Road to Pirate Lord

@zyrkal
This mostly isn't too helpful for the way the game is intended, for reasons Galactic Geek has pointed out already. What I would like to criticize, however, is the custom clothing suggestion. The clothing in SoT is meant to not quite match between sets. You can do your best, but it's always going to be slightly off unless you use a particular set (and sometimes even then). This reinforces the pirate look, as pirates didn't exactly always have the time to go about ordering or making custom clothing, especially in an environment as hostile as the Sea of Thieves. It would also need to be made sure of that players don't create symbols or patterns on clothing designed to offend other players. These issues apply to ship liveries and equipment, too.

@Galactic-Geek
Something to clear up: The Shores of Gold is a tall tale, the only one we have access to currently. The chapters in it are not individual tall tales, but indeed merely chapters within a single tale. Chapter 9 of the Shores of Gold tall tale is also named the Shores of Gold, though it does represent a form of end-game content alongside the Athena's Fortune missions and area.

@galactic-geek

Yes. If you've done all of the chapters all 5 times, you've technically done 45 chapters of a single tall tale. There will likely be many more to come, but no small amount of work is required for them.

@galactic-geek

Here's a block of spoilers, then.

The Wild Rose chapter is a false lead. Your crew attempts to find all of the pieces of the Shroudbreaker from the memories of Briggsy, who says in some of her journals at Tribute Peak that she hid them in places she knew of. This, along with many places from her memories, leads you on several quests to find it. One is found in a vault after a gauntlet of the Trapmaker's design, after Briggsy kidnapped the Trapmaker to make said gauntlet. Another is found within the 'ancient crown', it is the jewel in the center. Yet another is found from a set of clues left in the stars and myths, alongside some of Sudds's own notes and journals. It is assumed that Wild Rose and George, who knew Briggsy before her transformation into a skeleton lord, would have another of these pieces, but they do not. Their release from their trapped states draws the attention of the Ferryman, who sets you on the trail of the Morningstar and her crew - provided you help him out along the way, of course. Greymarrow had stolen one of the stones from somewhere, likely from Wild Rose, given that he gave the captain (Brooke, was it?) that entrapped Rose and George the curse required to do so, though was turned to a skeleton as payment. He was an unexpected obstacle, but past him the completed Shroudbreaker could be used, alongside the notes of several adventurers, to get to Tribute Peak, the Shores of Gold.

Simplified, he stole the Shroudbreaker stone from Wild Rose and helped Brooke (I still am not sure if that's the right name) entrap Rose and George in their pendants, and the Ferryman helped you find Greymarrow and take it back, as it benefitted the Ferryman (by removing Greymarrow and his habit of marooning pirates' souls, rendering them unable to pass through the Sea of Sorrow into the afterlife) and the pirate on the tale (by giving them the path to the Shroudbreaker stone).

@galactic-geek

Ah, always good to have more of the corrosive fruit. Thank you.