The chart
Start in Anchorfall’s harbour and sail outward. Every level from 1 to 250 has an island to fight on. At level 175 the Chainstacks guard the Sundering Gate, and past it lies a second sea.
The First Sea
Levels 1 to 175
- AnchorfallLevels 1–3
- The harbour town where every captain starts: teachers, the smith’s yard and the Galley Market.
- Breaker CayLevels 4–6
- A raider fortress built from wrecks, and Captain Brakka’s stronghold. Boss: Captain Brakka.
- GallowmereLevels 7–13
- Stilt houses over dark water, and the second chapter of the story. Boss: Maud Harrow, the Reedcloak Factor.
- KilnmouthLevels 14–24
- A smoking volcano and the Bellfounder’s forge. Boss: Grael Ashcombe, the Bellfounder.
- BrinewrackLevels 25–35
- Wreck-salvagers at the mouth of the Sundering Strait. Boss: Gorran Teague, the Breakmaster.
- SaltspireLevels 36–60
- Sea cliffs, the Falselights and their False Beacon. Boss: Isolde Wrack, the False Beacon.
- ChoirboneLevels 61–90
- Giant ribs that sing in the wind, and the Drowned Choir. Boss: Ysolde Vane, the Cantor.
The Long Reach
Still the First Sea, further out
- TallyportLevels 91–103
- A free port of stalls and sails: the shooting range, the Galley Row cook-off and Cassia Quill’s Ledger Hall. Boss: Cassia Quill, the Harbour Tallier.
- LowwaterLevels 104–116
- A bay the sea walks out of. The tide moves the ground every eight minutes, and the Ebbmaw waits at Lamp Rock. Boss: The Ebbmaw.
- NinefoldLevels 117–130
- A clock-tower town stuck in four minutes. Solve the Loop, then face Anselm Hask in the Bell-less Belfry. Boss: Anselm Hask, the Clockwarden.
- GlyphwoodLevels 131–145
- Glyph shrines in the trees, and the Hushed Archive beneath them. Boss: Ossian Vell, the Glyphkeeper.
- WintermastLevels 146–152
- A glacier round a dead Deepcrown. Keep near a fire, and face its keeper in the Heart Chamber. Boss: Grisvald.
- The ChainstacksLevels 153–175
- Two basalt stacks at the Gate, joined by a great chain that rises and falls on a clock. Boss: Corra Lisle, the Gatewarden.
The Sundered Main
The Second Sea, past the Gate at level 175
- GildmarrowLevels 176–200
- A mint town on stilts round a flooded treasury. Boss: Orrin Vask, the Mintmaster.
- ThornreachLevels 201–225
- Briar-grown cliffs, a hanging village and a ring of thorns. Boss: Mother Sedge, the Briar Queen.
- ThunderholdLevels 226–250
- A spire isle under a storm that never leaves, where the Stormwright works the great rod on the Thunderstair. Boss: Varric Holm, the Stormwright.
The Sundering Gate
At level 175 the Chainstacks guard the Sundering Gate, the way from the First Sea into the Second. To pass, a captain needs level 175, a victory over Ysolde Vane, the Cantor of Choirbone, and a blue-water hull: a frigate, a galleon or a Sunwrought. A ferry crosses the Gate for gold earned in the game.
Before the Gate opens there are the Gate Trials: Corra Lisle on a turning windlass drum, Chainbiter rising from the narrows, fought from your ship, the Vigil, fought from a gun yard and a rival captain’s duel that starts ship against ship and ends on his deck.
Havens at sea
Three abandoned islands sit out on the open water: Saltpalm Refuge, Kelpstone Refuge, Farwater Refuge. Sharks circle them and castaways fish from their shores. Somewhere in their water swims the Bottlemouth, one catch in twenty thousand.
What every island holds
Every island is more than a level band. Each one has its own quest chain, secrets to find, a set of collectibles that earns a title, a shop or a teacher of its own, and an activity found nowhere else: the Wave Race and the clam beds at Lowwater, the Loop at Ninefold, the Briar Run at Thornreach, Stormfall at Thunderhold. Lowwater’s tide walks out every eight minutes and changes the ground you stand on; Wintermast is cold enough that you keep near a fire.
