Updated 2/23/25(†)
You obtain Von Croy's Notebook in Margot Carvier's Apartment. Open your INVENTORY (Esc on keyboard, View/Create/Share on controller), press Down to select 'Notebook,' Enter/Action to open it, then use direction buttons to browse the pages. The first 19 entries are the notes Von Croy's made before Lara got the book.
During gameplay, the notebook icon appears at the bottom right of the screen whenever a new entry is added. If you're stuck, check the notebook. Several new entries have been added in the remastered game. In order to unlock the "Memento Mori" achievement/trophy, you'll need to collect and read all 62 notes. A few players have suggested that you must read the entries as you unlock them, rather than waiting until the end of the game to examine them all. I have not tested this myself. I will attempt to highlight all entries in the walkthrough, but I can't guarantee 100% until I've actually played through the remastered game.
WARNING: Beyond this point, thar be SPOILERS. Read at your own risk!
NOTE: These entries are listed in the order in which they appear in the completed notebook. Walkthrough links are incomplete, and some of the screenshots are from the classic game, but I will update as I go.
VON CROY'S NOTES (19 entries) |
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| NUMBER | TEXT | LEVEL OBTAINED | IMAGE | |
| 1 | Eckhardt - client. Be wary! | Margot Carvier's Apartment | screenshot | |
| 2 | Louis Bouchard. useful contact - purchased handgun. Discretion assured. | Margot Carvier's Apartment | screenshot | |
| 3 | Terrified to go out. Monstrum terrorising the streets. | Margot Carvier's Apartment | screenshot | |
| 4 | Tried contacting Lara again in London. Still not forgiven me for Egypt. | Margot Carvier's Apartment | screenshot | |
| 5 | Obscura Paintings: five 15th century works of black alchemic magic. All lost, hidden by the Lux Veritatis. [includes image] | Margot Carvier's Apartment | screenshot | |
| 6 | Five Obscura Engravings - drawn copies of the Paintings. Contain encrypted maps of each Painting's location? | Margot Carvier's Apartment | screenshot | |
| 7 | Mathias Vasiley in Prague. Has sent me four Obscura Engravings. He kept the fifth Engraving back. Wants more money. [includes image] | Margot Carvier's Apartment | screenshot | |
| 8 | Deciphered the encrypted map in Vasiley's Engravings. One of the Paintings is beneath the Louvre. Where the latest archaeological digs are. [includes image] | Margot Carvier's Apartment | screenshot | |
| 9 | Carvier says she has a security pass for the digs in her office. | Margot Carvier's Apartment | screenshot | |
| 10 | A metallic symbol is hidden beneath surface of each painting. Check with Carvier about X-Ray facilities in Louvre? | Margot Carvier's Apartment | screenshot | |
| 11 | Lux Veritatis - 'Light of Truth'. A secret 12th century Order of warrior monks who hid the Obscura Paintings in the 1400's. [includes image] | Margot Carvier's Apartment | screenshot | |
| 12 | Said to posses the three Periapt Shards - artifacts of power, crystalline shards shaped like spearheads - weapons of light' !!?? [includes image] | Margot Carvier's Apartment | screenshot | |
| 13 | Lux Veritatis try to suppress the Cabal of the Black Alchemist from the 1300's onwards. | Margot Carvier's Apartment | screenshot | |
| 14 | Lux Veritatis - links to Nephilim??? | Margot Carvier's Apartment | screenshot | |
| 15 | Nephilim - from ENOCHIAN gospels. Cursed hybrid offspring of angels and humans. Exterminated in biblical times. [includes image] | Margot Carvier's Apartment | screenshot | |
| 16 | Related prophecy: 'Through the Golden Lion the Nephilim will enslave the sons of man and inherit the Earth'. | Margot Carvier's Apartment | screenshot | |
| 17 | The Sleeper or Cubiculum Nephili - literally 'sleeping cask' or 'chamber'. Thought to be the last intact specimen of the Nephilim race. Supposedly buried in Anatolia, TURKEY. | Margot Carvier's Apartment | screenshot | |
| 18 | The Sanglyph - some artifact of alchemic power? Linked to the Black Alchemist in 1400's. Details scarce. | Margot Carvier's Apartment | screenshot | |
| 19 | The two missing symbols are hidden close by the buttress. [includes image] | Margot Carvier's Apartment | screenshot | |
LARA'S NOTES (34 entries) |
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| ORDER FOUND | (Order in Finished Notebook) ENTRY TEXT | LEVEL OBTAINED | IMAGE | |
| 20 | Find items to pawn for cash | Parisian Ghetto (?) | ||
| 21 | Buy health items | Parisian Ghetto (?) | ||
| 22 | Find Bouchard's club Le Serpent Rouge. (Added after speaking with City Guide) | Parisian Ghetto | screenshot | |
| 23 | Find Café Metro in Place d'Arcade (Added after speaking with Janice) | Parisian Ghetto | screenshot | |
| 24 | Find Bouchard's new premises (Janice) | Parisian Ghetto | screenshot | |
| 25 | Find Bernard, ex-Janitor at the club. (Janice) | Parisian Ghetto | screenshot | |
| 26 | Contact café owner, Pierre, ex-barman at the club. (Janice) | Parisian Ghetto | screenshot | |
| 27 | Find Bouchard's Doorman (Herbalist) | Parisian Ghetto | screenshot | |
| 28 | Retrieve the 'Box' at Serpent Rouge. In broken lighting rig. (Pierre or Bernard) | Parisian Ghetto | screenshot | |
| 29 | Contact Francine. 17 Rue Dominique. Code 15328 (If you give the trinket box to Pierre) - OR - Find the Doorman. (If you give the trinket box to Bernard) | Parisian Ghetto | screenshot screenshot |
