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Thaloryn'Butoa Wensi — VESSELBORN Codex

Thaloryn'Butoa Wensi

Citizen of Lira

Era: Modern Geba

Affiliation: None (Civilian, Financier)

The Vault

Thaloryn'Butoa Wensi was a wealthy financier in Lira, the State of Midreach, when the Church of the Infinite Maw launched its assault during the opening strikes of the Infinite Maw Conflict. While the city collapsed around her she attempted to protect records of high-profile account holders and research projects housed in a secure vault alongside priceless artifacts collected from across the planet. She was found in front of the vault with half of her abdomen missing. The vault was empty. The data systems connected to it had been wiped from the nearby cache. Everything she had been trying to protect was gone.

The Name

She survived for days with her injuries. If she had been found sooner she would have lived. The loss of the vault's contents was a direct cause of important experimental information disappearing permanently, along with quantities of off-grid varens that had been held outside the relay economy. Her name became the third engraved on the unclaimed obsidian monument that appeared in Lira's ruins alongside Kael'Varek Dahn and Seran Kalver. Three names repeated endlessly across global feeds. Dahn died fighting. Kalver died as a parent at work. Wensi died trying to save what everyone else was running from, and she nearly made it.

VESSELBORN Codex — Thaloryn'Butoa Wensi

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.