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Ashan’Vaer Kel’varenath

Alias: The Luminous Emperor
Era: Early Stagnation (~2,500–2,200 Years Before Modern Geba)
Affiliation: Geban Imperial Bloodline

Ashan’Vaer Kel’varenath, remembered as The Luminous Emperor, ruled during the Era of Early Stagnation, a time marked by the near total collapse of the male population and the rise of internal fractures within the Empire. His reign was defined by crisis management, most notably issuing the Emperor’s Insemination Edict, which required the majority of women of reproductive age to be inseminated in an attempt to stabilize the population.

The Luminous Emperor moved the center of advanced medicine from Jeyrha to the continent of Geba, seeking to restore stability through science, public health, and tightly regulated social policy. Though diplomatic initiatives were attempted, deeper social fractures continued to grow beneath the surface of the Empire.

Under his rule, women became the dominant demographic of the planet. The relentless gender imbalance and its consequences would define generations, while Vaer Kel’varenath’s efforts at reform established the precedent for later genetic and social engineering.

Legacy

  • Issued the Emperor’s Insemination Edict, initiating the most extensive reproductive program in Imperial history
  • Lived a lifespan far beyond average
  • Oversaw the migration of advanced medical knowledge and practice to the capital continent
  • Attempted diplomatic stabilization during severe population imbalance and unrest
  • Set the stage for future scientific, genetic, and social reforms

Source Notes

  • “The Luminous Emperor issues the Emperor’s Insemination Edict, requiring 80% of women between 21 and 40 to be inseminated.”
  • “Diplomatic policies attempt to stabilize unrest but cannot halt deeper fractures.”
  • “The center of advanced medicine is moved from Jeyrha to Geba (continent).”

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.