Anno Domini 1718 • Uncharted Waters of the Black Meridian

The Crimson Kraken

We bow to neither Crown nor East India coin. Beneath the blood-stained sails of our forty-gun frigate, we harvest the gilded galleons of kings and feed their admirals to the abyss. Sign the articles in salt and gunpowder—or pray the fog hides your hull.

Set Sail & Sign the Articles

Sound the Depths

Charted in Blood & Sextant Brass

The Voyage of the Sunken Crown

18° 42' N, 64° 19' W

I. Port Plunder (Tortuga Outpost)

Where forty cutthroats signed the Crimson Articles over three barrels of stolen Martinique rum. We slipped the harbor chains at midnight with the Governor’s own flagship burning brightly behind us as a farewell lantern.

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Wanted Across Seven Sovereignties

The Scoundrels of the Quarterdeck

Every soul aboard The Crimson Kraken carries a hangman’s noose in their past and a king’s ransom on their head. Hover or tap a warrant to inspect their ledger of sins.

Bounty: 50,000 Gold Doubloons

Capt. Malakor Vance

Lord of the Helm • “The Salt-Wolf”

“A king’s treaty is merely parchment waiting for a cannonball’s signature.”

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Admiralty Dossier #01

Formerly First Commodore of the Royal Armada until he seized three treasure galleons during the Eclipse of Cádiz. Rumor holds he traded his left eye to the Kraken itself in exchange for command of the abyssal currents.

Naval Tactics98%

Cutlass Duels92%

Abyssal Lore95%

Captain's Warrant

Bounty: 32,000 Gold Doubloons

Isolde “Blackpowder” Kael

Master Gunner & Alchemist

“If the thunder doesn’t crack their hull, my Greek fire will finish the sermon.”

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Admiralty Dossier #02

Expelled from the Royal Foundry of Antwerp after her experimental sulfur-mortar accidentally leveled the Viceroy’s summer palace. She brews emerald-flame cannon shot that burns straight through wet oak below the waterline.

Siege Artillery100%

Greek Fire Alchemy96%

Subtlety & Restraint12%

Ordnance Warrant

Bounty: 28,500 Gold Doubloons

Gideon Cross

Quartermaster & Star-Reader

“The stars do not lie, shipmate—though they frequently conspire to drown the greedy.”

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Admiralty Dossier #03

A disgraced cartographer who stole the Vatican’s forbidden pre-Deluge sea charts. Gideon can steer a three-masted frigate through razor-sharp coral reefs in pitch-black fog using only a brass sextant and the taste of the wind.

Celestial Navigation99%

Codebreaking & Charts94%

Flintlock Accuracy87%

Navigator's Warrant

Bounty: 24,000 Gold Doubloons

Barnaby “Barnacle” Graves

Bosun & Boarding Vanguard

“Why waste a perfectly good cannonball when you can throw the anchor through their cabin?”

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Admiralty Dossier #04

Survived three hangings at Port Royal because his bull-neck snapped the hemp rope every time. Barnaby leads boarding parties swinging a modified whale-harpoon chained to a four-hundred-pound capstan winch.

Brute Boarding Force100%

Harpoon Grapple94%

Sea Shanty Baritone97%

Bosun's Warrant

Anatomy of a Forty-Gun Leviathan

Aboard The Crimson Kraken

Deck 01 / 04

36-Foot Whalebone Tiller

I • Upper Weather Deck

The Quarterdeck & Bone Helm

Carved from the jawbone of a leviathan harpooned off Cape Horn, our double-spoked helm requires two steersmen in a gale. The planks beneath are stained dark with seventy years of salt, tar, and the hubris of Royal Navy boarding parties.

Timber: Seasoned Havana Black Oak
Swivel Guns: 8x Brass Murderers on the Rails
Elevation: 28 Feet Above the Waterline

Emerald Greek-Fire Ordnance

II • Lower Battery

The Forty-Gun Hellsmouth

When the red gunport lids swing open, kingdoms reconsider their tax policies. Master Gunner Isolde’s custom bronze 32-pounders fire chained twin-shot to shred rigging, followed by alchemical sulfur canisters that burn underwater.

Broadside Weight: 1,280 lbs of Cast Iron & Sulfur
Reload Cadence: 42 Seconds per Salvo
Specialty: Mast-Cleaving Chain Shot

Stolen Vatican Sea Charts

III • Stern Sanctuary

The Captain’s Great Cabin

Lit by whale-oil chandeliers taken from a Spanish cathedral ship, the stern gallery houses Captain Vance’s war table. Here, treaties are mocked, prize shares are weighed on brass scales, and forbidden abyssal trenches are plotted.

Relics Held: The Astrolabe of Saint Brendan
Cellar Reserve: 1688 Port Royal Private Cask
Security: Triple-Spring Flintlock Door Trap

400 Tons of Plundered Bullion

IV • Deep Below the Waterline

The Bilge & Sovereign Hold

Reinforced with double-layered lead sheathing to support the sheer weight of captured bullion. Crates of East India silk, silver ingots from Potosí, and ninety barrels of overproof gunpowder rest in guarded silence.

Ballast: Solid Cast-Silver Ingots
Powder Magazine: Copper-Lined & Flood-Ready
Wardens: Two Blind Moray Eels in the Bilge

Counted by Torchlight in the Hold

The Ledger of Spoils

Scroll down to unseal the Royal Coronation Coffer. Every doubloon within was liberated from merchant princes who thought forty cannons were merely a suggestion.

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Gold Doubloons Seized

Minted in Seville, liberated in the Caribbean

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Crown Vessels Plundered

Galleons, frigates & East India Hulks

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Casks of Stolen Rum

Aged Jamaican & Martinique reserve

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Royal Governors Ransomed

Returned without their wigs or signet rings

The Pirate Code & Crew Recruitment Await...

Stage 3 (Horizontal Ship Gallery & Treasure Chest) complete. Ready for the final stage when you are, Captain!