- [Narrator] Naughty Dog has
had some iconic characters.
Crash Bandicoot has
that dorky, silly charm,
while Jak and Daxter made us
love whatever an ottsel is.
But Uncharted gave us
a more photo-realistic,
but equally loved character: Nathan Drake.
To honor the Indiana Jones of video games,
we're bringing you his
story with the entire
Uncharted timeline.
So let's track his wild
journey, one clue at a time.
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Nate's Younger Years
Nathan Drake was born Nathan Morgan,
and he had a less than ideal childhood.
His mother, Cassandra Morgan,
inspired his deep curiosity about history
which led him to a career
we could loosely describe as
gunslingin' archeologist.
Unfortunately, she died when
he was still very young.
After Cassandra passed,
Nate's father disowned
him and their estate.
Like I said, it was a
less than ideal childhood.
Nate and his older
brother Sam end up at the
St.Francis orphanage, where
Nate would end up getting in
lots of fights with other kids.
Sam eventually gets
discharged from the orphanage,
but he always helps Nate sneak out.
One night, Sam reveals he
tracked down whoever bought
their mother's stuff.
Together, the two ride
on Sam's new chopper
to break into this person's house.
You could call it Nate's
first tomb-raiding adventure.
After some nighttime driving,
they reach a creepy, gated mansion.
Inside, they find their mother's journal,
but they also run into the
owner of the house, Evelyn.
At first, she holds them at
gunpoint and calls the cops,
but she quickly realizes who they are.
However, just when the police shows up,
she has a heart attack,
forcing the boys to flee.
After getting to safety,
Sam and Nate change their
last names to Drake, to
honor their mom's theory
about the illegitimate
heirs of the pirate,
Sir Francis Drake.
And the rest is history.
Sic Parvis Magna: Greatness
From Small Beginnings
16 years before Drake's Fortune,
Nate ends up in Cartagena, Columbia
where he's surviving on the streets.
He pick-pockets a key
from Victor Sullivan,
using it to open a museum display
to take Sir Francis Drake's ring.
However, he gets caught
by Katherine Marlowe,
the leader of an English secret society.
Sully helps Nate escape, and from there,
the two forge an unbreakable bond.
Eight years before Drake's Fortune,
we find Nate and Sam in a Panama prison.
They team up with Rafe
Adler, a treasure hunter,
and the trio search for the
pirate Henry Avery's treasure.
They get ahold of a crucifix,
signaling that the next step
in securing Avery's treasure
lies in a cathedral in Scotland.
Unfortunately, they get in a
scuffle with a corrupt guard,
forcing them to flee the prison.
Nate and Rafe break out,
but Sam doesn't make it.
With Sam gone, Nate gives up
on finding Avery's treasure,
so Rafe heads to Scotland alone,
while Nate continues his own separate
treasure-hunting journey.
A few years before the events
of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune,
we find Nate somewhere in
Panama, this time not in prison.
A fellow treasure hunter named Jason Dante
hired him to track down
something important.
While there, Nate meets Marisa Chase,
one of Dante's colleagues,
and the two hit it off.
But as it turns out,
Dante was working with a
local revolutionary leader
named Roberto Guerro.
His soldiers take a
mysterious amulet from Chase
and take Nate prisoner.
He breaks free and meets Chase
and they retrieve her amulet.
Nate and Chase narrowly
escape with their lives,
and they make their way to
her grandfather's house.
He believed that the amulet
held the secret to finding
Quivira, an ancient city full of riches.
Nate and Chase head to
some nearby catacombs
to get the next clue for their journey:
The Sword of Stephen.
On their way out of the catacombs,
Guerro takes Chase hostage,
forcing Nate to give up the sword.
But Nate calls in Sully as backup
to mount the rescue operation.
After looking at some markings
on the Sword of Stephen,
Nate deduces they need to head to
the Temple of the Serpents.
Sully stays behind to hijack
a helicopter while Nate digs
deeper into the temple, saving
Chase from some soldiers
who set up explosives
around the structure.
Chase is safe, but she wants to go
further into the temple,
claiming that "Quivira awaits".
