
