It’s now time for a different kind of story. The Wild Rose Tall Tale takes you through the love story of two pirates, Rose and George. They have gone missing and it is up to us to find them!
Like the two halves of Rose and George’s heart pendant, this guide is best when used together with its other half: the interactive SoT companion map. There you’ll find an entire marker series devoted to these steps in the Wild Rose Tall Tale Guide.
You can find the web version of the interactive SoT companion map here.
Of course, if you’d rather use the interactive map on your phone or tablet, you can use the SoT companion app.
The Wild Rose Tall Tale: Step by Step
Step 1: Wild Rose Tall Tale Book
You will want to head over to the Order of Souls tent on Sanctuary Outpost. This is where you will find the Tall Tale book.
Once you vote on the book it will be added to your Map Radial and Madame Olive will explain the dire situation. Is the fate of Rose caught up in the destruction that Briggsy created? Does Rose know where one of the Shroudbreaker pieces are?
Step 2: Find the Chest of Memories
The pages in the book will mention where the couple stored their Chest of Memories. Some common islands on which you can find the Chest of Memories include:
- Sandy Shallows near the Northern most rocks.
- Rapier Cay near the West most tip of island.
- Boulder Cay in the middle of the island.
After digging up the Chest of Memories, open it up to find more pages that will help you with this Tall Tale.
Step 3: Find the Box of Spices and the Music Box
The newly acquired pages will contain two different stories that will lead you to the Spice Box and the Music Box. The pages you gathered from the Chest of Memories describe where you will find the Box of Spices and the Music Box.
However, the location descriptions will only make sense once you reference the stories from the first 16 pages.
The items will be buried where Rose and George are standing in the image.
Below are some of the possible stories you might encounter…
Our First Kiss
Our First Kiss will take you to the Lagoon of Whispers where you will dig up the Spice Box. Match where the couple is standing in the image of the story to the physical location on the island to find your digging spot.
We survived our first ambush!
The ambush took place at Cannon Cove. Head on over to dig up the Spice Box buried there. You will want to go to the top of the East back beach. Dig in the location depicted in the image.
Pig Chase
The Pig Chase takes place on Salty Sands. This is the small island to the North of their bounty (Lone Cove). The Spice Box is located on the base of the North most land mass.
Doing what I do best!
You will want to head to Boulder Cay. The Spice Box is located on the South end of the strip of island in the center.
Day 81
The Music Box will be found on Lonely Isle for this story.
The day we found our pendants!
You will find the Spice Box on the West beach in the middle of Sea Dog’s Rest.
The Argument
The Argument takes place on Twin Groves. The Music Box is buried here between the rocks with a palm tree.
Our First Dance
You must go to Wanderer’s Refuge to reenact Rose and George’s dance. Make your way to the island’s North side near the tree by the cave entrance, as depicted in the picture.
For a closer look, click the link to the map below the image, then zoom in as much as you’d like.
You must follow the dance steps written on the pages starting just next to the tree. Three steps Back, Three steps Right, etc., starting from where Rose and George stood in the picture, and then dig at the finishing spot. You can follow Rose’s or George’s steps to find the dig location. Dig once you’ve finished the dance steps, and you will find the Music Box here.
The Perfect Plan
The Perfect Plan will have you following their path through Sailor’s Bounty. You will eventually end up underneath two lanterns attached to ship bow on North East side of island. This is where you will dig up the Music Box.
Our First Bounty
As mentioned in the beginning pages of the Tale book, Lone Cove is where their first bounty took place.
You will follow their steps all the way to the West side of island near a lone tree and rock just North of Deadshot Charlotte. Dig near here to uncover the Music Box.
Our Vows
You will want to sail over to Smuggler’s Bay for this story.
The solution to this story is to read one word of each page at a time swapping between the two pages. The solution reads as follows:
We pirates take each other to be awful man and wife. To have and to hold, for better or worse. For the rest of our scoundrels life. We’ll remain in love, through Marauder’s Arch all the way to Glowstone Cay. From where we now stand, on Smugglers Bay to Thieves’ Haven and away. Always yours, with treasure and grog, until we’re gray and old. We’ll keep in good health in shipwreck and wealth ’til the Ferryman no longer bears our souls.
You will wind up on the top arch of the island. Stand just West of the bridge to dig up the Music Box.
Step 4: Return Mementos to Madame Olive
With Chest of Memories, the Spice Box and Music Box in hand, go to Sanctuary Outpost and give Madame Olive both objects and she will turn them into a compass to locate Rose and George.
Upon turning in the two items to Olive, you will unlock the The Path of Lovers commendation.
Step 5: Find Rose and George
The compass created to locate Rose and George can take you to a variety of different islands. The most common islands are Crescent Isle, Shark Bait Cove, Lone Cove, Sailor’s Bounty, Plunder Valley, Wanderer’s Refuge, Mermaid’s Hideaway, Smuggler’s Bay, Snake Island and Cannon Cove.
Follow the compass until you reach the shores of an island. Then continuing following the compass inland, until you find Rose.
Walk over to Rose and pick up her pendant and note. This will unlock the Rose’s Fate commendation.
Now equip your compass from your Voyage inventory wheel and find George.
What’s this?! That’s not George… The compass will actually lead you to Rooke!
You must defeat Rooke to get George’s pendant which Rooke will drop after she is defeated. You will unlock the George’s Fate commendation after picking up the dropped pendant.
