
Part One403Please respect copyright.PENANA7n7hADMJHd
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One403Please respect copyright.PENANA83Eb8v9t1n
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under403Please respect copyright.PENANAXR32TtaW3O
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.403Please respect copyright.PENANASbbuA9XAUI
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept403Please respect copyright.PENANAhz4qXBt2sx
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of403Please respect copyright.PENANAb9BXqlKUCi
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable403Please respect copyright.PENANAZnxSfwIF6r
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a403Please respect copyright.PENANAPQ4XzfzpSn
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated403Please respect copyright.PENANAmuQBainzeF
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the403Please respect copyright.PENANA0g91FpcW3s
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the403Please respect copyright.PENANA6tamu5usU7
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and403Please respect copyright.PENANA2SBl68R6nO
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.403Please respect copyright.PENANA2svK4exMUN
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily403Please respect copyright.PENANAghDqNN7lc1
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this403Please respect copyright.PENANAeaVyaDD3io
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.403Please respect copyright.PENANAD0j5U8TBbA
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the403Please respect copyright.PENANAK7bhSL8Qsk
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.403Please respect copyright.PENANA9Vr6PYOzXD
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now403Please respect copyright.PENANAeJiPfgamwX
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,403Please respect copyright.PENANAS6dHJ1Wo6I
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations403Please respect copyright.PENANAJ1UAkQb7z4
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may403Please respect copyright.PENANA7zlu1sxVts
seem to the smallest of listeners.403Please respect copyright.PENANAf1GCH5ffKp
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within403Please respect copyright.PENANAeTeu1wRkai
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.403Please respect copyright.PENANAvC7lBRHBSW
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their403Please respect copyright.PENANALSQC9woIDA
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be403Please respect copyright.PENANArt7VBxF2jY
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;403Please respect copyright.PENANA5j6b9sSCZq
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,403Please respect copyright.PENANAKQMTxwkbjI
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their403Please respect copyright.PENANAXKITY3g9jx
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears403Please respect copyright.PENANA52a3ENspPV
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,403Please respect copyright.PENANArkyfE7Gqp0
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.403Please respect copyright.PENANAhqZce9In0F
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.403Please respect copyright.PENANAIo8VHoI7s2
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born403Please respect copyright.PENANANzbuNUHtR3
from their desire to create?403Please respect copyright.PENANAKLRyUMrRFN
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race403Please respect copyright.PENANAQxEEusPGZL
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that403Please respect copyright.PENANAu79Kn74uOX
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a403Please respect copyright.PENANA3KkNgLSTn9
single corpse?403Please respect copyright.PENANAyDuslgxweh
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other403Please respect copyright.PENANAT1hzWLBsJA
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?403Please respect copyright.PENANAj989COqc6E
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their403Please respect copyright.PENANA9SFzjtjRgP
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance403Please respect copyright.PENANAPkJePf3A0T
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for403Please respect copyright.PENANA6s6QAl2hTs
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.403Please respect copyright.PENANAoMG7JHYV1z
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to403Please respect copyright.PENANAv4WwQJ8LPG
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and403Please respect copyright.PENANA6LMnTrES1X
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines403Please respect copyright.PENANAGJXcPBrz7G
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the403Please respect copyright.PENANAtwV4ZNglYK
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...