The Lost Engineers

The Lost Engineers refer to special collectible Documents found in Rise of the Tomb Raider.

There are four total The Lost Engineers documents in the game.

Best Laid Plans
It is my great honor to have been given the responsibility of overseeing the construction of a shrine to the apostles, out in the far vale. The site is on the very borders of our newly founded City, through a distant canyon. The natural waterfalls and geothermal springs grant us an amazing opportunity to use our combined knowledge to create a place of solemn worship and reflection that glorifies not only the memory of the Apostles, but also our own recent advances in construction.

Already, we have outpaced the Empire we left behind. We will arrive in the morning, and break ground on a shrine to honor our past and the future of our City.

Lara's Thoughts
The founders planned to build a great shrine in the Vale...

Ill Omens
Construction on the shrine continues. We decided to build our shrine at the top of the Vale, high in the cliffs above the river. In the lower parts of the Vale, where we quarry the stone, we constructed an aerial lift to bring cargo straight to the shrine.

With all of our success thus far, I cannot ignore the ill omens. The two-headed wolf pup I found, dead in the forest, or the strange noises at night that no one can identify... And the murder, first in our new city.

Two journeymen were feared lost in a side passage collapse. But one emerged, two days later, raving mad and covered in his companion's blood. We are no strangers to violence, but I cannot shake the feeling that we have crossed some forbidden, invisible threshold.

Lara's Thoughts
As construction progressed, they must have come in contact with the pollen...

The Coming Madness
I have suspended all construction at the Shrine and ordered the workers to prepare for the return trip. I should have left weeks ago, sought advice from our city's wisest. The violence increased, slowly at first, and I passes it off as raw nerves, pressure to succeed, but now it cannot be denied that something evil inhabits the Vale.

It prays on our worst nature, makes us susceptible to dark suggestions. Yesterday, a young stonecutter brought me news of a scaffolding collapse that ruined much of the days work, Before I knew what was happening, my aide had to pull me off the youth, who lay bloodied and insensible.

When I washed my hands, I found a fragment of his teeth embedded in the flesh of my knuckles. I do not know myself any longer. It is time to leave.

Lara's Thoughts
They had no idea what was happening to them...

The Last Word
I am the last. There are others, wraiths who haunt the vale, but they are no longer human. They wear familiar faces, cry out for help in the voice of dead friends, but I will not believe their lies. My sword keeps them at bay, or quiets them if they will not stop screaming.

I tried to lead us to safety, I did. But someone collapsed the passage leading back to the city. Once we realized there would be no escape, we turned on each other. Now, a madman with a bow is perched high above the Vale, and he brings down the message-birds I sent with pleas for help.

The wraiths return, more than I can drive away. No one will survive this vale. Perhaps it is for the best. Let these, my last words, be a warning.

Lara's Thoughts
By the time they decided to flee, it was too late...