A note on canon. Rhea Stormwake is an original fictional character from the Vizlings app. The only app-canon facts used on this site are her name, her pirate persona, and her official card description (quoted verbatim on Meet the character). Everything else here — her ship, crew, voyages, and words — is clearly-labeled creative interpretation written for fans, never presented as app canon.

Glossary

The language of her seas — real sailing terms and Wake-world coinages, side by side.

Mixed glossary. Standard nautical terms are real; Wake-world terms (marked ✦) are creative interpretation.

Aloft

Up in the rigging. Where Pip Wren is usually found when not wanted.

Beacon watch

✦ The Wake's night lookout for distress lanterns — kept ever since the Gullgrave rescue.

Becalmed

Stuck without wind. Rhea's least favorite state of existence.

Bosun

The officer in charge of the deck, rigging, and sails. Aboard the Wake: Tam Okafor.

Brassport

✦ The great port city of the Reach, governed (loosely) by Governor Pettifog.

Careen

To beach a ship on her side for hull repairs. The Wake is careened in Quill's coves.

The Code

✦ The ten articles of the Wake — see Pirate's Code.

Doldrums

The windless belt; twenty-one days of it once tested the crew's sanity and Rhea's storytelling.

Grey Maw

✦ The reef-maze off Saltjaw Point where the Iron Psalm met her end.

Gullgrave

✦ A free port of the Reach, home of Lysandra Quill's coves.

Heave to

To stop the ship's forward motion — what the Wake did to fish forty souls from the sea.

Howling Reach

✦ Rhea's home waters: stormy, shoal-ridden, and charted by her own hand.

Leagues

Three nautical miles. The crimson sails are visible at three of them, by design.

Parley

A truce for negotiation, sacred under Article V of the Code.

Pale Fleet

✦ The Reach squadron hunting pirates, commanded by Commodore Harrow.

Pale Tide

✦ The fog-bound current at the edge of the known charts.

Salt Truce

✦ Rhea's pact among seven crews — see Voyages.

Wake reckoning

✦ The fictional calendar of Rhea's captaincy, used on the Timeline.

Wake Sigil

✦ The white storm-swirl on crimson: the Wake's flag.

Widow's Wake

✦ Rhea's ship — see The Ship. Named for the storm that takes sailors and gives back captains.

Source notes

App canon (Vizlings): character name "Rhea Stormwake"; official card description quoted verbatim on Meet the character; card notes ~26 chats; pirate persona. No owner-supplied bio exists (none was available as of 2026-09-26).
Creative interpretation: ship, crew, voyages, legends, shanties, and all character-voice quotations are original creative writing for this companion site, labeled as such, and are not presented as app canon.
Imagery: every image on this site is AI-generated dramatization art, recorded in Sources / the image credits on this page. No real people are depicted.