Story in BO3

The founding Zombies narrative: Group 935, Element 115, the Ultimis and Primis crews, and the multiverse conflict between Edward Richtofen, Doctor Monty, and the Shadowman. It concludes with Revelations.

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• Shadows of EvilA noir city with no power switch, a ritual chain to Pack-a-Punch, and Margwas.2015
• The GiantDer Riese rebuilt for Black Ops III with a new Primis story encounter.2015
• Der EisendracheAn Austrian castle, the elemental bows, and the quest most players finish first.2016
• Zetsubou No ShimaA hostile Pacific island of Division 9 experiments.2016
• Gorod KroviDragons over a ruined Stalingrad, and the GKZ-45 Mk3.2016
• RevelationsThe Aether saga’s finale, staged in the House and the Apothicon realm.2016

• Primis kills the other Richtofen (The Giant)

  1939, altered timeline

  Primis Richtofen arrives at Der Riese in 1939 and shoots his own earlier self, taking the dead man’s soul for the plan ahead. The paradox splinters the timeline rather than cleaning it — and marks the moment the story starts running in a circle.

• The quest for the Ultimis souls

  1940s, altered timeline

  Across Der Eisendrache, Zetsubou No Shima and Gorod Krovi, Primis hunts down the older versions of Dempsey, Takeo and Nikolai and grants each a soldier’s death, banking their souls in the Summoning Key. Each map ends with a member of the crew executing his own other self.

• Revelations: the souls reach the House

  Agartha, outside normal time

  In the fractured space where the Shadowman and the Apothicons wait, Primis traps the Shadowman in the Summoning Key and delivers the children’s souls to Monty’s House — a protected corner of Agartha. Monty, unwilling to erase the crew outright, throws Primis back to the Great War instead.