
Part One341Please respect copyright.PENANAR9Lkru3Iul
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One341Please respect copyright.PENANAMVvimHyi73
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under341Please respect copyright.PENANAfgbu4gYDMp
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.341Please respect copyright.PENANAx9s1FGSX5o
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept341Please respect copyright.PENANA50RWC79jtw
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of341Please respect copyright.PENANAb7LjCLZnP9
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable341Please respect copyright.PENANA2ZDafY6qJ5
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a341Please respect copyright.PENANALL6INCXomR
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated341Please respect copyright.PENANAKtgXuukG3W
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the341Please respect copyright.PENANAeVcpO0POQe
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the341Please respect copyright.PENANA6x7eV7o6G2
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and341Please respect copyright.PENANARxPTa03zOH
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.341Please respect copyright.PENANA3dN4TtPB7u
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily341Please respect copyright.PENANA03bNBNH5di
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this341Please respect copyright.PENANAmMY0vfr3vR
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.341Please respect copyright.PENANA2J0nLnmJKR
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the341Please respect copyright.PENANARba67kxEJl
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.341Please respect copyright.PENANAwa5Nt0sPVa
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now341Please respect copyright.PENANAZ6S6b38KpE
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,341Please respect copyright.PENANAeEGpR0VvnZ
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations341Please respect copyright.PENANAuNYzaFh5ka
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may341Please respect copyright.PENANAcKNb149Prb
seem to the smallest of listeners.341Please respect copyright.PENANAbsZkGjPcNW
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within341Please respect copyright.PENANAkDpocps52P
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.341Please respect copyright.PENANAcO7TcT5grr
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their341Please respect copyright.PENANAq9IB4XIvdC
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be341Please respect copyright.PENANACL2qFm8LRf
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;341Please respect copyright.PENANAiugK55x5vO
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,341Please respect copyright.PENANAvmQbY16vhB
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their341Please respect copyright.PENANAm0o7ASDI0Y
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears341Please respect copyright.PENANAUVX1VMiKqu
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,341Please respect copyright.PENANAYJ5gRHafu6
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.341Please respect copyright.PENANABuQs9ndP0Q
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.341Please respect copyright.PENANA3rZKcsiyRk
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born341Please respect copyright.PENANACP53p46sLA
from their desire to create?341Please respect copyright.PENANAcqHmMflkXQ
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race341Please respect copyright.PENANAC0GO7otyBF
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that341Please respect copyright.PENANATJXNxitAAr
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a341Please respect copyright.PENANAzHXPT8euwr
single corpse?341Please respect copyright.PENANAzCmg7hdG7O
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other341Please respect copyright.PENANAzEjOzN5Mmi
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?341Please respect copyright.PENANATtU6fDx1LU
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their341Please respect copyright.PENANA8OYryUZN7l
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance341Please respect copyright.PENANAsokw84GnpP
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for341Please respect copyright.PENANAn0fubzLaME
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.341Please respect copyright.PENANALVjyZUaqVm
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to341Please respect copyright.PENANATyK3h52qnk
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and341Please respect copyright.PENANADW3CKZlmht
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines341Please respect copyright.PENANAGhZ5QKwalJ
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the341Please respect copyright.PENANAa2p6IIg0xq
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...