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Ashan’Raeth Vareth

Alias: The Witness, Imperial Surveyor of Continuity
Era: Absolute Expansion (~3,000–2,500 Years Before Modern Geba)
Affiliation: Imperial Bloodline (Non-Ruling)

Prince Ashan’Raeth Vareth was son of Emperor Ashan’Eze Narath, and protégé to Emperor Ashan’Reze Karath. Assigned to verify the reach and integrity of the Empire’s relay grid beyond the inner ring, he transformed a simple survey mission into a decade-long documentation of imperial fractures. In the Book of the Witness, Raeth records lost provinces, insurgencies long thought ended, and new Vessel emergences no doctrine had predicted.

Notable Companions

  • Tharyn’Breka Kael — Frost Sentinel, childhood friend, protector, known for towering stature and iron resolve.
  • Caledrin Solarn-Veykar — engineer, heir of the Solarn lineage, specializing in infrastructure recovery and relay stabilization.
  • Eira Vey — former rite-house initiate, turned recorder of Vessel signs, abandoning priesthood to follow Raeth's journey.

Defining Observations

  • Mapped the failure of relay grids across vast inland regions, noting entire zones abandoned by the central empire.
  • Recorded emergence of Velcrith and Seraveth vessel phenomena beyond formal doctrine, observing first-hand the transformative effects.
  • Identified cultural assimilations where Geban and Thazvaari bloodlines merged beyond recognition, creating stable hybrid societies.
  • Confronted local warlords, pirates, and collapsing settlements without formal imperial military support.
  • Documented every moment with the explicit purpose of preserving continuity, in case imperial archives ever fractured beyond repair.

About Vesselborn

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.