Scion

The Scion is the key element of the storyline of Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider: Anniversary.

Richard Croft believed the Scion contained all the knowledge of the ancients within, and that in finding it, he could be reunited with his beloved wife who disappeared in Nepal years before.

A device which when used by the three Atlantean rulers (Tihocan,Qualopec and Natla) could create anything the user desired, it was designed to separate into three pieces, each of these pieces were worn around the necks of the Atlantean Gods and it could only be used once all three pieces were put together. Natla wanted the power to herself so she could start 'the seventh age' (something which Tihocan and Qualopec did not agree with), in an attempt to get the other two pieces she needed, Natla set an attack upon her fellow Atlantean Gods (disabling Qualopec) this did not work and she was banished from the sacred order of the three and sentenced to being frozen for eternity as punishment. After this Qualopec and Tihocan casted the three pieces of the scion in separate locations (Peru, Greece and Egypt) so that it could never be used after their eventual death.

Natla escaped her imprisonment sometime in the 1950s, she posed as a business woman under the guise of Jacqueline Natla and she built a corporation and became CEO of 'Natla Technologies', It wasn't until 1996 (which the games were set) that Natla hired Lara Croft to retrieve the pieces of the scion, towards the end of the game Lara Croft confronts Natla, it is here that Natla asks Lara to join her as it takes three to rule, after hesitation Lara shoots the Scion just before Natla pushes her off the edge in an attempt to save it (which leads both characters to fall off the platform). This is the last time the Scion is seen.

It is not revealed nor mentioned what the fate of the scion was.

The scion was in the trophy room in TRII or TRIII, but, it was in pieces.