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Hustis — VESSELBORN Codex

Hustis

Relayman

Population: Ngorrhali

Origin: Karesh, Geba

Age: Unknown

Height: 7'3"

Weight: 413 lbs

Profession: Relayman

Status: Missing

The Work

Hustis is responsible for over 30% of all detailed, interpretable footage of areas near The Uncharted, the deep sea, and parts of Saethera. He was an expedition relayman who followed research crews and mercenary expeditions into the most extreme environments on the planet, and the volume of footage he produced from those environments is unmatched by any other individual in the profession's history. He was very large, very direct, and he never left the crews he traveled with. Anyone who worked alongside him knew that wherever the expedition went, Hustis went, and wherever Hustis was, the broadcast rig was running.

Disappearance

Hustis has been missing for years. His last known area of operation was Ukhaalstaag, and while his absence has been noted across the profession and the expeditionary community, it is not uncommon for people to go missing in Ukhaalstaag and reappear years later. His size, his durability as a Ngorrhali, and his track record of surviving environments that killed the people around him mean that missing is not the same as dead until someone finds evidence otherwise. He collaborated with the Bryion triplets on multiple occasions, and his footage from those joint expeditions contributed to some of the most significant discoveries in recent exploration history.

VESSELBORN Codex — Hustis

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.