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The Hollowwing Bat is a giant nocturnal predator of Kela's polar shelves and cliffs, 1.0–2.5 meters long and 60–400 kg, its reptile-like skin covered in small hairs shielding against cold while a soft underbelly stays exposed, very large eyes and protruding ears wrapping from forehead to back of head enabling echolocation for silent swoops through the dark. They live 30–50 years. It actively seeks humans, especially pregnant women, adding nothing to the ecosystem and disrupting the recovering gender ratio, prompting dedicated hunting groups in Kela to eradicate it; the Kela Maritime Guild pays for each body as proof, offering the poor a path out of poverty through the hunt. Historical records from the Era of Absolute Expansion describe its deadly night hunts, observed in Kela's lore as a symbol of unseen peril, its presence signaling stable cold biomes but posing great hazards to nighttime exploration.
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.