This section presents the main characters of Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, along with their biography and image gallery. This game was the sixth in the saga and the last one 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.
herefore, 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.
Kurtis Trent
His real name is Kurtis Heistum, and he was born on June 26, 1972, in Utah, Salt Flats (United States). He has blue-gray eyes and his blood group is Brh +, in addition, he has brown hair.
Kurtis’ favorite vehicle is the Classic Brough Superior SS 100 motorcycle and Porsche Spider car.
Kurtis likes music by Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Nirvana, Mozart and Sun Ra. He also has hobbies such as any high-risk sport and flying helicopters.
He masterfully handles his favorite weapon, the Chirugai, a bladed disc that he is also able to control with his mind. He also keeps his favorite weapon, the Boran X pistol, which belonged to his father.
To understand the whole story of Kurtis Trent, we have to go back some years, the events that occurred before his birth and everything that happened with the Lux Veritatis order.
Way back in 1954, Gerhard Heistum (Kurtis’ grandfather) is captured and murdered by Eckhardt and the Cabal. Kurtis’ father, 21-year-old Konstantin Heistum, inherits his father’s Lux Veritatis, which makes him the target of the Cabal’s murderous attacks to totally eradicate this gift. There were only a few survivors of the order, who wage a constant struggle against Eckhardt and the Cabal.
In 1966, Konstantin, at the age of 33, meets a Navajo American Indian. She was in the crossfire of the Cabal’s assault on Konstantin, but proves to have unexpected innate powers. Marie Cornel (his mother), returned to the NB States. Marie’s father was one of the Marine officers working with the Navajo code during WWII, which explains her specialist area of interest.
In 1969, on a Lux Veritatis mission against the Cabal, Konstantin arrives in the United States looking for Marie Cornel. While visiting the ruins of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. Soon after, Konstantin and Marie were secretly married in a tribal ceremony. The next few years they traveled back and forth between the U.S. and Europe.
Kurtis was born on June 26, 1972. Konstantin Heistum (his father), takes Marie Cornel (his mother) to a safe place so that she could give birth, located in Salt Flats (Utah), where the order of Lux Veritatis was located.
As soon as Kurtis and his mother could hide, Konstantin returns and travels to Europe to help in the “Shadow War”.
In 1975, when the family returned to Europe, Kurtis was already 3 years old, and they were still moving through a variety of Lux Veritatis safe houses in ancient fortresses throughout Europe and the Middle East.
A year later, in 1976, Kurtis and his mother spent a year in Scotland in hiding, while Konstantin finds himself in the battle centered in cities under the lands of Anatolia in central Turkey, where Eckhardt appears to be dead, but it turns out to be a trap, as only six adepts of Lux Vertitatis survive, apart from Konstantin.
In 1988, Kurtis, at the age of 16, was initiated under the six remaining adepts. His father is absent for a few years from the Lux Veritatis missions.
At the age of 19, in 1991, Kurtis joined the Legion. He did not want to be part of the “Shadow War” that devastated lives. By then, there were only three people left alive from those who were part of the order, apart from his father, if he was still alive…
Kurtis changed his last name from Heistum to Trent, in an attempt to hide from the Legion for 5 years, long enough to become part of the French citizenry. One day, he is repeatedly assaulted by hidden outbreaks from the shadow worlds. For this reason, from then on, Kurtis was nicknamed within the Legion as the Demon Hunter.
In 1996, Kurtis leaves the Legion after unexplained events that may never appear in official Legion files and usually involve horrific accidents. He starts independently as a mercenary and learns that his father is still alive, but he is unable to reconcile with him, due to the differences between them, which is why he never saw his father alive again.
In 2001, Konstantin is finally cornered and killed by the dark Alchemist Pieter Van Eckhardt, as are the remaining members of Lux Veritatis, leaving Kurtis as the sole survivor of the order.
Kurtis’ mother, Marie, separated the Periapt shards that were his only real defense. Kurtis gets two of these shards and pursues Eckhardt, on a mission of revenge.
Kurtis also inherits a Lux Veritatis blade, called Chirugai. This weapon was forged generations ago, from the alloy of a meteorite, and like most Lux Veritatis, can be used only in secret and can be controlled by someone trained, such as himself.
In 2003, Kurtis crosses Lara Croft’s path, and under common interests, both decide to join forces in Prague to fight against the Cabal and Eckhardt.
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.
Margot Carvier
Carvier is a historian and scholar in the Department of Medieval Renaissance Studies. She has an apartment at 105 rue Alphonse in Paris.
A friend of Professor Werner Von Croy, she becomes involved in mysterious archaeological excavations under the Louvre Museum.
Louis Bouchard
He is the owner of “Le Serpent Rouge”, a nightclub located in one of the darkest and dirtiest neighborhoods of Paris. He has a reputation as an opportunistic and violent person, Bouchard is involved in illegal operations in the capital.
