Obscura Paintings

Obscura Paintings are five 15th-century works of Black alchemic magic by Pieter Van Eckhardt. The painting each contained a piece of Sanglyph, to keep it safe.

The original paintings depicted demonic imagery. As Eckhardt grew more evil and powerful, the Lux Veritatis was formed after this and they battled the Cabal's evil plans, emerging victorious. After Eckhardt's imprisonment, most of the properties and assets owned by the Cabal were seized or destroyed. However, some of them were instead hidden, the paintings included.

The Church discovered the extreme power of the paintings and ruled that destroying them was too futile since doing so would never change or destroy their power; the only option was to hide them instead. The original artwork was painted with religious imagery by Lux Veritatis leader Brother Obscura, wherein the paintings got their names. Before hiding them throughout Europe, Brother Obscura also created copies of those paintings, called Obscura Engravings, each containing an encoded map that leads to the location of the original paintings.

In 2003 Mathias Vasiley obtained all Obscura Engravings, which led to the discovery of those paintings. He then exchanged information with Werner Von Croy on this matter.

After the murder of Von Croy, Lara found the two remaining paintings in Paris and Prague. These paintings were later used by Echkardt to revive the Sleeper but were later destroyed upon Karel's death.