The most recent Sea of Thieves Journey titled “The Forsaken Hunter” has lastly begun, kickstarting one other wave of narrative-driven quests to speculate gamers within the lore of the sport.
It’s been a couple of weeks for the reason that final Journey the place the group received to decide on between making an attempt to avoid wasting Golden Sands Outpost by serving to Merrick and the outpost’s former residents, or destroy the outpost to fulfill the vainness of The Servant of the Flame who had attacked it beforehand.
Uncommon’s new Adventures have been making the lore of Sea of Thieves extra overt, the place earlier than it was tucked away in hidden journals and elective dialogue with NPCs. Now gamers are being correctly launched to characters which have existed for fairly a while, and respiratory life into the precise roleplay of the setting.
In The Forsaken Hunter, we discover that Merrick has been trapped within the Sea of the Damned. He’s been killed by an unknown assailant and waylaid by a Masked Stranger and Duke, the previous chief of the Bilge Rats. You possibly can try the launch trailer for The Forsaken Hunter under.
For these not within the know, the Masked Stranger is probably going Wanda the Warsmith, a key determine of the Cursed Sails replace. She was a vendor on Morrow’s Peak Outpost earlier than experimenting with the cursed steel that made up the cannons of The Burning Blade. Wanda melted these all the way down to create cursed cannonballs, however inadvertently cursed herself as effectively. Since then, Wanda has develop into a Skeleton Lord. Now below the title Captain Warsmith, she desires to destroy the Sea of Thieves.
In the meantime Duke was the chief of the Bilge Rats. Nonetheless he uncovered some horrible secret within the occasions main as much as the Sunken Kingdom replace. No matter he found, has satisfied him to work alongside Captain Warsmith and different forces of evil.
With the intention to advance their plans, Captain Warsmith and Duke have trapped Merrick within the Sea of the Damned, a spot the place pirates slain on the Sea of Thieves wait to be ferried again to the land of the residing (respawning is canon in Sea of Thieves, barring sure exceptions). It is going to be as much as the participant and Belle to find what occurred to Merrick, and rescue him from the Sea of the Damned.
The Forsaken Hunter journey started on June thirtieth and shall be reside by way of July thirteenth (I do know the trailer says the 14th, however Uncommon does some whacky stuff with time zones. I’m fairly positive it is going to finish at 5am EST on the 14th so get it carried out earlier than then).