This section presents the main characters of Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft, along with their biography and image gallery. This game was the third of the saga and developed by CORE Design.
Lara Croft
Lara Croft was born in Parkside Hospital (Surrey) on February 14, 1968, her parents were Amelia Croft and the renowned archaeologist Lord Richard Croft, Earl of Abbingdon.
Between the ages of three and six, she attended the Abbingdon Girls School, where it quickly became clear that she was an exceptionally gifted child.
At the age of nine she survived a plane crash in the Himalayas that took the life of her mother. In perhaps the first story of her prodigious indomitability, she somehow survived a solo ten-day trek across the Himalayan mountains, one of the most hostile environments on the planet. The story goes that when she arrived in Katmandu she went to the nearest bar and made a polite telephone call to her father asking if it would be convenient for him to come and pick her up.
For six years following the plane crash, Lara rarely left her father’s side, traveling around the world from one archeological dig site to another. During this period she was ostensibly given a standard education from private tutors, but it would probably be more accurate to say she was her father’s full time apprentice.
When Lara was fifteen, her father went missing in Cambodia. Extensive searches by the authorities and Lara herself turned up human remains that could not definitively be identified. Since Lord Croft’s body was not officially recovered, Lara could not directly inherit the Croft title and Lara was thrust into a bitter family feud over control of the Abbingdon estates with her uncle Lord Errol Croft. Lara eventually won the legal battle, and took possession of her inheritance but at the cost of a deep rift in the Croft family that left her estranged from her living relatives.
Complete Lara Croft Biographies
The complete biography of Lara Croft is very extensive and complex, the character was developed as the protagonist of Tomb Raider (1996), developed by CORE Design. In 2006 was released the first reboot of the saga, Tomb Raider Legend, developed by Crystal Dynamics, and in 2013 gets a second reboot by the same company.
Crystal Dynamics announced that the future of the saga will involve a reunification of the timelines of the CORE Design games and the two Crystal Dynamics reboots, with all installments being canon.
Therefore, you can click on the following picture to access the complete official biography of CORE Design and Crystal Dynamics. Get to know details and curiosities of her life, time line, etc.
Winston Smith
Winston Smith was born on February 7, 1924 in Connussie, Ireland.
Fought in World War II. Decorated in the El-Alarnetn desert campaign, under Montgomery, and honorably retired after being wounded in battle. After returning home, he worked with his father as a forester, under local ownership. He befriended Lord Henshingly Croft by organizing shooting excursions and offered himself into his service as a butler.
As Lara’s parents’ excursions continued around the world, Winston became like a father to Lara, a bond that endures to this day. He was also butler to Lara’s aunt, who upon her death inherited her Surrey mansion, and he was her butler and friend.
Winston’s family has been with the Crofts for several generations, and he has been the family butler since he left the army shortly before his thirtieth birthday, just as his father did. He moved to Croft Manor and became the only full-time servant after the death of his wife, shortly before Lara was born.
He attends to all of Lara’s domestic needs, and his duties go beyond the usual ones for a butler, in keeping with our heroine’s peculiar lifestyle. He has never let Lara down. His loyalty to Lara, her parents and Croft Manor is unbribable.
Tony
He was born on December 7, 1971, of American nationality and is a research scientist at R.X. Tech, working for Dr. Mark Willard.
Tony met Lara when he was looking for the Infada stone in the Indian temple.
Puna
Puna is the final enemy that Lara has to face in the South Pacific, he was considered a god of the Polynesian culture, but he was probably someone from the tribe that possesses the dagger of Ora, and therefore, granted him great powers and immortality, although not indestructible.
Robert Smith
Robert, also nicknamed Bob, was born on September 5, 1964, and came to London in search of employment.
Bob discovered that Sophia Leigh’s cosmetics company had openings for lab assistants, although Bob and many others were used as lab rats for Sophia’s experiments. Sophia had unwittingly given Bob and the others the power of immortality.
Bob became the leader of the Damned and they all lived near the abandoned Aldwych subway station.
Sophia Leigh
Sophia, a British national, was born on December 26, 1969. She purchased the Eye of Isis artifact on the black market.
She founded her cosmetics company while experimenting with the artifact, in order to obtain the formula for immortality. The people she hired were used for experiments, with undesirable effects, becoming faceless while Sophia obtained more beauty.
Mark Willard
Dr. Mark Willard and his team participated in the excavation of a site in Antarctica, where they discovered the remains of meteorite rock. When they dug deeper, they discovered the grave of Paul Caulfield, a sailor on Darwin’s expedition, and also a journal of the exploits of HMS Beagle, which recounted the existence of the four artifacts made from the same meteorite rock.
Willard sent three of his men, Tony, Randy and Rory, to search for an artifact in India in which the famous explorer Lara Croft was also interested.
He met Lara in India, realizing that she already had the Infada Stone in her possession, Dr. Willard told her the story of the sailors and the four artifacts.
Lara agreed to the doctor’s request to recover the rest of the artifacts. Meanwhile, Willard’s expedition in Antarctica ran into trouble when several workers at R.X. Tech began to show signs of severe biological mutation when they were exposed to the material in the excavation area. Observing the multiplication of hox genes in at least one of these cases, Willard was encouraged by these developments, considering them natural evolution.
