The Libertalia revelation — the pirate utopia that was not what the legend claimed, the pooled treasure that was not distributed as promised, the community that devolved into the familiar pattern of the powerful taking from the people who trusted them. Sully learning this is the game's elder statesman receiving information that reframes the treasure's meaning. The treasure was not left by pirates who succeeded. It was left by pirates who failed in the same way that everything fails — when the idealism curdles into the logic it was supposed to replace.