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Emberjaw Sentinel
Alias: None Origin: Manalheim (southern volcanic tropics and geothermal zones)
The Emberjaw Sentinel is a colossal lounger of Manalheim's volcanic tropics, its armored ember-hued jaws and scale-plated body spanning 80–120 meters and weighing 1,200–1,800 tonnes, adapted to ash storms through photo-thermosynthetic microbes and osmotic systems that harness geothermal heat. Passive toward other species, it ignores human settlements and even failed hunts, but turns hyper-aggressive in intraspecies clashes, launching into mid-air twists and crashes that trigger landslides audible 10–20 km away with vibrations felt up to 50 km. Living up to 3,000 years and maturing after 1,000–1,500 years of slow growth, it reproduces every 100–200 years, maintaining geothermal niches for smaller organisms. The Expedition of Jeyrhan Researchers during the Era of Absolute Expansion observed its lounging amid ideological clashes, but partial studies highlight its role in self-regulating paradise, where major engagement risks seismic catastrophe.
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.