Lara Croft

Overview

Creation

History

• The first was described in the manual for the original Tomb Raider. Lara Croft was the daughter of the British aristocrat Lord Henshingly Croft. Until the age of 21, she was raised in luxury with all her needs provided for, but during a flight over the Himalayan mountains her plane crashed and she was the sole survivor. She was forced to learn to survive on her wits and instincts, and eventually found her way home. This experience showed her a better way to live, outside the comforts of nobility. She decided to become an adventurer and travel the world, but her family disowned her for this choice.
• In Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, Lara gains her interest in archeology much earlier in her life, at the age of 6. She was the apprentice to the famed archaeologist Werner Von Croy as they trekked through Cambodia. It was never stated if this story simply happened before the plane crash described in the original Tomb Raider.
• During Tomb Raider: Legend, Lara's back story was told through several in-game flashbacks. In this continuity, the plane crash occurred at age 9. At this, Lara's mother Amelia Croft vanished without a trace and was presumed dead. Ten days later Lara found her way to Kathmandu, where she managed to contact her father, Richard Croft, who was himself an archaeologist. After the death of her mother, Lara spent her days with her father, following him on his expeditions around the world, in an attempt to discover the reason for her mother's disappearance. Her father died when she was 18, under mysterious circumstances, after which she inherited the Croft estate and the title of "Countess of Abbingdon." She continues the ways of her father, traveling the world to discover the reasons for her parents death.