Aether Story

In the beginning, there were only the Aether and Keepers. Among them were two
beings who would later be known by many names. One would be known as Doctor
Monty, the other being as the Shadowman. In time, the Keepers crafted the Summoning
Key, a device that allows them to manipulate the Aether. Holding power over reality
itself, they used it to create Agartha. The Keepers later mastered the ability to travel
between dimensions.
At some point, several Keepers, among which the Shadowman, began experimenting
with the Dark Aether, an energy beneath creation. The Dark Aether corrupted and
corroded their souls, and the corrupted Keepers became known as the Apothicons.
The Apothicons created the Aether Pyramid, a device capable of absolute power. A
schism formed between them and the Keepers untainted by the Dark Aether. Soon
after, a war broke out between Apothicons and uncorrupted Keepers. Facing defeat, the
Apothicons hid the Aether Pyramid on a moon within one of the newly discovered
dimensions. After banishing the Apothicons to the Dark Aether, the remaining Keepers
took on the mantle of Guardians. Trapped in the Dark Aether, the Apothicons contorted
and evolved over eons into twisted creatures that now bear little resemblance to their
Keeper brethren. They desired, above all else, to return to Agartha.

By September 5 CE, the Apothicons, knowing the Earth has a gateway to Agartha, sent
meteors containing Element 115 to the planet in different dimensions across space and
time. They believe humanity will one day use Element 115 to wage war among
themselves, opening a rift that will allow the Apothicons to escape the Dark Aether.

The Great War

On January 15th, 1292, the Great War between humanity and the Apothicons began
across dimensions. During the war, Sir Pablo Marinus was saved from the clutches of
a Margwa by four heroes known as Primis. The Wolf King and his men also took part in
the war. On December 31st, 1299, after more than seven years of war, Primis defeated
the Apothicons together with the Keepers and humanity, bringing the Great War to an
end. Before they seemingly disappeared from history, Primis instructed the Wolf King to
begin building his castle that would later be known as Der Eisendrache.
Several years later, honoring the Wolf King's dying request, his loyal
servant Arthur scattered and buried his bones in the grounds of Der Eisendrache,
accompanied by the King's Wolf. Arthur was then teleported by temporal rifts to
Resolution 1295 in 2025 Angola.

Ultimis Story
In 1885, a blacksmith named Jebediah Brown was living in a mining town
called Purgatory Point in the Old West. The mine contained large amounts of Element
115 which started to affect people who went down there. One of the miners turned into
a zombie and attacked Jebediah's mother, killing her. Wanting to find answers,
Jebediah went down in the mine where he spent five days without realizing it. Later, on
April 19th, Jebediah had a vision in his sleep. Two angels asked him to build a machine,
a Pack-a-Punch Machine which became a success in the town. On June 30th, Jebediah
had another vision; the two angels asked him to create an Agarthan Device. The
Agarthan Device has three components: the blood of an elder god found at the bottom
of the ocean, an Elemental Shard created by forging four human souls to a rock of
Element 115 and a metallic Vrill vessel. Jeb manages to craft the vessel, but has no
means of obtaining the blood or the souls.
After crafting the Vril Vessel, Jebediah upgraded it with the Pack-a-Punch. As a result of
this, and the fracturing of the Earth after Ultimis helped Maxis launch rockets from the
Moon in 2025, a temporal rift was created, transporting the entire town, including
Jebediah, to an underground cavern in Angola. Afterwards, zombies began to overrun
the now buried town, killing any of it's remaining inhabitants as well as Jebediah.
On June 30th, 1908, a meteor containing Element 115 crashed near the Stony
Tunguska River in Siberia. Over the next decades, more deposits of Element 115 were
discovered in Germany, Japan, the United States of America and on the Moon.
In 1931, after a large deposit of Element 115 was found in Breslau, Doctor Ludvig Maxis
formed Group 935 as an international German-led research team, becoming its head
scientist. The Der Riese facility was established at Breslau. Maxis sought to use the
newly discovered element to improve the human condition by developing advanced
technologies. He invited Doctor Edward Richtofen, who would later be known as Ultimis
Richtofen, to join Group 935, Richtofen agreed secretly acting on behalf of the
Illuminati's interests.
By 1939, Maxis and Ultimis Richtofen started working on the first teleportation
experiments with a Matter Transference Prototype. The experiments were unsuccessful.
The subjects were teleported, but their chemical composition was altered, leaving them
catatonic and changed. Ultimis Richtofen also began the development of
the Wunderwaffe DG-2. In the same year, Maxis turned to the Reichstag and the Nazi
Party for additional funding. They agreed to the request, expressing interest in Group
935’s weapons research, teleportation technology, and the reanimated undead subject
to help the Axis win the war.[1]
Ultimis Richtofen and Doctor Schuster continued working on teleportation and
successfully teleported a walnut during Test Trial 151. The result, however, failed to
impress Maxis who revealed to Ultimis Richtofen that Group 935 would be soon funded
by Nazi Germany. Ultimis Richtofen worried this would lead to mass defections. He
decided to continue the experiments with Schuster behind Maxis' back.
In early 1940, Ultimis Richtofen and Schuster conducted the first human teleportation
test. Ultimis Richtofen was so confident in its success that he volunteered himself. He
was teleported to the Moon where he encountered the Aether Pyramid, calling it MPD.
While inspecting the device, Ultimis Richtofen was electrocuted and began hearing
many voices of corruption, including the Shadowman. He was then teleported
to Shangri-La in the Himalayas where he was worshiped by the natives who built an
altar in his name. Ultimis Richtofen also encountered the Focusing Stone for the first
time. Corrupted by the Dark Aether, Ultimis Richtofen was gradually being driven insane
by an obsession to reach Agartha.
Ultimis Richtofen returned to Der Riese a few weeks later with a plan to build a station
on the Moon, called Griffin Station. He also renounced his involvement with the
Illuminati. Frustrated with Maxis' alignment with Germany, other disgruntled Group 935
scientists joined his cause.