Nate figures out that her
amulet was the literal key
to unlocking the door
to the underground city.
Inside, they find the Golden Abyss,
a cavern full of
gold-radioactive gold, that is.
Dante quickly joins them in the cavern,
revealing his plan to
mine all the deadly gold
and spread it through the black market.
Nate will not let that happen,
so he gives Dante a beat down
and leaves him for dead in the cavern.
Chase and Nate escape the Golden Abyss,
detonating the bombs
that Guerro's men set up
to seal Dante and the gold away forever.
But just before they can
have their happy ending,
Guerro confronts our heroes,
nearly killing Chase with an RPG.
Once Nate deals with him,
he helps Chase escape
the crumbling temple.
Sully meets them at the exit,
and using the helicopter
he stole earlier, the trio
make their way to safety.
Nate and Chase have a moment together,
but just before they kiss,
Sully interrupts them with a story
about two gorgeous nurses in Buenos Aires.
Uncharted: Eye of Indra
Okay, so it's not exactly a
game, but this motion comic
tells a short story that
happens in Indonesia,
just before Drake's Fortune.
Nate meets an American crime
lord named Daniel Pinkerton,
who wants our hero to
find the Eye of Indra.
This rare amulet could be
worth billions of dollars,
so Nate works with a local named Rika Raja
to do some research.
They deduce that the amulet is hidden
inside Pinkerton's home.
However, instead of letting
the crime lord know,
Nate decides to work with
Rika and her brother, Eddy,
to steal the Eye of Indra for himself.
They infiltrate Pinkerton's home,
but get cornered in a gunfight.
So, Nate thinks of the only
plan that will save them:
They get captured.
But just before they do,
Nate hides Eddy's gun under
a table, calling it his "ace in the hole."
After some intense torture,
Nate reveals that the amulet
is in Pinkerton's safe.
As Pinkerton marvels at the amulet,
Rika breaks free, grabs Eddy's gun,
and shoots Pinkerton and his men.
The trio meets up outside,
celebrating their victory.
But then, Rika pulls
a gun on the other two
and takes the treasure for herself.
Three days later, Nate recounts
the whole story to Sully,
who asks how Nate plans to
fund his next adventure:
finding Sir Francis Drake's coffin.
At that moment, a documentary
by Elena Fisher plays on TV.
Nate points toward it,
saying that she's the key
to funding his next expedition.
He plans on bringing
her to Drake's coffin,
and her producers will foot the bill.
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Sure enough, we find Nate with Elena,
who's filming Sir Francis Drake's Coffin.
Nate busts it open, and finds his diary.
Unfortunately, his celebration
gets cut short when they're
attacked by pirates led by
none other than Eddy Raja.
Nate's ship gets wrecked,
but Sully flies in on his
seaplane to save him and Elena.
Nate and Sully leave
Elena behind to follow
Francis Drake's trail to El Dorado.
You might think of it as
the famed city of gold,
but Nate finds out it's
actually just a golden statue.
In the Amazon rainforest,
Nate stumbles upon the
next clue on an old U-boat,
pointing to an undocumented island.
However, just as Nate and Sully
prepare for their next stop,
another treasure hunter
named Gabriel Roman
holds them at gunpoint.
Roman works with Atoq
Navarro, an archeologist
who also knows his way around a gun.
Navarro takes the map from Nate,
and Roman shoots Sully
square in the chest.
Just before Nate also meets his end,
the U-boat explodes behind them,
giving our hero a small window to escape,
but not enough time to grieve.
Nate regroups with Elena,
and the two make their way
to that mysterious island.
There, they find a monastery... and Sully!
He explains that Drake's
diary stopped the bullet,
and he had been 'working' with Roman to
stay alive ever since.
Nate and Elena head down some catacombs
that lead to Sir Drake's body, however,
they also come across
Eddy and his pirates.
Suddenly, they're all faced
with a greater threat:
horrifying, mutated humanoids.
They all team up, but
Eddy dies in the fight.
Diving deeper into the passage,
Nate learns that the Nazis
were also trying to find
El Dorado back in the day.
However, the statue was cursed,
turning whoever gets near it
into... whatever those creatures
that attacked them are.
