Captain dossier · 01
The Storm Ritualist turns preparation into a released storm.
The Storm Ritualist raises an altar, casts spells and decides when stored weather should become a free storm command. The appeal is controlled preparation: smaller actions build toward a moment the player releases rather than an automatic trigger that chooses its own timing.
Choose this doctrine if you enjoy sequencing, setup turns and converting a visible enemy plan into a weather response. It asks for patience when an immediate attack would be easier but a prepared storm would reshape the formation.
Captain dossier · 02
Naya Tideborn makes living sea beasts part of the formation.
Naya begins battle with Young Kraken and treats summoned creatures as combatants with their own attacks, health and protection. Beasts strike when they arrive and again at turn end, creating a choice between filling the formation, raising one durable core or spending commands on a sudden frenzy.
Choose the Beastcaller if you want to protect a growing board and redirect several sources of damage. Her core growth belongs to the current voyage, so keeping it alive can matter beyond the turn that first summoned it.
Captain dossier · 03
Eliza Black holds the firing line with gunnery and armor.
The Gunnery Commander's pool centers on multihit volleys, armored retaliation and pushing the hull past comfortable limits. Her flagship, Wayward Star, is built to remain in the line long enough for prepared firepower to answer.
Choose Eliza if you want readable broadside arithmetic: prepare the firing window, survive the exchange and make repeated hits worth more than one isolated cannon card. Her risk is mistaking the ability to absorb pressure for permission to ignore accumulating damage.
Captain dossier · 04
Rook Mercer makes the enemy's action part of the privateer's plan.
Rook's pool turns hostile actions against their owners, provokes crossfire and closes for boarding. He also leaves port with extra silver and earns more from non-final victories, making route value and combat value unusually difficult to separate.
Choose the Privateer if you enjoy opportunistic play, enemy manipulation and an economy that can convert early danger into later flexibility. The temptation is to price every fight as profit even when the ship no longer has the condition to collect it safely.
Captain dossier · 05
Mirel Crow treats curses and hull as spendable power.
The Tide-Speaker begins under Curse and builds around turning that burden into profit, exhausting sacrifices and paying hull to feed Black Fire. Her strongest turns often begin from a state another captain would consider contaminated.
Choose Mirel if you enjoy managing dangerous resources and finding the point where a liability becomes an engine. Her doctrine rewards deliberate sacrifice, but it still carries real voyage consequences when the deck cannot finish the exchange it began.
Captain dossier · 06
A quick way to choose your first captain.
Choose the Storm Ritualist for setup and timing, Naya for summons and growth, Eliza for volleys and armor, Rook for manipulation and profit, or Mirel for curses and sacrifice. None of those summaries fixes the captain to one exact deck; hull, crew, modules and the route can still bend the voyage away from its starting doctrine.
This page records the public 0.2.2 roster. Individual card values and pools can change during development, so the comparison emphasizes the decision pattern each captain is designed to repeat.
- Setup and release: The Storm Ritualist
- Summon and grow: Naya Tideborn
- Volley and endure: Eliza Black
- Manipulate and profit: Rook Mercer
- Curse and sacrifice: Mirel Crow