Several months later, Maxis contacted the Reichstag High Command requesting
additional funds stating that Der Riese lacked not only the funding, but a sufficient
volume of Element 115 as well. In response to his request, Nazi Germany built two new
facilities in Berlin for Group 935. They were known as the Kino Facility, a repurposed
theater, and the Asylum Facility at the Wittenau Sanatorium. The Imperial Japanese
Army handed over the Rising Sun Facility to Group 935 which collaborated with Division
9 at the facility site. Group 935 also established a facility in Siberia near the Tunguska
River and a research facility at Der Eisendrache, called Eagle's Nest.
By 1942, Griffin Station was completed. Ultimis Richtofen appointed Doctor Groph as
lead scientist and tasked him and Schuster to discover a way to power the MPD. While
at the Rising Sun Facility, Maxis developed the Ray Gun Prototype with H.
Porter working on the 2nd Generation Model. In May 1942, after soldiers returned from
Africa, Ultimis Richtofen reported that they found a number of artifacts from an
American town. Among the artifacts and documents recovered, was pieces of the Pack-
a-Punch machine from Jebediah Brown. Ultimis Richtofen gave the schematics to H.
Porter to replicate Brown's work. Ultimis Richtofen also discovered plans for the
Agarthan Device and the Vril Vessel as well as the Vril Device.
On June 13th, 1942, as a result of temporal rifts caused by Ultimis traveling through
time to reach the Kino Facility in 1963, Doctor Monty reached across time and space
and offered little nudges. One nudge is helping Group 935 to develop Element 115
fused elixirs. They created four medicinal beverages known colloquially
as Juggernog, Quick Revive, Speed Cola, and Double Tap.

At Griffin station, Groph and Schuster unwittingly discover how to charge the MPD when
Schuster killed a rat near the device. Its death inexplicably began charging the device
by filling its tank. They reported their findings to Ultimis Richtofen who began sending
soldiers and scientists to be sacrificed to charge the MPD.

By the end of 1942, Maxis expressed concern over Element 115's impact on Ultimis
Richtofen's behavior. Although no longer trusting him, he left her daughter Samantha in
Ultimis Richtofen's care as he was transferred to the Kino Facility with his
assistant Sophia to focus on creating Germany's undead army.
In 1943, Nikolai Belinski, who would later be known as Ultimis Nikolai, was captured
during the Battle of Stalingrad and became a test subject for Group 935. The same
year, Takeo Masaki, who would later be known as Ultimis Takeo, was captured by
Group 935 on the orders of the Emperor.
In 1944, Pablo Marinus, a Mexican spy, was captured by Group 935 at Der
Eisendrache. In his cell, Pablo wrote of visions of a Great War. He described a "great
battle against strange demon-like creatures who were trying to devour the Earth". In his
visions, he saw four knights protected him from certain death. He made a note that the
knights wore tunics similar to the statues in Der Eisendrache.
In 1945, OSS operative Peter McCain infiltrated Group 935. In July 1945, Richtofen
traveled to the Siberian Facility to do further research on "live specimens". As her
temporary guardian, he took Samantha with him. Ultimis Richtofen also brought the Vril
Device with him. Few days after his arrival, a Reporter was arrested near the facility.
When Ultimis Richtofen interrogated him, the reporter revealed he was working for Mr.
Rapt who was looking for several artifacts, among them the Vril Vessel, also called the
Seal of Duality. After Ultimis Richtofen refused to give him the vessel, he ordered the
guards to kill the reporter.
On August 1945, Group 935 began to transfer three test subjects for experimentation:
Ultimis Nikolai, Pablo Marinus, and Ultimis Takeo. Ultimis Richtofen began
experimenting on them few days after their arrival. Ultimis Richtofen also started looking
at a way to create an Elemental Shard in order to build the Agarthan Device
Suspecting Group 935 would lose control of their experiments, Peter's
handler, Cornelius Pernell, sent a Marine Recon Team lead by "Tank" Dempsey, who
would later be known as Ultimis Dempsey, to extract McCain who was ousted as a spy.
In September 1945, during an operation with Harvey Yena, another American spy,
Ultimis Richtofen extracted Pablo Marinus' spleen. He noted that the barrier to unlock
the human mind was not located in the spleen. Pablo died from the operation and was
dumped into the river. However, Pablo survived and would later awoke at the bottom of
the river before swimming back to the Siberian facility where he'll be stuck for the next
20 years.
Several days later, the Recon Team arrived at the Asylum Facility where an outbreak
occurred. Ultimis Dempsey was captured and sent to Ultimis Richtofen in Siberia to
replace Pablo Marinus. Ultimis Richtofen continued experimenting on Ultimis Dempsey,
Nikolai and Takeo. He documented the personality traits of his test subjects. Dempsey's
"intellect seemed low, but his will was strong." Takeo was "still staring at the floor,
muttering what sounds like some kind of proverb over and over again." Nikolai had
"recently begun responding to stimuli, but only after injections of a new serum made
primarily from vodka." Ultimis Richtofen noted that their minds had been almost entirely
broken, with no memory remaining of who they once were. While at the Siberian
Facility, Ultimis Richtofen also experimented on Samantha.

