Kurtis Trent
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Biography
Kurtis was born on June 26 1972 in Utah Salt Flats in the United States.
He is an ex-Legionnaire and also an experienced warrior with limited occult abilities. He was raised as an initiate in an ancient order called the Lux Veritatis. But at the age of 19 he left to join the Foreign Legion, which he left in 1996, when he began freelancing with a variety of mercenary and semi-legal agencies under the direction of Marten Gunderson.
In 2001 Kurtis took on his father Konstantin's role after the Alchemist hunted down and killed the last of the Order. Kurtis is the only one who is left of the Lux Veritatis, and is now on a quest for revenge against those that wiped out the Order and killed his father.
In the game
Lara's first contact with Kurtis in the game will be in the Cafe Metro, where he is sitting at a table in a corner. He won't speak to her. Their next encounter will be in front of the Serpent Rouge, he is fleeing with his bike. Then Lara will see him again after the explosion in the Pawn Shop. He is sitting on a jetty, smoking a cigarette. Again, she won't be able to talk to him. Then she will meet him in the Louvre where he steals Lara's weapons and then both flee. Lara is knocked unconscious by Bouchard's guard and Kurtis disappears. The next meeting with Kurtis will be in the Strahov in Prague. He will complain that Lara has made a mess and that he has to correct her mistake by turning the power back on.
The player will then be playing Kurtis in two levels (The Sanitarium and Maximum Containment Area) After that Lara and he go seperate ways in an attempt to stop Eckhardt. Coming from the Vault of Trophies you will find that Eckhardt has captured Kurtis. You will both be thrown into a pit with a spider creature. Kurtis helps Lara to flee and then you have to fight against the mutant creature Boaz as Kurtis in Boaz Returns. Kurtis is then stabbed by the Boaz creature, and left to die. However, in the final cutscene, Lara only discovers his Chirugai blade on the floor, and a small pool of blood.
Fate
There has been much speculation about the apparent 'death' of Kurtis, particularly among the female sex where he was most popular. Theories range from him being pulled out of existance to his body disintergrating. However, as Eidos initially planned to continue the Angel of Darkness story into two more games, it is a safe bet that he survived.
Fanfiction
Although one of the worse selling games of all time, Angel of Darkness inspired quite a lot of fanfiction focused around Kurtis Trent. Again, most interest attracted to him is from the female sex.
