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There’s an interesting gap between the austerity of Dunwall and the sheer amount of rich, ornate detail you’ll see in Karnaca. 

— Pencil studies of Karnaca by Laurent Gapaillard

[tombraiderfan900]

Murti's notes, part IV

Image provided by @positivelyamazonian​ made by Murti Schofield. Previous notes can also be viewed here.

Tomb Raider Checkout

Check out:

Previous games files (5 folders).

Check out dialogue guides

Ruff ideas, todo lists.

Treasure locations (maps)

Character name list (Russian, French, Czech, Scandinavian, German, Turkish)

The 'greys' / the 'ancients', (Dark guild) 'the old ones', 'shadow watchers'

The checkout was needed to focus on the new game (Tomb Raider - Next Generation). What strikes me is that Russian & Scandanavian is in the name list. Maybe in the AOD2 / AOD3 games some of these names would be used.

The greys/the ancients/the old ones/shadow watchers are probably the Nephili race. "Shadow watchers" reminds me of the book The Shadow histories by Murti Schofield. "The ancients" reminds me of a level in AOD: The Tomb of the ancients, but that is a reference to the Lux Veritatis. It might not be a good idea to mix them together.

Post Egypt

Lara drawn to Paris, called by Jean-Yves in trouble. He is fallen in fear for the 'greys' , digging for things that should remain hidden.

The fact that Lara is drawn to Paris called by Jean-Yves is well known. Because of conflict with Jean-Yves Emperreur, Core Design changed his name to Werner Von Croy. Strange enough the French police officer who speak in the intro FMV of TRAOD has the same voice as Jean-Yves. It is still unknown who he is.

Possible titles for the game

"An occult legacy of the blood"

"The mysterium of Legend"

"The blood chalice"

"The legacy of Race"

"The legacy of Blood"

"The chalice of souls"

The "Blood" and "Chalice" has something to do with the Holy Grail and thus the Knights Templar. There are more titles for the game, these are published on the tomb of ash website.

Tomb Raider VI

Present day Paris (locations: Louvre, Excavations, Catacombs, Eiffel tower)

The one that didn't make into the final game is the Eiffel Tower. It would be a great location if you think "anything would be possible". It's the same time as Jugendstil/Art Nouveau style came in.

Extinct race of Nephilim (are they?)

No they are not. But that's the whole point of the game :-)

Lara takes on John Dee. Elizabethian alchemist and raiser of the dead.

John Dee is a real person and model for Eckhardt, see my previous analysis (part I).

'El Spectro' (the ghost),

Could that be Karel?

'El Hawa'.

"El Hawa" reminds me of Kiko's documents there is a file: "Lara of Arabia". I have downloaded it sometime. You can find it on the Tomb Raider Forums.

There is a time period between the events of TR4 and the events of AOD that Core Design named 'Lara of Arabia'. This period of time was never meant to be shown, explained or playable in AOD. You would only catch glimpses in cutscenes and things that link to it.

Somehow Lara had escaped the pyramid. A nomadic tribe called Bedouin was passing by and took her into their village. There she met a shaman, a woman called Putai. She was a healer, she had gifts and she would use them to heal Lara. She gave her an Amulet of healing powers. Lara would have traveled with them along the ancient routes of North Africa, she had become one of them despite her name remaining unknown to them. Then one day she disappeared somewhere in the coastal areas of the Mediterranean.

Von Croy actually followed the trail of this tribe when he was still looking for Lara in Egypt. While he didn't learn anything about the shaman, he did hear about the Legend of El Hawa (which means desert wind). It was the story of a mysterious woman that would appear in appropriate times to fight the aggressors and protect the nomadic tribes. Von Croy followed the traces of the legend and found himself in a desert oasis. There he found Lara. She appeared different, much stronger but she wasn't angry at him for leaving her. It seemed to Werner that Lara had been traumatized by her near-death experience.

The friendship she had found among the people of the desert gave her an insight that was missing in her life. In here she could use her skills for a greater purpose than her days of sporting for artifacts. Von Croy was unable to convince her to return to her former life. The Lara he once knew was dead. He gave her her backpack and left.