As he continued to find a way to build the Agarthan Device, Ultimis Richtofen managed
to siphon a piece of the souls of his three test subjects into a processed rock of Element
115 using the Vril Vessel. He used his own for the fouth soul required. As the souls
were injected to the rock, it transformed and created a shard of glass. Unbeknown to
Ultimis Richtofen, by forging their souls to the Element 115, he bound his soul and the
ones from Nikolai Belinski, Takeo Masaki and "Tank" Dempsey to the Aether across the
dimensions. All their different versions were now connected to the Aether through time
and space.

After learning from Harvey Yena that Maxis didn't mass produced the Wunderwaffe DG-
2 as promised, Ultimis Richtofen started plotting to destroy Maxis and his daughter. He
vowed that he would no longer continue to work on Maxis' undead army.
With the war over, Maxis returned to Der Riese in October 1945 and ordered Ultimis
Richtofen to do likewise so they might continue their work on the Matter Transference
Device. Few days later, Ultimis Richtofen arrived at Der Riese with his test subjects and
Samantha. On October 12th, Groph contacted Ultimis Richtofen to inform him the MPD
had been powered up and was awaiting the conduit.

On October 13th, 1945, during a series of teleportation test trials, Maxis used
Samantha's dog Fluffy as test subject. Fluffy, now changed was teleported back into the
chamber. When Samantha saw Fluffy, she ran inside the teleporter. Maxis chased after
her and Ultimis Richtofen sealed them in the test chamber before teleporting them
away.
While Maxis was teleported to the Crazy Place where he learned the power to merge
with electricity, Samantha was teleported to Griffin Station. She ran inside the MPD
where she became corrupted by the Dark Aether. When he learned about the incident,
Ultimis Richtofen ordered Groph to teleport Maxis to the Moon to coax Samantha out of
the device. Maxis approached the MPD and he persuaded her to come out. Once she
did, Maxis gave her the instruction to "kill them... all" before killing himself and merging
with the technology of Griffin Station. Samantha then entered the MPD and unleashed
the undead upon the base killing anyone involved with the organization.

The next day, an outbreak occurred at the Der Riese Facility. H. Porter activated the
alarm before killing himself. Ultimis Richtofen returned to the facility where he awoken
Ultimis Dempsey, Takeo and Nikolai. With no recollection of who they were or who
Richtofen was, they agreed to help him. The four would become known as Ultimis.

Richtofen's Grand Scheme

Several days later, Ultimis traveled to the Rising Sun facility where an outbreak
occurred. In the facility, Ultimis discovered the corpse of Peter McCain who died during
a parachute incident after being told by Cornelius Pernell to rendezvous at the facility.
Ultimis Richtofen also recovered his diary and began to form his plan to defeat
Samantha.
A week later, Ultimis returned to Der Riese where Ultimis Richtofen planned to use the
teleporter to return to the Moon and confront Samantha. However, the Wunderwaffe
DG-2 overloaded the teleporter and sent Ultimis to the Kino Facility in 1963 causing
Ultimis Richtofen to drop his diary which was later recovered by the Soviet Union.

This marked the first time Ultimis traveled across space and time. Temporal Rifts
occurred across dimensions. In light of these developments, Monty felt obligated to step
in, and began to make changes in the background across time. He helped Group 935
invent Perk Machines. He added chalk drawings to the walls.

