Skeleton Runes

Skeleton Runes, or Skeleton Glyphs, are a written language used by Skeletons and Skeleton Lords. They were first seen on the Box of Wondrous Secrets and are used on a number of items, and locations.

Cryptic teasers


Duke has been on a quest to discover "the truth". In doing so, several stone tablets with unknown runes have appeared in-game. In conjunction with this, cryptic messages and images also containing unknown runes have been posted to various Sea of Thieves social media pages.

Known runes
These are runes with definitions that are mostly stated through clear direct translations.

Unknown runes
These are runes that either have no known translation, or only presumed meanings based on context or clues, but have not been officially confirmed.

Many of these appear in ongoing teasers, see Rune tablets and teasers for details regarding their translations and appearances.

Unconfirmed runes
These runes bear similarities to Skeleton Runes, but have less concrete connection to the language and therefore may not be Skeleton Runes at all.