Ngorrhal

Alias: The Sentinel Range, The Mountain Passes
Era: Early Dominion → Imperial Conquest (~6,000–3,000 Years Before Modern Geba)
Affiliation: Geban Empire (Assimilated Region, Home of Frost Sentinels)

Ngorrhal was a mountainous continent and region of strategic passes that became the cradle of the Frost Sentinels, originally divided into Western, Northern, and Northeastern lineages engaged in a massive civil war fueled by Thazvaari backing of the Northeastern forces attempting full dominance, until the Geban Empire intervened by siding with the Western and Northern passes to prevent Thazvaar's expansion. After the Empire's aid ensured their survival, the people of Ngorrhal fully assimilated in exchange for autonomy, becoming the second most populous group in the Geban capital while their ancestral names were erased forever and replaced with "Frost Sentinels"—elite, physically immense warriors adapted to extreme terrains whose martial techniques were adopted empire-wide and whose DNA later served as the template for the first Engineered. The region hosted early relay systems (the first outside the origin continent), transforming it from a fractured warzone into a fortified imperial asset, though its brutal environments—freezing wastes, colossal creatures, and proving grounds—remained sites of endurance training and cultural silence, symbolizing survival through unity under Geban rule.

Legacy

• Mountainous continent of passes where Frost Sentinels originated, site of civil war ended by Empire's intervention against Thazvaar-backed Northeastern forces
• People assimilated, ancestral names erased, renamed "Frost Sentinels" as elite warriors integrated into imperial military
• Hosted Geba's first external relay systems, enabling early centralization and communication
• Martial techniques adopted empire-wide; DNA foundational for Engineered in later eras
• Symbolized endurance in extreme terrains, with proving grounds persisting as training sites
• Elevated assimilated loyalty, becoming second most populous in capital while retaining cultural silence

Source Notes

• "The empire, now centuries old, intervenes in a massive civil war taking place in the Ngornhal mountain passes. They side with the people of the Western and Northern Passes against those of the Northeastern Passes."
• "The people of the Ngorrhhall passes are officially named 'Frost Sentinel', erasing their ancestral names forever. Their greatest warriors become elite soldiers within the empire's military. Many of their martial techniques are adopted empire-wide."
• "Early relay systems are established in Ngornhal, the first outside of the origin continent."
• "The people of Ngornhal fully assimilate into the empire in exchange for their survival, becoming the second most populous people in the Geban capital."
• "Her people have long left the northern passes of the Sentinel Range, but she carries the bearing of that exile. Many assume all Frost Sentinels are the same. They are not. Her ancestors came from the north. Their cousins from the west shared little but a common enemy—until the rise of a third, brutal line in the northeast forced them to unite."
• "The old proving grounds still exist. Few remain operational. Their relay systems are corroded by centuries of frost and wind abrasion, their towers stripped to bare metal by relentless ice storms."
• "Prince Varethis'Daer Venar, a Vessel, secretly invents the Engineered, using the DNA of the Frost Sentinels as the template for the first generation."