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This is a list of the notes that are found in Amnesia: Rebirth, organized by area of discovery and content.

The Cassandra[]

Main article: The Cassandra (level)

Flight Plan[]

Hank's Dossier – Nicolas Masson[]

Hank's Dossier – Rachael Holt[]

Jonathan Webber's postcard[]

The Caves[]

Main article: The Caves

Salim & Tasi Photograph[]

Crew Roster[]

Crew Roster

Type:

Note

Location:

Found on a table a bit from the fireplace, next to a map.

Author:

James Henry "Hank" Mitchell

Date:

Modified ca. 3rd March 1937

Transcription

James Henry Mitchell – Expedtn Leader ✓
~~Rachael Holt – Assistant to Mr. Mitchell~~ ✓
Alexander Melville Sterling – Expedtn Sponsor ✓
Richard Fairchild – Assistant to Mr. Sterling ✓
Dr Anton Metzier – Expedtn Doctor ✓
Leon De Vries – Mining Supervisor ✓
Jonathan Webber – Engineer ✓
Anastasie Trianon – Engineering Drafter ✓
Eva Ritter – Geologist ✓

Lukas Ritter – Rifle ✓
Malick Tamboura – Guide ✓
Salim Hannachi – Guide ✓

~~Nicolas Masson – Pilot~~ ✓
Yasmin Chabani – Hostess ✓

Notes

Notably shows off what people died in the crash.

Map of Northern Africa[]

Asset Tally[]

Hank's Dossier – Anastasie Trianon[]

Anastasie Trianon

Type:

Note

Location:

Found in a briefcase, right next to the table containing the map and crew roster.

Author:

James Henry "Hank" Mitchell

Transcription

Anastasie Trianon

Engineering Drafter
Papers: Not needed, French national.
Travel From: Le Bourget

Tasi, Tasi... really don't know how best to handle this. Sure she'll cope in the field – this is not a difficult trip, we've been on much worse – but the last year has been hell for her. That call from Paris... she sounded so broken.

Guess all I can do is look out for her, try to keep her busy. Need to prod Malick and Rachael to do the same.

She's got Salim here too, which will help. I really, really hope this is what she needs – that it can start mending things for her. For both of them.

Notes

One of Hank's notes.

Engineering Document[]

Alex and Richard Photo[]

Webber's Goodbye[]

Webber's Goodbye

Type:

Note

Location:

Found on a plane seat in the middle of a cave, continuing on the path from the previous room.

Author:

Jonathan Webber

Date:

4th March 1937

Transcription

For Amanda Webber
23 Brackenhill Road
London

My darling Amanda,

By now you'll know about the crash, and you'll know that our situation is a bit sticky. We're off for a walk through the desert, to see if we can find a radio or a village or some other sort of help. Everyone's putting a brave face on it, but no-one really knows what's going to happen.

So maybe this is it, maybe this is the last you'll hear. If it is – I'm sorry, my love. I suppose it's my fault for wanting a big adventure. I should have stayed home after all.

Please tell them both that I love them. Tell Susan that she's the best girl in the world, and tell Alfie to look after his sister.

Now I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes and my hands are trembling and I just don't know what to write. I don't know how to say goodbye. I can't believe this is goodbye. I love you my darling girl. I know in my heart we'll see each other again. Even if it's not in this life.

Your Jonathan

Yasmin's ID[]

Encyclopedia Entry[]

Encyclopedia Entry

Type:

Note

Location:

Found behind a briefcase on a pile of clothes in the same room as Yasmin's ID.

Author:

Unknown contributor to the Encyclopædia Britannica.

Transcription

ALGERIA (contd.)

The colonization of Algeria was rendered difficult by the presence of a native population which already had its own civilization, and was nomad and warlike in its instincts. A start was made in the region of the Tell, and then the mountains and high plateu-land were taken in hand. There has been a spontaneous flor of Italian and Spanish immigration, and a system of land grants and other concessions have attracted large numbers of immigrants from the south of France who have settled fown well in the country. Between 1904 and 1914, 206,000 hectares of land had been settled, of which 91,200 were free grants.

Mines.—The country is rich in minerals, which, however, have not been thoroughly exploited. The chief mineral resource is iron, the exports of which in 1920 amounted to 1,114,438 tons, valued at 33.879,000 francs. There are large phosphate deposits in the Con- stantine [sic] province, which exported 334,704 tons in 1920 to a value of 18j million francs. There are also copper, zinc, lead, and antimony mines. Coal deposits were discovered during the war, and the work of British and American propectors in the Oran indicates the possibility of existence of oil fields of some size.

