A technologically advanced eastern continent and former adversary of the Geban Empire. Thazvaar fielded mountain-spanning rail, closed civic infrastructure, and shipyards that could turn entire fleets in days, with data networks reaching into black zones the Empire had not yet named. Its coasts were hardened kill corridors, its navy lethal, and its interior defended by depth. Early contact efforts ceased against hyper-defensive responses, and Thazvaar’s arming of Northeastern Ngorrhal factions exposed a strategic bid for the passes, prompting the Empire’s support to the Western and Northern ranges.
War followed the destruction of a final imperial goodwill vessel with no survivors. The conflict lasted centuries and nearly broke the Empire. Internal Thazvaari wars opened multiple fronts; the Empire pushed through, liberated and militarized Berinu as its largest naval base, and finally took the coasts. Emperor Venar’Tal Kareth executed the Thazvaari king at Kharan’s Gulf and claimed the queen, sealing dominion over the littoral. Yet the interior never fully yielded; the Empire inherited the Dominion’s old unrest along inland corridors.
Era alignment: Early Dominion through Absolute Expansion saw conquest and coastal assimilation; Thazvaar persists in Modern Geba as a region. The coast is integrated into imperial systems; inland zones remain unstable, with resurgent pirates and criminal networks cycling through relay shadows and abandoned rail spurs. Hyper-defensive culture endures in habit and posture. Elements of Thazvaari art survive in performance traditions such as Scarlet Verse.
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.