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Veris’Kal Therak

Alias: None
Era: Imperial Conquest (~3,500–3,000 Years Before Modern Geba)
Affiliation: Geban Empire (Imperator of Thazvaar, Military Commander)

Veris’Kal Therak was a formidable military commander during the Geban Empire’s aggressive expansion, renowned for leading the successful but costly invasion of Thazvaar—the Empire’s most dangerous adversary, a continent of advanced technology, naval mastery, and internal criminal warlords that had long resisted assimilation. As the son of the famous general Veris’Kelus Hael—who revolutionized strategic long-range mass bombardment and was close to Emperor Venar’Tolarg (father of Venar’Tal Kareth)—Veris’Kal shared a lifelong personal friendship with Emperor Venar’Tal Kareth, forged during childhood training where both developed an extreme hatred for Thazvaar. Appointed as Thazvaar’s first Imperator after its mainland conquest, Veris’Kal Therak enforced regional stability through total war tactics, forced cultural eradication, and systematic execution of conquered males, exacerbating Geba’s gender imbalance while integrating Thazvaari infrastructure like rail systems and logistical networks into the Empire. His tenure marked the absorption of a rival power not through negotiation but annihilation, overseeing a hard-won but incomplete peace where the coasts achieved functional assimilation while inland fractures—resurgent piracy, unresolved criminal networks, and lingering conflicts—persisted as inherited wars the Empire struggled to fully suppress, symbolizing the challenges of maintaining control over vast, fragmented territories.

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.