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Eyes of Venar'Tal — VESSELBORN Codex

Eyes of Venar'Tal

Imperial Air and Sea Command

Era: Era of Imperial Conquest through Modern Geba

Founded by: Emperor Venar'Tal Kareth

The Eyes of Venar'Tal was the air and sea dominance branch of the Geban Empire, established under Emperor Venar'Tal Kareth during the Era of Imperial Conquest. After the death of his father Emperor Venar'Tolarg during a Northern Thazvaar campaign, the young prince became a war leader who understood that the Thazvaari Dominion's hyper-defensiveness could only be broken from above. He founded the Eyes to enable sea and air monitoring, reconnaissance, infiltration, and sabotage capabilities that no ground force could replicate.

The branch commanded aerial and naval forces across the Empire, combining covert operations with high-altitude relay infrastructure and rapid deployment. Strategic use of airships enabled troop delivery, bombardment, and airborne espionage. The liberated Berinu base became the Eyes' primary ocean fortress, later targeted by the Church of the Infinite Maw. Affiliated units included the Sky Hammers for airborne shock operations, the Emperor's Shadow for assassinations and psychological subversion, and Bare Hand for internal destabilization.

After the Fracture, the Eyes dissolved. The Emperor's Shadow merged into the Underworld and laid the groundwork for the Shadow Rulers. The Sky Hammers faded completely. Bare Hand continued targeted sabotage against rising factions. During the Warlord Eras, former operatives conducted infiltration and psychological warfare to destabilize warlords and aided deployment of Recursion Bombs. In modern Geba no formal structure remains, but the Eyes' doctrine persists in Shadow Operative methods and covert governance across the planet.

VESSELBORN Codex — Eyes of Venar'Tal

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.