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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. During the Early Dominion, the Geban Empire intervened in a brutal civil war between the Western and Northern Passes and the Thazvaar-aligned Northeastern Passes. War Chief Tharyn'Bregun allied with Prince Vaer'gidon to defeat and permanently remove the Northeastern line, ending generations of conflict. In exchange for survival, Ngorrhal fully assimilated into the empire, and their people became the Frost Sentinels—the second most populous group in the Geban capital. Northern Pass children were raised in the capital as the Emperor's royal bodyguards, an unprecedented honor never extended to any other non-imperial people. When Vaer'gidon and Tharyn'Bregun died together fighting Ukhaal Walkers during their bonding trials in Ukhaalstaag less than a decade after Emperor Vaer'karesh's death, their shared sacrifice transformed an already-solid alliance into something eternally unbreakable. Frost Sentinels were granted their own district in the capital with unrestricted freedom of movement, and their youth could pursue politics or engineering, though warrior paths remained culturally favored. Their physiology later became the genetic foundation for the first Engineered. Despite most of the population migrating to Geba, Ngorrhal's massive mountains host the planet's largest and oldest operable surviving relay infrastructure—older even than Geba's, drawing engineers to test experimental arrays. Frost Sentinels return for their ancient rite of passage: once a local hunt of the Greater Smilohound, 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. 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.