When Ultimis arrived at the Kino Facility on October 28th, 1963, they located a Lunar
Lander and flew to the Ascension Facility.
In the weeks prior Ultimis arrival at the Ascension Facility, a Russian scientist from
the Ascension Group named Yuri Zavoyski became corrupted by Samantha's voice
after reading Ultimis Richtofen's diary. Yuri tricked his colleague, Doctor Gersh, into
activating a Gersh Device. The rift created allowed Samantha to travel through. It also
absorbed Gersh, destroying his body and trapped him inside the Casimir Mechanism.
Yuri was also absorbed and transported to the Pentagon.
When Ultimis arrived at the Ascension Facility on November 6th, 1963. An outbreak
occurred and Gersh begged them to free him from the Casimir Mechanism. At the same
time in the Pentagon, John F. Kennedy, Robert McNamara, Fidel Castro, and Richard
Nixon were discussing a future alliance between the United States and Cuba to fight
Samantha when an outbreak occurred inside the building. Yuri, who was responsible for
a prior outbreak in the Pentagon, was sent by Samantha to thwart their survival. After
Ultimis freed Gersh from the Casimir Mechanism, he sent them to their next destination
before beginning his travels across space and time. With the departure of Ultimis from
the cosmodrome, both outbreaks were contained, and Yuri was arrested.
Ultimis arrived in a locked room at the Siberian Facility on March 17th, 2011
where George A. Romero, who stumbled upon Group 935's research, was making a
movie with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Robert Englund, Danny Trejo, and Michael Rooker.
An outbreak soon occurred, and George Romero was turned into a zombie. The actors
recovered the Vril Device for Ultimis who were then teleported to their next destination.
The fate of the cast and crew remained unknown but six weeks later, Romero's
assistant, Sally, was teleported to Shangri-La and trapped inside a time loop while
looking through Romero's research about Group 935.
As they continued their journey, Ultimis arrived at Shangri-La on April 25th, 1956. With
the help for two explorers trapped inside the time loop, Brock and Gary, Ultimis acquired
the Focusing Stone.
Now in possession of the Vril Device and the Focusing Stone, Ultimis Richtofen was
ready to return to the Moon. But Ultimis Dempsey fired a shot of 31-79 JGb215 while
inside the teleporter. This caused Ultimis to travel to the Pentagon, before the
November 6th outbreak occurred. At the same time, Yuri was sent by Samantha to
release the zombies kept in the Pentagon before being sent to November 6th. Once in
the Pentagon, they traveled to Groom Lake, Nevada where they used the teleporter to
reach the Moon.
Once inside Griffin Station, on October 13th, 2025, Ultimis reactivated the MPD which
revealed Samantha as she was when she entered the device back in 1945. Ultimis
Richtofen then used a terminal to power up the Vril Device and merged it with the
Focusing Stone. However, he encountered Maxis inside the terminal, who tried to stop
him. But Ultimis Richtofen achieved his Grand Scheme and switched his soul with that
of Samantha, gaining full control of the Aether. Samantha was trapped inside
Richtofen's body.

Ultimis Dempsey, Nikolai and Takeo then decided to help Maxis stopping Richtofen.
They launched three missiles to the Earth in order to sever the link between the Earth
and the Aether. However, the calculations were made in haste, resulting in catastrophic
destruction to the Earth now shattered.
After Victis activated all three polarization devices in 2035, Maxis, now corrupted by the
Dark Aether, returned to the Moon in 2025 and plucked Samantha from Richtofen's
body to join him in Agartha. This left Ultimis Richtofen's body in a catatonic state.

Ultimis was then accidentally teleported back to Groom Lake on August 3rd, 1963.
Ultimis were sedated and kept in Hangar 4 where they were experimented on. Several
months later, on October 13th, Undead Richtofen stepped out of a portal from the
Empty Earth and remerged his soul with Ultimis Richtofen's body, waking him up out of
his coma. Sometime later, Primis teleported inside Hangar 4 where they met with their
Ultimis selves. Nikolai, now assuming the role of leader of the group, revealed to Ultimis
there will be a war to be fought, a Great War before teleporting away from the Hangar.

Victis Story
The missile launch left the Earth as a post-apocalyptic crumbling wasteland, littered with
undead hordes as civilization collapsed. As survivors began to band together to form
small human communities and shelters to protect themselves from the now global-
undead threat, Maxis realized the failure of his original plans due to hasty calculations
and began contacting survivors to help him with his "Plan B"; to activate global
polarization devices and open a gateway to Agartha, where he would overpower
Richtofen and use its energy to heal the Earth. Unbeknownst to his followers, Maxis
secretly planned to commandeer the Aether's energy for his own use to open the
gateway to Agartha and reunite with Samantha, which would ultimately destroy the
Earth and its people.

Ultimis Richtofen, unsatisfied with his limited power over the undead, planned to
activate these polarization devices as well, which would grant him further manipulation
of both zombies and humans and mend "the Rift", a direct gateway to Agartha that
would eternally damn the soul of Samantha Maxis. Limited to communicate with only
those capable of hearing the voices of the Aether, Richtofen began his own plight and
quest for unlimited power.

