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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Vessels

Merged Humanoids

Classification
None
Origin
Any natural-born population on Geba
Population
Fewer than 20,000 at any given time. Fewer than 500 Velcrith.

Overview

A Vessel is a human being who has been permanently bound to a Velcrith or Seraveth entity. The person keeps their mind, their agency, and their name. What they lose is the version of themselves that existed before, because the merge neither fades nor adjusts. The person and the entity become one thing, and that thing is no longer what either of them was alone. Vessels are the living connection between Geba and He Who Allows.

Most people alive in the modern era have never met one. The population that once numbered in the millions was reduced to fewer than 20,000 over the course of the Warlord Eras, and the survivors did not rebuild in the open. What most citizens know about Vessels comes from stories passed through generations of people who also never met one. Some believe their eyes glow, some that they can fly, and some that they can control minds and actions directly, bending anyone near them to their will. All of this is false. A Vessel looks like anyone else, walks the same streets, eats at the same places, and could stand beside you for years without giving themselves away. The myths help them stay hidden, because the public is looking for something that does not exist.

Selection

The entity chooses the person, and the person has no idea it is happening. No ritual produces a merge, no ceremony invites one, and no action a human being can take makes them eligible. The entity may watch someone for years or decades before initiating, or watch across an entire generation and choose someone the next one produces instead. When the merge begins, the person has no context for what is starting inside them.

Attempts to force a merge have been made throughout recorded history, and every one of them has failed publicly. People have fasted for years, made pilgrimages across continents, performed elaborate displays in front of relay broadcasts, and declared themselves chosen in front of thousands. The entities have never acknowledged any of it. The Church of the Infinite Maw spent decades searching for Vessels in the caves of Ukhaalstaag and across the deep reaches of Inland Thazvaar. The Vessels were never in those places. They were in dark rooms listening to the only music that quiets what they carry, waiting for someone to ask them what they hear.

Velcrith Vessels

A Velcrith merge arrives like a collapse: cosmic exile, structural grief, and recursive pattern systems encoding information at densities that language cannot carry. It floods the mind faster than the mind can organize it. The chosen are willing in a way they feel without ever deciding, and they are never ready. Most Velcrith Vessels spend years after the merge unable to function as they did before. Prince Daer described months of believing he was going insane before the whispers resolved from noise into structure, from structure into geometry, from geometry into understanding. The stabilization period can take decades, and some never fully stabilize. The ones who do become something the planet has no other way of producing.

There has never been a sedentary Vessel of any kind, and the Velcrith take this to an extreme. The drive to advance in whatever they are predisposed to is constant and total; it never plateaus, never allows rest, and never recognizes completion, because completion does not exist for them. A Velcrith Vessel who thinks in systems will build systems that reorganize the world around them. A Velcrith Vessel who fights will move in ways that trained combatants cannot reverse-engineer, because their understanding of their own body, and of the body opposing them, operates at a depth that renders conventional technique irrelevant. A Velcrith Vessel who composes will produce work that other musicians can hear and feel but cannot explain, because the compositional logic runs on principles that standard theory does not contain.

Prince Daer created the Engineered, designed the Recursion Surveillance System alongside Txisa Haavu-Solarn, collaborated with the Jeyrhan Bio-Engineering Consortium on limb regeneration, and produced the Destroyer-Class from desperation to protect his brother. Each of these reshaped the planet. Prince Venar'Nethel, merged centuries before Daer, wrote the First Doctrine of Blood Royal during his exile in Ukhaalstaag. That text shaped imperial doctrine for thousands of years after him. These are the ones the history records by name.

Others stayed invisible and shaped everything around them without anyone knowing the source. A craftsman working alone in a coastal workshop produced a matched pair of necklaces from Crystalhorn Behemoth crystal, Swiftwing feathers, and Blackwing blood. The male piece weighs 4 kilograms. The female counterpart weighs 0.2 kilograms and holds a reflective prism that shines against the Blackwing blood even in total darkness. No jeweler on the planet has been able to replicate it or explain how the materials were made to behave that way. The Crystalhorn Swiftwing Baguette is valued at 12 million Auren per piece. The craftsman who made it obscured their identity and vanished; the work itself could not be obscured. A musician in a small venue plays compositions that fill the room with something the audience cannot name and cannot forget, and the other musicians in the building cannot work out what tuning system is being used. A field medic on an inland corridor heals wounds faster and with fewer resources than the clinic should allow, and the other medics start asking questions that never get answered. What gives a Velcrith Vessel away is the output.

