12/29/2023 0 Comments Tomb raider lara croftHowever, without seeing it for ourselves on the official website, it is a fact that fans can decide for themselves whether it is real or not. Unless the webmaster of TR Archives made this information up himself, there is no other site that has this fact as early as he does. The earliest web capture for the biography on his website is June 16th 1997, whilst the 'Croft Times' has question marks in place for the discovery of the Ark of the Covenant - their page says that it was last updated on June 6th 1997. We believe that this is official as the fansite copied everything he could from official sources as the website name suggests, he archived whatever Eidos gave out. Sadly this tidbit can only be seen on very early fansites such as TR Archives, which began in November 1996, and not surprisingly, it was also dropped by Tomb Raider 2. This is further backed up on the official Tomb Raider 1 website, which adds this bit of story: "Lara Croft has just returned from a hunting trip in the Himalayas where, having bagged a 12-foot tall yeti, she's itching for a new challenge." However what many might not know is that the official Tomb Raider 1 website may have given a discovery date for the Lost Ark of the Covenant seen in Croft Manor, which was uncovered in 1993. The game's first FMV then introduces the fact that Lara had recently discovered Bigfoot. She then turned to writing travel books and detailed journals of her exploits to financially support herself, which gave her the chance to discover several ancient sites and uncover unbelievable myths. In the 8 following years, she learnt of various ancient civilisations but this 'unruliness' caused her family to disown her. Her survival here encouraged a new way of life for her and she realised that upper-class British society was too stuffy for her, that she only felt truly alive when she was alone. She attended a finishing school, however at the age of 21, she was the sole survivor of a plane crash whilst returning from a skiing trip in the Himalayas. Lara Croft first came into the world in 1996 with the most basic of backstory seen in the manual of the game she is the daughter of Lord Henshingly Croft, part of an aristocratic family. Also note, this article isn't for us to add in our own personal thoughts, merely talk of the evolution of the biographies. Generally speaking, knowing of her biography does not impact the games and the players' enjoyment of them. In this article, we hope to delve into the many versions of Lara's biography and talk of the details that stuck and of the details which were dropped, using official sources, fansites, gaming websites and gaming magazines, but note that most information of Lara's biographies comes from material other than what is seen in the video games. This led on to further investigation of various details. It was an origin to the ‘Duchess of St Bridget’ title, dating back to a 1997 fanfiction. We first became interested in this aspect of Tomb Raider in around 2015, when we were digging through old fansites for research for our project, the Tomb Raider Encyclopedia. Eidos Interactive heard this and they began to fill in the blanks that was her backstory, but also, so did fans when details were sparse. Lara Croft is a discoverer of myths, mysteries and treasures but when the world first saw the adventurer, Lara herself was a mystery that fans wanted to discover. This work is part of a series of guest-written articles exploring the myths and mysteries surrounding the Tomb Raider universe. The following is a guest article written by Laralicious from Tomb Raider Forums and Virtual Lara and documents the evolution of Lara Croft's official biography. THE EVOLUTION OF THE LARA CROFT BIOGRAPHY
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