In the twilight of a storm-tossed age, when the sea still held secrets and the wind whispered omens through rigging and sail, there lived a sailor whose heart beat only for one soul. Her name was Elira, a healer's daughter with salt in her hair and magic at her fingertips. They grew up together in a small village by the sea. Born just days apart, their eternal love was always fated. Neither had ever known a life without the other.

She never wanted him to become a sailor, but the salt water had always whispered to his soul and work was scarce in the village. So with each new voyage across the horizon, Elira would wait at the cliffs, shawl wrapped tight, as his ship vanished into the distance taking her heart with him. 

But one fateful Autumn, the sea grew jealous.

Through angry orange and red-hued skies burst a raging tempest. As lightning split the atmosphere and waves rose like mountains, the sailor’s vessel was caught in a storm unlike any he had seen. Desperate to return to his beloved, he pushed the ship to its limit and beyond. But it wasn’t he who perished that night—it was Elira, lifted up by the sea as she stood on the rocks, as she screamed his name through the wind.

When he returned to the shore and found her gone, the grief consumed him.

He turned his ship around, torn sails and battered planks and all, following her calls echoing across the waves. With his eyes hollowed by regret and a compass carved with her name, he vowed to never to return to the land without her. Around his neck he wore a token of her: a locket with her portrait hidden inside, worn close to his heart.

Land-dwellers never saw him again.

To this day they say his ghost ship still sails beneath blood moons and mist-covered dawns, searching without end. Legends detail a faceless silhoeutte at the bow of a ship that never reaches the land, with Autumn being the most common time for sightings; maybe as the anniversary of her death passes, or perhaps because this is the time of year the spirits are closest to the earth.

Our vintage inspired Ghost Ship Necklace is our relic of that legend. With intricate gothic detailing and a haunting silhouette, she is crafted for those that carry an eternal love in their hearts and would drift to the ends of the earth to find it...