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Decayed Diary Page is a readable lore collectible in Windrose. It is a weathered page torn from a fisherman's diary, recording the night a flagless ship anchored off his bay and its crew came ashore to perform a blood ritual. The page adds to the dark, occult thread that runs through several notes on the islands, the same thread of altar sacrifices linked to Israel Hands and his crew.

In-Game Text

Terrible things are happening in the bay. A week ago a ship dropped anchor off the shore, looked ordinary, but it flew no flag. Strange writing covered its sails, and at sunset Satan's servants came ashore to call their master.

I saw them with my own eyes. They tied two captives to crosses and carved devil's signs into their bodies.

Curse this wind! If it weren't for it, I'd have gathered my nets and run for Tortuga days ago. Holy Mary, protect me: I'll quit the bottle, I'll go back to Ursula. Only let them not see my hut...

Lore Notes

The flagless ship with strange writing on its sails and the carving of devil's signs into captives mirror the ritual described from the raiders' side in the Lost Cargo Journals and the Journal of the Captain of the Unsinkable, where the captain suspects Hands is feeding prisoners to an altar. Read together with notes such as Scratches on the Altar, this page is a bystander's view of the same horror: a frightened fisherman who only wants the cultists to overlook his hut and let him slip away to Tortuga.

It sits alongside the other recovered diary fragments in the world, including Marcel Boucher's Diary and the loose Diary Fragments, as part of the environmental storytelling rewarded by exploring wrecks and ruins.

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Where Found

Recovered while exploring the islands, in the same way as the other scattered diary pages and notes. Exact placement is seeded by world generation, so search shipwrecks, ruins, and shoreline caches rather than relying on a fixed location.

See Also

• Lost Cargo Journals

• Journal of the Captain of the Unsinkable

• Scratches on the Altar

• Diary Fragments

• Marcel Boucher's Diary