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Ngorrhal
Alias: The Sentinel Range, The Mountain Passes Location: South of Kela, east of Ukhaalstaag, far north of Jeyrha (western continent)
Ngorrhal is the western alpine continent of stratospheric peaks and megafault ranges, assimilated into the Geban Empire after a brutal civil war. The Western and Northern Passes became the Frost Sentinels—their physiology the genetic foundation for the first Engineered. Northern Pass children were raised in the capital as royal bodyguards, forging sacred bonds. The Thazvaar-backed Northeastern line was eradicated. Despite few small hubs and most population migrating to Geba, Ngorrhal’s massive mountains host the planet’s largest and oldest operable surviving relay infrastructure—older even than Geba’s. Engineers flock here to test experimental arrays. Frost Sentinels return for their ancient rite of passage: once a local hunt of the Greater Smilohound in their home biome, it now demands crossing oceans to Ngorrhal, surviving an unfamiliar land, killing the hyper-lethal apex predator with bare hands, and hauling its entire 4-tonne carcass back across the sea—a monumental feat since most Frost Senitnels no longer live in Ngorrhal. Alpine to subpolar climate (−20°C to 5°C) with ice storms and stellar winds preserves ancient surfaces. Ngorrhal remains a proving ground for endurance and imperial loyalty.
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.