Upon regaining his senses, Nate learns that the waters in Ubar are tainted with a powerful hallucinogenic agent, the result of King Solomon's disposal of the brass vessel and the Djinn. In Ubar, Nate, after drinking from a fountain, hallucinates a vision of Talbot killing Sully and him massacring Marlowe's men, who seem to be possessed by the Djinn, in retaliation. Despite this, Marlowe and her remaining men (including Talbot) reach Ubar before Nate and Sully do. Nate and the Arabs ambush Marlowe's convoy the next morning and rescue Sully. A group of Arab nomads eventually rescues Nate, who learns from the leader, Salim, that Ubar was doomed millennia ago when King Solomon cast a brass vessel containing evil Djinn spirits into the depths of the city. Stranded in the middle of the Rub 'al Khali desert, Nate spends several days wandering around hopelessly, taunted at one point by Marlowe's voice. With Elena's help, Nate follows them by stowing away on a cargo plane, but is discovered by Marlowe's men and the resulting shootout leads to the plane crashing. Rameses, another one of Marlowe's associates, and his gang of pirates capture Nate, and while Nate escapes from them, Marlowe and her men capture Sully and force him to lead them to Ubar. Marlowe threatens Nate as to Ubar's whereabouts, but Nate escapes and chases Talbot as he gets word of Sully's location.
However, Nate is shot with a hallucinogenic dart by Talbot and then taken to Marlowe. In Yemen, Nate and Sully, reunited with Nate's estranged wife, Elena Fisher, discover more clues to the location of Ubar. Chloe stays behind to take care of him, leaving Nate and Sully to continue on to their next destination, Yemen. She tries to burn him alive, but he escapes at the cost of breaking his leg. Marlowe's men ambush them inside the citadel, with Marlowe condemning Cutter for betraying her (although he doubts she ever trusted him to begin with). Nate and Sully investigate the chateau before joining Chloe and Cutter in Syria, where they learn of Marlowe's background.
They find two separate locations: a chateau in France and a citadel in Syria. Lawrence, and use the disk to search for clues to its location. He is cornered by Marlowe and her men, who take back the cipher disk however, he escapes with the ring with the help of Sully who takes him under his wing.īack in the present, Drake, Sully, Chloe Frazer, and Cutter, who is actually an old friend of Sully's, and acting as a double agent, follow Marlowe's trail to her underground lair, where they retrieve the cipher disk, learn that she's looking for Iram of the Pillars (also known as Ubar), a quest previously undertaken by Sir Francis and T.E. However, a young Nathan Drake steals both before they get to it. In a flashback to 20 years earlier, it is revealed that Marlowe commissioned Sully in Cartegena to steal the ring, along with the cipher disk it unlocks. As she goes to leave, Drake and Sully try to follow, but are shot and seemingly killed by Charlie Cutter, who is left behind as punishment.
After ugly banter between the three, she forcibly takes what she thinks is Sir Francis Drake's ring, though it turns out later to be a fake. Marlowe first appears after Nathan Drake and Victor Sullivan defeat her men in a bar room brawl in London, but are cornered outside. She is the sinister, manipulative and coldly calculating leader of a secret Hermetic order formed 400 years ago by Queen Elizabeth with the mission to find the lost city of Iram in order to harness the power of the Djinn against their enemies. Katherine Marlowe Katherine Marlowe (Rosalind Ayres) is the main antagonist of the 2011 video game Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.