He is the Czar of the Parisian underworld and officially doesn’t even exist, having been “killed” years earlier in an explosive street battle involving rival organizations and the French police. Everyone considers him dead, except for his closest friends.
Bouchard is always looking for good business. His involvement with Von Croy was unclear, but there was no doubt that he was going to get some financial benefit out of it.
Daniel Rennes
He is the active part of the Paris underworld and a friend of Louis Bouchard. He is a master forger, printer and archivist. He actively participates in the Parisian resistance.
Rennes specializes in illegal documentation and money laundering, using a small pawnshop as a cover for his clandestine activities.
He is very paranoid, which is why he is known for his obsession with conspiracies and booby-trap manipulation.
Thomas Luddick
Luddick is a journalist who follows very closely all the steps of the Cabal and the alchemist Eckhardt. He helps Lara with information and gets her a pass to access the Strahov.
Anton Gris
Anton Gris was a successful boxer, he runs the Gris Grym in Paris in a disused church, where he trains boxers who are completely loyal to him. The place is a perfect cover for illegal sports.
Gris is well connected to international arms dealers and maintains a hidden supply of weaponry and military hardware.
He was a trainer within Bouchard’s organization, the two were originally recruited in Marseille where Bouchard brought him to Paris when operations expanded in the capital.
Pieter Van Eckhardt
The Cabal is a powerful alliance of alchemists, ruled by the Black Alchemist Eckhardt.
He carries a set of Prima Materia elements on a key ring on his belt. These elements have been alchemically refined over hundreds of years into pure substances, which are so potent that they affect any other element in contact with them at the atomic level.
In the 14th century, Eckhardt made a pact with the last Nephilim, an ancient race mentioned in the gospels of Enoch, the hybrids descended from angels and mortals, who gave him eternal life, in exchange for which he promised to resurrect their race with his alchemical powers.
To resurrect the Nephilim, he intends to awaken the last specimen, the Cubiculum Nephilim, called “The Sleeper”. To do so, he needs the five dark paintings, symbols of occult power that make up the Sanglyph, an alchemical object in the shape of a glove that he needs to awaken them.
In the 15th century he managed to take power of the sect, seducing a good part of the members with promises of eternal life and killing those who did not want to follow him.
Joachim Karel
Joachim Karel is a key figure within The Cabal, and is in charge of overseeing investments and recruitment campaigns in the new world order of this organization.
Karel takes particular delight in protecting his client’s interests in the legal field worldwide, he is a keen legal scholar.
Marten Gunderson
Gunderson is a veteran of countless conflicts. He works as a mercenary providing specialized forces for anything from basic security to invasions.
Grant Muller
Dr. Grant Muller is in charge of the research and operation of pharmaceuticals for the Nubians of Rome. He also heads the botanical wing of research at the Strahov complex in Prague, where he experiments with genetic modifications.
Muller is responsible for numerous outbreaks of plague and mutagens. Personally obsessed with trying to create a living, powerful version of the mythical man-plant hybrid, the Homunculus.
Kristina Boaz
Kristina Boaz is head of corrective and remedial surgery at the Strahov Psychiatric Institute in Prague. She has these scars due to an infrastructure collapse in 1987, she survived.
She has developed the only successful Cabal rejuvenation techniques to date.
A vain person who is willing to undergo as much cosmetic surgery as necessary to maintain a youthful complexion. She works in the medical wing of the Strahov complex, inside the labyrinthine chambers of the place. One of her private obsessions is the successful construction of a Golem, a super-slave based on the Prague myth.
Responsible for the creature-experiments, she was in charge of destroying the Proto, a very dangerous creature, being half Nephilim.
Other non-final characters
There were many characters discarded in this game, or they were going to appear in a sequel. Below you can learn more about them.
Luther Rouzic
Rouzic is a member of the Cabal and a world-renowned authority on dead languages and texts. He is a grim, scarred academic whose Hell’s Angel mentality and interest in Heavy Metal are at odds with his profession as a bibliophile.
His knowledge of ancient maps, historical Renaissance myths, legends and manuscripts has fueled his deep interest in black art and illusion.
He is the keeper and archivist of the Trophy Vault in Prague’s Strahov, a grisly collection of trophies from all of Eckhardt’s defeated enemies and the conquests of the Cabal.
This character in the end does not appear in TR AOD, he was cut from the main story told in this game.
Putai
Putai is a shaman of the Bedouin tribe who healed Lara after her accident in Egypt and mentored Lara during her recovery. She was nicknamed “El Hawa”, which means “The Wind of the Desert”.
This character in the end does not appear in the classic version of TR AOD, he was cut from the main story told in this game.
