Lara manages to defeat the witch, who continues to act aggressively. As the battle continues, Nadia calls Lara and tells her that her grandfather is awake and told her that the witch didn't kill her grandmother, but in fact is her grandmother, she asks Lara to not kill her. Lara journeys to the center of the Temple, where she encounters Baba Yaga, who causes her to drop her antidote, meaning Lara has to face her whilst under the effects of the pollen. Nadia gives him a dose of the antidote, and stays with him while he recovers, whilst Lara goes to face Baba Yaga. Lara and Nadia take the cable car to the temple, where they find Nadia's grandfather. The antidote works, and Lara sees the world for how it is, and sees that there was nothing supernatural, and that the pollen had simply made her imagine the supernatural elements, seeing that Baba Yaga's walking house was nothing more than a cable car, which had been modified to make it look like it had legs. She returns to the vale taking the antidote before she passes through the area with the flowers. Lara finds the ingredients needed and mixes the antidote together, giving her two doses. Lara finds the notes of Serafima, finding a recipe to counteract the pollen. She realizes that Baba Yaga is not truly a witch, just a human who is refining the pollen and weaponizing it. Lara comes across a boiler, which smells like the flowers. Nadia tells her that there is a flower in the valley that can cause visions, though it's effects aren't very potent. Lara says that she thinks she was hallucinating. Lara gets out of the river a ways down, and is called by Nadia, who thought Lara was killed by the witch. Lara fights them off, but the witch attacks her again, Lara jumps into the river to escape from the witch. who traps her in a pit, siccing demonic wolves on her. She sees her father chasing after him, until she witnesses him shoot himself, though his head is that of an animal skull. Lara ventures further in, passing through a group of flowers, and begins coughing, as she passes through, her vision becomes hazy and suddenly she begins to see strange things. Lara goes to the Vale, seeing totems to the witch. Wounded, Nadia is unable to go after her grandfather, so she asks Lara to go in. Nadia tells Lara that she was ambushed by Trinity while trying to find her grandfather, Ivan who ventured into the Wicked Vale to kill the witch, Baba Yaga, in retaliation for her killing his lover, who was the biochemist who the Soviets brought into the Vale. She dispatches the Trinity forces in the area and meets a young woman named Nadia in the Soviet installation. She intercepts a message from Trinity about a Native being wounded in the sawmill. Years later, Lara Croft traveled to Siberia in search of the lost city of Kitezh. After the Soviets were defeated, The Remnants dared not venture into the Vale, any who did, never returned. Saying they had been attacked by Baba Yaga, who made them "do things" possibly hinting that the witch had made them kill each other, he died the day after he emerged from the Vale. However, one night, the soldiers were attacked, and killed. The Soldiers were seeking a way to bypass the strange hallucinogenic properties of a flower in the area, taking Serafima, a Biochemist who was imprisoned in the Gulagg, into the Vale to research a way to counteract the pollen in the air to make it easier for them to work. The Wicked Vale The Soviet Invasion ĭuring the Cold War, the Red Army set up a base in Siberia, near the village of the Remnants. She apparently resides in the woods in a house that walks on the legs of a bird. She travels by flying around in a mortar and wielding a pestle as a weapon. The Legend of Baba Yaga depicts her as a ferocious older woman.
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