Born Iaisa Jerhit, Brena discovered the legacy of Brennen Jerhit—an infamous warlord from the Warlord Eras whose raids and underworld alliances laid the foundation for the modern Jerhit Syndicate. Inspired by his example and disillusioned by imperial attempts to rewrite the past, she cast off her given name and assumed the mantle of Brena, embracing the syndicate's violent inheritance as her own.
As the current matriarch of the Jerhit Syndicate, Brena commands the inland circuits of Thazvaar with a hybrid strategy of theft, propaganda, and advanced tech design. Her branch, Brena Propulsion Designs, supplies jetpacks, micro-cannons, and illicit relay tech to pirates, elites, and private warlords alike—much of it stolen from captured Berinese engineers. Kidnappings, ransom extractions, and forced prototype development are commonplace under her rule.
Brena funds anti-Shadow Rule music acts and weaponizes culture through syndicate-backed festivals. Genres like Rebelcore and Conwave glorify syndicate ideals, wealth, and pirate ascendancy. Though she remains publicly elusive, her influence stretches across both private and public relays, where she taxes independent acts and launders narrative control through performance and sound.
Reviled beyond the syndicate and known to imperial strategists as a destabilizing parasite, Brena Jerhit represents the fully realized modern form of inland Thazvaar’s post-warlord underworld. Her name change marks not just personal transformation, but the resurgence of Brennen’s legacy through a new era of criminal consolidation.
Vesselborn is the story of Geba — a world that has carried an empire for six thousand years.
It begins with Vaer’karesh, who unites five nations into the first empire and fixes a common language and law. Across the ages, the empire fights and finally breaks Thazvaar, welcomes Jeyrha through engineering and diplomacy, and liberates Berinu by choice. In Ngorrhal, the people of the mountain passes lose their ancestral name and are permanently renamed the Frost Sentinels, whose strength helps secure imperial rule. The Haavu cannon systems cement that dominance.
At its height, the empire spans continents and raises relay towers that bind cities, coasts, and passes into one network. Assassinations and civil wars follow — the Fracture — but the answer is not a vacuum. The Shadow Rule forms from imperial networks and manufactures peace, ending the warlord broadcasts and taking the world back from collapse. They are the empire made quiet: continuity without ceremony.
Today, the Shadow Rulers still govern from the background while the Energy Wars — covert struggles over power grids and relays in uncivilized regions — decide who controls energy, transport, and culture.
Stories range from relay-field defenses and inland recoveries to city governance and frontier resettlement; from rail lines and air programs that stitch regions together to festivals and work crews where culture and politics collide; from Frost Sentinel memory to families choosing the safety of hub clearings or the risk beyond the grid.
This is Geba. It began in silence. It has not yet ended.