Captain Flameheart has unleashed his Ashen Lords against players inSea of Thieves.These fire-wielding generals are dangerous opponents, and taking them down is no easy challenge. You can find the Ashen Lords by searching the high seas for them and looking to the skies to see a large, red tornado circling the middle of an island.

It wont be challenging to find where one of the several Ashen Lords is being summoned. When you look to the skies and search the horizon, you should see where the ritual is happening by the massive tornado lifting up from the middle of an island. The large islands include:

The Ashen Winds event is a rotating world event that can occur on any of the large islands inSea of Thieves.You may need to wander the seas to find any of them. When you do encounter the world event and enter the eye of the storm, you have to fight one of the four Ashen Lords: Captain Grimm, Old Horatio, Red Ruth, or Warden Chi. Each of them has different abilities you need to be careful about, but they reward you an Ashen Lords skull for defeating them.

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