Windrose Wiki

The Tortuga People are the civilian and military population of Tortuga, Windrose's last major settlement resisting Blackbeard's undead forces. Primary buyer of trade goods and faction hub.

Overview of the major factions in Windrose, the four player-facing factions in Early Access (Brethren of the Coast, Rogue Buccaneers, People of Tortuga, Smugglers of Port Royal), Blackbeard's undead crew, and the Bounty Agent reputation system.

Bounty Agents are the faction reputation NPCs in Windrose, positioned next to each faction's Provisioner at Tortuga. They accept Insignias of a Blackbeard Lieutenant and Letters of Favor in exchange for faction reputation, unlocking higher-tier Provisioner inventory.

Edward Teach is the historical name of Blackbeard, Windrose's main antagonist. The game reimagines the 18th-century pirate as a devil-pact warlord with an undead army.

A seven-piece Legendary collectible set written in the voice of Alexandre Exquemelin, a traveling chronicler. Each note recounts a pirate-history tale, Blackbeard-era rumor, or misadventure of Exquemelin himself, and ends with instructions for stashing excess gear beneath a tree marked with a red cloth.

The dark supernatural elements in Windrose, including Blackbeard's devil pact, undead armies, corrupted creatures, and ancient maritime mysteries.

The vanished ancient people whose ruins, artifacts, and corrupted descendants populate the archipelago. Lore overview of the Senkamati civilization in Windrose.

Hub page for Windrose's Chapter 1 campaign: the three-boss arc against Blackbeard's lieutenants across the Coastal Jungle, Foothills, and Cursed Swamps.

Columbus's Book of Prophecies is a central plot device in Windrose, with missing pages describing a treasure and mystical artifact that could grant control over the seas.

Senkamati Artifacts are a nine-item collectible set of ancient-civilization relics recovered from ruins across the archipelago. They are the primary trade goods of the Smugglers of Port Royal, who pay in Guinea coins for the rarest pieces.

Clay Tablets are a seven-piece Legendary collectible set that tells the downfall of the Senkamati people. The three Murals narrate a priest's long watch over a dying god, the three condition-tagged tablets vary by preservation state, and Scratches On The Altar closes the cycle.

The British East India Company is a merchant-military faction in Windrose that set the game's central conflict in motion by discovering pages from Columbus's Book of Prophecies.

A four-piece Legendary collectible set told through the diary of a shipwrecked castaway named Norman, left behind by his companions Bram and Mitchell after they decided the ruins were haunting him. Includes a separate List of Essentials detailing the boat supplies his friends gathered before abandoning him.

An ancient pre-pirate culture whose priest's legend is told in altar inscriptions across the Cursed Swamps.

A three-note Legendary collectible set written by a crew member aboard the Unsinkable, Israel Hands's ship. The journals describe Hands's decline after he takes a mysterious artifact from Thomas Richards, and hint at the prisoners he has been dragging off one by one.

Walkthrough and reference for Windrose's Chapter 1 launch-build main story, from the shipwreck prologue through the High Priestess endgame.