The Nauts are a secretive guild full of sailors. As mentioned in the previous sentence, they are full of secrets. While they can be brought to keep certain secrets, such secrets can go for a ridiculous amount of money, given that anyone who isn't a Naut wants to know about them. How they work / function, what makes them great sailors, and what makes them the only ones to master the art of sailing in the universe of Greedfall. Of course, nothing gets past and not everyone knows how this guild works. What they do is transport both goods / cargo as well as people from one place to another across the sea.
They are also known to have the most advanced technology compare to the other factions we see in the game. Such as Dolphin's Cry, which is basically a sonar and helps measure the depths of the ocean, which no other could possible have this. Mind you, this is a new technology too the Nauts recently developed. They also have tools to measure and determine the weather.
While they have been around for a looooong while, they have their own island. It is a mystery what it looks like and what their city structure looks like, save for mentions. Such as when Lady Morange mentions that their city structure are not quite like many we see. It's not clustered together and the buildings are said to stand with a pretty good gap in between. The island is also where all the Nauts' ships are developed and created as well. We can assume that's where their technology is developed too, though it is unsure.
To look for a Naut, look for the facial tattoos (as seen throughout the video) or the seafarer uniform they are known to be wearing. While many Nauts do have facial tattoos, not every single one of them do. The higher rank you are, the more tattoos you'll get. Such as Admiral Cabral's face where she has the most tattoos we see so far. Vasco will get more tattoos - if you choose to do his personal quests - to retrieve such things.
The way the Nauts are recruited is in three ways. Either you are sea-born, sea-given, or a volunteer. Volunteers are a rarity, given not many tend to sign up for the life of a sailor. Not only because of how dangerous the sea can be, but also how many doesn't have high opinions on the Nauts, despite making businesses with them. We have seen one volunteer so far and that is Alba. I have yet to capture her moment in the game. Many Nauts are either sea-born or sea-given. Sea-born are Nauts that are born on the ships and handed over to the Nauts. A rule that is given after ensuring no more bloodshed some years back. Sea-given are children who are given up by their families because of either the truce that happened some years back or some kind of business the family wants. One of the examples is Jonas where his father gave him up for the sake of sailing. It various from family to family on why they have given up their children.
Once their child - or more - is given up, they will become anonymous to the family and will go by a different name. An example to this is Vasco. He is a sea-given and was given up by his family. He never knew his name until he went hunting for his true identity. We know - and almost his entire life, he - knew him by Vasco.
The chin tattoos will represent which you are. A sea-given or a sea-born. All volunteers are grouped into sea-givens.
Despite their way of recruiting can be quite awful, they are known to view each other as family. This is stated quite a few times throughout the game. Not only by Vasco, but also by Admiral Cabral. They always looking out for each other.
The known Nauts we have seen: Vasco, Jonas, Lauro, Flavia, Admiral Cabral, Ruben (not seen in the video above), Alba (not seen in the video above), unnamed Naut (that one man looking up while cleaning the ship), and Fernando. De Sardet is an optional choice if you choose to do Vasco's quests correctly and get the Nauts' tattoos.
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