SPOILER Smuggler Secrets: A Wynncraft Theory

I’ve done a lot of theories in my time as a theorist. Some very big, some very small. Some which take me a total of 2 hours, some which take 20. But this theory is very, very different from anything I’ve done before. It all stems from a tiny detail, and yet it took me 30 hours to produce this things.

30 hours.

It would mean so much if you could make that time worth it. After working for 10 days and doing 3 hours each one, I’m really tired and would love it if you could give this a read. Thank you.

Spoiler: The Theory

One day, I was just bouncing across the ocean using my escape spell. I don’t really know why, but it was fun and I was seeing how quickly I could get from Llevigar to Nemract. Then I saw it.

At -1812, -3923, on the ocean floor, is a cave. Straight away I was surprised. Why would the CT dump a cave in the middle of a completely featureless expanse of water? I, naturally, decided to explore. At the end of the cave was a pile of gold, half-hidden behind a remnant of a wall. The first thing I noticed was that it was in two piles, only just connecting at the bottom.

The second thing I noticed about the cave as a whole were the supports. Some were made of stone and looked entirely natural, but one was made of wood, and had obviously been put there to support the cave roof. Both of these details will be important later.

The first thing I thought was that the gold might be the true treasure of Captain Hastor. The stash we find in Llevigar always seemed underwhelming to me (I estimated it at about 2.5 LE), and the cave is near Llevigar, so I wondered if he could have made fake treasure and hidden it in the city, and then put his real booty out here.

But then I realised that it couldn’t be Hastor. Why? Because Hastor was a villager. Villager currency is emerald, not gold. Therefore, if Hastor had put the treausre here, there should have been lots of emeralds, right? And there were none.


In fact, the lack of emeralds ruled out villagers altogether for me. I concluded that it was most likely put here by a human. But why? Then I struck the answer. A transaction.

The cave is a perfect place for an underhand transaction – secret, out of the way, but not too far from Llevigar either. It would also be supported by the two piles of gold – it would make sense for the dealers to be working on a “half now, half after” scheme. But if it was part of a transaction, why was it still there? It was presumably the payment for another item, and no-one forgets about that much gold.

I pondered the cave itself – and the wooden support it contained. Why would there be a cave here, unless it had been excavated from out of the ocean floor. Excavation. That was it. WynnExcavation are just the kind of people who would use caves as transaction points, and put up wooden supports to keep it standing. They probably had tons of the things in their sites.

This all begs the question: who are WynnEx selling stuff too? I decided to have a look around some of their sites in Wynn. And in Site A (in the desert), I found a crate. Property of GavelExcavation.

I also remembered that ever since the release of Gavel, there had been these little crates on the ships in the Llevigar docks. Sure enough, they were there – and judging by the position of the cave, WynnEx had been the ones to receive the payment. But why would a company sell something to it’s sister enterprise. Why wouldn’t they just give it?

It occurred to me that WynnExcavation is likely a subsection of GavelExcavation. I’m sure it’s canon that WynnEx is actually based in Gavel, and this still works because of everything we know about their greed, which of course ties in with Gavel lore and the decay.

Therefore, I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a little competition between the two. I go to a school which has four or five “sister schools”. We are kind of like a family, get along well, and share similar ethoses. However, there’s a lot of competition to outperform each other in things like sports, and we all want to best the others. That, to my mind, is likely what is going on between the main excavation company (GavelEx), and it’s subsidary company (WynnEx).

Another thing that really backs me up is that in Karoc Quarry we see Miner Bandits and therefore they could be part of GavelEx. They Even have a hidden town, which suggests they want to stay undetected from prying eyes like our own.


But something about this didn’t fit for me. If GavelEx are trying to stay undetected, then why? I mean when you think about it, we have no proof that they are corrupt. We know that the governments of Gavel most certainly are corrupt. So if both the government and GavelEx are corrupt, why aren’t they in cahoots with each other?

So could it be that GavelEx are the trustworthy ones, and WynnEx is a corrupt branch of their enterprise?

I decided to do some investigative journalism.


Searching on the forums I found a number of statements by well-known members such as @Yuno F Gasai, affirming that GavelEx was likely not corrupt. I pondered over this for a few days, and decided to trace back to where it al began: the cave.

I’m still certain about WynnEx being involved – the wooden support is just too strong a piece of evidence, plus the fact that we know WynnEx don’t care about how much money they lose as long as they get what they want. Again, I wondered what the item was that was being sold here. And who was it ebing sold to? Probably not GavelEx, but another possibility was still there – Gavel government.

