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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Scout-Class Engineered

Sensory Dominance Variant

Creator
Prince Varethis'Daer Venar
Genetic Foundation
Frost Sentinel DNA
Era
Era of Late Conquest to Modern Geba
Height (Male/Female)
Regularly reach 7'0"
Build
Lean, wiry, almost no excess mass
Lifespan
400 to 700 years
Related
The Engineered · Assault-Class · Tactician-Class · Destroyer-Class · Hybrid

Overview

The Scout-Class represent the furthest departure from the natural-born human template among the common Engineered classes. They were created by Prince Varethis'Daer Venar for mapping uncharted lands, unassisted survival, and undetected terrain surveillance, optimized for the regions of Geba where conventional scouting was impossible because the environment defeated every tool the Empire sent into it. They are leaner and lighter than the other classes, with wiry frames that carry almost no excess mass, yet males and females regularly reach 7'0". Their build, narrow beside the Assault-Class, produces a silhouette that looks immediately wrong to anyone accustomed to natural-born proportions.

Sensory Capabilities

Their sensory capabilities are extraordinary: augmented perception across broad light spectra, atmospheric shifts, scent trails, and subtle movements detected through anticipatory muscle cues that let them perceive threats before those threats have committed to action. Their cognitive framework masters spatial archiving and multi-layered sensory recall at a level that isolates them from all other populations, as only peers can comprehend the reality they experience. A Scout perceiving an environment sees, hears, smells, and feels information that no natural-born human has access to. Their isolation is structural: the gap between what they perceive and what everyone else perceives makes sustained connection with non-Scouts difficult in a way that effort and goodwill cannot bridge.

Appearance

They are the only common class that cannot pass as natural-born among humans. The Assault-Class, while massive, carry faces identical to any natural-born. The Tactician-Class appears ordinary until speech reveals them. The Scout-Class cannot blend in. Their cranial structures show nonhuman proportions: elongated ocular ranges, subtle skin translucency over the temples, eye pigmentation that shifts in unstable light, and muscle tone that appears leaner and denser than any natural-born frame produces. They startle or frighten people who encounter them for the first time. In response, many Scouts grow their hair long and wear it forward across the face, a simple habit that pulls the eye toward the hair and away from the temples and the shifting pigment of the eyes. The habit is common enough across the class to read as a convention, one of the few concessions a Scout can make to a population that cannot help but stare. Prince Daer himself noted in his journals that the first Scout toddler "appears strange" and acknowledged "that could not be avoided."

Temperament and Friction

They distrust Tactician-Class leadership because Tacticians prioritize logical deduction over direct sensory input, the opposite of how Scouts operate. They view combat as a failure of scouting. When a Scout detects a threat and a Tactician overrides that detection based on data analysis, the resulting friction is managed in the field but never resolved, because both are operating from valid frameworks that cannot be reconciled.

Post-duty, some track for landowners or syndicates. Others retreat to remote outposts alongside devoted Assault-Class companions, often in places like Saethera's brutal south where the environment matches the isolation they prefer.

It is extremely rare to see a Scout anywhere without smilohounds at their side. The smilohound's main purpose is to bridge the gap between the Scout and everyone else. A Scout perceives far more of the world than anyone around them and can never fully convey it, so the distance between what a Scout senses and what others can follow is permanent. The smilohound closes that distance. Its cues are legible where a Scout's perception is not, and those who travel alongside a Scout learn to read the animal, since no one else can perceive what the Scout perceives. When a Scout registers something no one else can, the smilohound answers it in a way a natural-born or any other Engineered class can understand, and this holds as much in ordinary civilian life as it does on any operation.

Scouts keep them because a smilohound understands a Scout more completely than any Engineered class or natural-born ever could, and it does so simply by existing, without training and without the constant strain that every other relationship in a Scout's life demands. For a Scout, understood by almost no one, that matters more than anything else the animal provides. Scouts work with and befriend other creatures, and some of those bonds run deep, but none of them relate to a Scout the way a smilohound does.

Reproduction

Their females struggle to reproduce through mechanisms that Prince Daer himself could not fully identify; he documented the ways their adaptations resist natural replication but did not solve them. As a result, the Scout-Class cannot sustain itself through natural population growth as the Assault-Class can. Every generation of Scouts is smaller than the one before unless external intervention is applied, and the class faces a slow demographic decline that no institutional effort has reversed.

Contractor Registry

The vast majority of Scout-Class individuals choose not to contract. Those who do very rarely stay at lower tiers of the Solarn Contractor Registry; their sensory and survival capabilities move them through those tiers rapidly, because they are immediately indispensable to any operation that requires environmental assessment, threat detection, or terrain navigation in regions where conventional scouting fails.