
Part One382Please respect copyright.PENANA2GnAntTOCb
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One382Please respect copyright.PENANA4cdRPmdVWY
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under382Please respect copyright.PENANAfc4JFLqHby
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.382Please respect copyright.PENANAe4PuyvvVji
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept382Please respect copyright.PENANAisXkfLb5Yr
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of382Please respect copyright.PENANAdKCEWnNYgJ
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable382Please respect copyright.PENANAKChs3WtaPM
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a382Please respect copyright.PENANA2cimjXYSM3
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated382Please respect copyright.PENANA74dbetssWb
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the382Please respect copyright.PENANAf5fpY2kQm5
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the382Please respect copyright.PENANAQ9ogUhtHRk
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and382Please respect copyright.PENANAkAfQnfp656
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.382Please respect copyright.PENANAmbJSzdMwNE
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily382Please respect copyright.PENANAgSzANM0COK
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this382Please respect copyright.PENANAx1T7lQXUdU
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.382Please respect copyright.PENANApD0SVKCbjQ
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the382Please respect copyright.PENANAQ7cbsDXLNC
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.382Please respect copyright.PENANAxuH5bqiVZD
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now382Please respect copyright.PENANA8FXs5f2MD9
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,382Please respect copyright.PENANAHMhJvQk9Cj
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations382Please respect copyright.PENANAYLa1kmIbRC
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may382Please respect copyright.PENANAs4ABx2Wq5X
seem to the smallest of listeners.382Please respect copyright.PENANAzudrrpFpqK
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within382Please respect copyright.PENANAyDK7VP3Ylj
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.382Please respect copyright.PENANAgrnT3hYbDy
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their382Please respect copyright.PENANAdxkeFPhkbk
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be382Please respect copyright.PENANAVgt09Rsk5Z
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;382Please respect copyright.PENANAV7gpmTjgOq
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,382Please respect copyright.PENANA3dv1Lub5I6
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their382Please respect copyright.PENANAIx7xaVF7hW
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears382Please respect copyright.PENANAQgvL3fPtWF
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,382Please respect copyright.PENANAKls0ez4iDk
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.382Please respect copyright.PENANAWZDqFyY3hn
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.382Please respect copyright.PENANAwTL58NQuDj
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born382Please respect copyright.PENANAiwsfy1g9WF
from their desire to create?382Please respect copyright.PENANAcjetu7unPZ
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race382Please respect copyright.PENANA9h8ms51stR
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that382Please respect copyright.PENANAQcHpEYiKJ9
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a382Please respect copyright.PENANAWx2IUMWj49
single corpse?382Please respect copyright.PENANAeBQggyHMHs
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other382Please respect copyright.PENANAIMxgmoUyhM
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?382Please respect copyright.PENANA7YFxWCvxVg
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their382Please respect copyright.PENANABeBCBg3yfO
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance382Please respect copyright.PENANABGX1lQ2K54
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for382Please respect copyright.PENANAmY7boTZNxx
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.382Please respect copyright.PENANAs49NhEmFQN
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to382Please respect copyright.PENANA3qLl9CLpbw
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and382Please respect copyright.PENANAV3K2SFIcVY
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines382Please respect copyright.PENANA5gkaYsdakj
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the382Please respect copyright.PENANAsFbFV2n4Pw
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...