"On purpose" leaving her climbing gear Lara goes in Bolivia searching for a temple near by when she's attacked by armed men in a big number. After she enters and gets out of the temple she meets a man claiming to know Amanda, Lara's old friend and holding a recognizable piece for Lara (part of an item that Lara has seen her mother holding before she died), getting information by Zip the man's name was Rutland...
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Meeting Anya and meeting more men with guns still get her to Paraiso (going there because Rutland mentioned it in Bolivia), the old dig where Lara, Amanda and other friends worked (but a monster killed everyone and Lara being forced to leave Amanda behind) and she finds out that Amanda may not be dead leaving her sneaker behind in the water and finding an artifact (copy) just like the one that her mother holds before she dies and recognize one separated part, one seen in Japan.
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Going to Nishimura (a friend)'s party Lara tries to buyShogo Takamoto's piece, he's stolen from a museum in Japan, but he won't do the easy way, so Lara makes it the hard way, as she "accessorizes" herself and takes the piece (that gave power to Takamoto to try defeat Lara) from Takamoto and leaves to Africa (Zip has spotted Rutland there)
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Going to Africa, Lara needs to jump from a 100 feet high waterfall and solve a puzzle to meet Rutland, but she needs to kill few more tigers and cheetahs, solve 10 more puzzles and kill 100s of armed men to finally duel Rutland, who also has a piece that uses against Lara, but at the end Lara defeats him the hard way and gets the piece from the artifact.
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Finally, after all those years, Lara not just uses the name "Amanda", but she's after it, going to Russia, chasing after a train she gets to Amanda's laboratory of big and evil master-plans, but Lara spoils it all when she sees Amanda begging for forgiveness, and instead she gets to fight the monster from Paraiso "Amanda, you're mad" is one thing you must not forget, however, using the Tesla Cannon she defeats the monster and steals the piece from Amanda, now off back in hometown, Lodnon...
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Off to Arthur's Castle (hidden under a museum) back in Lodnon, Lara finds the final piece of the Xcalibur in Arthur's hands, in his tomb, but she needs to fight not only men this time, once again she needs to duel a monster, way bigger, but less dangerous, this some kind of ancient sea monster is afraid of noice and Lara uses that in her power. Back in the manor, she can't seem to solve the Xcalibur and understands that the piece that gets all pieces in one is her mother's gift from her father, so she is forced to go back to where everything started...
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Back in Nepal, where the accident happened (on age of 9, Lara and her mother survive in a plane crash in Nepal, but moments after it, Lara unlocks some kind of a portal and her mother' trying to end it with Arthur's Xcalibur, which she didn't know what it is, she dies or goes into another dimesnion) Lara defeats animals and more armed men just to get that part left in the plane...
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Now it's for revenge, or answers? Lara goes back to Bolivia and the portal she found (where she met Rutland), without knowing that Amanda and Rutland will be there, tells them to step back or they will suffer carrig the Xcalibur in her own bare hands, but Amanda, hard as stone, becomes a monster, Lara is forced to defeat, and after she does, she gives her another chance, but Amanda won't take it, so Lara enters the portal and understands that it was her talking to her mother back in Nepal, but Amanda tells the both (Amelia, her mother and Lara to pull out the sword, which they shouldn't do), so Lara saves her life, but not her mother's as she blames Amanda for that, even, Amanda says "She's not dead, she's where I was sopouse to go, where you could have gone, Avalon, it's no a myth, don't you get it? You'll never understand, I'm wasting my breath" when Lara hits Amanda so hard that she will have scarf in the next game (Underworld)...
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Artifacts & Characters
The Excalibur
The Excalibur, built from 4 pieces, and one piece that helps them re-unite, is the sword from the bed-time stories known as "the sword in the stone" used by the great English kind Arthur. Lara finds the four pieces and unites them with the Ghalai key and uses it to open to portal to her mother.
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