They learned that the hard way.
When Nate returns to Elena,
Roman and Navarro have taken her hostage.
Now on a rescue mission,
he and Sully head toward
the final showdown.
Roman and Navarro find El Dorado,
which is actually just a sarcophagus.
Roman opens it, only
to turn into a monster.
Navarro puts a bullet in his head,
revealing his master plan to
sell the statue as a bioweapon.
But, by thinking quickly on his feet,
Nate sinks the cursed statue and Navarro
to the bottom of the ocean,
saving Elena in the process.
Just before Nate and Elena
share a romantic kiss,
Sully interrupts,
revealing a horde of gold
he stole from Eddy's pirates.
All right, I'm starting to wonder
if Sully's doing this on purpose.
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Two years after Drake's Fortune,
we see Nate horribly wounded in a train
in the middle of a snowstorm.
Oh, the and train is hanging
off the edge of a cliff.
Nate's just one wrong move
away from falling to his death.
So, yeah, this is not a great
situation for him to be in.
But, let's just flash back
to a couple of months ago.
Nate's infiltrating a museum in Istanbul
with his old colleague Harry Flynn
and his old squeeze, Chloe Frazer.
Together, they find a map
that reveals what Marco Polo's
lost crew carried before they
got swept away to Borneo.
It's a mysterious artifact
named the Cintamani Stone,
obtained from Shambhala - or
Shangri-La, if you prefer.
Think of this large blue stone as like,
the holy grail of Hinduism and Buddhism.
Before Nate can do
anything about it though,
Flynn double crosses him,
landing our hero three
months of jail time.
Luckily Sully and Chloe bail Nate out
before he has to serve all
three months of that jail time.
The three head to Borneo
to catch up with Flynn,
who's now working with Serbian
war criminal Zoran Lazarevic.
Long story short, Nate
learns that Marco Polo's crew
left the Cintamani Stone in Shambhala,
terrified of its power.
He also finds a Phurba, a
dagger-like key, along with a map
that points to Nepal as
the next step to Shambhala.
Of course, Flynn confronts
them before they leave Borneo,
and Chloe has to hold Nate hostage
to maintain her cover as a
mole in Lazarevic's army.
Flynn takes the map, but Chloe
helps Nate keep the Phurba.
Nate and Chloe head to Nepal,
where they run into Elena.
She's hot on Lazarevic's trail,
hoping to expose his location,
seeing as the whole world
believes he died a long time ago.
The group enters the Nepalese
temple, and Nate and Chloe
figure out that Shambhala
is in the Himalayas.
After leaving the temple,
Lazarevic's men attack,
and eventually, Flynn
catches up to them too.
Lazarevic takes the
Phurba and map from Nate,
and he orders Flynn to
kill Nate and Elena.
But, Nate and Elena
escape, and she helps him
get onto Lazarevic's
train to rescue Chloe.
While there, Nate recovers
the Phurba and meets Chloe,
although she's angry over
his relationship with Elena.
During their argument, Flynn shoots Nate,
causing him to flee toward
the back of the train.
As he catches his breath, he
shoots some propane tanks,
propelling his section
of the train off a cliff.
Eventually, Nate wakes up
in a small Tibetan village
where he finds Elena.
She introduces him to Karl
Shafer, a former German soldier
who previously hunted
for the Cintamani Stone.
He urges Nate to go to
some nearby temple ruins
to learn more about the stone.
There, Nate finds Schafer's old unit,
killed by Schafer himself.
He learns that the stone
gives a lot of power
and it's dangerous in the wrong hands.
When he gets back to the
village, Nate finds out
Lazarevic took Schafer and the Phurba.
So, Nate and Elena chase
him to the monastery
that leads to Shambhala.
There, Nate runs into Chloe,
and he takes the Phurba from her.
Then, as he's about to
open the door to Shambhala
with Elena, Lazarevic walks in,
using Elena and Chloe as
bargaining chips to control Nate.
As the doors open, Lazarevic
prepares to kill Nate.
But then, the guardians
of Shambhala ambush them,
giving Nate, Elena, and
Chloe time to break free.
