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At the bottom of an ancient cistern, the lowest part of the structure, Lara discovers the resting place of Tihocan, yet another Atlantean ruler and with him his piece of the Scion. The treasure hunter opens up a way beneath the abbey that leads her deep into the mountain and uncovers a vast number of archaeological and architectural legacy left behind by the ancient Greeks that inhabited the area before the Byzantine monks. She doesn’t come upon the firm owner herself but does find plenty of interesting research and hints regarding the Scion artifacts, one of which leads her directly into a medieval monastery on top of a natural sandstone rock pillar formation in Thessalia named after and dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi. Next to the fabled king, she finds his piece of the Scion before getting ambushed by Larson Conway, one of Natla’s henchmen who was sent to take the artifact off of her once she would recover it.Īfter taking care of Larson and realizing what kind of commissioner she was dealing with, Lara flies to Los Angeles to pay Natla a personal visit when she breaks into her office in the Natla Technology headquarters. Hidden beneath an enormous waterfall inside a cavern the adventurer encounters architecture that does not belong to the rest of the structures and realizes she made her way to Qualopec’s burial chambers, who had been entombed there long before the Incans arrived. After a local guide leads her up into the mountain range they encounter a gigantic 16th century gate carved into the rocks that marks the entrance to the lost city.ĭeeper inside, the aristocrat discovers an isolated ecosystem filled with fauna and flora that was once native to the South American rainforests. Tomb Raider (1996) A Geographical and Historical OverviewĪfter Jacqueline Natla, CEO of Natla Technologies, informs treasure hunter Lara Croft about having found the long lost fabled last refuge of the Incan people, Vilcabamba, in the Peruvian Andes and with it the final resting place of the mythical Atlantean ruler Qualopec, our heroine makes her way to South America to retrieve the king’s piece of a highly advanced disc-like artifact called the Scion.