Sea of Thieves – Ashen Lords Information Guide

1. Introduction

The “Ashen Winds” event is one of the many world events in Sea Of Thieves, indicated by a “Ashen Winds Cloud” (A big red and fire cloud/tornado in the sky). Arriving at the island will begin ominous music, setting foot on the island and you will see fire-y skeletons preforming a ritual with one of the Ashen Skeletons, who work for Flameheart. Defeating the Ashen Lord will drop copious amounts of loot.

Only 1 Ashen Winds event can be active at one time, as only world event can be active at once, the Ashen Winds event rotates with other world events.

2. A Guide to Battling the Ashen Lords

After sailing to the island and getting on to the island will cause an Ashen Lord to rise. At this point you will see which Ashen Lord you will be fighting (Captain Grimm, Warden Chi, Red Ruth, or Old Horatio), each have the same moveset & health. The only difference between the Ashen Lords is their apperance and voicelines.

The fight is split up into 3 parts:

PHASE 1:
In the first phase, in which the Ashen Lord has 2000 health, in this phase the Ashen Lord is less aggressive than in other phases, mainly spamming a melee attack and boulder throw, which I will explain later.

Once 2000 damage is done, the Ashen Lord will fall to their knees, in which the Ashen Lord can not attack, use this time to get your crew to slash the Ashen Lord with their cutlasses, the Ashen Lord will rise from the ground with more attacks and strength.

PHASE 2:
In the second phase, the Ashen Lord now has 3000 health, the Ashen Lords will begin using many new moves in this phase, so it is important that you know them all, all moves and their explanations will be explained in the next part.

Similar to the Phase 1, once 3000 damage is done, the Ashen Lord will fall to their knees to gain strength, and cannot deal damage, use this time to deal as much damage with your team, cutlass spamming will kill any skeletons spawned, just keep moving.

The lord gains access to this attack in the second phase, they will gather a lot of strength and pounds the ground in a fiery blast, this will send players in a huge distance flying into the air, the closer you are to the Ashen Lord, the more damage and knockback that’s done. If the ship is really close to the Ashen Lord, this can damage Masts, Capstan, Wheel, and the Hull.

PHASE 3:
In the final phase, the Ashen Lord again has 3000 health, now the Ashen Lord has access to all their abilities, including their strongest and best move, “World’s End”, at this point the Lord will kneel to the ground and summon a large volcanic eruption which can deal insane amounts of damage to the player, attacking the Ashen Lord while in this position is extremely risky, Geysers also summon, adding an extra way to take damage, often times this ability kills players instantly. If you get set on fire, don’t stay in the water for long as it begins to boil, cause the player to take damage. This attack can hit nearby ships as well, the range of the volcanic eruption is not as large as a regular volcano, which causes the rocks to have an extremely high chance of hitting the player. You should always stay in motion trying to dodge the attacks, and continuing to damage the Ashen Lord after the attack is finished.

Once 3000 damage is done, the Ashen Lord will be vanquished, and Geysers will once again appear, this time bringing up loot from the ground scattering everywhere around the island.

3. Reward/Treasure

After defeating an Ashen Lord, they will leave being a selection of exclusively Ashen/Devil’s Roar related treasures.

The player will ALWAYS recieve the following treasure from the Ashen Lords:

• 1 Ashen Winds Skull
• Chest Of Rage
• Ritual Skull

The Ashen Lord will also drop roughly 15 items across the island:

• Any type of Ashen Treasure Chests
• Any type of Devil’s Roar Artefacts
• Any type of Ashen Bounty Skulls
• Any type of Devil’s Roar Trade Good Crates
• A Collector’s Chest with Gold and 0-3 Devil’s Roar Artefacts inside
• An unlocked Ashen Chest with Gold and 0-3 Ashen Chest reward pool items inside.

Note!

• The Ashen Winds skull can be used as a Flamethrower, but be wearing even 1 second of use can decrease the value, unused the Ashen Winds skull will always sell for 10,000$, (25,000$ will Level 5 Emissary)
• The Chest Of Rage will progressively get angrier and angrier, until it will burst into flames, before returning to it’s calm state, to avoid damage to your ship, splash the chest with water to calm down the chest.

4. The Ashen Lords’ Attacks.

The Ashen Lords have access to the following moves:

• Melee Attack: This moves allows the Ashen Lord to strike at any players who get close to them, causing the player to take damage and knockback
• Fire Breath: The lord will begin to spew flames out of their mouth, and also causing a very small radius around them to be set a flame, the fire does a lot more damage, so be careful.
• Lunge Attack: The lord does a jumping lunge towards the player, doing massive damage and insane amounts of knockback
• Boulder Throw: This attack can be performed into 2 ways. The Ashen Lord can throw a small rock forward, towards the player, or can be thrown into the sky, this attack target the player, and can set them on fire, these attacks can be used against the players ship.
• Summon Skeletons: The lord summons 6-10 skeletons, these skeletons are significantly weaker then regular skeletons, they can spawn with no weapons, a cutlass, blunderbuss or flintlock pistol.
• Ash Cloud: This cloud cast a super thick, wide, and dark cloud of Ash this lowers visibility and creates a slight echo inside the cloud.
• Shock Wave: The lord only has access to this attack in the second phase, they will gather a lot of strength and pounds the ground in a fiery blast, this will send players in a huge distance flying into the air, the closer you are to the Ashen Lord, the more damage and knockback that’s done. If the ship is really close to the Ashen Lord, this can damage Masts, Capstan, Wheel, and the Hull.
• World’s End: In this attack, the Lord will kneel to the ground and summon a large volcanic eruption which can deal insane amounts of damage to the player, attacking the Ashen Lord while in this position is extremely risky, Geysers also summon, adding an extra way to take damage, often times this ability kills players instantly. If you get set on fire, don’t stay in the water for long as it begins to boil, cause the player to take damage. This attack can hit nearby ships as well, the range of the volcanic eruption is not as large as a regular volcano, which causes the rocks to have an extremely high chance of hitting the player. You should always stay in motion trying to dodge the attacks, and continuing to damage the Ashen Lord after the attack is finished.

5. The Ashen Lords

The 4 Ashen Lords you can encounter:

• Captain Grimm:
  

  Grimm was responsible for constructing the fortresses in which Flameheart uses to hide his treasure.

• Red Ruth:
  

  Red Ruth is the scientist that designed the cursed cannonballs for the Burning Blade, Flameheart’s ship.

• Old Horatio:
  

  Old Horatio is responsible for constructing Flameheart’s fleet.

• Warden Chi:
  

  Warden Chi is Flameheart’s prison warden, she made sure anyone Flameheart wanted to stay alive, stayed alive but tortured them relentlessly, making sure not to kill anyone.

6. Final Notes/Tips

Tips for the fight:

• Ashen Lords are able to do massive damage to the boat, since Ashen Lords normally spawn near large bodies of water, so anchor your boat far into the water, so the boat cannot take damage.
• In the later waves, blunderbuss and Eye of Reach are the best weapons, but make sure you have a cutlass for the earlier waves, when the Ashen Lords falls down.
• The lords can take massive damage from Gunpowder Barrels, be careful as many abilties can make those barrels explode way before you do damage.
• Fire does not do damage to the Ashen Lords.

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