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VESSELBORN — Brennen Jerhit

Brennen Jerhit

Alias: The Thazvaari Warlord
Era: Warlord Eras (~500–17 Years Before Modern Geba)
Affiliation: Thazvaari Warlord (Jerhit Syndicate Progenitor)

Brennen Jerhit was a notorious Thazvaari warlord and the ancestral founder of the Jerhit Syndicate, a criminal organization that persists in modern Geba. Operating in the unreachable inland Thazvaar during the Warlord Eras, he capitalized on the planet-wide chaos following the Geban Empire’s collapse to build a powerbase through ruthless raids, underworld alliances, and control of private relays. With the empire fragmented and central authority dissolved, his exploitation of Thazvaar’s isolation allowed unchecked expansion of criminal enterprises, including theft and extortion. Brennen’s brutal tactics, including live-streamed psychological warfare and public executions, cemented his infamy, amplifying the era’s lawlessness. His lineage, culminating in Brena Jerhit, continues his legacy of criminal engineering and defiance of centralized control.

About Vesselborn

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.