Trinity sends Auger Ramile, a ruthless killer with terminal cancer, to eliminate Kaz and Lara. Because the other half of the story involves Lara Croft fighting assassins in the London Underground while wearing Regency-era dress. This is a for real thing that happens, and it's probably the best story in the whole series. We get even more hints in what happens when Kaz returns home to London with Lara.Īfter her return, Jonah ropes Lara into performing in his amateur theater production of Pride and Prejudice! And after she scares off the lead actress by aggressively handling a couple of muggers, she's got to take the lead role despite her inability to memorize lines and severe stage fright. This is our first hint of the existence of Trinity, which, as you may know from our review, is the main antagonist force of Rise of the Tomb Raider.
In the end, Cruz barely escapes with his life, but only after killing nearly all of Kaz's family and destroying their home. Lara happens to show up at the same time as a Trinity hitman known as Mr. The story involves Lara fighting assassins in the London Underground while wearing Regency-era dress In Pripyat, she is fiercely if not particularly effectively guarded by her mother-in-law and three brothers-in-law. Part 2: Secrets and Lies Part 2: Secrets and LiesĪlex's sister, Kaz, is hard to find, hiding in the Ukranian city of Pripyat, which has been abandoned since the Chernobyl disaster.Kaz knows too much about a mysterious and powerful organization called Trinity, which has already killed her wife. Even though the encounter is clearly a hallucination, it is later revealed that Lara did come back from Yamatai with a watch inscribed to Alex's father, from him and his sister Kaz. In the vision, a clearly dead and decaying Alex gave Lara a pocket watch and asked her to deliver it to his sister. Lara follows with the artifacts in hand, and with the help of Jonah and Reyes, defeats the cultists, rescues Sam and leaves Yamatai behind for a second time.Īlso, it turns out that one of Lara's father's old colleagues orchestrated the whole thing - including planting the artifacts and messing with people's heads - so that he could get the cultists and Lara in one place to make sure that all the people with the power to indirectly resurrect Queen Himiko could conveniently be killed.īut more importantly, while on Yamatai, Lara had a vision of Alex, the tech who died blowing up the Endurance so that Lara could escape during 2013's Tomb Raider. So they take the easiest route to getting Lara's attention: They kidnap Sam and drag her back to Yamatai. However the artifacts wound up in their possession, the Solarii-worshippers need them, and Lara's blood, in order to resurrect Mathias. Lara's friends reveal that they each brought a gold artifact back from Yamatai with them, and that Lara told them to take them, that they deserved the items for their "ordeal." Lara doesn't remember saying anything like that, or taking an artifact herself, even though there is one in her apartment, but she admits that between stress and the many strange things she saw on Yamatai, she might not have been in her right mind. They take the easiest route to getting Lara's attention: They kidnap Sam Instead, they worship her island servants, most notably Mathias, the main villain of 2013's Tomb Raider.
That is, they're a bunch of people who don't think they're worthy of worshiping Queen Himiko, the ancient weather-goddess ruler of Yamatai, directly. Six weeks after their ill-fated detour on the Island of Yamatai, Lara and her friends Sam, Jonah and Reyes find their lives threatened by a group of sinister cultists who worship the Solarii. Part 1: Season of the Witch Part 1: Season of the Witch Without further preamble, let's talk about Tomb Raider (the comic, not the game). Or if you just need something to tide you over until the console exclusivity is up and you can actually play it on your own machine, you could always buy the books from Dark Horse (In three trade paperback editions, the last of which is out this week) or digitally from.
So before you sit down to your Xbox to crack open Rise of the Tomb Raider, we thought you might like to know what happened in those comics. Written by Pratchett and Gail Simone - a comics writer known for her work on titles like Batgirl, Birds of Prey, Red Sonja and Secret Six - it was explicitly intended to bridge the story between the two games.
Premiering in early 2014 and running through to summer 2015, Tomb Raider followed Lara Croft's adventures after the events of 2013's Tomb Raider game.
Or, more precisely, the 18-issue comics series Tomb Raider, co-written by head Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider writer Rhianna Pratchett, is here to fill in the gaps.