Native rights.—The valuable help given by the native population of Algiers to France during the World War led, as it did in other parts of the French colonial empire, to a wider recognition of the political rights of the native. A law was passed, Feb. 4 1919, conferring French citizenship on any native of Algeria who had either served in the French army or navy, was a land-owner, farmer, or licensed trader, knew how to read and write French, or was the possessor of a French decoration.

Encyclopaedia Britannica [ Page 87 ]

Notes

Paragraph on native rights only visible while reading the in-game transcription.

Hank's Dossier – Eva Ritter[]

Eva's Suicide Note[]

German Poem[]

German Poem

Type:

Note

Location:

On a rock near Lukas' grave.

Author:

Matthias Claudius

Date:

ca. 1778

Transcription

Wie ist die Welt so stille,
Und in der Dämmrung Hülle
So traulich und so hold!
Als eine stille Kammer,
Wo ihr des Tages Jammer
Verschlafen und vergessen sollt.

Seht ihr den Mond dort stehen?
Er ist nur halb zu sehen,
Und ist doch rund und schön.
So sind wohl manche Sachen,
Die wir getrost belachen,
Weil unsre Augen sie nicht sehn.

Wir stolze Menschenkinder
Sind eitel arme Sünder,
Und wissen gar nicht viel;
Wir spinnen Luftgespinste,
Und suchen viele Künste,
Und kommen weiter von dem Ziel.

Gott, laß uns dein Heil schauen,
Auf nichts vergänglichs trauen,
Nicht Eitelkeit uns freun!
Laß uns einfältig werden,
Und vor dir hier auf Erden
Wie Kinder fromm und fröhlich sein!

Notes

Part of real-life German lullaby "Der Mond ist aufgegangen" (The moon has risen).

English translation by Margarete Münsterberg^[1]

How still the world reposes,
While twilight round it closes,
So peaceful and so fair!
A quiet room for sleeping,
Into oblivion steeping
The day’s distress and sober care.

Look at the moon so lonely!
One half is shining only,
Yet she is round and bright;
Thus oft we laugh unknowing
At things that are not showing,
That still are hidden from our sight.

We, with our proud endeavour,
Are poor vain sinners ever,
There’s little that we know.
Frail cobwebs we are spinning,
Our goal we are not winning,
But straying farther as we go.

God, make us see Thy glory,
Distrust things transitory,
Delight in nothing vain!
Lord, here on earth stand by us,
To make us glad and pious,
And artless children once again!

Photo of Lukas[]

Salim's Note[]

Page from Salim's Diary (1)[]

Page from Salim's Diary (2)[]

Scrap of Paper[]

Hank's Dossier – Lukas Ritter[]

Page from Salim's Diary (3)[]

Page from Salim's Diary (4)[]

The Dark World[]

Main article: The Dark World

Explorer's Note (1)[]

Explorer's Note

Type:

Note

Location:

After entering the Dark World and moving across the cliffside, the note can be found on the ground at the right side near some roots.

Author:

Professor Thurston Aloysius Herbert

Date:

1839

Transcription

Nothing progresses. Time does not change things. Light does not move across the sky, nor does it grow dimmer or brighter. And yet time must pass. My mouth is dry and I feel the pangs of hunger.

Weyer's notes predicted instability of the flow of time around the junctions between worlds, where one step might carry one between years, but might preserve the body in its current state. Or, indeed, where the body changed, but time did not pass for the world around. Is that what has happened? Is this whole world frozen in a moment after its destruction?

How could I ever tell, and what would change if I knew the answer?

I have given up on the attempt to find the portal. I have a notion that I could apply Weyer's predictions on the weakness of the fabric between worlds, if only I could map them in some form.

Explorer's Note (2)[]

Explorer's Note (3)[]

Explorer's Note

Type:

Note

Location:

Inside the structure where Herbert's dead body is found, on the right side.

Author:

Professor Thurston Aloysius Herbert

Date:

1839

Transcription

There are shadows of the dead in the ruins. Those who lived here were human, or near it. So perhaps this was Zezura, after all, or Eden, or some other stronghold of humanity... but whatever this place once was, it is shattered.

These must have been the gate-builders. But what horror could cause such destruction? Surely even the Shadow cannot destroy a whole world?

There is no sign of a portal. Even if I were to find one, the orb was lost to the Shadow, and I do not have another.

There is something else here, stirring in the fog. I see bright lights as it hunts, and hear it's cries. I do not think it is alive.

Herbert's Final Note[]

Herbert's Final Note

Type:

Note

Location:

Right next to Herbert's dead body.

Author:

Professor Thurston Aloysius Herbert

Date:

1839

Transcription

I am defeated. There is no way back. There is nowhere to go.

I have searched for a portal but there is none. I have triangulated the weakest points with Lévi's calculations, but I cannot tear a rift, for I do not have a Traveller's Amulet.

