《古墓丽影：地下世界》冥奴揭秘，新剧情曝光！

　　《古墓丽影：地下世界》背景故事 - 冥奴
　　Tomb Raider: Underworld - Thralls

　　2024年8月9日
　　Aug 9, 2024

　　多年来，劳拉·克劳馥已经与各种各样的敌人战斗过。她面对过普通敌人，包括雇佣兵、渴望权力的人和凶猛的动物。然而，当她的冒险进入神话和背景故事成为现实的超自然领域，危险就会显著增加。劳拉在《古墓丽影：地下世界》中遭遇的“冥奴”便是这样一个挑战，她必须战胜这些冥奴，以揭开她母亲阿米莉亚·克劳馥失踪的真相。
　　Over the years, Lara Croft has battled a diverse array of foes. She has confronted the usual suspects including mercenaries, power-hungry individuals, and vicious animals. However, the stakes rise significantly when her adventures veer into the supernatural territory where myths and legends come to life. One such challenge appeared as Tomb Raider: Underworld’s Thralls, which Lara had to battle as she sought to uncover the truth about what happened to her mother, Amelia Croft.

　　冥奴是雷神扶手、雷神腰带和雷神之锤的主要守护者，同时也是冥界（地狱世界）的守护者。劳拉在《古墓丽影：地下世界》中使用她的PDA（个人数字助理）日记来记录了她的发现，并描述冥奴如下：
　　Thralls are the primary guardians of Thor’s Guantlets, Thor’s Belt, and Thor’s Hammer Mjölnir as well as guardians of Helheim – World of Hel. Lara uses her PDA journal in Tomb Raider: Underworld to document her findings and describes Thralls as following:

　　“‘冥奴’一词在北欧语中指的是一种奴隶。雷神托尔出行时总带有两名冥奴，分别是皮亚尔菲和罗斯卡，以及两只山羊坦格里斯尼尔和坦格乔斯特，它们拉着托尔的车。这两只山羊很特别，因为托尔每晚都可以煮食它们，只要未损伤它们的骨骼，次日早晨只需轻轻一碰便能使其复活。父亲在命名这些活化的老虎骨骼时显然想到了这一点。我不知道它们是如何保持活化的，但我想我已经明白奥丁说托尔神器由死者守护是什么意思了。”
　　“The term 'Thrall' referred to a kind of slave to the Norse. The god Thor traveled in the company of two Thralls, Pjálfi's and Röskva, and also with him were two goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, which pulled his chariot. These goats were special, in that Thor could cook and eat them each night, and restore them the next morning with a single touch as long as he had not damaged their skeletons. Father apparently was thinking of this when he named these animated tiger skeletons. By what means they are kept animate I don't know, but I think I have seen something of what Odin meant by the artifacts of Thor being protected by the dead.”

克劳馥庄园的老虎冥奴
Tiger Thralls Croft Manor

　　冥奴是活着的生物落入一种名为“埃特”的有毒液体物质后异化而成。她的PDA日记中写道：
　　Thralls are a direct product of living begins falling into a toxic liquid substance known as the Eitr. The entry in her PDA Journal states:

　　“在北欧神话中，埃特是一种赐予众神永生的灵药，但自相矛盾的是，它也是一种来自像米德加德巨蛇这样的毒蛇的毒药。这与印度教中的甘露或希腊的仙露相似。只有挪威语最接近字面意思；即这种物质确实是一种毒药，它只会让尸体动起来给人永生的假象。泰国的薄伽伐蒂肯定也有一个类似这种物质的池子，制造出了老虎冥奴，而它要么在过去腐烂了，要么是我父亲以某种方式将其处理掉了。”
　　“In Norse myth, Eitr was an elixir that bestowed eternal life to the gods, but paradoxically it was a poison that same from serpent, like the Midgard Serpent. This is similar to the Hindu concept of amrita, or ambrosia to the Greeks. Only the Norsk came closest to the literal truth; that the substance was indeed a poison, and in fact only gave the appearance of eternal life in the animation of corpses. At some point there must have been a similar pool of this substance in Bhogavati, Thailand to create the tiger Thralls, and it either decayed in the past or my father dispersed it somehow.”

　　劳拉首次在克劳馥庄园地下遇到的冥奴是两只老虎冥奴。她的父亲理查德·克劳馥从泰国带来了它们。它们自从逃离牢笼后，便在庄园的旧地下区域游荡。它们守护着一件雷神手套和一张显示其余宝藏藏匿之处的地图。
　　Lara first encounters Thralls in the form of two tiger Thralls beneath Croft Manor. Her father, Richard Croft, brought them from Thailand. They have since escaped their cages and roamed the old undergrounds of the Manor. They were protecting one of Thor’s Gauntlets and a map showing where the rest of his treasures were hidden.

