Periapt Shards

The are artefacts found in Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness. They are crystalline shards, shaped like spearheads. In an ancient drawing these three shards surround a lion head. The lion is probably the Golden Lion mentioned in the prophecy of the Nephilim.

There are only three Periapt Shards. They were in the possession of the Lux Veritatis who used them to stop Pieter Van Eckhardt for centuries. It is said that only them can stop Eckhardt for good. That is why Lara must collect all them.

The first one Lara finds in the Louvre. It seems that Kurtis Trent lost it and Lara picked it up, but he managed to get the Obscura Painting from her. Later, he would get the shard back. She will get the first again and second one from Kurtis in the level Boaz Returns, when he sends Lara away to stop Eckhardt and takes on the mutated Boaz himself. Before he hands them over to Lara, Kurtis will use his shard to kill the Proto Nephilim. The third one is found in Eckhardt's Lab, where Eckhardt kept it safe in a pool of boiling water which Lara has to cool down before she can get it.

When Lara confronts Eckhardt, she stabed him with two of them, but the third was used by Karel.