Daughter of one of the fishermen that Nopa met on the day they first acquired the zibeke, Ghube was the first to be transferred a zibeke by another Veinlord rather than the river themself, namely the Gheh̨u River.
Ghube was considered a rather weak Veinlord and fell victim to a shadow river: her spouse Nova Khogieh̨e made most of the decisions during her rein. It was rumored that Nova tried to convince Ghube to transfer the zibeke over to them, but both fiercely denied this claim when it was first introduced.
Ghube was a person of good health, except she had a condition known as heart gasping. She lived in a time before the cure for heart gasping was created, so she spent their life with episodes of mysterious chest pains near her heart that she found alarming, but she never seemed to cause any lasting harm. Still, she was careful to avoid overexertion just in case.
Ghube was always smiling. Sometimes it was a nervous response, other times it was an inappropriate response to anger, but she smiled all of the time.
Ghube was granted the power of the zibeke of the Gheh̨u River. This powerful source of magic allowed her to perform miraculous spells. While Nopa Ngute, the first Veinlord, discovered the power of necromancy via river magic, Nopa had done so with a large population of fish. Ghube was the first to discover that this magic could return the lives of individual people, after the death of her parent at the hands of the ocean where his boat had capsized among the rocks during a squall.
They found his body battered along the rocks. Bones broken, skin lacerated by sharp edges, eye gouged out.
But even as Ghube wanted to scream, the zibeke promised it would be okay. She didn't want to believe its promise, the river and the ocean had just killed her parent unceremoniously, it would not be okay. She could be the Veinlord, but she had not been there and it had happened too quickly for her to save him.
The zibeke stabilized her shaking hands and directed them to press down on his torso. The zibeke told Ghube to breathe through her blubbering tears, and when she breathed she felt her parent's chest rise and fall with her. Her heart gasping started to kick in, a sharp aching in her heart, as if her heart was going to burst out of her chest, as if she was giving up her life to save his, but the zibeke assured her that it would be okay. Watch.
With a start, her parent opened his eyes and Ghube smiled and cried and couldn't stop smiling and crying. The zibeke did not have the power to fix the wounds, but after they were able to get a medical magician to help set his broken bones and heal the eye socket so that it didn't get infected or worse. Her parent only had three eyes for the rest of his life, but he had been saved by the power of river magic.
Nopa had been a fantastic Veinlord, inspiring the people around them constantly. When Ghube was chosen, she was unsure, but Nopa promised her that the zibeke had chosen her. Neither of them knew the exact reason: rivers keep many secrets from their Veinlords.
After Nopa died, leaving her as the only Veinlord, she vowed to continue their gentle reign over their community.
Soon, her motivations shifted from community-minded to more personally-minded when she met her spouse Nova. Nova encouraged her to think of the powers of the river as forces to achieve their own ends and make their own paradise in the world around them.