Over the years, Maxis' followers started constructing the first polarization device near
the Hanford Site in Green Run, Washington State. However, they began doubting him,
believing him to be evil, and proceeded to destroy their electronics. At the same time, a
society of survivors who ate the undead was formed. They were called The Flesh. As
they ate the flesh of the undead, this society started hearing Richtofen who tried to
persuade them to construct the polarization devices. Eventually a battle broke out
between Maxis' followers and The Flesh, with only a few left to escape as an undead
horde descended upon them.
Several years later, in 2035, Marlton Johnson, who was the sole survivor of the nuclear
incident at Camp Edward and the missile strike, met with Abigail "Misty" Briarton in a
diner near Green Run where they also encountered two more survivors, Russman, a
former Broken Arrow operative, and Samuel J. Stuhlinger, one of the remaining
members of The Flesh, who have used a stolen bus for transport. The four would
become known as Victis.
Activating the Polarization Devices
At the Hanford Site, Victis was contacted by Maxis, who revealed the town is a location
of a polarization device required for his plans. At the same time, Richtofen contacted
Samuel instructing him to foil Maxis' plans by activating the tower in his favor, beginning
a race for power between Maxis and Richtofen. Victis ultimately activated the tower for
Maxis consuming the essence of the entity called Avogadro.
Victis was then teleported by Richtofen to a skyscraper in the crumbled city of
Shanghai, Province 22, China, in an attempt to still gain control. Maxis contacted Victis
again, hoping to gain control of the second tower located there. Richtofen tried to
blackmail Samuel into helping him acquire the device's power, threatening to reveal to
his allies he consumed undead meat. Every time the group failed to carry out the
objective and was killed by the zombie horde, Richtofen would use his power to bring
them back, with no memories of having been killed before. Victis activated the second
polarization device in Maxis' favor.
Victis managed to escape the building they were trapped in and started to wander the
world to reach the Rift, hoping to find answers about the unseen forces commanding
them. They traveled through the remains of Europe, crossed the Sahara Desert and by
December 31st, 2035 found a Western town buried underground near the Rift in
Southern Angola. The town was transported from the 1800s to underneath the mining
facility by a temporal rift triggered by the fracturing of the Earth ten years earlier. In one
of the cells, Victis found Arthur who was transported to the town from 1318 by another
temporal rift. Maxis once again contacted the survivors, imploring them to activate the
last spire in his favor. Meanwhile, Samuel was tasked for the same objective by
Richtofen, as it was also the last tower he needed to mend the Rift and gain unlimited
power.
 Canon Ending
 Alternate Ending

If the player decides to follow Maxis' Easter Eggs in all three maps and polarize the
towers in his favor, Maxis will gain control of the Aether and open a gateway to Agartha
and the House reuniting with his daughter, Samantha. He will destroy the Earth and its
inhabitants in the process. As a last revenge against his former assistant, Maxis traps
Ultimis Richtofen's soul inside a zombie whose eyes become blue, becoming Undead
Richtofen.

When a temporal rift opened in Dimension 63, Samantha, after witnessing her father's
corruption by the Dark Aether, reached out to Maxis from this dimension for help.
Retrieving the Kronorium
After helping free Samantha, Primis Richtofen discovered his connection with Samuel
Stuhlinger and decided to use Victis to acquire the Kronorium, a book needed for his
plan to find the Summoning Key. After overseeing the construction of his laboratory
beneath the Alcatraz prison, Primis Richtofen returned to the House and started
communicating with Stuhlinger. Primis Richtofen also instructed Undead Richtofen to
pursue Victis and recover their blood vials.
On January 19th, 2036, just before Maxis destroyed the Earth, Primis Richtofen opened
a rift for Victis who were pursued by Undead Richtofen and an army of zombies. They
traveled to an abandoned Broken Arrow facility where Russman was previously
working. They recovered a fragment of the Elemental Shard before entering another
portal, followed by Undead Richtofen.

They arrived at Zero Base; a facility created by Maxis in the Empty Earth. Victis used
the shard to power a machine and provided blood samples that allowed them to access
the Empty Earth where they recovered the Kronorium. They departed through another
rift while Undead Richtofen collected their blood samples.

Victis arrived inside Richtofen's lab beneath Alcatraz in Dimension 63 where they met
with Primis Richtofen. Upon reading the Kronorium, Primis Richtofen discovered
numerous timelines documenting their fates and learned about the Blood Vials. He
would later write on the page "I know now what I must do - E.R. 4/7/41". He then left his
lab and collected their blood samples from Undead Richtofen in the Empty Earth,
retrieved the blood samples of Salvatore "Sal" DeLuca and Michael "Finn" O'Leary in
1934 and gave them to his younger self in 1914. Primis Richtofen then returned to the
lab and offered Victis to be put "on ice" inside suspension devices where they would be
kept safe until "the final world arrives".
Primis Story
In Dimension 63, in 1300, Sir Pablo Marinus began documenting the Great War,
including everything he had learned about the Keepers, the Apothicons, and Element
115. Regarding Element 115's power, he noted that a site in northern France contained
massive deposits of the element. In northern France, a tomb was constructed to honor
the fallen soldiers of The Great War. Within it, statues of Primis were constructed to
symbolize the hope that if one day a great evil falls upon mankind, they may return.

