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Ukhaalstaag
Alias: The Frozen Reach, The Still North Location: Northwest of Ngorrhal
Ukhaalstaag is the frozen, cliff-riven frontier northwest of Ngorrhal, its ice-split ridgelines and glacial plains concealing ruins of a non-human civilization that collapsed under its own ambition. No doors, no records—only instinct remains in the Ukhaal Walkers, devolved guardians of the cliffs. The Geban Empire maintains scattered research outposts, but colonization is brutally difficult. Temperatures lock between –60°C and –25°C under dim haze, broken by sudden blizzards and wind-torn silence. During auroral phases, glowing orbs—rumored avatars of the Velcrith or Seraveth—appear even to non-Vessels, unconfirmed. In the Warlord Eras, fugitives fled here for sanctuary; most vanished. Families are offered generational wealth to settle and stay, yet few accept after hearing the stories of Ukhaal Walkers. Manufacturers like the Jeyrhan Bio-Engineering Consortium, Joxi Industrial Holdings, Sentinel Division, Solarn Legacy Engineering, Haavu Family, and Zhikhan Manufacturing Collective regularly send engineers and contractors to lift relays and place anchors. They have not failed, but progress is glacial. Ukhaalstaag is the Empire’s silent edge—where intelligence failed.
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.