I did not heed Brennenburg's warning. Yet what choice did I have? The Shadow sensed the Orb. I had to risk all and step through the portal.

There is no water, and no other means of sustenance. I will not live long.

If you, reader, traveller, from whatever world you come, if you comprehend, and if you know enough to speak to those of the human world called Earth, let them know this: I was the first to solve the mysteries of the gatebuilders. I was the first human to breach the boundaries between worlds. I, Professor Thurston Aloysius Herbert, of Cambridge, England, was the first.

God forgive me.

Weyer's Map[]

Tin Hinan Note (1)[]

Tin Hinan Note

Type:

Note

Location:

On the left side of the staircase leading deeper into the Dark World.

Author:

Professor Thurston Aloysius Herbert

Date:

1839

Transcription

The Tuareg call her the Woman of the Tents, or the Mother of Us All. A local tribe related to the Tuareg, the Kel Hanan, call her the Great Queen. In legend she is Tin Hinan, a Berber princess, who found a source of food in the desert and founded a Tuareg tribe.

The mount itself is named for her, and indeed her body may lie within it, in the ruins just beneath the surface. But there is more, much more, to this structure.

It is clear that the deeper ruins are Roman, as Weyer predicted, and there we may find a Mithraeum, set by the Romans to protect the gateway we seek.

Once within... what wonders will we see?

Explorer's Note (4)[]

Explorer's Note

Type:

Note

Location:

In the sand at the immediate right side of the very next rift you reach.

Author:

Professor Thurston Aloysius Herbert

Date:

1839

Transcription

It is working. Lévi's calculations applied to the measurements clearly show a variance, as if there are great centres of attraction which draw all towards them. These must be the weak points that Weyer spoke of. I have identified two good candidates, and one excellent. But I have no means to proceed.

The Traveller's Amulet, according to Weyer, should focus these energies and provoke the weak points to tear open, forming a rift between this world and another. But I have no amulet.

If I remember his treatise, rifts can form without an amulet, but that is down to the alignment of the spheres and their stars. I cannot move the stars.

I will find some way. I must.

The Room[]

Main article: The Room

Notice of Rejection[]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland[]

The Deeper Caves[]

Main article: The Deeper Caves

Hank's Dossier – Salim Hannachi[]

Salim's Final Note[]

The Desert Path[]

Main article: The Desert Path

Burned Page[]

Game of Hearts[]

Images of women[]

Hank's Dossier – Jonathan Webber[]

The Fortress Courtyard[]

Main article: The Fortress Courtyard

Hank's Dossier – Malick Tamboura[]

The Fortress[]

Main article: The Fortress

Crossbow Sketch[]

Hank's Dossier – Dr. Anton Metzier[]

Mathieu's Note[]

Poem[]

Tihanu Note[]

Ifrit Text[]

Ghul Text[]

Hatif Text[]

Ashen Mother Text[]

Telegraph Messages[]

Letter to Hazel[]

Letter to Hazel

Type:

Note

Location:

After fixing the elevator and riding it up to the second floor, continue the stairs up to the left of the elevator. The note is hidden in a box in a corner underneath some planks.

Author:

Daniel

Date:

16 May 1839

Transcription

16th May 1839

Dearest Hazel

I hope this letter finds you well. We are now in the desert proper, and the heat is beyond belief. We have taken shelter in the courtyard of a ruined fortress until the sun is lower. There is nothing but desolation outside, mountainous crags amidst endless waves of sand. Professor Herbert is certain he can find the route to the tomb, although I cannot see how, for the dunes shift and change.

~~I have written on your behalf to father, but I do not think he will~~ [...]

Hank's Dossier – Yasmin Chabani[]

Kel Hanan Note[]

Kel Hanan Note

Type:

Note

Location:

In the nearby lit room with the French flag.

Author:

Sgt. Fournier^{[note 1]}

Transcription

The good captain, he has to play the fair-minded statesman, pretend the Kel Hanan are more than savages, give them 'the benefit of doubt'. He is an ass. That lot up at Tesemt are worse than the Bedouin, even the Tuareg do not trust them. I remember the stories Maxime told; they skinned two of Albert's troop, left them there to die, screaming, salt rubbed into the flesh, all in the name of this 'great mother' of theirs. They put on pretty smiles and give the captain painted rocks, but they're the worst of devils. They aren't so many. Slaughter them and make excuses later, if I were commander. Maybe we'll do it anyway.

Michel's Note[]

Captain's Diary Page (1)[]

Captain's Diary Page

Type:

Note

Location:

In a hidden room reachable by balancing across a bed over a hole in the ground in a small room near the broken cannon, and then crawling through a hole in the wall.