The three continue through
Shambhala, and find out that
the "stone" is actually a blue
sap from the tree of life.
Drinking the sap would make
someone nearly invincible.
After Flynn blows himself
up with a grenade,
gravely injuring Elena,
Nate asks Chloe to take Elena to safety.
From there he goes alone to stop
Lazarevic from getting the sap.
Unfortunately, Lazarevic
just drank some of the sap,
but no worries, Nate still defeats him.
With Lararevic down,
Nate ignites all the sap,
blowing up Shambhala and leaving
Lazarevic to the guardians.
Now that the day is saved,
Chloe asks Nate how he feels about Elena.
Nate admits he has feelings for Elena,
so Chloe amicably walks away.
Nate and Elena finally kiss,
without Sully to interrupt
about some stupid story
about Buenos Aires,
and their new relationship
officially begins.
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
After two years pass,
Nate and Sully meet with
Charlie Cutter and Talbot in a speakeasy.
These two want to buy Nate's
ring, but the deal goes south,
and the entire bar erupts into a fight.
Outside, the boys are overwhelmed,
and Katherine Marlowe,
the English secret society
leader Nate met in Colombia
20 years ago, takes Nate's ring.
But, it was all a setup.
Cutter had been in cahoots
with Nate the whole time,
and the ring Marlowe took
was actually just a fake one.
With Chloe's help, our
heroes track Marlowe down
to a secret library
where Nate learns about
Francis Drake's hidden voyage
to Ubar, the City of Brass.
Their next destinations
are in France and Syria,
so they all split up. Chloe
and Cutter take Syria,
while Nate and Sully take France.
Nate uncovers one half of an amulet
that mentions a city in Yemen,
but he needs the other
half to figure it out.
Unfortunately, Talbot
had been tracking him,
and forces Nate to cough up the amulet.
Okay so, if they got caught, then
Nate and Sully figure Chloe
and Cutter are in trouble too.
So, they head to Syria,
hoping to stop Talbot's men
from ambushing them as well.
Turns out they were completely fine!
Well...until Charlie gets
drugged and attacks Nate,
but he snaps out of it before
he does anything too serious.
After that, the four of them find the
other half of the amulet,
and find out exactly where to go in Yemen.
Of course, Talbot takes
the second piece from them,
so the bad guys learn
where to go next, too.
So, Nate and Sully hoof it to
Yemen, where they meet Elena.
She and Nate split a while back,
although she's still
wearing her wedding ring,
and now she's a foreign
correspondent there.
Against her better judgment,
she hands them both
press passes, helping
them sneak into the city.
In the city, Nate gets drugged
just like Charlie did and,
after he comes down, he finds himself
having a 'pleasant' chat
with Talbot and Marlowe.
Sure enough they take
Drake's real ring from him.
Nate reunites with Elena, only to find out
that Marlowe's taken Sully to the desert.
Elena helps Nate get onto
a cargo plane headed to the
convoy...and he ends up
crash landing the plane.
He's not really a subtle guy, you know.
In the Rub 'al Khali
desert, Nate meets Salim,
who rescues him from
some of Marlowe's men.
Salim warns Nate that Ubar holds a
brass vessel containing the Djinn,
evil spirits that could
destroy all of humanity.
The next day, Nate and Salim
ride out to Marlowe's convoy
to rescue Sully, and
then they head to Ubar.
While there, Nate drinks
some of the local water,
which causes him to hallucinate,
kinda like when he was drugged.
He realizes that whatever is
in the water doomed the city,
and that's what Marlowe is after.
As Marlowe and her goons start to pull
the brass urn out of the
water, Nate shoots the crane.
He launches a couple more
shots, starting a chain reaction
that leads to the whole city collapsing.
Ubar sinks into a huge pit of quicksand,
and Marlowe gets caught in it.
Nate tries to save her, but she sinks
and ends up lost forever.
Nate and Sully head to the
airport, ready to go home.
They have a heart-to-heart
talk, and Sully reveals
he's always seen Nate as a son.
He takes out Nate's wedding ring,
which he kept safe ever since
Nate and Elena separated.
