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Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness Information

A series of grisly murders brings Lara into conflict with a sinister Alchemist from the past, and a secret alliance of powerful individuals shrouded in mystery. At the center of these mysteries are the Obscura Paintings - five 14th century pieces of art that the Alchemist is desperate to repossess.

Accused of the murder of her one time mentor, Werner Von Croy, Lara becomes a fugitive on the run. Pursued by the police, she follows the Alchemist into a dark world of blood, betrayal and vengeance where it is up to her to defeat this unholy alliance, and stop them from unleashing their incredible powers on the world.

Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness Story Info

Accused of the murder of her one time mentor, Werner Von Croy, Lara becomes a fugitive on the run. Following notes left by Von Croy, Lara ends up in a race to recover artifacts before the secret alliance whose destiny it is to take over the world and revive a fearsome biblical creature known as The Nephilim.


Pieter Van Eckhardt is the main villain in Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness. He was a 15th Century evil alchemist who created a powerful weapon called the Sanglyph. To keep the Sanglyph safe, Eckhardt split it into five pieces and hid a piece behind a painting he created, depicting evil images.

Eckhardt grew ever more evil and powerful through alchemy. He eventually created an order known as The Cabal which consisted of an alliance between five powerful alchemists including Eckhardt. He eventually prepared to resurrect an extinct cross-angelic race known as the Nephilim which is the reason why he created the Sanglyph. He believed that using the Nephilim he would gain power over the world. Because of his intentions, an order called the Lux Veritatis was born to stop Eckhardt and the Cabal. The other members of the cabal eventually were all murdered by Eckhardt to retain the secrets they held. The Lux Veritatis acquired the Periapt Shards, ancient weapons of light that were used to make the Nephilim race extinct in biblical times. The three shards were used against Eckhardt who became trapped in a state of paralysis. The Lux Veritatis led by Brother Obscura sealed Eckhardt in a deep pit and he was left there for 500 years. The seal on Eckhardt would only last if the three Periapt shards remained combined. Brother Obscura then confiscated the five paintings that contained the pieces of the Sanglyph. He painted religious images over the evil ones and hid each painting separately at hidden locations throughout the land. The paintings were christened the Obscura Paintings. A copy was made of each painting. These copies were known as the Obscura Engravings. Each copy contained an encoded map to the location of the original painting.

During 1945, something happened and one of the shards became separated from the other two. It is a possibility this happened because of an event linked to World War II. Eckhardt was free and he escaped the pit which he had spent the last 500 years in pain. He vowed revenge against the Lux Veritatis and revived the Cabal and based it in his hometown of Prague. The new Cabal became devoted to hunting down any members of the Lux Veritatis. Eckhardt also managed to obtain the Periapt shard that had been separated from the other two which still remained in the possession of the Lux Veritatis. He hid the shard in his old laboratory, deep underground beneath the Strahov, the HQ of the Cabal.

After he hid his shard, Eckhardt and the Cabal set out to reclaim the five Obscura paintings, in order to acquire the Sanglyph. By the time Lara had become involved in the plot, the Cabal had already attained three of the five paintings. Eckhardt then hired Werner Von Croy to find the last two. Von Croy did learn of the location of the fourth painting beneath the Louvre from the Obscura engravings, but he never informed Eckhardt, because by that time, Von Croy had learnt of the true, evil side of Eckhardt. Although Von Croy was murdered, Eckhardt was not responsible.

Lara found the two remaining paintings which Eckhardt then reclaimed off her before retreating to his old laboratory under the Strahov. He then started to finish what he started five hundred years ago--reviving the Nephilim race. The Cabal had retrieved the last Nephilim specimen from Turkey: a Nephilim body which had been nicknamed the Sleeper. To revive the sleeper Eckhardt needed body parts, which he harvested from the victims he killed using his glove. During a final confrontation in his laboratory with Lara, Eckhardt starts the process of reviving the Sleeper. He battles Lara using the Sanglyph, but he is eventually killed by Karel, his right-hand man in the Cabal, who stabs Eckhardt with the third Periapt Shard right in the forehead. Karel revealed himself to be the last surviving/living Nephilim and that all the people who have helped Lara died at his hands to avoid the destruction of the Sleeper. Lara decided to put and end to it by using Eckhardt's glove upon the Sleeper thus destroying it and possibly Karel. The rest of the series would've explained whether or not Karel succeeded to escape and bring back the Nephilim from Cappadocia, Turkey.

Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness Gameplay Info

Much like the 5 Tomb Raider games before it, The Angel of Darkness is a 3rd person action-adventure-puzzle game that stars Lara Croft as its main protagonist.

The player controls Lara as she traverses through the 29 levels by exploration, maneuvering carefully across traps, through the game's levels, and solving puzzles to progress.

Lara's new moves include a back-flip, a small hop, stealth, army-crawling, rolling out of the crouch position, hand-to-hand combat and the "super-jump" that can be performed whilst sprinting.

In The Angel of Darkness, unlike other Tomb Raider games it is sometimes necessary for Lara to acquire a strength upgrade to manage to clear certain jumps.

An "RPG" element was added to the series with the introduction of the player being allowed to choose what Lara says to the people she talks to, such as by asking kindly, bribery, or threats.

Unlike the previous games, Angel of Darkness doesn't allow you to use dual pistols, however PC players are able to hack the game to allow them.

Kurtis Trent

The second playable character, Kurtis Trent is looking to avenge the death of his father, Konstantin, grand master of the Lux Veritatis. Kurtis is the last of this enigmatic order.

Louis Bouchard

A man involved in dark dealings in the Parisian underworld. Owner of the nightclub 'Le Serpent Rouge', currently closed due to a number of deaths among the staff, believed to be linked to The Monstrum.

Pieter Van Eckhardt

The Black Alchemist, leader of the secret organisation, The Cabal, based at The Strahov Fortress in Prague. He appointed Werner Von Croy to recover five artifacts known as the Obscura Paintings, thought to have alchemical power and linked to dark arts.

Joachim Karel

A corporate mastermind based in Paris, investing in Cabal and recruitment whilst protecting their interests worldwide - he also holds a dark secret...

Kristina Boaz

Survivor of a plane crash, head of Corrective and Remedial Surgery at the Strahov Psychiatric Institute in Prague.

Mademoiselle Margot Carvier

An academic historian conducting an archaeological dig at the Louvre Galleries in Paris. A colleague and friend of the late Werner Von Croy. Later murdered also by the Monstrum after a conversation between her and Lara to retrieve Von Croy's Journal during the game.

Thomas Luddick

A journalist in Prague. He gave information about the Cabal and a Strahov Fortress security pass to Lara Croft. He is later killed by Pieter van Eckhardt.

Marten Gunderson

A forces provider for anything from basic security to invasions. Working for Pieter Van Eckhardt. He is the one leading the siege at the Louvre.

Daniel Rennes

A pawnbroker back in Parisian Ghetto, specialist blackmarketeering. Gets killed by Pieter Van Eckhardt.

Anton Gris

Boxer trainer, friend of Louis Bouchard. He owns a boxing studio (set inside a church) which doubles as an entrance to Louis Bouchard's underground lair.