One day the tribe that saved her life was attacked and massacred. Lara left Africa and returned to England. Lara did not attempt to reconnect with old friends. She couldn't get over the fact that she had failed to protect the tribe and had lost the meaning in her life she once found in the desert. Then she received a call from Paris..

It is unsure if it really means the desert wind. "El Hawa" could also be inspired by the place "El Hawara" in Egypt, in the Fayoum. It has a pyramid of pharaoh Amenemhat III and more. But I think it is a nickname for Putai.

Young James Dean type 'stranger' - spin off hero. Occult abilities - gifts.

Also known as Kurtis Trent.

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Amsel Medical wins FDA nod for Endo Occluder

Amsel Medical said today that it won FDA 510(k) clearance for its Amsel Endo Occluder device intended for occluding blood vessels during endoscopic procedures.

The Cambridge, Mass.-based company touted that the clearance is the third the company has received from the FDA so far for its portfolio of occluder devices.

The Amsel Endo Occluder is a mechanical occlusion clip delivered through a fine needle intended to be deployed to transfix a target vessel while clamping it shut. The device is composed of an endoscopic litigating clip applier and clips which the company said are intended or use on tubular structures or vessels.

“We are thrilled to expand the Amsel Occluder family of single-use, site-specific vascular control devices into the endoscopic and minimally invasive surgery market with this recent Pre-Marketing Notification (510(k)) by the US Food and Drug Administration. The Amsel Occluder possesses the ability to transfix and ligate a selected vessel or duct. We anticipate significant clinical interest for this innovative technology in the markets where the Amsel Occluder device is cleared for commercial distribution,” founder & prez Dr. Arnold Miller said in a press release.

Last November, Amsel Medical touted the first-in-human clinical use of its Amsel AOD2 occluder device, which took place at the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York.

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¡¡SPOILERS!!

[tomb-of-ash]

KURTIS KAREL LARA MORGAU and ANTARCTICA

We continue to publish exclusive Angel of Darkness documents from Murti Schofield, the writer of the game. This one reveals more details about the second game in the Angel of Darkness trilogy.

Game II kicks of by revisiting the ending of AOD, after events at the Strahov, where we all thought we knew the fates of Lara, Kurtis and Karel. Well think again. (See document which revisits the final scene of AOD and puts a new light on the entire concluding scene between Lara, Kurtis and Karel).

KURTIS survived and managed to crawl into the relative safety of the Vault of Trophies. There he went into a protective toxic coma and later, much much later, escaped making his way back to the place of his birth at Utah Salt Flats where his mother & family tribal elders took him in whilst he convalesced.

Later, onboard a Nato transatlantic convoy, he met up with an old buddy from the Foreign Legion and heard disturbing rumours about disquieting events in the Languedoc region of southern France. Kurtis had once followed a trail which led him to believe that a Lux Veritatis Bloodline Room might be located there. There had been some possibility that it might also have been located in Castle Kriegler, hidden away beneath its ruins in extensive catacombs and tunnels but Kurtis’ money was on the ruins of Montsegur.

Kurtis decides to go and check out the rugged region around Carcassone first. This blood soaked landscape is where the Cathar/Albigensian ‘heresy’ was so brutally suppressed around the time that the Knights Templar were also persecuted and scattered. Beneath the fortress of Montsegur, deep in the quarried subterranean quarters, is a massive vaulted door protected by occult seals and slumbering, deadly guardians. Inside there are vital clues to where the Lux Veritatis hid the last two Nephilim Sleepers.

There were always three Sleepers and Karel wants the remaining two Nephilim Uyuyanlar to continue his unchanged dream of reviving his near extinct race and set it in dominion over the dark age that is looming. Everywhere on the planet there is war, slaughter and strife and amidst such all consuming chaos his great shadow-plan has every chance of gaining ground before coming to anyone’s attention - until it is too late of course.

LARA meanwhile, has been recuperating with her once-mentor Putai in the heat and isolation of the desert landscapes of North Africa (El Hawa, Lara of Arabia). She too picks up rumours and signs of Nephilim-Karel’s survival and has begun tracking his moves as tries to recover his strength and powers.

