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Blackbeard's Flag is a ship cosmetic in Windrose featuring a skeleton holding an hourglass and a spear aimed at a bleeding heart. Equipped at a Wharf to customize a ship's flagstaff.

In-Game Description

In one hand, the skeleton holds an hourglass; in the other, a spear aimed at a bleeding heart.

How to Apply

Sail to a player-built Wharf and dock the ship there. Approach the Wharf, open the Manage Ship menu, switch to the Customization tab, and select Blackbeard's Flag from the Flag option list. Customisation itself does not cost coin once the design is unlocked.

Where to Find

A baseline cosmetic option available at any Wharf. No Style Book purchase is required to apply this design.

Properties

Historical Note

The in-game design matches the flag historically attributed to Edward Teach, the English pirate better known as Blackbeard, who terrorised the Caribbean and the Atlantic seaboard from 1716 to 1718. Period accounts describe his flag as a skeleton holding an hourglass and piercing a bleeding heart with a spear, with the hourglass meant to warn enemies that their time was running out and the dripping heart standing for the death that would follow if they refused to surrender quickly.

Tips

• Flag changes are visible to other players in PvE and PvP, so the design you fly is also a signal of which faction you currently care about.

• Designs are bound to the character that read the matching Style Book, not to a specific ship, so all of a character's owned ships can use any unlocked flag.

• A flag does not affect ship stats. It is purely cosmetic, so swap it freely without worrying about a damage or speed penalty.