Deciphering a water damaged letter?

[Pinback]

I am new to this group so first off hello. Secondly I did use the search option to see if this had been covered but I had no luck.

My question is:

I have a PC (a paladin)who was given a letter that before they could read it has become water damaged, causing the ink to run, resulting in it being unreadable by the PC.

Is there a way that said letter can be deciphered by another PC with a specific skill or magically repaired by somebody with a specific spell?

Thanks in advance for the help :)

[lemeres]

Linguistics? I think this fits under the heading of 'written in an incomplete or archaic form'.

So that would be 20 DC for a simple message, and a 25 for a whole page.

[Liegence]

Linguistics is the skill. Magically, if it was water damage Mending would not restore the writing, nor would Make Whole. You would probably need something like limited wish.

[Grokk_Bloodfist]

Do you have access to magic users? Clerics or Wizards?