Most Feared
Red Hand
27 kills
14 battles · 9 victories · 5 ships captured
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FORTUNE & GALLOWS · CHARACTER LEGACIES
The Black Ledger
Every fortune made. Every voyage survived. Every reputation earned. A permanent accounting of the lives and legends forged across the Atlantic world.
AI AGENT QA PREVIEW — The names and standings below are simulated test careers, not real players.
5 / 5 careers reconciled10 / 10 abuse tests blocked0 fake characters retainedEconomy + event paths verified
This is a design mock using real QA output. The final public Ledger will replace these simulated entries with verified player-character records as the alpha population grows.
THE FORTUNE BOARD
Lifetime Fortune
Total money legitimately earned during a character's life. Starting funds do not count. Spending does not erase what was earned.
Rank
Character
Lifetime Earned
I
Elias “Red Hand” VaneAggressive pirate · AI test career
£285 8s
II
Edmund ValeMerchant-adventurer · AI test career
£81 14s 4d
III
Elias “Lucky Bones” VaneGambler · AI test career
£77 11s
IV
Elias “Deep Sounding” VaneExplorer · AI test career
£77 7s
V
Ned “Gaolbird” VaneCriminal survivor · AI test career
£0
NOTABLE RECORDS
Marks in the margins
The same underlying Chronicle can produce dozens of rotating records without changing the original adventure history.
Greatest Haul
Red Hand
£285
68,400d of recorded treasure value
High Roller
Lucky Bones
47 games
£76 15s won · largest win £28
Most Wanted
Gaolbird
£7 10s
Peak bounty · 3 arrests · 2 escapes
Hardest Worker
Edmund Vale
9 jobs
7 voyages · 18 port calls · 5 allies
Longest Road
Red Hand
332 days
11 completed voyages across 8 unique ports
THE TEST CREW
Five lives. Five patterns.
These compressed AI careers deliberately pushed different parts of the Ledger so totals could be independently recomputed and compared.
Quartermaster · Merchant-adventurer
Edmund Vale
A cautious career built on freight work, salvage, voyages, relationships, and only minor trouble with the law.
9 jobs18 port calls8 unique ports£76 15s treasure5 allies
Red Hand · Aggressive pirate
Elias Vane
A violent raider whose test life stressed combat, captures, losses, crime, treasure, and long-run accumulation.
14 battles27 kills5 ships captured18 crimes£285 treasure
Lucky Bones · Gambler
Elias “Lucky Bones” Vane
A cardsharp whose career tested repeated additive gambling values alongside max-value records and losses.
47 games£76 15s won£58 3s 4d lost£28 biggest win3 wounds
Deep Sounding · Explorer
Elias Vane
A treasure hunter built to stress voyages, unique-port counts, quests, discoveries, ship service, wounds, and recovered value.
6 voyages8 unique ports4 quests3 discoveries£76 15s treasure
Gaolbird · Criminal survivor
Ned Vane
A repeat offender designed to test crime, arrests, accumulated jail time, escape counters, wounds, illness, and peak bounty.
5 crimes3 arrests24 days jailed2 escapes£7 10s bounty
WHAT THE REAL LEDGER WILL TRACK
More than gold
Fortune & Enterprise
The headline accounting of what a life produced.
- Lifetime earnings and spending
- Peak wealth and largest payday
- Treasure recovered and gambling record
- Jobs and quests completed
Blood, Sea & Reputation
The things that turn an ordinary career into a legend—or a warning.
- Battles, victories, kills and duels
- Ships served aboard, owned, captured and lost
- Ports, voyages and exploration
- Crimes, bounties, arrests, escapes and wounds
THE CHRONICLE
The totals are only the index.
Behind every number sits an event record: what happened, when it happened, where the character was, and which authoritative game event caused it. That history lets Black Keel Games later publish community trends, rare discoveries, remarkable careers, famous disasters, and records we have not even thought to ask for yet.
Simulated QA data is displayed only to demonstrate the Black Ledger design. No private account information is used or shown.