Angel De La Cruz

Angel De La Cruz is one of the Artifact Collections in Shadow of the Tomb Raider. It consists of six documents and one relic, all of which are found in the Mission of San Juan.

Relics

 * Wheel-Lock Pistol

De La Cruz Arrives
Brother de la Cruz appeared one day, emerging from the jungle, breathing new life into the mission. There were just three of us when he arrived, and Sister Doretea had been ill for many weeks. He and his associate began to work that first day.

By the next week, de la Cruz had recruited a workforce of three dozen. They have repaired the bell tower and worked the fields, planting crops. Brother de la Cruz aims to make us self-sufficient. We'd spent so long alone out here I'd worried we'd lose God's ear.

Lo and behold, we not only had His ear, but he sent another to act as His hands as well.

De La Cruz Leaves
The others are worried that Brothers de la Cruz and Serrano will not return. I have so far maintained they will. That they always have. But in my heart, I am beginning to believe we have seen the last of them, and that grief weighs heavily.

We will continue their work. Either they will return to find we have not forgotten the teachings, or they will look down on us from above, and bless our continued labors.

Journal of T. Serrano 10
25th of December, 1603

It has been four days since we turned away from the city. We travelled [sic] in silence, and in circled, guided by a confusion of grief, relief, and celebration.

Lopez and I exited the jungle and landed in a clearing, under the gaze of several faces carved into the side of the mountain. Lopez had an... episode, as he later called it. He threw himself in front of the faces and screamed for forgiveness. The heaviest sin on his heart was abandoning Perez to the strange warriors. They had grown close over the journey.

Try as I might, I could not console him. So, I built a fire and waited, as he decried his actions and pleaded for forgiveness from the silent stone faces.

Journal of T. Serrano 11
26th of December, 1603

Lopez woke me, having already prepared a Spartan breakfast.

"This is where we were meant to be," he said, a cold determination in his voice, so very different from how he acted just the day before.

I finished my meal, as he spoke of holy retribution. How he had acted in error, but now God had put His hands on his shoulders and shown him the path to walk.

"We will spread the true work of God from this small mission," he said, pointing to an adobe building just beyond the stone faces. "We will prepare the path for the Chosen One to follow, for only he who does will be worthy of this Box.

Journal of T. Serrano 12
30th of December, 1603

Lopez has just returned from a nearby village, and with him came a group he says will follow him, and help us with construction. There was something strange about his behavior. I attributed it to the long journey through the jungle. That night however, he admitted what had been bothering him.

"They've followed me," he whispered. "The others."

He walked off. I spent that sleepless night worrying about his deviations toward madness.

Journal of T. Serrano 13
18th of December, 1604

I've neglected this journal for far too long. We've worked hard to build the mission. Every day more people arrive, native villagers seeking conversion, soldiers tired of war, others who faith has been tested by the long, dangerous journey through the jungle. All lured by Lopez's gospel of purity through labor. We work from sunrise to sunset, and then Lopez, or Angel de la Cruz, as he now calls himself, spends hi evening preaching the mission's purpose: to test the Chosen One.

He's calmed considerably, and if he believes something pursues him still, he keeps it to himself.

Tomorrow we begin to build the library, where the Box will safely rest until it is ready to be found by the Chosen One.