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VESSELBORN — Kwe Vychai

Kwe Vychai

Alias: The Maimed Runner, The Survivor of Thazvaar
Era: Era of Absolute Expansion (~3,000 YBM)
Affiliation: Berinese; Festival Combatant

Kwe Vychai was a Berinese Runner turned Leader who rose to prominence during the inland Thazvaar hunting tournament—an extreme, now-banned variant of the Yuvaari Games. As a Runner, he became known for unmatched speed, evasive instincts, and adaptability under fire. When promoted to Lead during the Thazvaar hunting tournament, he coordinated complex maneuvers under siege by syndicate forces while continuing to hunt desert beasts.

In one legendary engagement, he directed his team across Thazvaar’s open ravines while evading airship scans, gunfire, and collapsing terrain. Vychai was the last fighter standing after his team was disqualified due to multiple deaths, but his endurance and creative tactics—such as directing a Holder to intercept gunfire while an Ambusher laid a rope trap—solidified his reputation across Geba’s relay networks.

Although denied official recognition due to disqualification rules, Kwe Vychai’s performance became a defining example of what a Runner could become: not merely fast, but strategic, resilient, and fearless.

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.