Creatures of Geba

The fauna, flora, and peoples recorded across the planet, grouped by ecology. Choose a category and an entry, or search.

Fauna Flora Humanoids

Legendary Fauna

Crystalhorn Behemoth Deep ocean serpent Redback Titanbird Uncharted reptilian flier Blackwing Titanbird Northern Thazvaar coastal giant Terraveth Behemoth Inland Thazvaar bipedal predator Thaloryn Wanderer Geban folklore The Red Raptor Legendary

Terrestrial Megafauna

Boretheris Titan Kela plateau herbivore Boughstrider Saethera canopy predator Darkroot Subterranean burrower Duststalker Inland Thazvaar desert predator Emberjaw Sentinel Manalheim volcanic giant Gelivox Stalker Kela ice feline Ghyralis Charger Berinu plains herbivore Lichengrazer Inland Thazvaar herd animal Palmstrider Saethera canopy omnivore

Mammalian Predators

Ngorrhal Ice Bear Ngorrhal glacial predator Yuvaar Kelek Yuvaar lowland feline

Pack Hunters

Greater Smilohound Northern canid-line predator Lesser Smilohound Geba canid guardian Sentinelhound Lesser Smilohound Variant Plains Smilohound Inland Thazvaar pack predator Field Howler Semi-domesticated smilohound breed

Volant Fauna

Hollowwing Bat Kela nocturnal predator Swiftwing Geban Sea raptor Whitewing Ngorrhal peak raptor Goldenwing Yuvaar aerial predator Jadenraptor Uncharted high-altitude raptor Violetraptor Polar jet stream raptor

Aquatic Predators

Softbelly Blackclaw Deep trench ambush predator Northern Sea Phantom Northern coastal ambush predator Reefmarcher Jeyrha reef fish Thazvaari Jungle Viper Inland Thazvaar giant serpent Venomveil Serpent Inland Thazvaar jungle snake Edgerammer Kela coastal sea creature Mirehook Berinu marsh predator

Arthropods

Imperial Striking Wasp Geba stinging insect Hedgethorn Berinu swarming insect

Sessile Marine Life

Trenchcrown Geban Sea trench coral

Trees & Woody Flora

Aquarex Elm Geba woodland tree Berinu Rainwood Berinu wetland tree Lavaridge Palm Manalheim volcanic palm Manalheim Megatree Manalheim geothermal giant Myrith Oak Coastal hardwood Ngorrhal Cliffspire Ngorrhal cliff plant Saethera Bridgewood Saethera bridging tree Saethera Veilwood Saethera parasitic shell Stormbread Tree Inland Thazvaar desert giant Trailpalm Grove Warm-coast palm Ukhaal Ruinwood Ukhaalstaag ruin trees Saethera Skypillar Saethera giant tree

Shrubs

Ashpalm Inland Thazvaar desert palm Emberbriar Thazvaari bio-engineered plant Thazvaar Dustblade Inland Thazvaar razor shrub Thazvaar Heatthorn Inland Thazvaar desert succulent

Ferns & Reeds

Edgeweed Geba toxic wetland plant Ngorrhal Passreed Ngorrhal stimulant reed Ngorrhal Windbrace Ngorrhal antidote shrub Ngorrhal Root Calming root grown planet-wide Pitstraw Lethal mimic grass Stonefern Calming fern Reedglass Berinu wetland plant

Epiphytes & Lianas

Barkmilk Vine Saethera canopy vine Glassbloom Saethera predatory plant Ropevine Yuvaar and Thazvaar vine Veilvine Coastal Thazvaar climbing vine

Herbs & Forbs

Berinu Stormgrass Berinu salt grass Brineth Herb Coastal salt herb Bluecup Berinu dye flower Bluecrust Berinu dye flower Bogfloss Berinu bog sedge Chalkbell Berinu delta flower Geban Grain Geba staple crop Icecup Northern frost flower Lowcandle Saethera glowing groundplant Mirebell Berinu marsh flower Moorbloom Rare moorland flower Saethera Shadegrass Saethera groundcover

Mosses & Lichens

Glowmat Southern Jeyrha coastal grass Lamplichen Subterranean glowing lichen Rockjaw Mat Volcanic rock mat Softmoss Planet-wide moss

Succulents & Xerophytes

Coasthorn Coastal Thazvaar desert shrub Dusthorn Coastal Thazvaar thorn shrub Nightspout Inland Thazvaar desert succulent Frosthorn Kela parasitic icevine Berinu Riverhold Berinu wetland plant Raincatcher Berinu wetland plant

Aquatic & Wetland Flora

Tidelash Berinu tidal algae Trenchribbon Geban Sea deep algae

Natural-Born Peoples

Geban People of the Geba continent Jeyrhan People of Jeyrha Berinese People of Berinu Thazvaari People of Thazvaar Yuvaari People of Yuvaar Ngorrhali People of the Mountain Passes Kelan People of Kela

The Engineered

The Engineered Era of Late Conquest to Modern Geba Assault-Class Engineered The most common Engineered class Tactician-Class Engineered Strategic Command Variant Scout-Class Engineered Sensory Dominance Variant Destroyer-Class Engineered Cataclysmic War Variant Hybrid Engineered Engineered and natural-born descent

Other Lineages

Rupturan Rupture Born, Warborn Progenitors Neron Devolved Humanoid Ukhaal Walkers Devolved Humanoid Vessels Merged Humanoids
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Assault-Class Engineered

