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VESSELBORN — King Hies

King Hies

Alias: Erased King of the Gulf
Era: Imperial Conquest ~3,500–3,000 Years Before Modern Geba
Affiliation: Thazvaari Dominion

King Hies was a ruthless Thazvaari ruler descended from the pirate warlords of Kharan’s Gulf. He secured power by eliminating all rival contenders for Queen Nethelys Zahmira VIII’s hand until only he remained acceptable by class. During the final imperial campaign, he presided over the decades-long siege centered on Kharan’s Gulf.

His last words were aimed at Emperor Venar’Tolarg, the fallen sovereign whose body was never recovered in Northern Thazvaar and whose death elevated the young Venar’Tal to the throne. Hies said: “I hope the flying beasts of the desert tore his body to pieces and the sands erased his filthy imperial blood. If I had lived then, I would have brought his head and set it on display for all to see—an example of what happens to trash.” He then spat blood in the emperor’s face and laughed.

Emperor Venar’Tal vowed that no record would preserve his name. Hies was transported to northern Berinu and publicly executed, ending the siege and clearing the way for the Empire’s consolidation of the Gulf. By imperial decree, his history was erased from the archives. What remains of his story survives only through oral accounts.

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.