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Part One122Please respect copyright.PENANAKhk1sNi6D3
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One122Please respect copyright.PENANAup5THYxabO
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under122Please respect copyright.PENANAuZyEKuPhz4
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.122Please respect copyright.PENANA5cAyQWXduU
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept122Please respect copyright.PENANAc6Ef82akmh
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of122Please respect copyright.PENANAPipjLRLNyu
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable122Please respect copyright.PENANAjpuVU3rV6w
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a122Please respect copyright.PENANAvjTRmvJnTu
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated122Please respect copyright.PENANAP4Egf9AQZm
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the122Please respect copyright.PENANA37otNVC2sF
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the122Please respect copyright.PENANAB5gfCZAlnv
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and122Please respect copyright.PENANAXwaQmwL3No
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.122Please respect copyright.PENANAqxlf16vQ53
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily122Please respect copyright.PENANAEd8mXtWv4c
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this122Please respect copyright.PENANAKPFdQs1LNM
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.122Please respect copyright.PENANACNjSjmNphH
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the122Please respect copyright.PENANA0sP1gdlR8M
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.122Please respect copyright.PENANA0nhBGWAylT
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now122Please respect copyright.PENANAMIA8A8wHMH
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,122Please respect copyright.PENANAWEEGsDo36w
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations122Please respect copyright.PENANAd3cAsEx2aq
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may122Please respect copyright.PENANAtC1OHytBYV
seem to the smallest of listeners.122Please respect copyright.PENANAwsIFkqqdKt
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within122Please respect copyright.PENANAXMCjE2CUng
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.122Please respect copyright.PENANAyq8ub1BieV
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their122Please respect copyright.PENANAhRhvCheods
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be122Please respect copyright.PENANAeSsfcf5neY
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;122Please respect copyright.PENANAk2tTqVUxue
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,122Please respect copyright.PENANAdzY1oxiLfm
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their122Please respect copyright.PENANAGnQJ4ijDrA
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears122Please respect copyright.PENANAPxYkoVSkHU
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,122Please respect copyright.PENANAdTnFgUMqqF
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.122Please respect copyright.PENANA7Zfmaw267J
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.122Please respect copyright.PENANAmZWY78Hspp
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born122Please respect copyright.PENANAzbOwn6QGgK
from their desire to create?122Please respect copyright.PENANAZw03c1NNdy
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race122Please respect copyright.PENANARfDrB8zLim
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that122Please respect copyright.PENANAM9ShW3PJw1
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a122Please respect copyright.PENANA8SdttN3P8S
single corpse?122Please respect copyright.PENANA9t87tqNrNk
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other122Please respect copyright.PENANAWvukZ7wHKL
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?122Please respect copyright.PENANAOJbFOuGWfX
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their122Please respect copyright.PENANAgIXz6IgrlB
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance122Please respect copyright.PENANAWVkAjZnLrW
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for122Please respect copyright.PENANAiHEO4Yj3mp
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.122Please respect copyright.PENANAgg3n12LNNM
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to122Please respect copyright.PENANAHY6dMuR5Xa
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and122Please respect copyright.PENANAmgPzWXyMG3
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines122Please respect copyright.PENANAArqoxyLtuw
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the122Please respect copyright.PENANAwrvrjJyZxK
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...