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Part One126Please respect copyright.PENANAi0g9A1MwuC
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One126Please respect copyright.PENANANqupF84LEb
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under126Please respect copyright.PENANAOk7NpGVBLh
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.126Please respect copyright.PENANAW7MmWJ6qHN
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept126Please respect copyright.PENANAJR254mDNdj
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of126Please respect copyright.PENANA2K9BI3mln7
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable126Please respect copyright.PENANAjtPf0or99y
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a126Please respect copyright.PENANAWeKlYNU0zj
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated126Please respect copyright.PENANAZSeZkgpN9J
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the126Please respect copyright.PENANA2ec2jsgQdB
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the126Please respect copyright.PENANAZIKfpR86UI
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and126Please respect copyright.PENANAydk4mkvm6G
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.126Please respect copyright.PENANAXSTr5vc6z0
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily126Please respect copyright.PENANAIGpoKSgY36
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this126Please respect copyright.PENANAySXJ4b7Yah
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.126Please respect copyright.PENANAYrP3AaXEyq
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the126Please respect copyright.PENANAI0Tp5YKDJc
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.126Please respect copyright.PENANAkWgjqW8jVi
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now126Please respect copyright.PENANAlUP59ZgFK9
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,126Please respect copyright.PENANAxut52eyLC9
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations126Please respect copyright.PENANA2dRF2d9WSm
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may126Please respect copyright.PENANAkV8R8fzmGq
seem to the smallest of listeners.126Please respect copyright.PENANALhbbu9YCou
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within126Please respect copyright.PENANAaQwYlGFpf2
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.126Please respect copyright.PENANAWNc1IDXlv9
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their126Please respect copyright.PENANAthuN6O5Abf
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be126Please respect copyright.PENANAiaxGVkaNde
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;126Please respect copyright.PENANAHdIpT2uBVF
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,126Please respect copyright.PENANAZ6w5zrM6Aj
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their126Please respect copyright.PENANA1u5ydPeHd3
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears126Please respect copyright.PENANAuPcgzXoldf
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,126Please respect copyright.PENANAVOZNC5POWn
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.126Please respect copyright.PENANAij5hGSIsXk
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.126Please respect copyright.PENANAAQdpdrt63w
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born126Please respect copyright.PENANADKcoMk8sgh
from their desire to create?126Please respect copyright.PENANAqDDHQCxEJM
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race126Please respect copyright.PENANAnWtITIb7to
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that126Please respect copyright.PENANAZEezwxVgl5
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a126Please respect copyright.PENANAjYJD0zZYff
single corpse?126Please respect copyright.PENANAoRfisv6TSi
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other126Please respect copyright.PENANAQ8wSbBEPnZ
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?126Please respect copyright.PENANAtECC2HD9RS
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their126Please respect copyright.PENANAI2pPXwodQo
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance126Please respect copyright.PENANAM6btg0GKmG
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for126Please respect copyright.PENANAuojxUqq0iI
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.126Please respect copyright.PENANAZKh8Rbjhjb
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to126Please respect copyright.PENANAuvt0p6nach
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and126Please respect copyright.PENANA7ni8askLCK
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines126Please respect copyright.PENANAjlsc3BYzJJ
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the126Please respect copyright.PENANAEEmSFTqL37
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...