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| 30 | Deliver passports to Daniel Rennes, pawnbroker - Rue St. Mark and Cours la Seine. | Bouchard's Hideout | screenshot | |
| 31 | Get into the Louvre. | Louvre Storm Drains | screenshot | |
| 32 | Locate Carvier's office. Need security pass to reach the archaeological dig. | Louvre Galleries | screenshot | |
| 33 | Get access to the archaeological dig at the second buttress. (Two opportunities to unlock.) | Louvre Galleries dig sign or Carvier's desk | screenshot | |
| 34 | Refer to field notes for diagram of the lock mechanism | Archaeological Dig (?) | ||
| 35 | ULTRICES ATRIUM CUSTODIUNT. The wrathful sentinels guard the hall within. | Tomb of the Ancients | screenshot | |
| 36 | ULTRA VIGILIS UMBRAM, ECCE VERITAS. Through the spirit of the keeper behold the truth. | Hall of Seasons | screenshot | |
| 37 | Check out Von Croy's apartment for missing Obscura Engravings. | Von Croy's Apartment | screenshot | |
| 38 | What was Von Croy hiding? I need to look carefully. | Von Croy's Apartment (?) | screenshot | |
| 39 | Check on Mathias Vasiley in Prague. (Level start) | Monstrum Crime Scene | screenshot | |
| 40 | Look for 5th Obscura Engraving at Mathias Vasiley's premises. (Luddick) | Monstrum Crime Scene | screenshot | |
| 41 | Pietri Eckhardt: Head of Mafia activities in Prague. First name unconfirmed. Joachim Karel: International legal specialist. Controls the Mafia's legal interests. Dr Grant Muller: Botanical expert specializing in mutagens. Heads the Botanical Research wing of the Strahov Complex. | Monstrum Crime Scene (?) | screenshot | |
| 42 | Kristina Boaz - Director of the Strahov Psychiatric Institute. Specialist in genetic tissue regeneration and cryogenic states. Marten Gunderson: Runs The Agency, a global security service. This is a Mafia front for an international mercenary recruitment agency. | Monstrum Crime Scene (?) | screenshot | |
| 43 | Locate the Vault of Trophies in the oldest part of the Strahov. Last Painting there. (Bouchard) | Monstrum Crime Scene | screenshot | |
| 44 | Check the premises for a hidden area. (Bouchard) | Monstrum Crime Scene | screenshot | |
| 45 | TRES PERIAPTI CONIUNCTI CUM IUSTITIAE IGNE MALA CINGUNT. The three Periapts joined together burn with righteous light to confine evil. (Secret room at Vasiley's) | Monstrum Crime Scene | screenshot | |
| 46 | Get Strahov entry code from Luddick | Monstrum Crime Scene (?) | ||
| 47 | Find the security control room. (Level start) | Strahov Fortress | screenshot | |
| 48 | Gain access to the Biodome. (Storage area with circular wall) | Strahov Fortress | screenshot | |
| 49 | Shut down power to clear a route through the Biodome to the Vault of Trophies. (After movable crates) | Strahov Fortress | screenshot | |
| 50 | Rearrange the statues - they are the key. (Entering the flooded room with statues) | Vault of Trophies | screenshot | |
| 51 | FRATRIBUS COLLATES IANUAE PATENT. The brothers reunited see the gates thrown open. (Entering the flooded room with statues) | Vault of Trophies | screenshot | |
| 52 | HISTORY OF THE SUPPRESSION OF THE BLACK ALCHEMIST AND HIS WORKS BY THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE LUX VERITATIS - YEAR OF SALVATION 1461. | Vault of Trophies (?) | screenshot | |
| 53 | The Black Alchemist, Eckhardt, was to use his devilish arts to awaken the SLEEPER and breed a new race of Nephilim. For this he created the Sanglyph forged of five metallic symbols. | Vault of Trophies (?) | screenshot | |
| 54 | Eckhardt was brought low when he tried to betray his unholy Nephilim masters. Good Lux Veritatis brothers now guard the accursed alchemist in the Pit. Only the power of the three Periapt Shards restrains him. | Vault of Trophies (?) | screenshot | |
| 55 | Find Eckhardt's old lab. We need that third Periapt Shard. (Level start) | The Lost Domain | screenshot | |
| 56 | Autumn 1345 Prague. I have 100 summers to prepare for the revivifying of the Nephilim bloodline. And the reward for my labours will be immortality. | ??? | screenshot | |
| 57 | 1425. By the means of human sacrifice the Sanglyph is complete! I have today cast the Nephilim metals into five symbols of power. | ??? | screenshot | |
| 58 | The Glove, attuned in like fashion is almost complete. With it I shall harvest those essences necessary for the Sleeper's awakening. By the Glove and Sanglyph combined shall I bestir the Sleeper to my bidding. | ??? | screenshot | |
| 59 | My every attempt to extract Nephilim essences have come to nought. I need the true cask of the Sleeper. It must be found! | ??? | screenshot | |
| 60 | The thrice cursed Shard of the Lux Veritatis maggots I have placed beyond reach. With it hidden none will stand against me. | ??? | screenshot | |
| 61 | Use all three shards to Destroy Ekhardt | ??? | ||
| 62 | Use the Glove to destroy the Sleeper. (During the final fight) | Eckhardt's Lab | screenshot | |
†UPDATE HISTORY: 2/6/25 - This section first posted in preparation for AoD Remastered.
2/22/25 - Added a small update for the remaster (blue text in intro), but this page is still incomplete and will be updated further as I progress through the game.
2/23/25 - Added missing entries from the remaster, thanks to info from Graham and Nathan. Will continue to update as I go.
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