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 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.