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11 Exquemelin's Notes
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33 Exquemelin's Notes are a seven-piece Legendary collectible set scattered through abandoned camps, caves, and coastal ruins. Each note is a page torn from the diary of Alexandre Exquemelin, a traveling chronicler who moves quietly across the archipelago recording pirate history while evading the crews he writes about.
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55 Every page ends with the same signature: a mention of burying surplus gear "beneath the tree marked with a red cloth," hinting that Exquemelin maintains a private network of caches. The text is attributed in-game as "from the diary of Alexandre Exquemelin, traveler."
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77 The Seven Notes
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9-PageSubjectA Hat Worth Boarding ForBenjamin Hornigold's famous raid on a Spanish galleon, where he disguised his sloop as a merchant.Basilica HandsThe origin story of Israel "Basilica" Hands, from a Bristol merchant family to Teach's lieutenant.Devil Always Gets His DueA legend of a Spanish carrack captain who bargained with Davy Jones and tried to cheat the deadline.Disturbed PeaceA survivor's account of ten treasure hunters destroyed by the animate wood guardians of the Swamp ruins.Lost BootsExquemelin's own bad day: wolves tear off one boot, an oversized goat chases him through a cornfield into a collapsed ruin, and he loses the other.Relative CostAn innkeeper's tale of a Spanish first mate who tricked Thomas Richards's boarding party with broken glass on deck.Twist of FancyA Tortuga rumor about Henry Every, the Fancy's captain, boarding a Mughal treasure ship and vanishing with the princess.
9+ImagePageSubjectA Hat Worth Boarding ForBenjamin Hornigold's famous raid on a Spanish galleon, where he disguised his sloop as a merchant.Basilica HandsThe origin story of Israel "Basilica" Hands, from a Bristol merchant family to Teach's lieutenant.Devil Always Gets His DueA legend of a Spanish carrack captain who bargained with Davy Jones and tried to cheat the deadline.Disturbed PeaceA survivor's account of ten treasure hunters destroyed by the animate wood guardians of the Swamp ruins.Lost BootsExquemelin's own bad day: wolves tear off one boot, an oversized goat chases him through a cornfield into a collapsed ruin, and he loses the other.Relative CostAn innkeeper's tale of a Spanish first mate who tricked Thomas Richards's boarding party with broken glass on deck.Twist of FancyA Tortuga rumor about Henry Every, the Fancy's captain, boarding a Mughal treasure ship and vanishing with the princess.
1010 Why It Matters
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1212 The notes double as the game's in-universe history book. Almost every pirate referenced (Hornigold, Teach, Hands, Every, Richards) is a real historical figure reinterpreted through the Windrose setting.The repeated "red cloth beneath a tree" line is a recurring signal. Players who spot it in the world can dig or search for one of Exquemelin's personal caches.Each page is stackable to 20 and is Legendary rarity, so they are worth a respectable Piastre sum if sold rather than kept.
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1414 How to Obtain
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1616 Looted from tents, crates, and shelves in caves, ruins, and inns across the main archipelago islands.Dropped by roaming neutral travelers and the occasional ambushed bandit.Cannot be crafted or bought from vendors; the set is collection-only.
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1818 See Also
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2020 Alexandre ExquemelinBlackbeardBrethren of the CoastRobinson's Diary Fragments