Letter from the Expeditions Department

The Letter from the Archaeologist is a Pre-Hardmode Codex found in Dynasty Chests within the Sanchon Mining Facility. It can be read by left-clicking it while the Traveller's Journal is in the player's inventory, and can be accessed in the Codexes section in the Traveller's Journal.

Lore
Dear Project Manager Rend Our analysis of the broken brick samples you sent back have finally been concluded. A team consisting of me, another geologist and two scientists have analysed it's date, composition and properties on site(as you may have seen), then off-site. The results are very jarring and quite conclusive. The tests we performed on-site included the first composition analysis, which based on our limited equipment there has returned what seems to be a mixture of soil and igneous rock. Now, as requested, we put the brick through numerous stress tests to determine it's physical properties. These included smashing with a hammer, pressure-drilling, strapping it to several tons of explosives and detonating them, and finally one of the scientists hurled it off a cliff despite my complains. It survived all these tests with only minor damage via chipping and no structural damage at all. The following day, one scientist noted that the brick seemed to have repaired itself. Then, we flew it back to the lab and analysed it there - the composition analysis yielded relatively similar results but with more accurate percentages, but the brick shattered after several firm strikes with the same hammer. As such, the mysterious toughness and strength that the bricks (and ruins as a whole) displays appears to be directly linked with the location. Neither us nor the scientists will make any further attempt to explain this. And although we all dread it, the conclusion is that the brick is somehow attuned to magic. To find out exactly how and all the details, we would have to hire a mage. I understand you do not like mages, and neither do we. However, the final call is still on you. -Dr Varen