Seraveth Vessels

Seraveth merging is the opposite experience. It arrives without crisis: no flood, no instability, no years of isolation trying to hold the mind together. The person remains themselves. What changes is a clarity that deepens slowly over decades, and a steadiness that becomes more pronounced the longer the Vessel lives. Seraveth Vessels grow closer to the Infinite and to He Who Allows with each year of their lives.

They are almost impossible to identify. A Seraveth Vessel does not display the compulsive output of a Velcrith Vessel. They gravitate toward positions where stability is the objective and where the absence of visible action is itself the product. Their calm is absolute and their lifespans span centuries, but neither marker is conclusive on its own, and where a Velcrith Vessel's work eventually betrays them, a Seraveth Vessel's influence may not become visible for generations. They work constantly toward the preservation of structures they believe in, on timescales that make their work indistinguishable from circumstance.

Physiology

A Vessel looks exactly as they did before the merge. There is no physical marker: no glow, no aura, and no visible transformation of any kind. The change is entirely cognitive and perceptual. The merge sustains the body far beyond its natural limits, producing lifespans that span centuries and approach millennia when not ended by violence. Some Velcrith Vessels predisposed to combat have used their expanded comprehension to transform how they use their bodies, achieving movement and reaction that appear superhuman. Their anatomy is unchanged; they understand what a body can do at a level most people will never reach.

When a Vessel dies, the entity dies with them. There is no separation, no return to the Infinite, and no continuation. The entity that chose to merge chose its final existence. This is true for both Velcrith and Seraveth.

Resonance

Prince Daer described a resonance architecture connecting Velcrith Vessels across what he called linearized experiential boundaries. Vessels can perceive through each other. The patterns of merged individuals persist in the architecture even after death. Prince Daer could observe Emperor Venar'Tal Kareth through Nethel's persistent pattern despite centuries separating them. This architecture allows Vessels to communicate without the relay network, bypassing every surveillance system on the planet.

Engineered Exception

No Engineered individual has ever become a Vessel. Across roughly 800 million living Engineered and nearly two thousand years of natural reproduction, not a single entity has chosen one. The prevailing theory holds that because Prince Daer was a Velcrith Vessel when he designed them, something of the Velcrith architecture was imprinted into their biology during creation. The Scout-Class supports this most directly: their sensory capabilities let them perceive things that normally only Vessels can, suggesting the architecture is already present in their design. If the Engineered already carry a trace of what a merge provides, a second merge may be structurally impossible. The question remains open.

Decline

Before the Warlord Eras, Vessels numbered in the millions and lived openly across the planet. The warlords changed that. Seraveth and Velcrith Vessels were systematically hunted and killed to sever the connection between the population and He Who Allows. The logic was straightforward: if the living proof of something beyond the warlords' authority could be eliminated, the cosmological framework could be rewritten to serve whoever held the relays. The campaign lasted five hundred years. By the time the last warlords were captured and erased from history, the Vessel population had collapsed from millions to fewer than 20,000.

The survivors did not come back into the open. In the modern era, Velcrith Vessels are found where Abyssal Harmony is played. The music operates on frequencies that interface with the Velcrith architecture without overwhelming it, giving temporary silence to minds that never fully quiet. They attend performances anonymous and hooded, one more figure in a congregation oriented toward a mystery none of them can name. When approached privately by someone who asks real questions, most are willing to talk. They have been waiting to be asked.

Shadow Rule

It is widely theorized that much of the executive leadership of the Shadow Rule consists of Seraveth Vessels, and the reasoning is difficult to dismiss. The Shadow Rule prioritizes stability over advancement, which mirrors the Seraveth disposition exactly. The resonance architecture would allow Seraveth Vessels to coordinate without transmitting on any relay, making their communication invisible to every surveillance system on the planet. Their lifespans would mean the same individuals have governed from the background for centuries, carrying direct memory of everything that has happened on Geba since the Fracture. No natural-born administrator could replicate that depth of institutional knowledge, however competent. A Seraveth Vessel needs no briefing on history, having lived through it.