
Part One450Please respect copyright.PENANA4mwZH0RvE3
“The Crafted Mountain”
Chapter One450Please respect copyright.PENANAGuckQYmL4q
“The Artificers of Will”
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A long time ago all things that were or could hope to be, were under450Please respect copyright.PENANATvmAc2VLIv
the guidance of the wisest; those known today only as the ´Centra´.450Please respect copyright.PENANAyV0ijOWDtt
They alone were the keepers of the Age of Growth and they alone kept450Please respect copyright.PENANAURIoCgGi5m
watch over the world itself from high atop their floating cities and other sources of450Please respect copyright.PENANAlU9JRCxdiq
awe. They surveyed and kept the balance with the aid and grace of their immeasurable450Please respect copyright.PENANAekPG0ctqlC
achievements. Impressive feats born from their mastery of the darkest of magics: a450Please respect copyright.PENANAmeuaK43xVI
power they called science. Feats to be remembered always through mistranslated450Please respect copyright.PENANA1L7H8moQlg
words and long, half-forgotten, fables carried across generations throughout all the450Please respect copyright.PENANAv8kiPid1op
corners of this exhausted world. Stories and fairy tales, words of the very old to the450Please respect copyright.PENANARmrLgIIAej
very young as scattered memories intertwine themselves with legend, as glory and450Please respect copyright.PENANAkMXJ7hDyoO
fascination eventually turn to dread and warning.450Please respect copyright.PENANAOe83KLNC8q
Narrations of incredible proportions, their words and bolstering claims easily450Please respect copyright.PENANACU1U4vp3qR
supported by the remaining Centra achievements, left for everyone to see upon this450Please respect copyright.PENANA8g5qGeEtba
dreaded world; large constructions, all arrogant and defiant in their design.450Please respect copyright.PENANAgnqpBb6RhL
Temples standing proud to this day atop higher mountains while waiting for the450Please respect copyright.PENANARuNRUHWNCs
brave or the foolish to step up to the challenge.450Please respect copyright.PENANAg5QipHC9Nl
Cities, magnificent still, that once stood shoulder to shoulder with any cloud, now450Please respect copyright.PENANAzaVqeM5MBD
just ruins upon the scarred land making up the landscapes of deserts, oceans, forests,450Please respect copyright.PENANAQL8GP8AjEN
and lakes. All of this creates a world that supplies and displays proof to these narrations450Please respect copyright.PENANAyoIECaAyao
regardless of how fantastic and unbelievable some of those assembled sentences may450Please respect copyright.PENANAQpOGK6UsCf
seem to the smallest of listeners.450Please respect copyright.PENANAst2YUTN6jv
Words are always passed on with foreboding tones, for the meaning within450Please respect copyright.PENANASYSHuBhsiP
its message is always the same, one of hubris and the collapse that always ensues.450Please respect copyright.PENANAAHCe6iDx0r
The Centra were felled, by what real reason one can only speculate, but gone is their450Please respect copyright.PENANARcTsq7m1kS
mighty civilisation, lost to us and it was a mystery that to this day no one can be450Please respect copyright.PENANAcUpNmOWGwi
certain of their fate. For with all that they achieved and all the power they once held;450Please respect copyright.PENANAK6COA4YiMY
they were the rulers of an entire world and handlers of unmatched technologies,450Please respect copyright.PENANA4EAC0UKqjF
they would still - mysteriously - disappear without a trace, leaving behind only their450Please respect copyright.PENANA2dSdOegIe7
accomplishments. As many and as impressive as their feats seem, even today, the fears450Please respect copyright.PENANAxvdPudo7F5
were not enough to save them from whatever fate befell them. During their long reign,450Please respect copyright.PENANAHGLYBa75mL
for countless millennia, they reshaped all the lands and built a world in their image.450Please respect copyright.PENANApOrrJw2itN
They had the power to do so, and they did. They created and they destroyed.450Please respect copyright.PENANA9QZrcF6fYB
How many wonders disappeared under the Centra’s thumb? How many were born450Please respect copyright.PENANAp4SfZ4FGOs
from their desire to create?450Please respect copyright.PENANA483wlAz6L7
All of this they did, until one night, in just one night, suddenly, their entire race450Please respect copyright.PENANAPwd0ERrwq6
was extinguished! What was this mysterious event of cataclysmic proportions that450Please respect copyright.PENANASYh8dvwj4r
in a single swoop robbed the world of their biggest prize, not even leaving behind a450Please respect copyright.PENANAUHLrwRy2md
single corpse?450Please respect copyright.PENANAVaZkwE56uQ
What caused the mass extinction of these chosen and sent all their cities and other450Please respect copyright.PENANAu1D5EyurKx
flying stations crashing down towards the earth below?450Please respect copyright.PENANAo9XiLfUzJD
The more that is revealed to us about the Centra, the closer we get to perceive their450Please respect copyright.PENANAUGY3u7RfjI
real magnitude, the more fascinating and alluring the mystery of their disappearance450Please respect copyright.PENANAxOE2dpv3aE
becomes. Still, the whole world is, and likely forever will be, the largest testimony for450Please respect copyright.PENANAG2n1sPZedy
all that the Centra ever were and forever achieved.450Please respect copyright.PENANAHv6Dz4XsN0
A whole world that even now, as it slowly awaits its collapse, persistently sings to450Please respect copyright.PENANAspNKSGQ9I7
their glory. The Centra departed leaving behind a world of unshackled magics and450Please respect copyright.PENANAdlwWqsPPzz
soon to be poorly resurrected technologies. With their absence, and their machines450Please respect copyright.PENANAA0hhbzwxKo
spent and their cities toppled, so too ended the Age of Growth, but with all that the450Please respect copyright.PENANA23Z5IRQFa1
Centra left behind, in time, a new Era would begin...