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Berinu

Alias: The Resource-Rich Land, The Simple South
Affiliation: Geban Empire (Briefly Conquered Continent, Later Assimilated)

Berinu is a resource-rich mainland continent directly south of Thazvaar, separated by towering mountain ranges that once served as natural barriers. Its tribal societies—built on hunting, farming, and religious zeal—were gradually destabilized by Thazvaari criminal networks posing as liberators, introducing technology under the guise of upliftment. During the war with Thazvaar, Berinu’s compromised government reached out to the Geban Empire for aid, triggering a swift conquest to eliminate entrenched corruption. Though brief, the intervention led to Berinu’s full integration into the Empire, transforming it into a vital hub of agriculture and mining. Despite assimilation, Berinu preserved a culturally uncorrupted understanding of He Who Allows—rooted in silence, self-reliance, and ancestral ritual. Its women remain renowned across Geba for their beauty, embodying grace and unbroken lineage.

Terrain

Fertile valleys, forested lowlands, mineral-rich river deltas, and deep subterranean caverns define Berinu’s geography. The region supports hunting, farming, and extraction, but its steep mountainous borders isolate it from surrounding continents.

Elevation

Inland plains rise sharply into northern mountains exceeding 5 km in height. These elevations form layered defenses and foster isolated ecosystems, with seismic activity common near cavern systems.

Climate

A warm temperate to subtropical zone averaging 15–30°C, Berinu enjoys steady warmth due to stellar proximity. Southern humidity feeds dense vegetation but also supports disease-prone biomes.

Weather

Seasonal rains and convection winds deliver nutrient-rich floods to deltas. Proximity to Thazvaar occasionally produces dust storms and tidal anomalies, with rare southern stellar disruptions causing instability.

Culture

Life in Berinu centered on tribal simplicity—subsistence hunting, spiritual farming, and unfiltered worship of He Who Allows. Women were revered for their beauty and strength. Post-conquest, the Empire introduced infrastructure, but Berinu retained ritual purity, rejecting the myth of technological salvation and preserving ancestral resilience.

Historical Significance

What began as criminal infiltration from Thazvaar disguised as aid led to Berinu’s collapse from within. The Empire’s intervention—originally diplomatic—evolved into conquest when the ruling body proved unsalvageable. The continent was swiftly stabilized, repurposed as a major agricultural and mineral provider, and became critical to naval operations through the nearby Berinu Islands. Berinu remains a center of metaphysical clarity and cultural beauty that endured through the Fracture and multiple wars.

Source Notes

  • "Resource-rich land directly south of Thazvaar, separated only by mountains."
  • "Berinu is the land south of Thazvaar, separated by extreme ranges. Below it lies an ocean and the Berinu Islands."
  • "The Berinu government reached out to Geba during the Thazvaar war as criminal underworld influence worsened. This resulted in a rapid, unavoidable conquest to purge false regimes posing as saviors through technological gifts."
  • "The people of Berinu were simple: hunters, farmers, zealots. Their understanding of He Who Allows was, and remains, among the purest on Geba."
  • "The women of Berinu are widely regarded as the most beautiful on the planet."
  • "The Berinu Islands became a key strategic staging point for Geban naval dominance."

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.