Game Storyline

Plot The narrative opens with a quote attributed to  Marco Polo , "I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed." The plot revolves around the doomed voyage home of Marco Polo from China in 1292. After spending almost 20 years in the court of the Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan, Marco Polo departed with fourteen ships and over six hundred passengers – but when he arrived in Persia a year and a half later, only one ship and eighteen passengers remained. Polo never revealed what had happened to the lost ships. The story begins in  media res , with a wounded  Nathan "Nate" Drake  ( Nolan North ) waking up to find himself in a train hanging off a cliff with a bloody stomach wound. Through flashbacks, it is revealed that former associate  Harry Flynn  ( Steve Valentine ) and old girlfriend  Chloe Frazer  ( Claudia Black ) approached him with a job to steal a Mongolian oil lamp from an Istanbul museum. Nate accepts the ...

Plot Fortune Hunter Nathan Drake had recovered the lost coffin of Sir  Francis Drake , who was buried at sea over 400 years ago. He was assisted by journalist  Elena Fisher , who was there to record the events for a documentary. The two discovered the coffin to be empty, except for a diary written by Sir Francis, whom Nate claimed to be his ancestor. The empty coffin proved Nate's theory that Sir Francis faked his death in his final years to embark on one last treasure hunt. Shortly after, Nate and Elena were ambushed by a band of  pirates . While fighting off the pirates, Nate and Elena's salvage vessel ended up extremely damaged, forcing the two to flee and jump into the ocean before it blew to pieces. They were rescued by Victor Sullivan, Nate's best friend and mentor, who came to their rescue in his  seaplane . At shore, Nate detailed Sully on his findings. According to Drake's diary, his final treasure hunt was to find  El Dorado , the lost cit...