Elena comes up to Nate
and sees he's wearing
their wedding band again; the two embrace
before going home on Sully's new seaplane.
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Three years after that business
in Yemen, Nate works at a
salvage company, trying to
live a normal, boring life.
Then his older brother Sam
shows up out of nowhere,
alive and in the flesh.
A drug lord named Hector
Alcazar broke him out, and now,
Alcazar wants Sam to
find Avery's treasure.
In other words, Sam needs Nate's help,
so it's time for our hero
to come out of retirement.
Nate tells Elena that he took
a salvage job in Malaysia,
but he actually heads to an auction party
with Sully and Sam.
A crucifix similar to the
one they found back in Panama
15 years ago was on sale,
and they believe it holds the key
to finding Avery's treasure.
They steal it,
but not before Nate trades
blows with Nadine Ross,
leader of a paramilitary
organization called Shoreline.
He learns that Shoreline
is working with Rafe Adler,
Nate's old friend who's
still after Avery's treasure
after all these years.
They fly to Avery's grave in Scotland
and explore some underground catacombs.
Their next stop lies in
King's Bay, near Madagascar.
There, they learn that Avery, Thomas Tew,
and ten other pirates had pooled
their treasure hordes together,
stashing it away somewhere.
The next clue lies in one of two towers,
but Rafe and Shoreline
are already scouring them.
To play catch up, Sam heads to one,
while Nate and Sully head to another.
Nate figures out that the
treasure horde is in Libertalia,
a secret pirate colony.
Soon after, Rafe calls
him, revealing he's been
tracking them via the GPS in their phones.
Nate regroups with Sam and
they smash their phones.
But as they return to their hotel room,
Nate runs into none other than Elena.
She knows Nate's been lying
about that Malaysia job.
Sure enough, the couple
gets into an argument,
and she storms out, telling
Nate to do what he needs to do.
Sully goes after her, while
Nate and Sam get ready.
So, they head for Libertalia,
where they find out
that a class struggle forced
the rich pirates to found
their own settlement: New Devon.
On the way there, Rafe confronts them
and reveals that he got Sam
out of prison, not Alcazar.
Sam made up the story to get the treasure
by any means necessary.
Nate feels betrayed, but
Sam still protects him
when Rafe tries to kill him.
Nate falls down a cliff,
and Elena rescues him
after Sully convinced her
to come back and help.
While she nurses him back to health,
they come to an understanding
after Nate recounts his
relationship with Sam.
Together, they retrieve Sam
with Sully on standby
with the getaway vehicle.
However, Sam still wants
to go for the treasure,
so Nate reluctantly chases after him.
Finally, they catch up to Rafe and Nadine
on Avery's treasure-loaded ship.
Thing is, Nadine's disgusted
with how everyone's
killing each other, so she
double-crosses Rafe and bounces.
Nate and Rafe literally cross swords,
and Rafe ends up getting killed
by the very treasure
he's sought for so long.
Nate saves Sam and escapes
the burning,and sinking, ship.
From there, the Drake
brothers catch up with
Elena and Sully, and the four
of them finally head home.
Sam and Sully become business partners,
while Elena restarts her
career as a documentarian
so she can join Nate on his expeditions.
Years later, Nate and Elena
have a lovely beach home,
and a teenage daughter, Cassie.
Just like her parents,
she has a curious mind,
so when she finds out about
their previous 'expeditions,'
she asks them what gives.
Nate and Elena finally tell
their daughter about their past,
starting with that cursed
treasure of El Dorado.
While Nate's journey seems to be over,
it looks like Naughty Dog is open to
exploring other side characters.
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
takes place after Uncharted 4,
and follows Chloe and Nadine's
journey through India.
With the help of Sam, they
obtain the Tusk of Ganesh
and stop a civil war from breaking out.
Chloe and Nadine forge an
unexpectedly strong bond
and partnership, with
Nadine getting a taste
for the treasure hunting game.
And so, the two vow to
become partners in crime
in the cut-throat treasure hunting world.
And that's a wrap on
the Uncharted timeline!
Nathan Drake has had a number
of adventures in his time,
but now it's time to let him relax
and enjoy his time as a parent.
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