Author:

Captain Augustin Lefévre

Transcription

13th March 1929
Deputation from the Kel Hanan. Further complaints of behaviour of Legios Lauritz and Desrosiers around the women. Acknowledged complaint, assurance it will not be repeated. Ordered punishment, but not in front of locals. Apparent that the men need some activity to keep them occupied. I have given orders to start excavation of the lower chambers.

18th March 1929
Men have broken through to an underground chamber. Impressive architecture. Rubble to be cleared, and then evaluation of the site. Cpl. Lavoie reports activity on lower slopes. Speculates retaliation from the village, but hard to believe. Guard doubled.

19th March 1929
Delacroix and Desrosiers absent. Sgt. Fournier believes them to be hiding in the cistern.

21st March 1929
Cpl. Khalid found Desrosiers in cellar, dead. No sign of Delacroix. Suspect argument, accidental killing, & desertion.

Captain's Diary Page (2)[]

The Arsenal[]

Main article: The Arsenal

Good's Ledger[]

Sulfur Note[]

Saltpeter Note[]

Stores Shifts Note[]

Off-limits Items Note[]

Captain's Final Note[]

Captain's Final Note

Type:

Note

Location:

On the altar in the cage where you find the sulfur.

Author:

Captain Augustin Lefévre

Transcription

To those who come after us:

I have failed. We tried to die in defiance, but these devils will not allow it. The screaming does not stop. I cannot shut it out. I cannot bear it.

They treat my men as a cruel child treats a puppy, revelling in the joy of their pain, and they watch me all the while. Aldéric keeps crying my name. Gardinier has stopped breathing. He is the lucky one.

Suicide is a sin, but the Lord has deserted us, and I will not give these demons their satisfaction. So here I take my stand, and make my death on my own terms.

I pray you, do not tell my Aurelie of this fate. Tell her we died in some glorious, noble purpose, and that I was a father to be proud of. She has done nothing to deserve this hurt.

Sine Deo,
Capt. Augustin Lefévre

Laudanum Guidelines[]

The Cistern[]

Main article: The Cistern

Survey Note[]

Cistern Diagram[]

Conquest Note[]

Book Fragment[]

Pilgrim's Note[]

Page on Asyriel[]

Page on Asyriel

Type:

Note

Location:

In a chest next to the shelf.

Author:

Johann Weyer, among others

Transcription

Asyriel – Goëtia

Ruling in the Southwest part of the World, & hath 20 great Dukes to attend him in the Day & as many in the Night, who have under them several servants to attend them, & we mention 8 of the chief Dukes that belong to the Day & as many that belong to the Night, because they are sufficient for practise, & the first 4 that belong to the Day hath 40 servants apiece under them & so hath the first 4 that belong to the Night, & the last 4 of the Day, 20 & the last 4 of the Night 10 apiece. They are all good-natured & willing to obey thee, those that are of the Day to be called in the Day, & those of the Night, in the Night, & these be their names & seals that followeth:

His 8 Dukes follow that belong to the Day.
Olitors seal – Carga seal
Buniels seal – Rabas seal
Arisat seal – Ariel seal
Cuopiel seal – Malugel seal

Notes

It is an excerpt from the Ars Theurgia Goetia.

Cylinder: The Coronation[]

The Oasis[]

Main article: The Oasis

Hank's Dossier – Alexander Melville Sterling[]

Alexander Melville Sterling

Type:

Note

Location:

On the right side of the oasis, next to some baskets and boxes.

Author:

James Henry "Hank" Mitchell

Transcription

Alexander Melville Sterling

The Money
Papers: British, will need a Visa.
Travel From: Croydon, with us.

Alex Sterling, son of Robert Sterling. He's the money. Coming with us to feel like the big boss man and have an adventure, I reckon.

Met up with him in Mayfair. Cheerful and charming and willing to get along and swears he'll know his place and follow all our advice. Yeah. Will believe it when I see it.

Maybe leave wrangling to Rachael? She knows how to navigate the British upper classes. Need to keep him sweet, but no special treatment. Can't travel without his private secretary – not a great start!

Notes

One of Hank's notes.

Note from Tasi[]

Note from Tasi

Type:

Note

Location:

On the idol to Tin Hinan.

Author:

Anastise "Tasi" Trianon

Date:

4 March 1937

Transcription

Left:

4th March 1937

I am Tasi Trianon. I survived the crash of the plane Cassandra. With me are Hank Mitchell, Yasmin Chabani, Dr Anton Metzier, Leon De Vries, and Malick Tamboura.

My husband Salim and others are in a cave near the crash, and need help.

Some have died. Richard Fairchild could not handle what we saw here; he ran. Alex Sterling has gone afer him. We can't wait. We must do something that is utter insanity.

