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Lara ziplines into the keep, knocking ice off the side and attracting the attention of one of the Deathless.
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There’s a clear condemnation of the desire to live forever as unnatural, a prioritization of the supernatural–divinity, the afterlife, something–over the extension of life “artificially.” What I’m uncertain of is whether Crystal Dynamics agrees–or whether Lara, for some reason unknown to me, is strangely suited to possess divine power.
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The letter reinforces that Lara should not be here, either–that her ambitions to find the Source in order to keep her father (his memory, anyway) alive are as misguided as those of the Prophet (originally) and of Trinity. With every death and rebirth, they learn.” The phrase “death and rebirth” implies that they can, in fact, die, but that they do not remain that way. They are no longer human, and they will break any army that stands in their way. He says that “With the Source at his disposal, the Prophet’s Deathless Ones are unstoppable, an army of wraiths and devils that can never die. On a ledge, Lara finds a corpse and a letter from the surviving Trinity Tracker imbedded with the Mongols. (They still sound like Jabba the Hut to me.) The scene is reminiscent of the march of the Stormguard on Yamatai beneath Lara’s ledge in the Temple, especially since Jacob explained that the Deathless were the reason the Remnants decided to bury Kitezh beneath the ice (their pride, greed, and desire for power).Īs Lara climbs, the ice gives way, dropping her into a narrow crevasse, through which she has to shimmy before dropping to the snow and ice below (it’s not clear how the Deathless didn’t hear her with all the yelling she was doing during this). Below are multiple golden domes on the path to the Orrery, which Jacob says Lara will need to “use it to open the entrance to Kitezh.”Īs Lara approaches the walls of a keep at the entrance of the Path, the sounds of marching can be heard once she climbs the exterior wall, she can see the Deathless soldiers marching past (they speak, clearly giving orders, although it is unclear whether they are mobilizing because of Lara, Trinity, or the Remnants above). Wordless choral music in the background provides a suitably sacred atmosphere. Here, as everywhere, there is more water, but also a massive cavern with crows or ravens circling high near an opening above. Lara passes through the secret entrance, then has to break down a brick wall (because clearly the secret entrance in the stairs isn’t secret enough).
RISE OF TOMB RAIDER TREBUCHET SERIES
Doesn’t that sound lovely? Fair warning-this will be the final post in this series (for Rise of the Tomb Raider), so it’s going to spoil pretty much everything. We left Lara last staring into a hole in the side of a mountain staircase with the ominous warning from Jacob that it is crawling with the Deathless.