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Marcel Boucher
April 17, 2026 at 02:46 PM
Append quest hook, Buccaneer's Friend reward, in-game encounter, Blackbeard context
Marcel Boucher was a Rogue Buccaneer and the younger brother of Henri Boucher. He is already dead by the time the player encounters the Glorious Hunters storyline. Marcel led a hunting party into the Coastal Jungle, was ambushed by pirates, and retreated into the jungle where the party perished. Marcel's fate is reconstructed through diary pages and personal effects scattered across three abandoned Buccaneer camps.
Location | Item Found | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Broken Musket + first diary page | Second chest at the camp | |
Damaged Flask + diary page | Rooftop chest | |
Final diary page | Inside the ruined fort |
Marcel's death is the inciting event for Glorious Hunters. The player delivers the Broken Musket and the recovered diary pages to Henri Boucher at the Rogue Buccaneers Main Base. Henri then asks the player to avenge Marcel by sinking three pirate ships. The reward is the Buccaneer's Friend.
Marcel's death is the inciting event for the Glorious Hunters faction quest given by Henri Boucher. The quest splits into two phases: a ground phase (investigate the abandoned campsites, recover the diary and Broken Musket) and a naval phase (sink three pirate ships to avenge Marcel). Henri receives the recovered evidence at the Rogue Buccaneers Main Base, a remote island described in AllThings.how's walkthrough as reachable only by a lonely pier "colder than the surrounding sunlit sand."
Completing Glorious Hunters grants the player the Buccaneer's Friend, a musket with 585 Pierce damage per windrose-db, plus 200 Rogue Buccaneers reputation. That reputation contributes toward the Faction Reputation threshold needed to unlock higher-tier Brethren Provisioner wares. The Buccaneer's Friend is the earliest named musket a new character reliably gets, and its 585 Pierce makes it competitive with the Infantry Musket and Reliable Musket into mid-game.
Marcel never appears alive on-screen. The player learns his story exclusively through recovered diary pages, the Damaged Flask, and the Broken Musket. Both Destructoid and GAMES.GG stress that he is a "posthumous" character whose death drives the faction quest rather than a living NPC who travels with the player. His voice in the narrative is a reconstruction: the diary is the only first-person testimony the player ever sees.
Per Destructoid's Glorious Hunters walkthrough and AllThings.how's ruin-by-ruin account, Marcel and his hunting party were ambushed in the Coastal Jungle by Blackbeard-aligned pirate forces. He retreated with his remaining party into a nearby ruin to regroup, but they did not survive. The player finds active boar patrols still circling the abandoned campsite during the investigation phase, which is how the recovered musket tests the player's ranged combat before the naval-boss escalation.