Hank Mitchell, our leader and my friend, was badly wounded by a creature in the fort. Yasmin calls it a ghûl, a flesh eating monster from desert legends. She may be right.

Right:

Hank is losing blood fast, and he will die. There is no time to get to help.

There is a shrine here to a local spirit. This will sound like madness: she appeared to us. A figure of glowing light. She spoke to us. She offered healing, and to save us from the desert. And I, I agreed!

She led us to an amulet, hidden in the shrine. I took it. Now there is a shimmering doorway in the rock. I swear it wasn't there before. If we step through, Hank might live.

He is so pale.

Oh Salim, I don't know what else to do? This is crazy! But I promise, I promise I will return to you.

Hank's Dossier – Richard Fairchild[]

Richard Fairchild

Type:

Note

Location:

After conversing with the doctor over the radio and seeing the smoke in the distance, walk to the top of the sandstone structure in the desert. The note can be found near a small table and carpet near the top.

Author:

James Henry "Hank" Mitchell

Transcription

Richard Fairchild

Private Secretary (?)
Papers: British, will need a Visa.
Travel From: Croydon, with us.

Richard Fairchild – Sterling's private secretary. What's Sterling planning to do, write a book?

Seems like dead weight. Pale kinda fella who looks like he'd run a mile if a gazelle coughed at him. Said he's like to try his hand at hunting, but I can't see him hurting a fly.

Same as Sterling, I guess – make sure he feels part of the expedition, but no special treatment.

Notes

One of Hank's notes.

The Alchemist's Chambers[]

Main article: The Alchemist's Chambers

Medical Investigation[]

Fertility Investigation[]

Fertility Investigation

Type:

Tablet

Location:

On the same table as the previous note.

Author:

Atharu

Transcription

Under the sign of Bahna, on the fourth rise, at the eighth calling, I, Atharu, make this record.

As Temaku directs, I have compared the most ancient of our records of the Empress's malady with the newly taken samples.

In the earliest of samples, Temaku was correct, the nutritive flow to both organs of generativity were intact, albeit reduced, and therefore they would have been functional before the spinal repair.

However, since the influx of vitae, the organs are now entirely withered. Why has the substance not reconstructured them? Did the degenerative malady affect them permanently before the treatment began?

I have asked whether I should prepare a report for the Empress, but Temaku informs me that this is unnecessary – it is, of course, merely of alchemical interest, and no matter for concern, for She is eternal.

In Her name.

Political Letter[]

Political Letter

Type:

Tablet

Location:

On a table in an adjoining room.

Transcription

Ilyander, Septarch of the Enkindled Fortress, has despatched messengers to the Outer Isles under the guise of a trade mission, despite our previous warning. It is my recommendation that we relocate three fists of the second regiment to the Isles immediately.

On the matter of the harvested stock – it has been suggested that with the new chamber development the need for such stock will diminish. I believe that is shortsighted. This new capacity surely means that we are at liberty to increase the number of factories – with that, we can vastly increase our defence capability as well as increase standards of living across the Empire. This new expertise is a gift – we would be wise to make use of it.

Instruct me, Great Empress, and I will inform the council of your decision.

In Your name Eternal.

Cylinder: Patient's Thoughts[]

Cylinder: Patient's Thoughts

Type:

Memory capsule

Location:

On the same table as the political letter.

Author:

Empress Tihana

Transcription

I find myself again confined. A day should not matter, but each day feels like waste – there is so much to do. Temaku tells me that now, with vitae, I have forever, but the people who depend on me do not. There is always something – invasion, rivalry, sickness, penury. I have my duty.

Perhaps I should end these sessions, now they have found a way to stabilise the disease. I should be ecstatic, I should accept my fate, and move on. It is such a faint hope that they can find any way to heal me, that they can find any way to grant my dearest wish.

"Now you are eternal," says Temaku. "Now you need no heir."

None of them understand. This is not about politics, or securing a future. This is not for the Empire. This is for me. Just for me.

Gate Instructions[]

Cylinder: The Fall[]

Cylinder: The Fall

Type:

Memory capsule

Location:

Next to the alchemist.

Author:

Kita

Transcription

There was a white sun at the The Great Gate. It tore the air and the land. A corruption of living flesh crawls from the hole in the world, and it turns all to ash and rust. The control stones have turned against my kindred, shaping them into floating wraiths of nightmare. The City falls. I am to blame.

My companions took my formula, some to use it to destroy the vitae at the Gate, others to infect the vitae pipelines and end the suffering. The Gate has indeed fallen, but catastrophically, unleashing energies beyond belief. Still the factories scream. We have failed, in the worst of ways.

It is my duty to stay at my post, to see if I can find means to end it. I have no choice but to use the vitae. An ocean holds the Great Empress to life, so a meager portion will suffice for me.

