Season 18’s Style of Thieves Theme Reveal!

Welcome once again, pirates of costuming culture, to the latest instalment of #StyleOfThieves! The most chic community contest that strives to rinse every last drop from your pirate’s extra-dimensional storage spaces they’ve chosen to fill with jackets, hats, facial hair and body-altering Curses.

So while you may have recently braved a tussle with the Eternal Guard, lifted Ancient relics from Molten Sands Fortress and you’ll soon begin your fight back against Flameheart’s Ashen Garrisons, this article is here to tell you when it’ll be time to strive for something truly illustrious: the Fashionista’s Finery Gloves! From March 9th–12th, we’ll once again open the catwalk to corsairs with an affection for attire, seeking surprising interpretations of this round’s themes and bestowing upon them the hand socks of success.

For those who’ve been here before, the format is the same as usual: posts for this Season’s themes will appear on Sea of Thieves social media channels around 10am UTC on the dates specified below, and this will signal that the entry period for that theme is open. Pirates like you then share screenshots of your entries on your social media channel of choice, with the relevant information and a screenshot showing your pirate from their head to their toes, for our team to look at and consider. Your goal should be to dig deep into your cosmetic collections, finding combinations nobody else has considered to stand out from the crowd.

Each theme will be open to entries for 24 hours, after which time our Community team will bake a series of pastries inspired by their favourite entries in every theme. The Art team will then be able to pinpoint the shortlist of chosen entries from the very specifically chosen flavours, leading to them select their 16 favourite entries, four from each theme, so that we can announce the winners on March 20th.

Before we reveal the themes, we’d just like to reiterate that this contest remains quite popular, so please see it as an excuse to enjoy a spot of pirate dress-up inspiration more than anything else. Use it as a reason to flex your rarest cosmetics and see your scoundrel in a newer getup than usual, as well as enjoying the community’s interpretations of each theme. Even if you don’t win in this #StyleOfThieves contest, we hope everyone who takes part simply has a good time exploring the fun of fashion within Sea of Thieves, delving into all the cosmetics earned over their adventures.

And now that we’ve achieved the necessary measure of preamble, here are Season 18’s #StyleOfThieves themes:

The Themes

Each theme will start at 10am UTC on the dates detailed below, with entries accepted via a variety of social media channels for a full 24 hours.

Mythological
Find a fiction-based fit honouring the heroes, creatures and characters from your ancient (not those ones) story of choice!
Entry date: March 9th

Fiery
Celebrate the Season’s push to Return to The Devil’s Roar with a sizzling style that suggests going anywhere near your boat would have combustible consequences.
Entry date: March 10th

Minimalist
Do as much as possible with as little as possible in this tightrope walk of a theme.
Entry date: March 11th

Insectoid
Conjure thoughts of the creepy crawlies that lurk in the dark places of the Sea of Thieves, until a tucker comes and scares them out.
Entry date: March 12th

How to Enter

There are of course rules to follow if you want to create a valid contest entry. For a refresher on these and how to enter via any of the applicable channels, please navigate back to this previous Style of Thieves article – remembering of course that Season 18’s themes are the ones in this article, the link’s just there for the extra details! Regardless of where you’re sharing your entry, be sure to include the name of the theme you’re entering in your post, along with any extra info called for by the theme.

As an additional stipulation to ensure a fair playing field, entries may only use the retail version of Sea of Thieves and not the Insider build, following the lifting of the Insider Programme NDA. If we spot cosmetics yet to appear in the retail build, your entry won’t be eligible.

That’s enough words for this time, so we’ll say thank you to those who stuck through them, good luck to anyone walking the catwalk and do enjoy your next meal or snack, depending on when you’re reading this. It’ll be a tasty dinner for us, probably something fried again given that they still refuse to add ovens to our Sloop. Until March 9th–12th!