The real Spear Of Destiny - also known as the Spear of Longinus and the Holy Lance - is one of very few artefacts in the Tomb Raider game series to be based on Christian beliefs - it is supposedly the spear taken from Jesus' side when he died on the cross. Hence the spear would cause explosions if its power was disturbed. The power from the spear however was very volatile and uncontrollable. It supposedly made an army invincible when wielded. Lara probably did not attempt to retrieve the spear from the Russian wreckage of the submarine after witnessing its tremendous ability to destroy. Lara escaped but the spear sank with the submarine. When Lara was forced to hand the spear over to a Russian gangster, Sergei Mikhailov, the volatile power of the spear also caused an explosion on the Russian submarine which sank afterwards. In the year 1998, Lara recovered the Spear Of Destiny from the German U-boat ruins, after infiltrating a Russian submarine, whose crew were also searching for the spear. The spear originally was found by the Nazis, and it was being transported on a U-boat but the power of the spear caused an explosion which sunk the U-boat.