If any find this record, know that I was the traitor Kita, alchemist, apprentice to Temaku. Forgive us our folly.

Cylinder: The Flesh[]

Cylinder: The Formula[]

The Portal Chamber[]

Main article: The Portal Chamber

Leyden Jar Note[]

Diary Page (1)[]

Note to Von Brennenburg[]

Herbert's Manuscript[]

Herbert's Manuscript

Type:

Note

Location:

In a box at the foot of Herbert's bed in his tent.

Author:

Professor Thurston Aloysius Herbert

Date:

ca. May 1839

Transcription

A Door to Many Worlds
by
T A Herbert, B.A. (Hons), M.A., ?FRS?

Foreword
Few would have said As I write this memoir, I am my Great Endeavour [sic] is on the verge of completion. That very threshold which has eluded the members of our fellowship down the ages lies before me, and I, Thurston Herbert, have the keys within my grasp to open it. What great beauties, what bounteous Paradises, may lie beyond the gate? Surely, it will lead to the Arctic deeps, to the megalithic structures in Brazil, to anywhere within our realm. Yet we may go further.

The evidence has been before our eyes since the days of Adam. I use that example advisedly, for, surely, the story of Adam is the Hebrew retelling of our first arrival, thrust out of that Garden of Eden and into this harsh world. Beyond the gate lies the Garden, the place of our making, our womb, and I will be the first since Adam to– [...]

Notes

In-game transcription includes a second instance of "(Hons)", after "M.A." in the third line.

Note to Professor[]

Diary Page (2)[]

Note to Khaled[]

Note to Abdullah (1)[]

Note to Abdullah

Type:

Note

Location:

In the third tent, on the table underneath a book.

Author:

Professor Thurston Aloysius Herbert

Date:

May 1839

Transcription

Abdullah,

Khaled will take on Daniel's duties. You are to commence excavation of the side-tunnels immediately. Break down the Roman walls if you must, they are irrelevant. Anything older than Roman, investigate. If there are any more markings such as are in the room with the cage, I wish to hear about them. Any records, carvings, or signs that resemble my amulet, I wish to hear about them. Any round stone of crystal, do not touch it on pain of death, but summon me at once.

Notes

In-game transcription renders eighth row as "[...] an amulet or bracelet, I wish to hear about them. Any round stone of [...]".

The Chamber of Pillars[]

Main article: The Chamber of Pillars

Wall Diagram Note[]

Pillar Mechanism Note[]

Tin Hinan Note (2)[]

Translation Note (1)[]

Hank's Dossier – Leon De Vries[]

Cylinder: Accession[]

Cylinder: Accession

Type:

Memory capsule

Location:

In an adjoining room, on a shelf on the right.

Transcription

The Accession of Tihana. Life leeched out of the daughter of Atua with every breath. The Empress decreed she must live, that the line must continue. Temaku and their order fought to keep the life in her, as she drifted in the borders, and they searched– [static]

[static] –the blades to the parting of her spine, but her womb would not quicken, and the life ebbed and the light in her eyes faded, so Temaku– [static]

[static] –stood before them, radiant with the light of the moons, and whole, the essence flowing through her. Yet her mother was– [static]

[static] –took up the orb from Atua's lifeless brow, and called Temaku to her, and a fierce light was in her eyes. She took that day her new name, and that was the first day of the endless rule of resplendent Tihana, who is no mother, and yet is mother of us all.

Pillar and Lines Note[]

Translation Note (2)[]

The Hunting Grounds[]

Main article: The Hunting Grounds

Device Note[]

Device Note

Type:

Note

Location:

On a table near the beginning of the level.

Author:

Professor Thurston Aloysius Herbert

Date:

May 1839

Transcription

T.A.H

We cannot reach the device, attempts to break the metal have failed, as it is of the same strange composition as the leyden jars. A thorough analysis is impossible until we can get closer, but my theory is that the leyden jars are containers for some form of energetic aetheric fluid, and that the device in the room below is some means of gathering such fluid to fill those jars.

What exactly it is drawn from is unclear – surely not simply the surrounding atmosphere, it would require something with a great deal more vitality.

I have sent the boy Rashid below with a paint-pot and brush, and told him to mark any route he finds clearly.

Vitae Note[]

Cylinder: Hunting Grounds[]

Hunting Note[]

Cylinder: No Word[]

The Catacombs[]

Main article: The Catacombs

Bloodline List[]

Leon's Note (1)[]

Leon's Note

Type:

Note

Location:

After escaping the tunnels and dropping down into a storage room, it's immediately on a chest in front of where you drop down.

