Croft Manor (Survivor Timeline)


 * For Lara's home in other timelines, see Croft Manor.

Croft Manor, located in Surrey, England belonged to Lara's father, and she grew up in it.

Lara has inherited the mansion after her father's death. However she refused to go to the mansion prior to the events of Rise of the Tomb Raider and lived in an apartment. But after finding the Divine Source and realizing her father's dream, she moved in to the mansion.

Ownership of the Manor
Amelia and Richard Croft appointed Atlas De Morney, Amelia’s brother, as Executer of the Croft Manor Estate in the event of their absence. However, should they both die, the estate would automatically pass into the hands of their next of kin, Lara Croft. Lara’s father died when she was very young, and her mother went missing years before that. Lara left the manor after the death of her father, and in her absence, it to fall into disrepair with broken walls, shattered windows, and some flooding in the lower levels. Despite not staying at the manor, Lara remained on as the rightful owner because both of her parents were pressured dead. However, her mother’s strange disappearance meant that her death was not officially declared, qualifying her as “absent” instead of “deceased”, and thus, Atlas assumed ownership of the manor.

One stormy day, Atlas sent Lara a letter explaining all of this, and gave her until the end of that night to take whatever she wanted from the house and leave indefinitely or he would cut her off of her parents trust completely. Only by finding evidence that both of her parents were dead, and not missing, could Lara reclaim rightful ownership of the manor. Thus, she spent that night exploring her childhood home, looking through old letters and journals to find something that would prove her mother’s death.

After finding the combination to a safe in her father’s study, Lara discovered an old drawing detailing the location of a hidden room somewhere in the basement of the manor. Lara followed the drawing to a secret vault built by her father to protect his immortality research. In the vault, she found an old Sun Dial with a cryptic inscription: “This is the Croft universe. Our knowledge lies to the east, our respite to the west, our future to the south, our past to the north.” She also discovered that her father had found Amelia’s frozen body in the Himalayas and brought it to the manor for a proper burial. But Lara didn’t know where her mother's body was put to rest within the manor, so she set off to find it.

Lara placed the Sun Dial in the middle of the manor's grand entryway, deciphered the cryptic message, and followed the directions to a scratched wall at the top of the stairs. Beyond the wall was the Croft Family Crypt, a hidden chamber beneath the manor where all of the deceased members of the Croft family are buried. In the center of the chamber was Amelia’s tomb. Lara notified the courts and her uncle that she had discovered her mother’s deceased body, proving that both of her parents were dead and that she was the true owner of the manor.

Atlas sent Lara another letter a few days later, in which he agreed that the evidence she had uncovered surrounding her mother’s death was irrefutable and that he no longer had any legal claims to manor. He also offered Lara financial help in managing her family’s fortune should she ever need it, but she refused his offer. She than made a promise to herself that she would rebuild the manor and restore her family’s reputation at whatever the cost.

Story Mode
It has been confirmed that the PlayStation 4 edition, will include a playable story chapter in Croft Manor, titled "Blood Ties" where Lara will explore the house in order to find documentation to prove she is the rightful heir to Croft Manor and the Croft fortune.

Another new mode entitled, "Lara's Nightmare" will also be released, It will be a horde mode where Lara will face off against undead creatures to protect Croft Manor.

Construction
The manor is a massive home surrounded by massive gardens.

After her father's death, Lara left the manor, and in her absence the manor fell into a state of disrepair, with some flooding in the lower areas.