
Part One441Please respect copyright.PENANASvO6v4cRAy
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One441Please respect copyright.PENANATQI1Nr9Fgx
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under441Please respect copyright.PENANAV6jF1vb4Wr
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.441Please respect copyright.PENANALZh1tt8bQ6
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept441Please respect copyright.PENANAC4fjaWK0Sl
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of441Please respect copyright.PENANAqLI1yFTs83
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable441Please respect copyright.PENANA1VLPFicDkr
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a441Please respect copyright.PENANAOvvj4Y1Ir2
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated441Please respect copyright.PENANAypysBotIMb
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the441Please respect copyright.PENANA9gJQ66k1iK
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the441Please respect copyright.PENANAGsaqYGQWc8
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and441Please respect copyright.PENANAc0hG3NualG
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.441Please respect copyright.PENANAOrH6huheL8
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily441Please respect copyright.PENANAWKVp3uhdgB
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this441Please respect copyright.PENANASuaSVZ7p84
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.441Please respect copyright.PENANAyK1vqG7hLn
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the441Please respect copyright.PENANAfyxcNz2BQk
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.441Please respect copyright.PENANAoscc2s1vRF
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now441Please respect copyright.PENANAnuECCwbQfQ
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,441Please respect copyright.PENANAzKHhs86AxK
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations441Please respect copyright.PENANAdUdBhV0SDr
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may441Please respect copyright.PENANAIZHdPl4kPj
seem to the smallest of listeners.441Please respect copyright.PENANAFvotJseYDA
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within441Please respect copyright.PENANA1gvPpCG3VB
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.441Please respect copyright.PENANAPjQmFz78BI
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their441Please respect copyright.PENANAm63WNvBNHd
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be441Please respect copyright.PENANA2BnzOqnoNi
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;441Please respect copyright.PENANADMk6ZtjU5w
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,441Please respect copyright.PENANAjToe6LrqWe
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their441Please respect copyright.PENANA0R5J8K6HJy
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears441Please respect copyright.PENANAPsLqR4l9wS
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,441Please respect copyright.PENANApnIE9JmE7B
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.441Please respect copyright.PENANAoDENp6aNoW
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.441Please respect copyright.PENANAmJi0k3GBMN
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born441Please respect copyright.PENANAZtJV5LqwEn
from their desire to create?441Please respect copyright.PENANAzWMB1MFVtc
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race441Please respect copyright.PENANAmOhIJNm8ji
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that441Please respect copyright.PENANAFqvlLOP7mu
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a441Please respect copyright.PENANAEP3JfdWlmc
single corpse?441Please respect copyright.PENANAeIvm3awZCM
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other441Please respect copyright.PENANAKeOMO7ynA7
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?441Please respect copyright.PENANAXBusbKonYG
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their441Please respect copyright.PENANAWczp9cNloh
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance441Please respect copyright.PENANAdN3sYWYclR
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for441Please respect copyright.PENANALW6T0hueyj
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.441Please respect copyright.PENANAoL8IpiZvSG
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to441Please respect copyright.PENANAJZTvict0EM
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and441Please respect copyright.PENANAQOODOJgf5H
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines441Please respect copyright.PENANAvC3hkI5TBE
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the441Please respect copyright.PENANAfYLYNTEGj5
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...