Emberbriar is a bio-engineered resurrection of a once-extinct Thazvaari plant originally harvested along the coastal plains of Thazvaar. Its ember-colored blooms produced a potent dust that, when inhaled or swallowed, induced a violent surge of focus, aggression, and pain resistance. During the Era of Imperial Conquest, soldiers and mercenaries across Geba used the substance to survive prolonged battles, though widespread addiction and psychosis followed. The Geban Empire eventually ordered every known Emberbriar field burned, rendering the species extinct for millennia.
In the modern era, the Jeyrhan Bio-Engineering Consortium successfully reconstructed the plant’s genome using preserved seed fragments recovered from Thazvaari ruins. The revived strain is less volatile but retains the psychoactive compounds that made it infamous. While officially restricted to research under imperial law, its seeds have spread across Geba through black markets, making Emberbriar once again a global presence. Modern users prize it for its rapid stimulant burst followed by a brief numbing calm, though its strong scent and sharp crash render it unsuitable for long-term use.
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.