Lara follows Werner Von Croy, her mentor, through the various traps and pitfalls of the area and soon discovers a crawlspace containing a skeleton of another unlucky archaeologist and takes possession of a familiar looking backpack. The story begins in 1984 when a sixteen year old Lara Croft is on an expedition to Angkor Wat in Cambodia at the Temple of the Iris. My wrath will consume all lands, and shall be ceaseless." "I am the shadows across the sun: I am the bringer of plagues. "Set, ruler of evil, will again be free at the turn of a distant millennia. He who walked abroad with the Jackals at the dawn of man shall once again violate the Earth". "I Semerkhet, High Priest of Horus, forewarn that he who removes the Amulet shall have released Set. Fearful that he may still be possessed she is reluctant to hold onto his hands and so falls into the darkness beneath the collapsing temple. As she reaches the exit of the temple, injured and exhausted, she is confronted by Von Croy. She must leave it in place to keep Set imprisoned for eternity. Lara quickly recovers it and exits the Temple sealing the entrance shut with the amulet. However before Horus can be summoned, Set arrives and destroys the armour, knocking the amulet into the water. She combines them (with the Amulet of Horus) in the Temple of Horus to finally defeat her enemy. They are found in Pharos, Temple of Isis, Temple of Poseidon and Cleopatra's Palaces. Lara travels across Egypt to collect the pieces of Horus's armour in order to defeat Set. Unfortunately, Von Croy becomes Lara's new rival as he is possessed by Set himself and he makes things considerably more difficult. She unwittingly unleashes him and finds herself in a deadly race against time to restore the god to his resting place before an apocalypse befalls Earth. Back in the year 1999 in Egypt (this is the only game in the series to keep the globe-hopping to a minimum, aside from the prequel level the entire game takes place in one country), Lara Croft uncovers an ancient tomb where the fearsome Egyptian God Set was once imprisoned. However, the trip is cut short by an accident where Lara is forced to abandon her companion in order to save her own life. They travel to a Khmer temple in Angkor Wat, Cambodia in the hope of finding the mystical "Iris". The story begins with Lara Croft's teenaged tomb-raiding origins, accompanied by her former mentor Werner Von Croy.
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