This section presents the main characters of Tomb Raider Chronicles, along with their biography and image gallery. This game was the fifth in 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.
Werner Von Croy
Von Croy was born in Vienna (Austria) on May 21, 1940. His father was a museum curator, and it was his father who introduced him to the world of archaeology.
At the University of Salzburg, Von Croy received his doctorate in archaeology from the University of Vienna. Von Croy also received a doctorate in musicology.
He met Lara’s father, and that’s how he took Lara, who was 16 years old, on an expedition to Angkor Wat (Cambodia), where they both went to look for the “Iris” artifact. That is how Von Croy became her mentor.
In this expedition, the temple began to collapse when Von Croy tried to pick up the artifact, trapping his leg, he asks Lara for help, but she cannot help him and chooses to save her life, leaving Von Croy at his own fate.
Von Croy manages to free himself, but his leg is injured and he relies on his walking stick.
A few years later, Lara steals the Iris from Von Croy’s high-tech U.S. corporate headquarters, called Von Croy Industries.
In search of the Horus amulet, Lara meets Von Croy, who ends up possessed by Seth, which makes his rivalry with Lara grow even more. When he tries to save her life at the end, Lara hesitates, as she believes he can’t be trusted, and apparently she dies buried.
Von Croy, saddened by what happened, decides to search for Lara with an excavation team, although they only find one piece of evidence that could prove that she is still alive, her backpack.
Years later in Paris, he’s being hired by Van Eckhardt to find an obscure painting dating back to the 14th century, which is part of a collection of 5 paintings that hide a hidden secret to revive the Nephilim race.
Von Croy is in danger, so he chooses to call Lara, they have an argument about what happened in Egypt and suddenly, Lara is pushed and falls to the ground, Von Croy is killed while Lara is unconscious.
Zip
Zip was born in New York in 1974. From an early age he showed great talent with computers. He moved to London on a computer science scholarship to the University of London after graduating from high school in the United States in a very short time.
Thanks to his knowledge in technology, with skills in programming and electronics, he was hired as a computer scientist at Von Croy Industries, although after being discovered in a hack of the FBI agency, he was fired.
Lara Croft hired Zip for his great talent with technology and to get help infiltrating Von Croy Industries to steal the Iris artifact.
Zip, a tech prodigy with skills in programming, electronics and hacking, never completed his studies at UCL, but set up as a freelance consultant. When Lara regained her fortune, she hired Zip as her exclusive technical advisor, a role he still performs, giving instructions to Lara via communicator, either from Croft Manor or from some van near the action, while still moonlighting.
In his spare time, he entertains himself with electronics, developing new technology that could be useful to Mrs. Croft in the field.
In addition to being an expert purveyor of all things “Geek,” Zip is also a distinguished chef, and has worked in some of Northern Europe’s finest kitchens.
Over time, Zip befriended Sam and Jonah as well.
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.
Charles Kane
Charles Kane, born November 1, 1949 in Casablanca, Morocco, to a Moroccan father and Scottish mother, was an old friend of Lara Croft and her history teacher at Gordonstoun School. During the eight years he taught Lara, Charles recognized the young woman’s potential and developed an almost paternal relationship with her, although he was only able to keep in touch from a distance.
Charles had a personal interest in the former Iron Curtain countries and, with the advent of Glasnost, took the opportunity to visit the Eastern Block whenever he could, where he worked as an analyst.
Charles Kane, participates in the memorial of Lara, who is presumed dead and tells of her quest for the Spear of Destiny.
This character is initially introduced as Jean-Yves in Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, a good friend of Lara’s who resides in Alexandria. In 2001. French archaeologist Jean-Yves Empereur, who was excavating in Alexandria, contacted Eidos, the publisher of the games, because he felt his name had been used without his consent. Eidos apologized and changed the character’s name to Charles Kane for future games.
Larson Conway
Larson is a former United Marine Lieutenant with seven years Special Ops experience. He was given a dishonorable discharge after a violent disagreement with his commanding officer–the nature of which was never made public. Following his release from military prison, Larson put his military expertise to good use, forging an admirable reputation with private mercenary forces around the world. Recently he has taken a contact with Natla Technologies and that has brought him face to face with an old adversary from his past, Lara Croft.
While in the United States army respect his soldiers was won, but he’s low intelligence didn’t give him to be considered a good one official. He abandoned their career to go to Nicaragua with a gun in hand, where once he was working there with the American army, but this time with a less significant paper of official. It was in this mission when it meet with Pierre who was in an extra official excavation.
The same as Pierre, Larson felt as a mercenary, for what they formed together a perfect team.
Pierre DuPont
Pierre is one of Lara’s archaelogical rivals and in the history of the field, there is nobody that has chased the spotlight more than him. Publicly, he has been credited with several high profile archaelogical discoveries, yet like Lara, he has been accused of tampering with the sites before informing others of his finds. Though he sells himself as the consummate archaelogist, in the circles of rich collectors he is known for what he is, a treasure hunter who is adept at finding what people want– for the right price.
Pierre is good at what he does, but in the end he raids tombs for profit, not for any real love of the mysteries of the past.
Pierre stirred up the interests later in Lara, when Lara was young he showed up in Louvre with a great painting that he discovered in some of his adventures.
Pierre loved the interest of the media, he decided for his own means to win fame obtaining historical lost objects.
Often he coincided in their search with the same artefact that Lara looked for, for that they become into rivals. Lara was convinced that Pierre only thought about the earnings, and he would make all was in his power to stop her.
Bram Patrick Dunstan
Father Bram Patrick Dunstan was an old friend of Lara Croft and the priest of her family. An orphan, he was raised and trained in a monastery before traveling to the Amazon basin as a missionary. He developed an interest in the paranormal after a mysterious incident in Haiti. He returned to southern Ireland and took up the position of local priest in Connussie. During this time, he became close friends with Winston and, although he continued his travels as a religious emissary, he would often return to see his companion and, eventually, meet Lara Croft.
Father Patrick came to Lara’s memory when they learned of her presumed death. They recalled their past adventures, and Father Patrick recounted the episode in which Lara, moved by her curiosity, snuck aboard Father Patrick’s chartered boat bound for the black island, where strange occurrences were being reported. Lara was only 16 years old at the time, and Father Patrick decided to escort her to a church to keep her safe from the apparitions on the island. Unfortunately, events force Lara to continue her adventure.
Sergei Mikhailov
Sergei Mikhailov is a corrupt Russian mafia boss and former KGB agent. His ambition led him to seek the Spear of Destiny, a powerful artifact, the most powerful in Christendom. He bribed Admiral Igor Yarofev to use his submarine to retrieve the Spear from a sunken German submarine in the Russian sea during World War II.
Igor Yarofev
Igor Yarofev, born in 1947, served in the Soviet Navy as a young man. After the end of the Cold War, he continued his naval service, but experienced a decline in resources as the Soviet Union dissolved. To keep his crew, he accepted a bribe from Mafia boss Sergei Mikhailov to use a submarine to search for the Spear of Destiny.
Yarofev, although displeased by Sergei’s arrogant attitude, carried out the mission.
Vladimir Kaleta
Vladimir Kaleta was a soldier of the First Kremlin and fought in the Battle of the Neva under Prince Alexander Yaroslovich. Around 1282, an abbot suffering from smallpox promised him the gift of eternal life through an ancient scroll. However, the abbot tricked him and trapped him in a barn surrounded by running water, from which demons cannot escape.
