Lara Ravel

Pathologic 2=

Lara Ravel is a young woman who owns the Shelter in the Knots District.

Description
"A clever, dedicated and proud young woman. She’s still grieving over the recent loss of her beloved father. She looks you straight in the eye at almost all times—with a gaze that is fierce, nervous, and demanding. If she does lower her eyes for a while, she will raise them back. She’d try to smile (with a corner of her mouth), but the can’t. She just isn’t a smiler. This has to look touching, not malign. Living alone in an empty house, she’s gradually awakening from her torpor and preparing to leave the town—to join the army field force and begin her vendetta."

- From the game's design documents

Background
Lara is childhood friends with The Haruspex, Bad Grief, and Stakh Rubin.

Lara lives in the north of town, in her family mansion. After the death of her father, she has sealed the rest of her house and occupies only one wing of her childhood home.

Haruspex Route
"My path was called "A Home for the Living." Kindness guided me, but I could have never known I was to meet my father's murderer."

She is deeply stressed when confronted by the Haruspex and suggests that he take room upstairs. Though Lara is deeply compassionate, she seems to hold little tolerance or respect for the Kin of the town, often dismissing the Haruspex when he speaks to her in his language. Through the game, Lara comes up with an idea to use her house as a shelter for the sick in order to better treat them. While establishing her shelter, Lara spoke to many people about the water supply in town. A patrolman misunderstood Lara's concerns, and led a mob to destroy the waterpump in front of her home. She requests the Haruspex he bring a water barrel to her home, but should he agree, he will only be able to provide an infected barrel, bringing the infection to the Flank. After the arrival of military forces with Commander Alexander Block in charge, Lara charges to the Town Hall to murder him. It is only with the Haruspex's intervention that she is not arrested or murdered for her actions, and he escorts her from the Town Hall.

The Marble Nest
Lara died prior to the events of The Marble Nest.

Spoken Dialogue

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Background
"She is a woman devastated by grief. All the gifts that she is so happy to give away are, fundamentally, offerings to a dead person. She favours the living with something the dead have no use for."

- Yulia Lyuricheva

Lara's father was a military officer that once lived together with her in the Ravel home, which was built by the Olgimskys. Little is known about the circumstances of Captain Ravel's death—he was executed after the battle at the Karstov Fords, but the public reason for this remains unknown.

While very widely liked, not everyone cares for Lara. Specifically, Aspity shows a great hatred of her, calling her a liar.

Description
"I had to do it to protect the… privacy of certain information. The good name of a certain person… and most likely the life of another one depend on it. Surely that's reason enough? Forgive me, it's uncomfortable for me to talk about it."

- Lara Ravel, regarding the House of the Living.

Lara took an active part in countering the Sand Plague, trying to make the fight with the plague easier for others. When she found out about children looting caches with "shmowder" Lara made sure to stop them from getting their hands on the poison. She volunteered to test the old medicine along with Yulia Lyuricheva and Anna Angel.

Lara’s good intentions often would have consequences she didn’t foresee. On the second day of the epidemic, Lara turned her house into an isolation ward, but this decision backfired, as the infection spiralled out of control.

Lara decided to turn her mansion into a shelter for her friends and people who would help her with the arrangement. She wanted to make the House of The Living safe enough that one could survive a month living there without leaving the place, which would protect them from the Sand Plague. After her friend, a Harpist, told her that The Shelter is too small to hold everyone interested in staying there, Lara diverged from her rule of letting in everyone in need and decided to limit it to twelve people.

Lara found an empty house which she intended to make into a shelter, however, this plan didn’t succeed as the house had already been infected. After requesting the Bachelor investigate, he declared the house unsafe.

Portrait Quotes
"She's the kindest person I know. Lara has taught me how to give presents, which is an intricate art in and of itself. The first thing she cares about is other people; the last is Lara Ravel herself. She lives for her friends. I also was fond of her father. The year before last he volunteered as a Fourth Army captain. Yes, I mean the Fourth Army."

- Capella's take on her

"After Captain Ravel was shot during the battle of Karstov Fords, newly-orphaned Lara turned her father's house into The Shelter. The house that's been built by Olgimsky in exchange for... a favor. She is both sensitive and sensible; a rare combination in our neck of the woods."

- Stanislav Rubin's take on her

Spoken Dialogue

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