　　在探索南墨西哥时，劳拉遇到了隐藏在西瓦尔巴守护雷神腰带的新型冥奴，并在她的PDA日记中记录了这一发现：
　　While exploring Southern Mexico, Lara encounters new kinds of Thralls guarding Thor’s Belt hidden in Xibalba and notes the discovery in her PDA Journal:

　　玛雅人冥奴
　　Mayan Thralls

　　“在泰国老虎身上发生的事情也在这里发生了，美洲豹和古代玛雅战士也遭遇了同样的命运。任何生物一旦掉入这种有毒发光液体就会死亡，但仍然可以活动，目的只有一个；杀死入侵者并将他们扔进池子，让他们加入守护者的队伍。后来的文明可能不仅是为了保护自己免受下面冥奴的侵害，也是为了阻止好奇的人下去增加守护神器的亡灵数量，而将他们封闭了起来。”
　　“What happened to the tigers in Thailand happened here as well, to jaguars and ancient Mayan warriors. Anything failing into that toxic glowing liquid dies, but continues to remain animate, with only one purpose; to kill trespassers and throw them into the pool, where they will join the guardian ranks. Later civilisations probably sealed them up not only to protect themselves from the Thralls below, but to stop the curious from going down and adding to the ranks of the animated dead protecting the artifacts.”

西瓦尔巴的玛雅人冥奴
　　Mayan Thralls Xibalba

　　最终，劳拉发现了两种新型的冥奴：维京人和雪怪。她首先在扬马延岛上遇到它们，不久后在北冰洋又遇到了它们。她继续记录她的发现：
　　Eventually, Lara discovers two new types of Thralls: Viking and Yeti. She first encounters them on Jan Mayen Island and soon after, in the Arctic Sea. She continues to document her findings:

　　维京人冥奴
　　Viking Thralls

　　“不清楚这些可怜的灵魂是偶然发现这个地方并受害于埃特的维京人，从而变成了这些冥奴，还是这些不死守护者本身就是更古老的战士，其外貌后来影响了后来的北欧文化。无论如何，他们都能够凶猛且不停地战斗，也许他们就是背景故事的狂暴战士的原型。”
　　“What isn’t clear is whether these poor souls were Vikings who stumbled upon this place, fell victim to its Eitr, and became these Thralls, or whether these undead guardians are far more ancient warriors whose appearance later influenced the Nordic cultures that came after. Either way, they are capable of fighting fiercely and ceaselessly, and were perhaps the origin of the stories of berserker warriors.”

维京人冥奴
Viking Thrall

　　雪怪冥奴
　　Yeti Thralls

　　“尽管在雪怪失去毛发后很难辨认其遗骸，但这些生物显然曾经就是雪怪。无论它们在遥远的过去是否能够装备盔甲，或是作为驮兽或战士，它们都是可怕的生物，可能是北欧神话中所有巨人种族的原型。”
　　“While it’s difficult to identify the corpse of a Yeti after it has lost its hair, that is clearly what these creatures once were. Whether they were capable of equipping themselves with armor in the distant past or were used as beasts of burden or a warrior class, they would have been formidable creatures that could be the giants that populate all Norse mythology.”

雪怪冥奴 冥界
Yeti Thrall Hel

　　劳拉可以通过几种不同的方式击败冥奴：使用武器将它们击倒后踩碎骨架以防止它们再次站起来；使用粘性手榴弹；利用子弹时间爆头或使用雷神之锤。
　　Lara can defeat the Thralls in couple of different ways: by using her weapons to bring them down and then stomp them to prevent them from rising again, using the sticky grenades, performing an Adrenaline Headshot, or by using Thor’s Hammer.

　　劳拉寻找母亲下落的任务以悲剧收场，她发现阿米莉亚已被变成了一名冥奴。
　　Lara's quest to uncover the truth about her mother ends in tragic irony when she discovers that Amelia has been turned into a Thrall.

　　在《古墓丽影：地下世界》的DLC扩展包《灰烬之下》和《劳拉之影》中，劳拉发现了埃特之石，她的父亲记录道，这块石头不仅能够创造冥奴，还能通过念诵石上刻的“奥赫 埃什瓦尔”来控制它们。
　　In the Tomb Raider: Underworld DLC expansions, Beneath the Ashes and Lara’s Shadow, Lara discovers the Eitr Stone, documented by her father as an artifact with the ability to not only create Thralls, but also control them by pronouncing the carved in word “Okh Eshivar".