Amaru, better known as Dr. Pedro Dominguez, is the main antagonist of the Survivor Timeline of the Tomb Raider series, serving as the overarching antagonist of the 2013 and 2015 video games Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider and the various comic books based on the Survivor Timeline, as well as the main antagonist of the 2018 video game Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
Biography[]
The man who would be known as Pedro Dominguez was born as Amaru in the hidden city of Paititi in the 1960s. He was the older brother of Sayri, who became King of Paititi. As a child Amaru was quiet and studious. Amaru and Sayri were adventurous together, and had a secret hideout in the mountains.
While still a child, Amaru fell in with the Cult of Kukulkan, a proxy for Trinity that had manipulated Paititi's rulers since 1603 AD, and was eventually brought out of the city into the outside world. Cardinal Gualtiero de Luca Dominguez, the Leader of Trinity's High Council, took a liking to Amaru and personally raised the boy as his successor. Amaru took the name Pedro Dominguez, studied to become a Doctor of Archaeology, and worked his way up Trinity's ranks until he was appointed leader of the High Council and the order himself.
Dominguez periodically returned to Paititi to visit his brother and maintain his relationship with the Cult of Kukulkan. Eventually, Paititi suffered from a disastrous famine. Dominguez volunteered to seek help from the outside world, but Sayri insisted that as king, the responsibility was his. Sayri ventured beyond Paititi alone and was tragically killed. Dominguez was beset by grief for his beloved brother, and had him buried in their old hideout in the mountains. When Unuratu, Sayri's wife, was enthroned as Queen of Paititi and brazenly protested the Cult of Kukulkan's oppressive influence, Dominguez seized the position of High Priest of the Cult, after exposing the leader as outsiders and killing them. In his new position of power, he usurped Unuratu, believing that he could better protect the city from outsiders.
Plan to save Paititi[]
Over the years, Dominguez had grown increasingly paranoid about the threat to his people and had been seeking a way to protect them. He began researching a myth from his people involving a pair of artifacts, the Key of Chak Chel and the Silver Box of Ix Chel. By itself, the Key had the power to trigger The Cleansing, a Mayan apocalypse in which a tsunami, a storm is coming.
Death[]
Undeterred Dominguez began the ritual to save Paititi, however Lara arrives and interrupts it, managing to wrestle the Key of Chak Chel from him, the pair fight but Lara is ultimately successful in stabbing Dominguez with the the blade and killing him. With his final breath, he begs Lara to protect Paititi, Lara promises him that she will, giving him some degree of peace in death.
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