The Winter Event is coming!

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  1. Seren

    Seren Team Leader Team Seafight

    The Wild Hunt
    Odin’s Tablet! This mysterious artifact’s name only hints at the layers of mystery, history, and contradictory tales that surround it. Pirates whisper that once, the All-Father used it to seize control of a terrifying band of ghostly hunters, who chase their quarry without respite or mercy across the skies on cold winter nights... The Wild Hunt! No-one knows whence they come or where they disappear to at sunrise; some swear by stone and bone that Odin himself had to banish them, and that it was no easy task.

    Now, like so many ancient stories, this tale is firmly in the realm of myth – a tale to make children behave. But say one thing for both myths and ghosts: they tenaciously hang onto existence in one form or another, even if it’s only memory. That’s why, to this day, pirates far and wide celebrate this time of year by building a replica of Odin’s Tablet, collecting hidden and far-scattered pieces of it. Perhaps it helps to ward off evil spirits... And yet – something is strange, this year.

    Captain William Paine, a world-renowned freebooter, swashbuckler, and general Casanova, was also a believer in the Wild Hunt. He had lost his beloved wench Mary to a raging dockside fire, and in his grief, he turned to taverns, and to rum – and there, the legend became, for him, fact. He had been told of too many strange midnight sightings of clouds that could not be clouds, of wrathful spirits, of the ghostly din of a horn, of terrified prey fleeing from star to star, to dismiss them all as fantasy or fairytale – no matter how many cups of grog had been consumed by the tale-teller. Somewhere, somehow, Paine was certain that the Hunt was real. The Hunt was power – perhaps even over death.

    It was a long, strange search, but Paine finally found the greatest of treasures. Other corsairs reacted with ridicule or pity if he revealed the meticulously-wrapped fragment of marble to them, but Paine knew in his heart that what he held was no random carved rock: it was a shard of Odin’s Tablet itself. The original, not a holiday replica! And so Paine made his way to a hidden cove on a deserted, swampy island, and there he danced and howled out the ritual that eighteen paid men had died to discover, shrieking the alien words into the teeth of a rising wind. Thunder roared! Lightning crashed! The crackling of his bonfire gave way to sudden silence – and then peace.

    After an eternity (or was it an instant?), Paine opened his eyes to find that he had been right: the Wild Hunt existed! But what of his lost Mary? Would these hunters track her down?

    Toy not with powers you do not understand, mateys. The Wild Hunt, led by the sinister Krampus, now has eighteen new members, and a new victim to chase...

    From the 1st to the 24th of December 2013, the Seven Seas of Seafight celebrate an astonishing Winter event – join in as you crack open icy chests, destroy evil snowmen, and seek out your own pieces of Odin’s Tablet in the hopes of earning Bifrost, the most beautiful and deadly ship on the sea...

    What are you waiting for? After all, the tale of Captain Paine is probably... just a ghost story.


     
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