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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 greatest warriors of the mountain passes become 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. The last emperor is assassinated and the throne shatters. Civil wars consume the planet. But the answer is not collapse. The Shadow Rule forms from what the empire left behind, ends the warlord broadcasts, and holds the world together without a crown. They are the empire made quiet: continuity without ceremony.

Today, the Shadow Rulers still govern from the background while the Energy Wars decide who controls grids, relays, vehicles, and culture. Nine faiths compete for how the world understands itself. Tour racing draws audiences as large as the Yuvaar Hunting Games. Relaymen carry broadcast rigs into corridors and criminal networks to capture what the governed world is never meant to see. Contractors move through contested territory for manufactory interests. Syndicates operate trafficking networks through grey zones the empire tolerates rather than confronts. The Engineered, once created as instruments of war, now live as citizens, athletes, engineers, and parents.

Stories range from relay field defenses and inland recoveries to city governance and frontier resettlement; from airship crews racing through volcanic caverns to truth seekers embedding in syndicate operations; from arena fighters practicing an ancient faith through combat 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.