The Disturbed Peace is a lore note, one of the records attributed to Alexandre Exquemelin. It is a collectible Miscellaneous item, not a quest or a cosmetic. The note recounts a barefoot beggar's tale: ten treasure hunters disturbed Senkamati graves in the swamps, and only one survived the night. It serves as the in-fiction warning that the giant-tier Plague Marks creatures players fight in the swamp regions are descended from the very corruption these treasure hunters released.
In-Game Text
I've seen enough madmen in my time to say this: the man who told me his tale was no lunatic.
Barefoot and dressed in filthy rags, a beggar was pleading for alms by the inn door, muttering nonsense under his breath. I asked the barmaid for a bottle of rum and two cups, filled one, and offered it to him. With trembling hands he tossed it back like water and asked for more. I poured again, and listened.
There were ten of them: those who dared hunt treasure among ancient graves in the Swamps. The rest were frightened by talk of a curse, and they were right to be. Nine stayed there forever.
They truly did find gold in the ruins. Rejoicing like children, they spent the day hauling gemstones from stone chests until sundown. They decided to camp in the Swamps for the night.
And in the night, the trees began to move.
From the mire rose a great mass of earth and knotted roots. Human limbs dangled from within it. With a single sweep of its wooden arm it crushed two at once; three more fled in terror straight into the bog. The remaining five ran for the shore and stopped only when the crashing behind them fell silent. At that very moment, hundreds of sharp wooden spikes burst from the ground and punched through their bodies.
Only one man tore his wounded arm free of that deadly grip. He ran and ran until he collapsed on the sand from exhaustion.
Tonight I'll sleep under the roof of these ancient ruins. Let my things remain outside, safer in a chest beneath the tree marked with a red cloth.
I didn't take the dead men's treasure, so I dare hope the guardians of this place won't touch me, assuming they aren't merely the invention of a sick mind.
From the diary of Alexandre Exquemelin, traveler.
Stats
Property | Value |
|---|---|
Item Type | Miscellaneous (lore) |
Stack Size | 20 |
Where to Find
Source | Drop Chance | Location |
|---|---|---|
Decrepit Chest | ~1% |
Lore Context
The great mass of earth and knotted roots the beggar describes matches the Plague Berserker and Plague Crusher boss appearance: bulky, root-entwined, and slow-moving. The hundreds of sharp wooden spikes are a recognizable Senkamati boss attack pattern. Disturbed Peace is the textual proof that disturbing graves in the Cursed Swamps invites the Plague guardians to wake.
The note belongs to the wider set of records gathered as Exquemelin's Notes, a traveler's account that threads through several of the game's lore pages. The detail of the survivor hiding his goods in a chest beneath a tree marked with a red cloth mirrors how the player finds these notes in chests out in the world.
See Also
Exquemelin's Notes
Plague Berserker
Game Data
Properties
Property | Value |
|---|---|
Stack | 20 |
Item Type | Miscellaneous (lore) |
Crafting Use | None |