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Inland Thazvaar

Alias: The Unsolvable Problem

Affiliation: Geban Empire (Nominally Controlled, Largely Ungovernable Region)

Inland Thazvaar was the fragmented interior of the eastern continent Thazvaar, a massive landmass accounting for an eighth of all land on Geba—its sheer scale perpetuating chaos through vast, disconnected terrains that defied full governance—once the site of the Thazvaari Dominion's ongoing struggles to suppress criminal warlord strongholds in jungles, deserts, and mountains, becoming a hard-won but incomplete imperial territory post-conquest where superficial coastal peace masked resurgent piracy, outdated infrastructure, and unresolved conflicts persisting as inherited wars for centuries, symbolizing the Empire's struggles with immense, ungovernable expanses amid stagnation and later Maw threats.

Terrain

Shifting deserts with dry highland plateaus, overgrown tropical mountain ranges, and autonomous zones carved into jungles and corridors, largely ungoverned with abandoned outposts and black zones defying mapping across its immense scale.

Elevation

Moderate to high, with desert highlands rising 1–3 km and far inland tropical mountains reaching 5–10 km, creating layered barriers, rifts, and elevated strongholds resistant to assault over vast distances.

Climate

Arid inland heat transitioning from coastal humidity, averages 30–50°C in deserts with sporadic rainfall in far interior from atmospheric fractures, fostering harsh, dry conditions amid stellar-induced thermal extremes across the expansive land.

Weather

Searing winds and dust storms in deserts, sudden tropical rains and floods in mountains from fractures, volatile convection causing erratic heat waves or chills, with minimal predictability due to stellar dynamics over the massive area.

Culture

Fragmented remnants of Thazvaari warlord traditions, with resurgent criminal factions ruling through trafficking and hoarding; original language resurfaces in isolated zones, blending with Geban influences post-conquest but retaining hostility and autonomy; no unified rituals, but survival-driven customs emphasize resilience and piracy as inheritance, scattered across the vast isolation.

Historical Significance

Site of Thazvaari Dominion's internal wars against criminal warlords dividing the continent into ungovernable zones; post-conquest under Imperators like Veris’Kal Therak and Kanesh’Tar Zeren, the Empire inherited the ongoing suppression of these conflicts without fully resolving them after the King's execution, leading to centuries of asymmetric fighting; outdated relay grids and vanished airships marked early failures due to the land's immense size perpetuating issues forever; explored by Raeth's expedition facing violence and Vessel phenomena; endured as ungovernable frontier through stagnation, Fracture, and Modern Maw expansions.

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.