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33 The Michael Hardy's Letter is a doomed letter from Michael Hardy, a Children of the Ark informant, to his lover Letty. He promises to slip away from the cult, sell the leader's secrets to the Governor, and start over in Boston.
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77 Dearest Letty,I swear to you, I'll be back soon. None of the Children of the Ark will ever reach us. I managed to slip away unnoticed and get in touch with one of the Governor's men. He promised to help us if I tell him everything about the cult's leader and his dark dealings. We'll even have money, Letty.Wait for me on Tortuga, my dear. We'll go to Boston and start a new life. We'll open a shop and forget this nightmare ever happened.Now then, the captain is calling for me. He wants me to hide in my cabin, because some ship has appeared on the horizon. It must be the Governor's people.Just a little longer, Letty.I love you. Yours, Michael Hardy
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1313 Quest reward for Sacrificial Lamb.
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1515 Lore Context
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1717 The 'ship on the horizon' Michael describes is almost certainly not the Governor's people, given that the letter ends abruptly with him hiding in his cabin and the letter is found by the player rather than delivered to Letty. The Children of the Ark cult is referenced in multiple lore items as a Senkamati-adjacent group active in the modern game timeline.
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2121 Michael Hardy’s Letter is handed to the player as a reward for completing the Sacrificial Lamb quest, which deals with the Children of the New Ark cult. Like other readable lore items it stacks up to 10 and carries no combat or crafting use; its value is the story it tells.
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2323 Who Was Michael Hardy
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2525 Michael Hardy was an informant who had worked his way inside the cult and then tried to defect. The letter, addressed to his lover Letty, lays out his plan: trade everything he knows about the cult’s leader to one of the Governor’s men, take the reward, and start a quiet new life running a shop in Boston. He tells Letty to wait for him on Tortuga.
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2929 The letter breaks off the moment a ship appears on the horizon, with the captain ordering Michael to hide in his cabin. He assumes it is the Governor’s rescue. Because the letter is later found by the player rather than delivered, the implied ending is grim: the approaching ship was almost certainly the cult coming to silence a traitor, not his way out. It is a small, self-contained tragedy that fleshes out how far the Children of the New Ark will go to protect their leader.
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3131 Related Lore Items
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3333 ItemConnectionChildren of the New Ark ManifestoThe cult’s own creed, naming the leader as "the Head"François Arnaud’s LetterAnother personal letter found among the islands’ lost correspondenceNote to JuanitaA further short letter in the same family of readable lore notesLast LetterA companion piece in the readable-letter collection
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3636 François Arnaud's LetterNote to Juanita
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