Amanda Evert is a fictional character in the Tomb Raider: Legend video game. She is voiced by Kath Soucie.
Biography
Amanda Evert was one of Lara Croft's best friends at university. She had a huge fascination with anthropology, mysticism and metaphysics and dreamed to rediscover all the mystical knowledge from the past, that the scientific age has driven out of the world. By teaching these forgotten truths, others could gain spiritual enlightenment.
During one of their expeditions in Paraíso, Peru, Amanda and Lara, along with other students, came across a mysterious entity that guarded the tomb. Running for her life, while the entity kills their friends one by one, Amanda reaches a central area in the tomb, where she and Lara become stuck. Amanda notices a dark stone on the wall, and after quickly reading the markings on the wall, Amanda is convinced that stone is the key to unlock the door.
Amanda struggles to remove the stone off the wall, and just as she does, the entity vanishes — seconds before getting Lara. However, just as Lara had warned Amanda, removing the stone also set a trap. Lara and Amanda run for the exit, as the tomb starts collapsing and filling with water. Amanda isn't so lucky, however, as huge debree fall on her feet. Lara holds the gate open while Amanda struggles to remove her feet from beneath the heavy rocks. A few seconds later, the water level has risen over them and more pieces of the ceiling crumble, covering Lara's sight of Amanda. In disbelief of what's just happened, Lara turns away and swims for the surface.
A few years later, Lara meets a man named James William Rutland Jr., in Tiwanaku. He mentions Amanda and Paraíso, but refuses to expand on what he knows about it. Zip suggests Lara should go back to Paraíso to see if she can discover what Rutland was refering to.
Returning to Paraíso, Lara gets in touch with Anaya Imanu to go back to the excavation site. Anaya leads Lara to the site, but she refuses to go down the tomb. Down there, Lara discovers Amanda somehow survived, leaving only her unlaced high tops. Even more confused, when she returns to Anaya, they discuss why Amanda never got in touch with them.
Lara tracks Rutland down to Ghana and beats him to conquer his piece of the Excalibur, and as she does so, he tells her that Amanda has broken into her house looking for the Ghalali Key, a crucial item to put the sword back together. Lara gets in touch with her friends at the manor and they say they're fine, but also add that Lara should head to Kazakhstan straight away if she wants to reach Amanda.
Inside the secret laboratory, Lara finally meets Amanda again. Amanda expresses her anger to Lara, for leaving her for dead in Paraíso back then, and demands her guards to not allow Lara follow her. They fail on the mission however, and Lara catches up with Amanda shortly after. Lara apologizes for the past and suggests teaming up with Amanda to, once again, work together. Amanda denies it saying they never worked together, and in Paraíso there was only her and the stone she took off the wall.
Amanda unleashes the entity that chased them and killed their friends back then, and as she does so, Lara realizes Amanda has been blinded by her own beliefs. While Lara can't defeat the entity, she grabs hold of another Excalibur piece and escapes the laboratory through an underground tunnel, once again losing sight of Amanda.
Knowing Lara would recover all of the pieces of the sword, Amanda heads back to Tiwanaku to wait and ambush Lara. Lara does return, and once again they confront each other. Lara once again suggests they can use the sword together, but Amanda promptly denies it, saying it will only work once and she wants to be the one. As she does so, she unleashes and merges into the entity to take Lara down and take the Excalibur for herself. She fails.
Lara uses the sword, activating the stone dais and making touch with her long lost mother. While Lara tells her mother not to touch the sword, on the other side of the looking glass, to avoid her fate, Amanda tells Lara to take out the sword otherwise the dais will explode. Lara's mother listens to Amanda and quickly removes the sword, supposedly going to Avalon.
Lara becomes furious with Amanda, for having sent her mother "to death", but Amanda say she's not dead. Lara defiantly fires a few shots past Amanda's head, demanding her to explain where her mother is. Amanda then says she's gone to Avalon, the place where she wanted to go and where Lara could have gone, had she pulled out the sword before her mother did. Lara doesn't kill Amanda, but instead knocks her down, and goes after more clues to reach Avalon and her mother. Lara also asks Zip to spread the news of what she has done to the civilians of england
Trivia
There's a supposed connection between Amanda and Jacqueline Natla, Lara's nemesis on the first game of the series. In the last level, several crates featuring Natla's company logo can be seen around the stone dais. Natla also has blue eyes and short blond hair, like Amanda. However, this may just be a hidden reference.
In Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend, after having completed certain tasks, the player can unlock two Amanda Evert outfits. The changes are only cosmetical however, affecting only the way "Lara" looks, but the player gets the opportunity to play through the levels as Amanda.
Amanda struggles to remove the stone off the wall, and just as she does, the entity vanishes — seconds before getting Lara. However, just as Lara had warned Amanda, removing the stone also set a trap. Lara and Amanda run for the exit, as the tomb starts collapsing and filling with water. Amanda isn't so lucky, however, as huge debree fall on her feet. Lara holds the gate open while Amanda struggles to remove her feet from beneath the heavy rocks. A few seconds later, the water level has risen over them and more pieces of the ceiling crumble, covering Lara's sight of Amanda. In disbelief of what's just happened, Lara turns away and swims for the surface.
A few years later, Lara meets a man named James William Rutland Jr., in Tiwanaku. He mentions Amanda and Paraíso, but refuses to expand on what he knows about it. Zip suggests Lara should go back to Paraíso to see if she can discover what Rutland was refering to.
Returning to Paraíso, Lara gets in touch with Anaya Imanu to go back to the excavation site. Anaya leads Lara to the site, but she refuses to go down the tomb. Down there, Lara discovers Amanda somehow survived, leaving only her unlaced high tops. Even more confused, when she returns to Anaya, they discuss why Amanda never got in touch with them.
Lara tracks Rutland down to Ghana and beats him to conquer his piece of the Excalibur, and as she does so, he tells her that Amanda has broken into her house looking for the Ghalali Key, a crucial item to put the sword back together. Lara gets in touch with her friends at the manor and they say they're fine, but also add that Lara should head to Kazakhstan straight away if she wants to reach Amanda.
Inside the secret laboratory, Lara finally meets Amanda again. Amanda expresses her anger to Lara, for leaving her for dead in Paraíso back then, and demands her guards to not allow Lara follow her. They fail on the mission however, and Lara catches up with Amanda shortly after. Lara apologizes for the past and suggests teaming up with Amanda to, once again, work together. Amanda denies it saying they never worked together, and in Paraíso there was only her and the stone she took off the wall.
Amanda unleashes the entity that chased them and killed their friends back then, and as she does so, Lara realizes Amanda has been blinded by her own beliefs. While Lara can't defeat the entity, she grabs hold of another Excalibur piece and escapes the laboratory through an underground tunnel, once again losing sight of Amanda.
Knowing Lara would recover all of the pieces of the sword, Amanda heads back to Tiwanaku to wait and ambush Lara. Lara does return, and once again they confront each other. Lara once again suggests they can use the sword together, but Amanda promptly denies it, saying it will only work once and she wants to be the one. As she does so, she unleashes and merges into the entity to take Lara down and take the Excalibur for herself. She fails.
Lara uses the sword, activating the stone dais and making touch with her long lost mother. While Lara tells her mother not to touch the sword, on the other side of the looking glass, to avoid her fate, Amanda tells Lara to take out the sword otherwise the dais will explode. Lara's mother listens to Amanda and quickly removes the sword, supposedly going to Avalon.
Lara becomes furious with Amanda, for having sent her mother "to death", but Amanda say she's not dead. Lara defiantly fires a few shots past Amanda's head, demanding her to explain where her mother is. Amanda then says she's gone to Avalon, the place where she wanted to go and where Lara could have gone, had she pulled out the sword before her mother did. Lara doesn't kill Amanda, but instead knocks her down, and goes after more clues to reach Avalon and her mother. Lara also asks Zip to spread the news of what she has done to the civilians of england
Trivia
There's a supposed connection between Amanda and Jacqueline Natla, Lara's nemesis on the first game of the series. In the last level, several crates featuring Natla's company logo can be seen around the stone dais. Natla also has blue eyes and short blond hair, like Amanda. However, this may just be a hidden reference.
In Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend, after having completed certain tasks, the player can unlock two Amanda Evert outfits. The changes are only cosmetical however, affecting only the way "Lara" looks, but the player gets the opportunity to play through the levels as Amanda.
STATS
Game series Tomb Raider series
First game Tomb Raider: Legend
Creator(s) Toby Gard
Voice actor(s) Kath Soucie
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