Origin: Geba and the southeastern coasts of Ngorrhal
Record: Geban field flora
The Myrith Oak is a fast-growing, medium-sized hardwood tree native to Geba and the southeastern coasts of Ngorrhal. Reaching heights of up to 50 meters, it thrives in humid coastal climates and is prized for its strong, flexible timber. Its accelerated growth and durability make it one of the most valuable lumber sources on Geba, supporting global construction, shipbuilding, and trade industries. Cultivated in rotational forestry systems, it can replenish itself in decades, allowing sustainable mass harvest without long-term ecological loss.
The tree takes its name from the ancient city of Myrithin , which was destroyed during the ancient Geban Unification Wars. At the city’s center stood a colossal oak that survived the devastation, continuing to grow for centuries afterward. From its seeds, the first great forest of the post-war era emerged. Today, the Myrith Oak remains a living emblem of endurance, regrowth, and the reclamation of life from destruction.
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 greatest warriors of the mountain passes become 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. The last emperor is assassinated and the throne shatters. Civil wars consume the planet. But the answer is not collapse. The Shadow Rule forms from what the empire left behind, ends the warlord broadcasts, and holds the world together without a crown. They are the empire made quiet: continuity without ceremony.
Today, the Shadow Rulers still govern from the background while the Energy Wars decide who controls grids, relays, vehicles, and culture. Nine faiths compete for how the world understands itself. Tour racing draws audiences as large as the Yuvaar Hunting Games. Relaymen carry broadcast rigs into corridors and criminal networks to capture what the governed world is never meant to see. Contractors move through contested territory for manufactory interests. Syndicates operate trafficking networks through grey zones the empire tolerates rather than confronts. The Engineered, once created as instruments of war, now live as citizens, athletes, engineers, and parents.
Stories range from relay field defenses and inland recoveries to city governance and frontier resettlement; from airship crews racing through volcanic caverns to truth seekers embedding in syndicate operations; from arena fighters practicing an ancient faith through combat 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.