Several centuries later, Doctor Ludvig Maxis and Doctor Edward Richtofen, who would
later be known as Primis Richtofen, joined Group 935. In 1914, Primis Richtofen was
visited by an older version of himself who handed him two blood vials and explained
that he would need this blood and when the time would come, it would protect him. The
older version of Primis Richtofen then left through a rift.

In 1916, Group 935 discovered the journal of Sir Pablo Marinus. Using information
gathered from the journal, Group 935 began work at a dig site in northern France,
where they discovered a series of underground tombs. They struggled to gain access of
the tomb's main chamber until the entrance unexpectedly opened after soldiers listened
to a recording of "La Source Noire". The camp's exposure to Element 115 began soon
after.

In 1917, Group 935 experimented with Element 115, dubbed Divinium by Maxis, and
successfully created "localized energy fields which appeared to function as portals.".
Maxis noted that objects could pass through them and speculated the rifts may had
opened gateways across space and time. After witnessing the corruption of his father by
the Dark Aether in the House, Samantha reached out to Maxis from Dimension 63 using
the rifts Group 935 opened. She begged for his help and revealed she was his
daughter.

Group 935 continued experimenting with Element 115 and the rifts. One day an "ancient
box" arrived through one of the portals. The box had the power to manifest weapons
from different eras. Maxis feared Element 115 was disrupting the space-time continuum.
Following the installation of Element 115 powered generators, reports surfaced of
"ancient figures emerging" from the dig site corresponding with the mysterious deaths of
several Group 935 soldiers. Using Element 115, Group 935 later constructed four Giant
Robots including three called Freya, Odin and Thor. Primis Richtofen noted that despite
Group 935's progress at the dig site, he was troubled by Maxis' growing obsession with
Sir Pablo Marinus' diary.
"Tank" Dempsey, Nikolai Belinski, Takeo Masaki were dispatched by their respective
governments to gather intel and investigate on Group 935's weapon technology and
capabilities.

By 1918, Maxis became obsessed with the voice of Samantha, who spoke to him
constantly. He believed her to be the "key to everything". Several days later, he was
completely consumed by Samantha's voice and swore to no longer serve Group 935's
mission.

On June 4th, 1918, Element 115 awakened the undead knights from The Great War
and quickly consumed the camp. Maxis was rendered catatonic by the element. Primis
Richtofen removed his brain before he turned. Dempsey, Nikolai, and Takeo united with
Richtofen on the battlefield, put Maxis' brain in a drone and helped free Samantha from
her imprisonment in Agartha. Maxis' brain followed her to Agartha. Primis had been
reunited.

When Maxis' brain arrived in the House in Agartha, Doctor Monty decided to step in
and, despite the absence of his soul, recreated a physical manifestation of Maxis
Dimension 63 form. Monty then wiped the Maxis corrupted by the Dark Aether from
existence. Monty also reunited Samantha with the Dimension 63 incarnation of her
father and Fluffy. Monty revealed to Maxis his plan; to resolve the paradox wrought by a
multiverse and create a new reality - one free of the Apothicons. But it would only work
if they enlisted the aid of souls who had lived through and survived the fracturing.
Samantha sent Primis to the Ultimis dimension in 1943. They formulated a plan to stop
Ultimis Richtofen and prevent the events that were about to unfold.

Richtofen's Journey
Several days later, Primis Richtofen was teleported to the House in Agartha and
reunited with Maxis. Maxis explained to Primis Richtofen the plan to secure
the Kronorium and locate the Summoning Key and warned him that the "test subjects
must never be allowed to be awakened". While inside the House, Primis Richtofen
discovered his connection with Samuel Stuhlinger and decided to use Victis to acquire
the Kronorium.
Primis Richtofen traveled back to Dimension 63 in 1940 where he contacted members
of the Illuminati and enlisted their help to build a laboratory facility beneath Alcatraz.
Several days later, he met with Stanley Ferguson and convinced him to assist with the
Illuminati’s construction of the Alcatraz laboratory. Having overseen the construction of
a laboratory beneath Alcatraz, Richtofen returned to the House in Agartha where he
began to communicate with Stuhlinger. Together, they persuaded Victis to travel to a
variety of locations in order to recover the Kronorium.
When Primis Richtofen returned to the laboratory in 1941, he met with Victis. Upon
reading the Kronorium, Primis Richtofen discovered numerous timelines documenting
their fates and learned about the Blood Vials. He would later write on the page "I know
now what I must do - E.R. 4/7/41". He then left his lab and collected Victis blood
samples from Undead Richtofen in the Empty Earth, retrieved the blood samples
of Salvatore "Sal" DeLuca and Michael "Finn" O'Leary in 1934 and gave them to his
younger self in 1914. Primis Richtofen returned to the lab and offered Victis to be put
"on ice" inside suspension devices where they would be kept safe until "the final world
arrives".
When Primis arrived in the lab from the Proditione Fracture, Primis Richtofen gave them
Victis blood samples. Following their departure, Primis Richtofen learned the location of
the Summoning Key and traveled to Morg City. There, he learned that the Reporter had
the Summoning Key and confronted him. The Reporter waved Monty's letter to
Richtofen and ordered him to stay away before attacking him. Primis Richtofen killed the
Reporter in self-defense but was unable to retrieve the artifact as the crate containing
the Summoning Key had been sealed with ancient magic.
After the Apothicons were given access to Dimension 63, Floyd Campbell, Jessica
Rose, Nero Blackstone and Jack Vincent worked with the Keepers to defeat the
Shadowman and trapped him inside the Summoning Key. Primis Richtofen returned to
Morg City and stole the artifact before leaving the dimension. Primis Richtofen traveled
to Dimension 2210 where he secured the soul of an innocent Richtofen and delivered it
to the House where Monty gave him a physical form, named Eddie. From within the
Summoning Key, the Shadowman stated "I'll be seeing you...". Primis Richtofen then
returned to the Ultimis dimension where he stepped out of a teleporter moments after
Ultimis Richtofen teleported Maxis and Samantha away and killed him, triggering
fractures across space and time.
Shadowman's Plan
The Shadowman was the only Apothicon to survive the banishment in the Dark Aether.
He became the agent of the Apothicons and traveled across the multiverse to find a way
for the Apothicons to reach Agartha.
Posing as Mr. Rapt, the Shadowman hired the same Reporter across different
dimensions to retrieve the Summoning Key as well as components for the Agarthan
Device.
After learning the fate of Salvatore "Sal" DeLuca, Billy Handsome, Albert "Weasel"
Arlington and Michael "Finn" O'Leary in Dimension 63, the Shadowman contacted the
Warden of Alcatraz during the 1930s and corrupted him.

