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Kal’vashir’s Farmstead – Vesselborn Codex

Kal’vashir’s Farmstead

Kal’vashir’s Farmstead is a modern-era settlement group in the southwest Geban countryside, very far from everything but close enough for travel and relay connectivity to the capital in Northern Geba. Focused on post-Warlord Eras recovery and settling the clearings, it serves as a model for self-sufficient communities, emphasizing sustainable agriculture, endurance, and quiet defiance against Shadow Rule's hidden control.

Led by Kal’vashir, commonly known by his alias Caleb the Strong Farmer (true Geban birth name Kal’vashir, alias for deep cover anonymity), a former Shadow Operative active from the Warlord Eras to modern Geba with no current affiliation. Born on a remote sovereign farmstead awarded to his veteran Shadow operative father—who served nearly a century in silent operations—Kal’vashir was raised amid quiet labor by seven mothers seeking refuge, unknowingly trained in Shadow legacy through patterns of endurance: planting under pressure, silent movement, and breathing through hardship. After his father's death and mothers' departure, operators recruited him based on his inherited posture.

He served as a ghost across fractured banners—warlords, remnants, dying regimes—executing deep cover, surveillance, and erasure without trace. Wounded in a failed extraction, he sheltered with Naira Siran, conceiving Zairen Vaul in a raw night before vanishing to avoid attachment as liability. Decades later, he reclaimed the overgrown farmstead not in rebellion but rhythm, repurposing a war-drone to broadcast unperformed feats of endurance—streaming life’s quiet defiance to fill postwar silence. Though unaware of his son, he would have protected him covertly through networks without revelation.

Other veterans, Engineered with no purpose, and former operatives flocked to his farmstead, growing it into a full-sized clearing while retaining the name, hosting its own small relay tower for minimal connectivity. It fosters resilience without performance, bridging war’s ghosts to modern silence, symbolizing hidden rhythm in Geba's fragmented culture.

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.