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Venar’Tal Kareth

Alias: The Great Conqueror
Era: Imperial Conquest (~3,500–3,000 Years Before Modern Geba)
Affiliation: Geban Imperial Throne

Emperor Venar’Tal Kareth is recorded as the greatest conqueror in Geban history. His reign saw the absorption or destruction of all rival civilizations within reach, extending the Empire’s control across every planetary region capable of supporting human life. Venar’Tal formalized military dominance through the creation of the Shield of Geba, the Emperor’s Wrath, the Frost Sentinels, and the Sky Hammers. He enforced the systematic execution of conquered males, deepened the gender deficit, and erased ancestral identities to solidify imperial rule.
When Venar’Tal learned of a plot to assassinate his son, Prince Venar’Nethel, he intervened to prevent the murder. Rather than permit his son’s death at the hands of the court, Venar’Tal ordered Nethel’s exile—protecting his life, but severing him from the line of succession. This decision, motivated by necessity and loyalty, led directly to Nethel’s authorship of the First Doctrine of Blood Royal in exile.

Notable Acts

  • Conquered and absorbed all planetary regions capable of sustaining human civilization.
  • Oversaw the peaceful annexation of Jeyrha and the military conquest of Thazvaar.
  • Established the Frost Sentinels as an elite caste, erasing their ancestral identity.
  • Named Veris'Kal Therak as the first Imperator of Thazvaar.
  • Instituted the systematic execution of conquered males, deepening the planetary gender deficit.
  • Exiled his son Nethel—after learning of a plot against his life—to prevent assassination, a decision that resulted in the creation of the First Doctrine of Blood Royal.

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.