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Varethis’Daer Venar

Alias: The Hidden Architect, The Father of the Engineered, Vessel of Silent Fire
Era: Late Conquest → Fracture (~2,200–1,500 Years Before Modern Geba)
Affiliation: Imperial Bloodline, Velcrith Vessel

Prince Varethis’Daer Venar was the younger brother of Emperor Varethis’Auren Kel’varesh. Already a structural genius and pioneer of advanced medical systems, he reversed the male population collapse by restoring viable twin and triplet births, stabilized organ transfer protocols during sieges, and designed regenerative wound-lattices that functioned even under active fire. When the signs of merging emerged, Auren recognized the pattern, protecting Daer’s isolation through the lens of Prince Ashan’Raeth Vareth’s ancient chronicles. During his merging with the Velcrith, Daer did not collapse but refined his own pattern, conceiving the Engineered as a sovereign continuation of humanity — built to survive where natural-borns could not, from stratospheric mountain ranges to oceanic abyssal trenches. After Auren’s assassination, Daer enacted total vengeance, erasing entire conspiratorial lineages before vanishing without claiming the throne. His legacy is not statues or titles, but the living testament of the Engineered themselves — a lineage beyond collapse, bearing his pattern in their marrow.

Notable Companions

  • Varethis’Auren Kel’varesh — elder brother, emperor, his shield and greatest loss.
  • The First Engineered — the original survivors of Daer’s new pattern, living proof of his legacy.

Defining Observations

  • Velcrith Vessel who continued working through merging without collapse, refining his own pattern instead.
  • Originator of the Engineered as a sovereign continuation of humanity, capable of surviving where others could not.
  • Stabilized twin and triplet birth rates to correct the male population deficit.
  • Invented regenerative wound-lattice systems functional under battlefield conditions.
  • Vanished after purging Auren’s assassins, leaving only a living legacy in blood.

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.