Part One647Please respect copyright.PENANAho5yQGq9C5
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One647Please respect copyright.PENANATkrqM1mYb6
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under647Please respect copyright.PENANAdadGFnzU3E
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.647Please respect copyright.PENANAuZDp2CioTU
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept647Please respect copyright.PENANAYGWZd04hor
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of647Please respect copyright.PENANAS8ZTlrRN86
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable647Please respect copyright.PENANAMx8h4GAvXj
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a647Please respect copyright.PENANA5aMChWgUzZ
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated647Please respect copyright.PENANATA1f7t1jHI
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the647Please respect copyright.PENANAqra4mhaB01
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the647Please respect copyright.PENANAiqtAp11Fjq
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and647Please respect copyright.PENANAXM20Q342yR
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.647Please respect copyright.PENANAitr1cddh7Q
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily647Please respect copyright.PENANA3DffgJN5Bb
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this647Please respect copyright.PENANAlkFaIeFSrw
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.647Please respect copyright.PENANAVPWzJ49HRI
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the647Please respect copyright.PENANAAy8CQMppZ8
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.647Please respect copyright.PENANAeguz9rekT5
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now647Please respect copyright.PENANAYQga4JMP10
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,647Please respect copyright.PENANAEb5KDmVD8z
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations647Please respect copyright.PENANAIU7t2CLxdc
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may647Please respect copyright.PENANAmaa77sPEag
seem to the smallest of listeners.647Please respect copyright.PENANA1keySCX1If
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within647Please respect copyright.PENANASSVhtscyB2
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.647Please respect copyright.PENANAJBJHLCXBSz
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their647Please respect copyright.PENANAKetPKyaj6Z
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be647Please respect copyright.PENANA45Y2sTIadZ
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;647Please respect copyright.PENANATdOXo2Wgqs
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,647Please respect copyright.PENANA0oPVE8VFlj
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their647Please respect copyright.PENANAV1juOBWLl7
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears647Please respect copyright.PENANAicl5lKlp9Z
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,647Please respect copyright.PENANAz2P24p04lQ
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.647Please respect copyright.PENANAK9JtznpCHG
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.647Please respect copyright.PENANAiU47GWRlkP
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born647Please respect copyright.PENANArELHUp5cGH
from their desire to create?647Please respect copyright.PENANAKqknc38dxB
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race647Please respect copyright.PENANAOFYjAefGq0
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that647Please respect copyright.PENANA5KEjRAZjBY
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a647Please respect copyright.PENANAh3XRKrpZnI
single corpse?647Please respect copyright.PENANAytK5P6pESm
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other647Please respect copyright.PENANAOSAgCc8ddi
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?647Please respect copyright.PENANAfeVzRNXbVa
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their647Please respect copyright.PENANAOKZjOsD6zm
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance647Please respect copyright.PENANAiVDIAAX0oi
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for647Please respect copyright.PENANAFRd78S9roZ
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.647Please respect copyright.PENANA4Sfzqg9KS6
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to647Please respect copyright.PENANAIcpzi9MPjS
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and647Please respect copyright.PENANAmg4EK3DxtZ
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines647Please respect copyright.PENANAr7zrisOL1S
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the647Please respect copyright.PENANAwk3DI6Bfa7
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...