Step 6: Return to Order of Souls on Sanctuary Outpost
Return to Sanctuary Outpost with the two pendants and give them to Madame Olive. With the two pendants, Madame Olive will perform a ritual that will free Rose and George.
You will unlock the Wild Rose commendation for completing this tale.
Journal Locations
We also have a guide to help you find all five journals for all nine Tall Tales.
59 thoughts on “Sea of Thieves – The Wild Rose Tall Tale Guide”
Step 5 – Find Rose and George
It can also be on Wanderers Refuge
Thank you for letting us know! Will update the guide now 🙂
Did you update the map? It’s still not marked there.
Hmm, that’s weird. It should be on the map now. Maybe the map is cached in you browser? Next time you open the map up, hold down the Shift button while you hit refresh.
Yeet
Great guide! Thanks for the help!
So annoying, i had to give the pendants too Madame olive and then they suddenly disappear!
It’s happened to me on quests 2, 3, and 5. Highly frustrating.
If they were in the chest you have to take them out before you go on the island
Do you have to do this to continue the shores of gold one or can skip to the next thing
Can’t skip. Have to at least complete all. This does not mean doing the beginning parts however.
Step 5 : it can also be on Mermaid’s Hideaway
Day 81 is on Lonely Isle
Is Day 81 the name of the story?
Thank you! I was stuck!
Correct. Is part of the Music Box
Awesome, thank you so much! I will add it to the guide 🙂 Sounds like it will be super helpful to many pirates!
I found rose and George on sailors bounty
Do not leave behind the chest of memories after you open it even though it’s useless, when I was sailing to George it failed the quest.
Only rose I mean
You can add shark Bait Cove to the list. I had to go there to get to Rooke.
I found rooke at snake island
Got 2 pages, but something is off, we got one that just says vaguely an island north of our first bounty (presuming that’s picaroon) and then our first bounty .-.
Did you happen to take a picture? Someone above mentioned they got a story called Day 81. Was it that one?
Nvm turns out that it was DOING WHAT I DO BEST
For some reason digging at the lone tree/rock for ‘our first bounty’ isnt working. Left the island and came back.
Just wanna point out that at any point if you lose the chest, you will fail the mission, even if it is empty
This guide is wrong. The memory chest only gives you one part of the story. We got the pig chase story, but you don’t have any mention about the fact that the music box is on lonely cove. Not lonely isle.
You have to deduce the location of the story from the images in the story and from the beginning pages that you get right away.
Dont let rooke kill you if it so the quest is over!!
What do you do if you lost rose’s pendent? I lost it and have tried looking all around. I thought it was an item for my voyage wheel, like the compass. Do I have to restart the voyage?
you can start from chapter 2
Also, find Rose and George on Sharkbait.
Found Rooke at Sharkbait too
Our Memories Page : Box of spices are on Boulder Cay, in the middle of the isle
False, It’s not Boulder Cay.
Lagoon of Whisper
Our Memories is actually on cannon cove on the East Beach
I was doing the quest for a hour and I finally had the pendants. I was almost to sanctuary outpost, but a kraken attacked me 🤬
Same here
same, I got attacked by the kraken on missions 1,2 and 3. on four, I got attacked by the hungry one and the kraken at the same time 🙁
I found Rooke on Cannon Cove
Alright, I don’t get the Last Dance thing. Do I start with Rose or do I start with George? When doing the steps, do I then also follow the steps with the first dance steps, then the second? Are the steps all inclusive? For example, Just dance Rose, just dance George, dance Rose and George, or do I dance George then Rose? And why didn’t the guide include the picture and location of the tree?! Would have been helpful.
Ahoy there! Somehow out of the dozens of times we have run this tale we have yet to get this story. If you are still on it, we would love to add some nice pictures of the story pages and the final digging place. The tree you are looking for can be found on our interactive map here.
Little late reply but I followed Rose’s dance moves from where she was standing in the story image and used the compass for the steps and dug up the music box 🙂
I got so lucky on this mission tool over an hour got bad luck with island and wind direction. finally i get both pendants and a ship sinks me. Pleading with this person who never replied or said anything i asked him to not kill me. and i hitched a ride on his boat to sanctuary island and was able to finish the mission. A thousand thanks my pirate friend.
There is another story. Its called Our Memories
I hope this is helpful
Had the compass, going to Rooke, kraken appeared, mission failed.
So fricking annoyed
was there a checkpoint? I was doing a diff. tale, the one where you fought Briggsy, the cursed rogue, and we had the skull, but there was a checkpoint
I got sunk by a skellie ship right before fighting rook and rowed all the way to sanctuary from plunder valley.
it can be all of those and probably more… you have to use your brain for this one
The Pendent can also be found of Smugglers Bay
Ladds, Our memories is the name of section. There will be another page following that has one of the options listed. Happy Sailing!
Adam is right, there is one version of One Memories which is on Boulder Cay and you can see the two bug rocks of Smuggler’s Bay behind the draw.
Our Memories is found on seadogs rest on the side of the isleand. The rest of the comments are wrong. idk where they got their info, but look at the picture at the top where it says found pendants,
Wow, this game is abysmally bad in communicating what is clue and what is riddle. Not in a hundred years I would have found out that the pages in the memory chest are two riddles, each to be solved on their own, using the clues from the diary. Sea of Thieves really has astonishingly poorly designed puzzles.
There is no link to the next quest in this Chain. I haven’t played in A week and I can’t remember where to go next.
You mean after you complete Wild Rose?
The new update means that you can save checkpoints on Tall Tales which makes everything much easier