Karel is in action again. He has hunted down the only other living descendant of a Lux Veritatis initiate, Vasiley, and tortured her into translating the unbreakable LV code of the Sleeper Scrolls. The name rings a bell, Morgau Vasiley. It emerges that Mathias Vasiley, the murdered dealer in Prague, was a rogue Lux Veritatis initiate expelled from the Order in the 1950’s for degenerate behaviour. He should have been terminated by the Order but disappeared and re-emerged decades later with a new identity and a daughter tutored in basic LV skills. The unfortunate Morgau never had the true training that made Kurtis unique and when she came to Karel’s attention she suffered terrible treatment, which left her mutilated and unhinged. Whatever, the end result was now that Karel had the Sleeper Scrolls at least partially translated and subsequently knows where the last two Sleepers are hidden – or are likely to be hidden. Lara has to go after Karel and scupper the Nephilim Shapeshifter’s plans, again.

For Kurtis the clues at Monsegur seem to indicate that the Sleepers are back at one of the ancient original sites in Anatolia, Turkey and Karel, along with the pain-slaved Morgau, hightail it to the Cappadocian plains and the Gőrėme valley.

LOCATION CAPPADOCIA – TURKEY.

Eckhardt planned and built a base here once on an ancient site but never got to use it before he was incarcerated beneath Castle Kriegler. (It’s weird, deep and scary and of course ideal for our heroes to bash the living daylights out of creepy abominations). Time for intense subterranean action in the underground cities of Anatolia -  Nevşehir, Kayseri, Kaymaklı Derinkuyu and Niğde along the Gőrėme valley.

[ See other documents on possible final scenarios.]

THE NEW CABAL

Gunderson and Rouzic the Illusionist are reassembled by Karel posing as Eckhardt. The Cabal survivors presume Karel perished at the Strahov and have no idea he was a Shapeshifter or a Nephilim. They get introduced to the three replacement Cabal members by Eckhardt who explains to them all about the two remaining Sleepers and why he needs them.

The LV Scrolls that were part translated by Morgau put the site of the last Sleeper in a sunken Nephilim complex in a huge underground lake. Cabal forces are sent ahead to secure the location and assemble a massive submersible platform (a huge lunking steam punk contraption) to access the Sleeper at the sunken site. It also comes to light that the other Sleeper was destroyed in a Lux Veritatis action decades ago, so this really is the last one. No mess ups this time.

Gunderson and Rouzic are antagonised by the new Cabal members. Bitter rivalries are blossoming already. This is not a collection of easy going personalities and mutual venom and infighting is rife. The newcomers are mocked as inadequate and Gunderson says that running the Anatolian-Sub operation is what Karel used take care of so well. Pity he’s dead.

Not so, says Eckhardt and morphs into Karel giving everyone the conniptions, especially the newcomers. Shit! What have they let themselves in for? They are all pretty scary individuals in their own right but this takes some adjusting to.

Karel goes on to explain how things are going to be, promises them wonders and victories and gives them their orders. He’s lying of course but what do they know.

LOCATION - ANTARCTICA  BASE

Towards the close of WWII, when the misdirected Allied bombers were bombing Castle Kreigler and unknowingly setting the monstrous Eckhardt free the Nazi Kommand was looking to re-establish its power base in places as far flung as Argentina, the Himalayas and remote Scandinavian regions. But the most ambitious bunker base was located in Antarctica. (imagine what fun could be had with Nazi-Nephilim….wow!)

Various branches of what had once been Eckhardt’s breeder programme back in the 1300-1400’s have survived and have continued in various remote parts of the world. Some of these obscene experimentations were carried out under the guise of the 1930’s and 1940’s concentration camps. As the thousand year Reich began to implode large shipments of equipment, research data, materials and personnel were shipped off to their remote Antarctic base in the ice-locked mountain ranges far beyond reach. This had been under construction since the 1930’s and by the end of the war was complete, ready to receive the results of the Dunkle Welten Programme (Dark Worlds) into its bunker complex.

So, guess where Lara and Kurtis are going to end up…? Yep.

For precedent see:

Genesis by W. A. Harbinson.

At the Mountains of Madness by Lovecraft