The most common Engineered class

Creator
Prince Varethis'Daer Venar
Genetic Foundation
Frost Sentinel DNA
Era
Era of Late Conquest to Modern Geba
Height (Female)
Average ~7'6"
Height (Male)
8'0" to 8'4"
Lifespan
160 to 250 years (effective ~60 due to impulsivity)
Related
The Engineered · Tactician-Class · Scout-Class · Destroyer-Class · Hybrid

Overview

The Assault-Class are the most common Engineered and the most socially integrated. They were developed by Prince Varethis'Daer Venar during the Era of Late Conquest for surviving the regions of Geba that natural biology could not reach, their frames built from Frost Sentinel genetic material optimized for engaging the planet's apex predators, surviving extreme environments, and holding ground in conditions that killed everything else the Empire sent into them. Their females average around 7'6" and their males stand 8'0" to 8'4". They are fully cognizant with sharp strategic thinking, and they are the visible face of Prince Daer's legacy on the planet. Despite the common belief that size means slowness, they are faster than anything their scale should allow. A natural-born can raise a rifle at an Assault-Class standing four meters away with their back turned, and in the time it takes to lift the barrel and settle the aim, the Assault-Class has already turned, crossed the gap, torn the weapon from his hands, driven him off his feet with a kick that sends him through a wall, and begun firing that same weapon at the next threat before his body has hit the ground. The entire sequence takes less time than the single motion he attempted. For those who have seen it, the speed attached to the strength is what unsettles them.

Impulsivity

Their defining limitation is intense impulsivity, a consequence of the neurological architecture that makes them effective under extreme conditions. The same rapid decision-making that allows an Assault-Class individual to charge a territorial predator twice their weight without hesitation produces a civilian who seeks ever-greater risks in daily life, because their threshold for stimulation is set higher than anything peacetime provides. This trait shortens their potential lifespan of 160 to 250 years to approximately 60, and most die of their own choices long before age can kill them. The ones who survive to old age are typically those who found something or someone worth staying alive for, and even they only manage the impulse; it never leaves.

Cultural Integration

What separates the Assault-Class from every other Engineered class is how completely they integrate into the cultures around them. If not for their physical size, they would be indistinguishable from natural-born populations. They adopt the speech patterns, the habits, the social rhythms of whatever community they live in. An Assault-Class individual raised in a Jeyrhan district behaves as a Jeyrhan. One raised in the Sentinel district of the capital behaves as a Ngorrhali might, but with an openness the Ngorrhali themselves lack. One raised in Coastal Thazvaar carries the Thazvaari attitude as if it were genetic. They are loud, easy, and useful in demeanor, and they carry themselves without pretense. Their integration is so thorough that their nature only becomes apparent when conflict occurs and the physical reality of what they are overtakes the social persona they have adopted.

It has become common for Ngorrhali women to court individuals of Assault-Class lineage, which is genetically speaking a courtship between a population and the blueprint derived from its own DNA. Yuvaari men are also particularly attracted to Ngorrhali women and by extension to the Assault-Class females who carry the same genetic roots at an even larger scale, because Yuvaari culture has trained its men to close distance with things that dwarf them and win.

Reproduction

Assault-Class females reliably carry multiple gestation of up to eight individuals per slightly longer term, a capability Daer designed deliberately and documented in his journals. The drive to reproduce is embedded without hormonal distortion or compulsive appetite, following alignment with environment. They reproduce commonly with natural-borns, and the planet's skewed gender ratio has never affected their reproductive success.

Assault-Class children grow fast. By eight years old an Assault child can be nearly indistinguishable in build from an average grown natural-born, and far stronger and faster, while the face, the voice, and the mind are still a child's. Only attention to those can tell the two apart, which is why the child soldiering statutes of Geban Law turn on the Assault-Class more than any other.

Hybrid Variation

Hybrid variations with natural-born populations produce significant size differences depending on the non-Engineered parent. An Assault-Class individual with a Jeyrhan mother could stand as short as 6'0", with their strength, the density and weight of their muscle, and the hardness of their tendons being the only physical markers that distinguish them from a large natural-born. These hybrids carry the same capability compressed into a smaller frame, and the only way to identify what they are is through physical contact or observation under stress, because the face of an Assault-Class individual is identical to any natural-born face regardless of size.

Tactical Pairing

Assault-Class individuals paired with Tactician-Class partners become one of the most effective operational units on the planet. The Tactician provides the strategic processing, the battlefield awareness, and the command coordination. The Assault-Class provides the execution. This pairing was key to imperial breakthroughs during the conquest eras and remains the foundation of modern relay security operations and Energy Wars corridor deployments.

Slavery

Assault-Class individuals have been captured as children and raised in captivity by traffickers who believed that starting early enough would break them before they matured into what they were designed to become. It does not work. As they mature their physical capability outpaces every restraint their captors can devise, and when they break free they cause massacres that expose entire trafficking rings. In one documented case, a female Assault-Class was captured and given enough sedatives to kill fifty men twice over. Upon waking she fought her way through the palace nude and bare-handed, escaped across mountains, armed herself at a Haavu corridor operation, returned to the same palace, killed everyone, and strangled her purchaser to death with her hair. Engineered individuals who are captured in the modern era are killed immediately rather than sold, because every trafficker on the planet has heard this story or one like it.

Competition Ban

Assault-Class are universally banned from competitions that measure physical skill and capability, including the Yuvaar Hunting Games, following fatal events that made the disparity between Engineered and natural-born capability impossible to ignore. The Assault-Class accept the ban without contest; they have no need for validation from competitions designed for other people.