The Berinese are the coastal dwellers of Berinu's deltas and marshes, recognized as Geba's most skilled sailors who operate the planet's largest ports and fleets. They specialize in tidal navigation and maritime advancements tailored to their environment, such as reinforced vessels for brackish waters and efficient docking systems. Influxes of migrants from Jeyrha and Thazvaar have created a vibrant mix of cultures, fostering a diverse hub of trade and innovation. When Thazvaari criminal networks infiltrated and destabilized local governance, the Berinese sought aid from the Geban Empire, leading to a quick conquest that integrated Berinu. Their maritime expertise now supports imperial naval operations, while a legacy of piracy persists in some crews.
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.