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Yuvaar

Alias: None
Affiliation: Independent continent; relay-linked to the wider sphere

Yuvaar is a small continent east of Thazvaar and west of Ngorrhal. It remained absent from records until the war with Thazvaar war, when imperial scouts mapped alternate naval routes. It is the least advanced continent on Geba, never developing industry, conquest, or large fleets. Its presence in imperial records derives from feats broadcast across the relay networks.

Terrain

Coastal plains and river basins dominate. Inland forests are dense and fertile. Cliffs and storm-beaten headlands encircle much of the shoreline, limiting port access.

Elevation

Low to moderate ridges. No significant mountain ranges. Outer cliffs form the primary barriers.

Climate

Warm and humid. Year-round canopy cover. Frequent rain sustains fertile soils. Average temperatures range 20–32°C.

Weather

Driven by monsoon. Heavy coastal storms and seasonal flooding. Inland zones hold constant mist and rainfall.

Culture & Martial Philosophy

The Yuvaaris reject all Thazvaari identity. Their combat code forbids weapons: contests rely on strength, speed, endurance, and ritual. Forms are modeled on native predators:

  • Yuvaar Kelek — a small feline that overcomes larger prey through agility and sudden pouncing strikes.
  • Goldenwing — an aerial raptor that grapples prey to the ground with precision strikes.

Relay networks broadcast duels, hunts, and survival contests. One record describes a man leaping from a cliff to seize a Goldenwing bare-handed, surviving both the strike and the fall.

Historical Role

Yuvaar entered imperial records during the Empire's war with Thazvaar. Chroniclers during the Era of Absolute Expansion catalogued its contests as unique among Geba’s martial cultures. The Empire never invaded Yuvaar. Instead, the Bare Hand trained there, removing ritual restraints and converting unarmed forms into methods of infiltration, assassination, and endurance. Many operatives, accustomed to Yuvaar’s simplicity, returned after service to retire there.

Legacy

As imperial warfare advanced, unarmed combat lost battlefield use. On Yuvaar, it shifted into ritual display and spectacle, preserving tradition through performance. Relay networks projected these contests empire-wide, turning them into cultural exports. Feats such as cliff-leaping duels and unarmed hunts created mythic reputations that safeguarded Yuvaar’s autonomy. The sport of unarmed hunting across Geba originates here, and its greatest teams—Vyrchai, Chlad, and Katasung—were almost always exclusively Yuvaari. Yuvaar remains remembered less as a combatant continent than as a symbol of endurance and independence.

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.