When you think about it, it isn’t unlikely that the Gavel government, corrupt as they are, want decay out of Gavel. It kills citizens and hinders their plans to make money. It made sense to me that they would want something that could destroy decay, but they also wanted to keep it underground to as to not attract suspicion. What item could stop decay?

I wondered, and wondered, and wondered.

To me it felt like this theory was going nowhere, like I was looking for evidence that didn’t exist.




But then, I had a brainwave. I went right back to the very core of the theory, and realised there was another explanation for the two piles of gold.

There’s a house in Llevigar, near the item identifiers. And in that house is a passageway. It isn’t secret as such, but unless you’ve been in the house you wouldn’t know of it. And the passageway leads to Karoc Quarry. Now think about that for a second.

The house however, doesn’t seem like much of a house. It seems more like a small area for commerce. There are a couple of crates there, which also interested me. To clear my head, I went for a walk in the Llevigar Plains. And on the roads there, I discovered a mob that can spawn: the Suspicious Crate.

These crates can also spawn in other locations in Gavel, which leads me to my next point.

When killed, these mobs drop either emeralds, or a magic mimic which attacks the player. Now here’s the thing. On the wiki, I was able to see where these crates spawn. The locations are as follows: Llevigar Plains, Olux Swamp, Dark Forest, Light Forest, Cinfras County, Kander Forest, Sky Islands. Each of these has a higher level than the last, and if a magic mimic spawns it will be harder to kill.

By plotting these points on a map I found something interesting.



This points to smugglers. All of it. The mobs are literally called Suspicious Crates. Also, remember the passageway in Llevigar that led to Karoc Quarry? I reckon the miner bandits are transporting everything along, and then it is being taken from someone who is part of the Gylia Watch. I think this because of the detour that the smugglers take into the Kander forest would make sense if they were heading to a contact in Gylia – they wouldn’t want to be seen around Cinfras and so take a detour.

The end destination seems to be somewhere near the Sky Islands, somewhere along the coast. Jofash Docks seems to be the obvious choice.



Recap Time:

There are smugglers who deposit the goods at the cave, and then take them through Gavel to Jofash Docks. I do not know why, that’s for you guys to discuss and debate.

Wow, quite the theory. It isn’t my most solid one from a long shot, and I getting tired by the end of it, but on the whole it does offer a possible explanation to the cave. Also not as long as my others, but it did take forever to make.

 

There’s a lot of caves around and in the ocean, it’s fairly common for them to be there. If they wanted to make it all weird and interconnected it would be pretty obvious. This kinda feels like a wholeeee ton of reaching, what if the cave was some other pirates treasure? Maybe it could be a lost island like sarnfic.

Basing the entire thing on a wooden support kinda feels a bit silly ngl

 

You said

But I'm pretty sure there is a piece of dialogue that says that the Gavelian government do not care about the decay. However that was a citizen who said that so they don't know anything.
Now you asked about why they would want quartz and what could stop the decay, and I have a decent answer.
In Order of the Grook, it is stated that quartz can be used to make powerful batteries. What if they plan to create many of these batteries, enough to power something strong enough to destroy the dark creatures. A Quartron. Think about it. There was a full laboratory near the quartz mines that nobody knew about. Surely the miners would have heard some suspicious sounds? And as for why they are transporting quartz to Ahmsord, I have a good answer. Ynos is working on getting a large void crystal and he says that he wants to use it to repair the sky islands and restore it to its former Ahms self. What if he lied? Maybe he wants to help create flying quartrons to stop the decay?

 

I think the ocean caves are all just simply leftover sites of sarnfic residents

 

I got tagged and I got to say I forgot 98% of the lore

 

I found the cave mentioned in this post and I would assume it is a sunken settlement like sarnfic but like he says there is in fact a wooden pillar built there

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Also, if you want to go to this cave for yourself, the coords are:
-1803/~/-3923

 

This is reaching extremely hard. Although the suspucious crates' origin is some found for thought, I highly doubt a random cave in the ocean (of which there are quite a few) with gold in it is related to the WynnExc story or the less-known GavelExc. It was likely once a place for a loot chest, as well as reminiscent of dozens of caves and cellars across the map. Unless you can reasonably argue that all those are also distinctly related to WynnExc, this theory doesn't really have a leg to stand on.

 

Guys, just wanted to put some stuff out there before I get any more comments.

Basically, I'm very aware that this isn't the strongest theory. The reason I made it was because after the time I put in, it felt very silly not to post it.

It would really help if you could be supportive, even though I get this is probably one of my weaker theories to date. I promise that next time, I will not be making the same mistakes!

 

Maybe the crystals in Purple and Blue, Star Thief, etc. could be related? GavelEx, if like WynnEx, probably would be interested in harvesting these crystals. I wonder if there is a CorkusEx? Hmmm...