Author:

Leon De Vries

Date:

March 1937

Transcription

Losing it. Couldn't even get my name just now. Writin it down. Leon. It's Leon. Leon De Vries. From Cape Town. Father Charles. Mother Ilsa.

Gold mining job. Putting in machines. Upping the yield. Streamlined, efficient, making the lazy bastards work for a change.

Crashed in the desert. Bunch of upper class pielkops. Fuckin crazy shit. There was a ghost. I think there was a ghost. Maybe dreaming it. A broken face, split in two. Vines, vines everywhere.

That fuckin French bitch Tasi. She only had to do one fuckin thing.

Her fault. Her fault I'm losing it. She killed us all.

Leon's Note (2)[]

Leon's Note (3)[]

Leon's Note (4)[]

The Theater[]

Main article: The Theater

Note on the Apostate[]

The Laboratory[]

Main article: The Laboratory

Cylinder: Sacrifice[]

Cylinder: Pavlos[]

Hand Diagram[]

Body Diagram[]

Cylinder: Grass[]

Note on Shuttles[]

Cylinder: Warmth[]

Note on Vitae Flow[]

Note on Memory Process (1)[]

Note on Memory Process (2)[]

Process Subject 1143SV[]

Process Subject 1144SV[]

Process Subject 1145SV[]

Cylinder: Breakthrough[]

Cylinder: Breakthrough

Type:

Memory capsule

Location:

On the same table as the previous three tablets.

Author:

Atharu

Transcription

Under the sign of Idu, on the fourth rise, at the second calling, I, Atharu, make this record.

Research into the revised chamber has led to a breakthrough. Introducing the memory capsules allows for a more intense reaction to the pain, rising to a Tansur level of seventeen immediately. The subjects no longer rapidly burn out. Our supply problem is solved.

Direct stimulation of the nerves, followed by a dose of elixir of Emmerysh, followed by an application of the subject's own best memories. Or, to view it another way, fear, oblivion, hope.

Fear, oblivion, hope. It is so simple. Without fear there is not vitae. Without hope there is no fear.

So recorded, in Her name eternal.

Cylinder: Sorrow[]

Cylinder: Sand[]

The Lower Factory[]

Main article: The Lower Factory

Cylinder: Sabotage[]

Cylinder: Sabotage

Type:

Memory capsule

Location:

Next to where you pick up the Capsules.

Author:

Taina

Transcription

I am trapped. I will die here.

We have failed. Our sabotage shattered the The Great Gate, and the world has shattered with it. My own eyes have seen the most skilled of my kindred wither into floating wraiths of nightmare.

Despite all, the Empress still lives, crouching atop the tower like some vast spider, draining life and pain from the factories. It was our task to bring her reign to an end, and I failed.

I still have Kita's formula. If any – companion, stranger, explorer of the ruins – finds this, then take the vial. It will seed the red flesh into the vitae, and spread it through the system. Finish my work. End the suffering. Forgive our folly.

The Apartment[]

Main article: The Apartment

Consultant's Letter[]

The Tower[]

Main article: The Tower

Cylinder: Last Hope[]

Cylinder: Last Hope

Type:

Memory capsule

Location:

After leaving the duct and before entering the lobby area, take a path down a corridor to the right into a room filled with Shadow residue. The cylinder is on the floor.

Author:

Kita

Transcription

Taina, closer than kin,

Take these vials. They contain my formula. There are four major vitae flows into her tower. Find the maintenance ports. One vial should suffice for each.

Seeding the flesh into a flow should choke it, cut off her supply, and wreak havoc at the factory outlets themselves. But be wary. The red flesh is volatile, and unless all the flows are stopped, the constant cycle of pain and fear will continue and our penance will not end.

I know that, if you succeed, the tower will fall and we will not meet again in this world. But perhaps, if the true ancestors deem that we have atoned for this great sin, we may yet meet again in another place.

All my hopes go with you.

In all our names, eternal.

Hank's Dossier – James Henry Mitchell[]

James Henry Mitchell

Type:

Note

Location:

In the lobby, on the floor with the fountain, at the right side from where you first enter, at a windowsill.

Author:

James Henry "Hank" Mitchell

Transcription

James Henry Mitchell

Team Lead
Papers: Up-to-date from last year
Travel From: Croydon

And I'm writing notes on myself... why, exactly?

"Hank Mitchell is the finest expedition leader you'll ever meet, and the way to his heart is to make sure there's a pint of coffee available at 8am and two fifths of bourbon at 11pm."

Things to do:
– Talk to Rachael and Malick about the Tasi situation.
– Make sure Rachael knows the pecking order wrt Alex Sterling, and that I won't bite her head off if she comes to me with problems, but also Malick and Tasi can back her up.

Notes

One of Hank's notes.

