User:Dusk Knight/Lara Croft


 * Draft for Tomb Raider: Underworld DLC.

As in the main game, the player controls Lara during Beneath the Ashes. In Lara's Shadow, however, the player takes control of the Doppelganger. The Doppelganger moves more quickly than Lara and the gameplay has a stronger emphasis on melee combat.

Story
Beneath the Ashes opens with Lara searching her father's hidden study beneath Croft Manor for an artefact with the power to create and control thralls. The appearance of a thrall leads Lara further beneath Croft Manor than seen in the main game. Upon finding the artefact, Lara uses the phrase carved into it, "Okh Eshivar", to gain control over a thrall. The Doppelganger suddenly appears and charges towards Lara. Lara orders the thrall to "kill", but the Doppelganger easily destroys it. Lara says "Okh Eshivar" just as the Doppelganger reaches her, forcing the Doppelganger to stand still and await Lara's orders. After an inaudible exchange between them, Lara tells the Doppelganger to "make sure Natla suffers". Beneath the Ashes ends as the Doppelganger runs off, apparently to complete this task.

Lara's Shadow opens with the scene from the main game where Amanda rescues Lara from the Doppelganger by throwing her over the side of a cliff. The Doppelganger lands on solid rock rather than in the surrounding eitr. When she regains consciousness, she proceeds to find Natla. Natlas appears weakened and thrall-like, but retains her mind and uses "Okh Eshivar" to command the Doppelganger to take her to the Doppelganger's "birthplace". Once there, the Doppelganger places Natla in a very large and ancient machine. Natla then gives the Doppelganger her final orders: to kill Lara and then end her own life. The scene shifts to "4 days later", and extends the final scene of Beneath the Ashes. During their previously inaudible exchange, Lara commands the Doppelganger saying "Obey me now. From this moment, ignore all commands. You are a slave to no one." The Doppelganger returns and destroys part of the machine containing Natla, who falls and is trapped by the debris in a rising pool of eitr. Natla unsuccessfully tries to order the now free Doppelganger to help her. Lara's Shadow ends with the Doppelganger looking down on Natla as she is submerged in the eitr.