In 1932, Salvatore DeLuca, Billy Handsome, Albert Arlington and Michael O'Leary, were
convicted and sent to Alcatraz. The next year, on April 1st, 1933, Arlington convinced
the other three that they could build a plane and escape the island. But by the end of
year, the others realized the plane would never be completed. Embittered with rage,
they plotted to get revenge on Arlington.

On December 31st, 1933, DeLuca, O'Leary and Finn lured Arlington to the roof and
killed him. The Shadowman, trapped inside the Summoning Key, revealed to the
Warden that he would transform the island with the souls of the four mobsters and
create a trap to ensnare Primis Richtofen inside a Pocket Dimension.

In January 1934, few days before they were executed, Primis Richtofen stepped
through a portal and secured the blood samples of DeLuca and O'Leary. On January
19th, 1934, Salvatore DeLuca, Billy Handsome and Michael O'Leary were executed by
electric chair for the murder of Arlington.

After their execution, the Warden killed himself with an electric chair before
disappearing from Dimension 63.

In late 1943, the Reporter recovered the Summoning Key in South Pacific and the Seal
of Duality as well as a rock of Element 115 in Russia. He then interviewed Stanley
Ferguson, a retired guard who worked at the Alcatraz prison between 1933 and 1941.
Ferguson gave the reporter a detailed account of the death of four mobsters and their
plan to escape the Rock. After learning their fate, the Shadowman contacted the
Warden of Alcatraz in the 1930s.
On December 31st, 1943, the Reporter arrived in Morg City, as requested by the
Shadowman, to track down Floyd Campbell, Jessica Rose, Nero Blackstone and Jack
Vincent. Over the next few months, the reporter gathered enough information and sent
a telegram providing their details. The Shadowman then influenced Campbell, Rose,
Blackstone and Vincent into killing someone they knew.

Aware of the Shadowman's actions, Monty wrote to the Reporter warning him to not
give the Summoning Key to anyone.

On April 21st, 1944, Primis Richtofen arrived in Morg City. The next day, he learned that
the Reporter had the Summoning Key and confronted him. The Reporter waved Monty's
letter to Richtofen and ordered him to stay away before attacking him. Primis Richtofen
killed the Reporter in self-defense but was unable to retrieve the artifact as the crate
containing the Summoning Key had been sealed with ancient magic.

Few days later, Floyd Campbell, Jessica Rose, Nero Blackstone and Jack
Vincent awakened in a twisted version of Morg City. The Shadowman tricked them into
performing rituals giving the Apothicons access to Dimension 63. The four then worked
with the Keepers to defeat the Shadowman and trapped him inside the Summoning
Key. Suddenly, Primis Richtofen stepped through a portal, stole the artifact and thanked
the four for their efforts before leaving the dimension. The next day, the Apothicons
consumed Dimension 63 and its inhabitants. Inside the Summoning Key, the
Shadowman contacted the Warden of Alcatraz and revealed to him that he would
transform Alcatraz with the souls of the four mobsters and create a trap to ensnare
Primis Richtofen inside the Pocket Dimension.
Quest for the Souls
In the Ultimis Dimension, Primis Dempsey, Takeo and Nikolai arrived at the Der Riese
facility moments after Ultimis Richtofen teleported Maxis and Samantha away. They
ordered Ultimis Richtofen to awaken the test subjects. Suddenly, the teleporter
activated and Ultimis Richtofen opened the main chamber. Primis Richtofen, now in
possession of the Summoning Key, stepped out of the teleporter and killed Ultimis
Richtofen, triggering fractures across space and time.

