Kela is Geba's vast northern polar continent, a frontier of frozen plains, polar shelves, and geothermal vents. It is one of two landmasses directly connected to the Uncharted, along with Saethera, but it is the only one without an environment that will kill you for trying to approach. The Kelan people thrive here with unmatched climbing skills and endurance built for extreme cold and high altitudes. Males outnumber females approximately 3:1, the most extreme male skew on the planet, because the frontier draws outcasts, fugitives, ex-warlords, and engineers, the overwhelming majority of whom are male. Most of Kela's 700 million inhabitants came from somewhere else.
Colonies and Operations
Autonomous colonies established in the Era of Late Conquest serve as refuges for ex-warlords, criminals, and outcasts seeking escape from imperial oversight. The Kela Maritime Guild specializes in underwater technologies for polar and subsurface operations, powering elite and military gear with Sentinel Division and Joxi Industrial Holdings energy sources. Ioe Jerhit founded mercenary groups here to escort settlers and hunt fugitives, later coercing engineers to develop Uncharted survival tech in fortified compounds. Energy Wars contracts on Kela focus on expansion into the Uncharted and locating new energy sources, regardless of northern Kela remaining a mostly unknown black zone.
Fauna and Terrain
Devolved species like the Neron lurk in geothermal vents, while fossils of the extinct Boretheris Titan dot the plateaus. Kela has very few hubs and no native relays, relying entirely on Ngorrhal's super-massive relay infrastructure. Northern Kela near the Uncharted border is a near-black zone with poor connectivity, avoided by most due to lack of infrastructure and support. Izhara's light barely reaches Kela's latitude, producing brief, dim daylight cycles. Zhaerys provides the majority of visible illumination during its slower orbit, casting the continent in an orange-red haze for extended periods. Kelan resilience turns the deadly cold into home, proving skill and grit surpass size in the face of endless frost.