The Frost Sentinels were an elite formation within the Geban Empire's military, drawn from Ngorrhal’s towering passes and genetically distinct lineages. Originally the apex warriors of the Ngorrhali people, they were formalized into an imperial unit immediately after winning their civil war with the help of the empire. Known for their towering frames, harsh-environment resilience, and silent discipline, they were the Empire’s solution for prolonged sieges in mountainous or stratospheric conditions.
Key operations focused on high-altitude blockades, wall-of-death firing arrays, and escort duties for shock divisions like the Emperor’s Wrath. Their physiology and doctrine made them ideal for pairing with extermination campaigns, especially when attrition was expected. The Empire formally erased ancestral names, integrating them into loyalist ranks through relentless conditioning and performance-based elevation.
Their DNA became the foundation for the first Engineered. Though the unit itself dissolved, their techniques, genetic code, and siege doctrines were preserved within the next generation of imperial design. Many descendants today continue the lineage under new banners, both in imperial remnant militaries and private warlord commands.
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.