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♥ What is a Fanlistings?
♥ Who is Pieter Van Eckhardt?
♥ Nephilim/Nephilites?
♥ Black Alchemist?
♥ The Strahov Fortess
♥ The Cabal

What is a Fanlisting?

A fanlisting is simply what it sounds like, a list of fans for a subject (such as the game character Pieter Van Eckhardt which is what this listing is for). A fanlist aims to get all of the fans for the subject of the listing to join.theFanlistings.org has a directory of many, many fanlistings and most fanlist owners want to have theFanlistings.org approved fanlisting for their subject.

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Who is Pieter Van Eckhardt?

In the PS2 game Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness Eckhardt is the main boss of the game.

He was kept imprisoned by the Lux Veritatis in a confinement pit for 500 years and managed to escape in 1945. He is the original The Black Alchemist and is trying to revive the race called the Nelphilm. He tries to do so by collectingthe five 14th-century Obscura paintings. He is the leader of the Cabal at the Strahov Fortress in Prague. He had appoined Werner Von Croy to recover the paintings.

Eckhardt is an insane fourteenth century genius who acquired dark powers and unnaturally long life by murdering innocents and using their body parts and transmutated elements he created from their blood in ungodly experiments. Eckhardt set about reviving the evil Biblical race known as the Nephilim to establish a new world order with him as its leader. Before he was able to achieve his goal, he and his Cabal of alchemists were attacked and defeated by the Lux Veritatis. However, the brotherhood could not totally destroy Eckhardt since he was able to steal and hide one of the Lux Veritatis’ three Periapt Shards. The shards are ancient weapons that have the power to contain evil and all three are required to truly kill Eckhardt once and for all. Instead he was magically imprisoned in a containment pit that was hidden under a southern Bavarian schloss. He escaped in 1945 when Allied warplanes unknowingly released him by bombing the castle above his prison. He soon began rebuilding his Cabal and terminating members of the order who imprisoned him including Kurtis’ father. This new Cabal is also dedicated to reviving the Nephilim race, (Eckhardt has promised his followers eternal life if they succeed), and they possess all the resources and firepower they need to achieve their goal. The organization often uses the Czech Mafia as a front for its operations and is currently based in the Strahov Fortress in Prague. Eckhardt expects only total success and loyalty from his underlings and will accept nothing less. He hired Von Croy to find a mysterious painting from the 14th century for him right before he was murdered.

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Nephilim/ Nephilites?

The nephilim are said to be hybrid descendents of angels and humans. They entered a pact with Eckhardt by which he would use his alchemic skills to enable the Nephilim to flourish again and inherit their rightful domain of the Earth.

There are only two references to them in scripture: Genesis 6 and Numbers 13. Once before the flood and once after.

"The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown."

Some will argue that they were the unrighteous offspring of fallen angels and human women, but that is a stretch that can't be backed up anywhere in scripture since angels appear and take form only by the will of God for specific purposes and not on their own accord let alone to procreate (since they are beings of spirit. )

More accurately they were another race of humans of great stature. And 'sons of God' does not necessarily imply anything supernatural, but more likely mean heroic (and in their case for evil)

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Black Alchemist?

The Black Alchemist was a nefarious occultist described by author Andrew Collins in a series of Psychic Questing books in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

An adept black magician, Collins pursued him through the landscape, but the Black Alchemist always remained aloof of Collins and his various psychic friends, most notably the enigmatic Bernard, who went on to feature as a character in the computer game Lara Croft and the Black Alchemist, based on Collins's books.

Collins has always maintained that his psychic questing books are factual, and that the Black Alchemist was a real person, even though his identity was never established. The books enjoy a huge cult reputation and even nearly two decades on, a frenzied debate on who the actual Black Alchemist might have been, with Collins's friend and colleague David Southwell even claiming that he is now dead, his ashes scattered in a rose garden in the churchyard at Seddlescombe in Sussex. Many who have tried to expose the Black Alchemist as a hoax have ended up concluding that Collins is telling the truth. No one has ever admitted being the Black Alchemist, but a number of names have been floated in the occult community with some suggesting the Black Alchemist was even operating as early as the 1960s.

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The Strahov Fortess

Stronghold of the evil organization behind The Monstrum killings, also located in Prague. Lara gains access through a blundering journalist, desperate to expose the organisation. The Strahov Fortress is made up of different areas, including a bio-research facility, an underwater research facility, a mental institution (the only Tomb Raider level to be played from another character's perspective) and a secret tomb called The Vault of Trophies. Physically it is a large industrial complex and appears to be fronted by some kind of transport operation.

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The Cabal

A cabal is a number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in a church, state, or other community by intrigue. Cabals are secret organizations composed of a few designing persons; a political cabal is often called a junta. The term can also be used to refer to the designs of such persons. The term also holds a general meaning of intrigue and conspiracy. Its usage carries strong connotations of shadowy corners and insidious influence; a cabal is more evil and selective than, say, a faction, which is simply selfish. Because of this negative connotation, few organizations use the term to refer to themselves or their internal subdivisions. Among the exceptions is Discordianism, in which the term is used to refer to an identifiable group within the Discordian tradition.

The term cabal derives from Kabbalah (which has numerous spelling variations), the mystical interpretation of the Hebrew scripture, and originally meant either an occult doctrine or a secret. It was introduced into English in the publication of Cabala a curious medley of letters and papers of the reigns of James and Charles I that appeared in 1654.

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