The Geban Chronicle

Key Dates

• ~5,247 BMGVaer'karesh arrives at Thaloryn with an inner circle of seven and begins the unification of the five nations.
• ~5,243 BMGVaer'gidon is born during the campaign to a Varenan mother. Vaer'yinda follows two years later as the second eldest of twenty nine children.
• ~5,238 BMGThaloryn declares Vaer'karesh Emperor, the first in history. He takes the prefix Ashan and begins the imperial bloodline.
• ~5,212 BMGOfficial unification completes, close to three decades after the military victory, with Therik holding out longest. The Varen becomes the standard and the first standing armies form. Rupturan ruins found in Beithon become the foundation of the relay system.
• ~5,203 BMGVaer'maor is born, forty years behind Gidon and thirty eight behind Yinda.
• ~5,199 BMGQueen Nethelys Zahmira II rejects every imperial overture. Attempts to reach or map Thazvaar's seas are abandoned.
• ~5,194 BMGThe Ngorrhali civil war draws in the Empire once Thazvaari arms reach the Northeastern Pass. Varenth Solarn raises the first relays outside the origin continent.
• ~5,187 BMGSeven years after imperial intervention the war is over. The name Frost Sentinel, coined in the field by Gidon and the imperials fighting beside them, displaces their ancestral names, and Ngorrhal assimilates in exchange for survival. Varenth Solarn dies in the first ultra high altitude relay trial.
• ~5,146 BMGMaor, long grown, asks why the Empire looks outward before it has settled its own continent. Yinda's first eastern expeditions fail, and the failures continue for decades.
• ~5,113 BMGYinda purges the eastern wilds and presents the ground to her aging father. The capital rises on it, with a Sentinel district at its gate.
• ~5,104 BMGTharyn'Bregun is summoned to the capital and refuses to push Gidon toward the throne.
• ~5,099 BMGVaer'karesh dies of old age soon after, past two hundred and having outlasted every man who rode into Thaloryn with him. Vaer'yinda ascends as the first Empress.
• ~5,096 BMGEmpress Vaer'yinda instates the Frost Sentinels and the Emperor's Wrath as the first two formalized units of the Empire, in honor of her father and for the future glory of the empire he had made.
• ~5,091 BMGGidon and Bregun die together against Ukhaal Walkers during their bonding trials, Gidon at a hundred and fifty two and well short of his father's span. Yinda raises their statue at the Sentinel district.
• ~5,087 BMGMaor establishes the first formal trade protocols toward Thazvaar's outer islands.
• ~5,018 BMGMaor dies of natural causes in his sister's capital at a hundred and eighty five, having outlived every sibling who went to war.
• ~5,018 to ~3,500Unnamed successors. Geban Law is standardized and relay infrastructure spreads across the continents.

Defining Traits

• Vaer'karesh unites the first empire, enforcing the Geban language and identity through conquest.
• The first standing armies emerge following the unification of the five nations, transitioning from independent national forces to organized imperial rule.
• The Varen (VAR) is adopted as the Empire's currency standard.
• Queen Nethelys Zahmira II of the Thazvaari Dominion ignores the Empire's attempts for diplomacy.
• All attempts to establish contact with Thazvaar or map their seas are ceased due to their hyper defensiveness.
• Early relay systems are established in Ngorrhal by Architect Varenth Solarn, the first outside of the origin continent.
• The empire intervenes in a massive civil war taking place in the Ngorrhal mountain passes. They side with the people of the Western and Northern Passes against those of the Thazvaar-aligned Northeastern Passes.
• Vessels of the Seraveth and Velcrith are not understood or recognized, as all previous understanding of them was systemically erased during the formation of the Empire.
• War Chief Tharyn'Bregun allies with Prince Vaer'gidon to defeat the Northeastern Pass Frost Sentinels, ending the Ngorrhali civil war.
• The people of Ngorrhal fully assimilate into the empire in exchange for their survival, becoming the second most populous people in the Geban capital.
• Tharyn'Bregun advocates for relay adoption; Ngorrhal becomes home to the largest and highest relays on the planet and the center of experimental relay technology.
• Prince Vaer'gidon leads campaigns into Ukhaalstaag alongside early Frost Sentinel warriors and the Solarn family to establish western relay infrastructure.
• Vaer'karesh has two sons and twenty-seven daughters; his most proven heir, Vaer'yinda, purges the eastern wilderness as a gift to her father, founding what would eventually become the Imperial capital.
• Prince Vaer'maor, the youngest child and favorite son, establishes the first formal trade protocols and becomes beloved by citizens of Eastern Ngorrhal and Northern Jeyrha for his modern policies.
• Emperor Vaer'karesh dies of old age; Vaer'yinda ascends as the first Empress.
• Prince Vaer'gidon and War Chief Tharyn'Bregun die together fighting Ukhaal Walkers during their bonding trials, permanently solidifying the imperial-Ngorrhali alliance.
• Empress Vaer'yinda commissions a statue of Gidon and Bregun shaking hands at the entrance of the Sentinel district in the capital.