Removed notes[]

In-game files[]

These notes were removed from the game, but can still be found in the in-game files.

Adeline's Postcard[]

Camille's Postcard[]

Magazine Article[]

Survey Document[]

Page from Salim's Diary (5)[]

Map[]

Afrikaans Book[]

Patrol Letter[]

Debt List[]

Gunpowder Recipe[]

Mathematics Book[]

Book of Flowers[]

Note on Predators[]

Note on Predators

Type:

Note

Location:

Originally meant to appear in level The Fortress.

Transcription

My cousin in the military office says that many caravans have disappeared here over the years, more than can be put down to mischance. That is why we are here, to make sure the locals are not acting as bandits. But according to Musa from the village, they have lost their own people too. He talks about beasts – his French is not good, but he did not mean a jackal or a big cat. Some other large predator. There must be a lair nearby.

I spoke with Abbas, who brought the new supply shipment from Abalessa. He told me some horror story about a group of archaeologists who were slaughtered out here many years ago – only one worker survived and claimed the rest had been eaten by beasts. They were camped somewhere near the village.

Note on Artefacts[]

Note on Claw Marks[]

Memorial Note[]

Note to Abdullah (2)[]

Translation Note (3)[]

Cylinder: Ocean[]

Cylinder: Rope[]

Cylinder: Hands[]

Basic Field Manual[]

Rudolf's Note[]

Mask Sketch[]

Leyden Jar Sketch[]

Super secret[]

Main article: Super Secret file (Rebirth)

These notes were removed from the game, but can be found in the super secret file.

Mining Letter[]

Letter from Antoine[]

Letter from Antoine

Type:

Note

Author:

Antoine R

Transcription

My dear Anastasie,

I am so sorry to hear of your troubles. It is deeply unfair for fate to deal you such a cruel blow so soon after losing your father. I regret that I cannot offer anything to salve your grief, except my sympathies.

I hope that I can aid with more mundane matters. I will do all in my power regarding the matter of Salim's citizenship. I have a contact at Place Beauvau, and I will write to them immediately and see what can be done.

If there is anything else, do not hesitate to contact me. I would have done anything for Victor; I shall do no less for his daughter.

Yours faithfully,
Antoine R

Notes

This note was originally meant to appear in level The Cassandra.

Newspaper Article[]

Yasmin Poem[]

Notes from promotional material[]

These notes were released as part of promotional material before the game was released.

Cassandra Crash Newspaper Article[]

Cassandra Crash Newspaper Article

Type:

Note

Transcription

Left:

Fears Grow for Sterling Heir

Algiers: The British Embassy issued an update today on the search for the missing aeroplane Cassandra, which disappeared while on a flight from Algiers to French Sudan. In the statement, Mr Harrole, secretary to the Ambassador, made it clear that while the British and French Governments are cooperating to pursue all possibilities, it is increasingly likely that no survivors will be found.

The plane was last heard from on the 3rd of March as it began the second leg of its journey, which would place it somewhere between In Salah and Kayes. It is [thought that it] may have come down in the desert.

Right:

[Image of the Cassandra]
Cassandra, Maison Blanche, February 1937

The private flight on behalf of the Triple Crown Mining Company was led by Alexander Melville Sterling, eldest son of Robert Sterling, head of the London-based Sterling Shipping Company. No representative of the company was available for comment.

London International Register 6th March 1937

Box 12, Recent Acquisitions[]

Box 12, Recent Acquisitions

Type:

Note

Location:

This note is part of the Box 12, Recent Acquisitions trailer released on Frictional Games' YouTube channel on 4 March 2020.

Transcription

There is an itching behind my eyes. As if a beetle burrows there, in the folds of my brain, boring its way in, mandibles tearing at grey matter. As if a gnarled finger has been pushed into my skull, a broken fingernail working into my thoughts. I want to reach in with a needle to scratch it. Or perhaps a piece of wire. Through the tear-duct, threading through the lacrimal canal.

Thread-like black worms swim in my eyes. When I think about them they are agitated and start to thrash around. They know I am scared. And it makes them worse.

If I hold myself still, If I ease my mind, if I empty my head and try not to be afraid of... Then the itching fades to the tickling of a feather. I've tried filling myself with the notes of a song, or the colours of a beautiful picture, but it doesn't work. Only emptiness gives me any [bloodstain]

I wish I had my gun.

References[]

Notes

↑ Note file name is "note sgtfournier.dds"
↑ Note file name is "Note khaled to herbert.dds"

References

↑ Münsterberg, Margarete. A Harvest of German Verse. 1916.

[2] Note file name is "note sgtfournier.dds"

[3] Note file name is "Note khaled to herbert.dds"

[1] Münsterberg, Margarete. A Harvest of German Verse. 1916.

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