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Solun’Varun

Alias: The Blind Archpriest
Era: Late Conquest → Fracture (~2,200–1,500 Years Before Modern Geba)
Affiliation: Geban Empire (Archpriest, Frost Sentinel Descent)

Solun’Varun was a blind Archpriest of immense presence and doctrinal mastery within the Geban Empire’s imperial court, descending from Frost Sentinel bloodlines that infused him with towering physicality—long greying blonde hair past his back, green eyes staring forward with unerring certainty, and a body so vast it evoked ancient siege warriors—clad only in white robes with a single gold thread, eschewing crowns or ornaments for austere authority. Born blind and thus barred from wielding firearms or ceremonial ancestral weapons, he forged his inheritance in the mind, internalizing sacred texts like the Blood Royal Doctrine, The Parent Preceded the Children, The Book of the Witness, and The Account of the Two Becomings to distinguish myth from structure, possession from merging, and collapse from alignment. In court debates over Prince Varethis’Daer Venar’s Velcrith merging, Varun pierced the silence with finality, defending Daer not as deviation but as pattern fulfillment recorded by Prince Ashan’Raeth Vareth, quoting doctrines to rebuke fear and emphasize the brothers’ unbreakable bond. Having known Emperor Ashan’Kael Varethis and witnessed Auren’s selection as heir over the prodigious Daer, he instructed the court to cease treating merging as threat, redirecting focus to the Empire’s interior fractures—drifting provinces, fracturing relays, and secession—warning that true betrayal lay in discarding precedents like Raeth’s foundations.

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.