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VESSELBORN — Sombat Saodaw

Sombat Saodaw

Alias: The Silent Instructor, The Wiry Yuvaar
Era: Modern Geba
Affiliation: Independent operative, Yuvaari

Sombat Saodaw is a small, wiry Yuvaar and a close-quarters specialist who speaks very little. A failed arena fighter—good, but not good enough—he moved to field work where restraint and precision mattered more than spectacle. In a contested-zone defense he field-stripped a pistol by touch in dust and low light, setting it beside two more. When a rookie woman panicked after her first kill, he knelt and said, “Inhale through your nose, hold two heartbeats, let it out slow. Twice.” She steadied, answered his name, and the line held.

He carries four firearms at all times: two pistols, a larger pistol at the small of his back, and a short rifle. Instead of a helmet he wears a traditional Yuvaari warrior cloth tied around his head. He operated alongside Theta Khatan, Vaok’Aurena, Tyrun’Bogan Vaer, and Tharyn’Deine Kel in a coordinated defense of an ancient mega relay site against heavy syndicate crossfire.

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.