Vladimir Kaleta

"Hold your yapping tongue for want I clip it!"

- Verdilet

Vladimir Kaleta was a demon named Verdilet on an island in Connussie, Ireland.

Life
"I, Vladimir Kaleta, who worshipped in the first Kremlin, who butchered the Swede and the Lefsky on the banks of the River Neva."

- Verdilet

Vladimir was once a soldier who worshipped the first Kremlin. He loyally served Prince Alexander Yaroslavitch and fought at the Battle of the Neva on July 15th 1240.

Around 1284, he was promised eternal life by an Abbot via a scroll. However, the Abbot tricked him into a barn surrounded by running water and the scroll instead had Vladimir become a demon and demons cannot pass running water thus trapping him in the barn and becoming Verdilet.

Freedom
"...I taste freedom for the first time in an aeon."

- Verdilet

Verdilet was trapped on the island for around seven hundred years. In 1984, Father Bram Patrick Dunstan came to investigate the island accompanied by Lara Croft. Verdilet kidnaps Father Patrick and takes him to the barn in which Lara follows them. Verdilet emerges on his horse with Father Patrick. Verdilet promises to release Father Patrick only if Lara rids the place of running water. Lara succeeds in her assignment and Verdilet does spare Father Patrick but does not wish to spare Lara's life. Verdilet advances on Lara, sword in hand. Father Patrick tells Lara to read out names from the Bestiary she found earlier. Lara finds Verdilet's name and reads it out just as he is about to strike her down. Verdilet freezes and Lara now has power over him. Lara gives him a single order and she with Father Patrick leave the island.

Tomb Raider: Chronicles

 * Old Mill (cutscenes)

Cutscene

 * Who is this that stands before me? The first to visit me in my prison seven hundred years past.
 * Silence, ignorant heretic, or I behead you!
 * For the child has spirit, but what is that? When this island is littered with the bones of holy men. My gift to them for their spirit in obstructing me from claiming my rightful inheritence.
 * The inheritence is the gift of eternal life. Contained within an ancient scroll. Concealed by the dollard abbot and his cohorts. The scroll, which draws forth pale demon blood through my veins. I am no longer man. I am one for the earth and one for above the gaping abyss of Hades.
 * Hold your yapping tongue for want I clip it! Boils and plagues plaste over this island and it's treacherous inhabitants! For it was they, and their ox little abbot, who plotted to incarcerate me in this dungeon hall for an eternity. I, Vladimir Kaleta, who worshipped in the first Kremlin, who butchered the Swede and the Lefsky on the banks of the River Neva. Incarcerated within this prison of flowing water!
 * Indeed, the abbot's final trick before I was transformed. And you shall find a way to shore up this stream or your holy man shall be opened up and gutted like livestock.

Cutscene

 * Your child has done her job well, and I taste freedom for the first time in an aeon. You will now fear me? For you have served your purpose well, holy man, and for this should I exercise mercy as a god might?
 * Yes, I shall spare, and secure for you a fate worse than death! For when you pass beyond this world, Heaven shall no longer welcome you, for you have released a demon.
 * Ah! The child. I shall snuff out her life as a candle.
 * How is this? I move to strike and yet cannot!
 * For this you shall burn for eternity! I shall drown you in a mire of your own entrails before I squeeze...

Appearances

 * Tomb Raider: Chronicles (First appearance)