Thread:The Demon In Me/@comment-25376269-20180704203955/@comment-1967967-20180706131544

I have now finished the book, and I have to say it was in conflict with the comics a lot.


 * Lara has had professional help in the novel, but not in the comics:
 * PTSD Diagnosis and instructions on how to handle panic attacks when they happen means help. Just because Lara didn't like the doctors diagnosis of the PTSD, does not mean she didn't sought help. In the comic's though, Atlas DeMornay suggest she sough help from professionals if she wants the manor back.


 * Lara becomes aware of Trinity in the novel, but is not aware of them in the comics:
 * Lara over hears Kennard Montez, Teo, and April talking about Trinity, and witnesses the all out war between the Immortals and the Trinity on the college campus (chapter 29-37). Kennard even revealed that Trinity wanted to recruit Lara, but she was found to be too independent.
 * In the comics Lara first hears about the Trinity from Kaz Weiss in Chernobyl in #8.

''“Trinity can take down the Ten Thousand Immortals. Good work with the woman, April. You too, Teo. That’s two down, and we don’t have the artifact yet.”''

''“She’s been one step ahead of Trinity most of the way,” said Kennard. “If it wasn’t for her, none of us would be here now.”''

“Not Trinity, and not the Ten Thousand Immortals,” said April.


 * Lara doesn't know who Kennard is in Rise of the Tomb Raider:
 * In the book, Lara has a date with the guy, swaps phone numbers, stands face to face with him when she is gunned down by him. Yet in Rise of the Tomb Raider Lara circles his images and writes "Who?" next to it, like she never met him before.


 * The timeline does not match:
 * Lara mentions to Herodotus Menelaou that the events of Yamatai took place a year ago. Herodotus Menelaou also says that the Ten Thousand Immortals started looking into the golden fleece after the island incident, and came looking for him two-three months ago.

''“I was at Yamatai last year,” she found herself saying. She didn’t know why.''

''“The Ten Thousand Immortals?” Menelaou finished. “Because they have also visited me. Two, three months ago. Presumptuous. Wicked.”'' ''“Oh, yes, yes, yes,” nodded Menelaou. “But ask yourself this… Why would they be so anxious, suddenly, to procure the Fleece? Eh? An artifact that heals and grants immortality? Yes? Perhaps, after Yamatai, the Ten Thousand Immortals started to feel… mortal, Lara Croft.”''


 * If the novel takes place after the comics, then Cahalane is the anomaly.
 * In the book Professor Cahalane is still alive until the end. In the comic he dies in issue #2 which takes place six weeks after Lara was on Endurance sailing to Yamatai.