Now inside the Deceptio Fracture, Primis lighted up a beacon within the facility,
enabling Maxis to know where and when they were.

Using a Giant Robot at Der Riese, Primis pursued a Group 935 truck, carrying a
cryostasis pod containing Ultimis Dempsey. The robot, however, was shot down by the
soldiers, forcing Primis to continue on foot. They reached a gondola station, which takes
them up to Eagle's Nest. However, they were too late to stop Ultimis Dempsey from
being sent towards Griffin Station on a rocket. As they carried on with their mission,
Primis Richtofen posed as his Ultimis self to fool Doctor Groph, who became suspicious
of Richtofen's abnormal behavior. Eventually, Primis redirected the rocket containing
Ultimis Dempsey's pod to hit the castle courtyard. In retaliation, Groph then activated a
failsafe, preventing them from tampering with the pod. Primis used the Vril Device from
the cryopod and used it to conjure up the spirit of a Keeper. The Keeper then teleported
the MPD from Griffin Station to the castle but became corrupted by the Dark Aether in
the process. Primis used the Summoning Key to activate the MPD. After battling the
Keeper, Primis launched dozens of V2 rockets toward the Moon, destroying it along with
all Group 935 members within Griffin Station. As they approached Ultimis Dempsey's
pod, Richtofen revealed his plan to eliminate their Ultimis counterparts and preserved
their souls inside the Summoning Key. Dempsey, though initially resentful of the idea,
agreed to the plan, and took it upon himself to disable the pod's life support system,
ending the life of Ultimis Dempsey. As he died, Primis Richtofen used the Summoning
Key to capture and preserve his soul. With the death of Ultimis Dempsey, their goal at
Griffin Castle was completed.
Primis then teleported to the Proditione Fracture, where they were taken hostage on
board of a Japanese ship in the Pacific Ocean. While a Japanese officer was
interrogating them about the Summoning Key, a massive wave struck the ship sending
everyone off their balance. A brief fight then ensued on the ship as the officer dropped
the artifact. Primis then jumped overboard as the ship exploded and swam to a nearby
island. They arrived at a Division 9 facility called the Island Facility. Primis discovered
deep inside the facility a giant Thrasher, locked within a cell, which was revealed to be
Ultimis Takeo who were experimented on. Ultimis Takeo revealed to Primis Takeo that
it was the Emperor who ordered Division 9 to torture and experiment on him. Primis
Takeo offered Ultimis Takeo a chance for redemption. Ultimis Takeo then committed
seppuku, with Primis Takeo acting as his kaishakunin. Primis Richtofen then secured
the soul of Ultimis Takeo inside the Summoning Key.

Primis then teleported to Primis Richtofen's laboratory beneath Alcatraz where they met
with Primis Richtofen before he acquired the Summoning Key. Primis Richtofen gave
them the blood samples of Victis and Primis stepped through a portal to their next
destination.

Primis accidentaly teleported over the city of Stalingrad in the Agonia Fracture. They
used the corpse of Peter McCain, who went through a portal, and activated his
parachute to land safely. They discovered an ongoing battle between dragons and
Russian Giant Robots with Ultimis Nikolai as the sole survivor fighting zombies inside a
robot. Upon noticing Primis, Ultimis Nikolai attempted to kill them, but was thrown into a
building by a dragon before he could fire any munitions. He later questioned who they
were and if they could help him. Eventually, Primis reached S.O.P.H.I.A. an A.I. made
from the brain of Maxis' assistant Sophia who was attacked by a zombie during their
stay at the Kino Facility. She asked them to perform several tasks before a master
password could be typed in, prompting Primis to complete the Ascension Protocol. As
they continued to follow S.O.P.H.I.A.'s instructions, they found Gersh, who recognized
them, yet knew they were not the same versions who freed him. Primis tricked Gersh
into entering the systems of S.O.P.H.I.A. to extract information from him leading to his
destruction. With the Ascension Protocol completed, S.O.P.H.I.A. flew away through
space and time in hope to find Maxis. During their mission at Stalingrad, Monty
contacted Primis stating he had "seen their misdeeds" and asked them to fix the
universe as they were partially responsible for its fracture. Primis then reached Ultimis
Nikolai who made a temporary truce with them to kill the dragon. However, upon the
dragon's death, Primis asked Ultimis Nikolai to surrender. Ultimis Nikolai refused and a
brief fight broke out between them. Nevertheless, Primis defeated Ultimis Nikolai, who
was then approached by his Primis self. As he approached, Ultimis Nikolai asked if he
would "kill him now". Primis Nikolai apologized stating he wished there was another way
and remarked he was suffering the same pain. He explained that Ultimis Nikolai turned
to alcohol to hide agonizing memories as his wife was killed during an air raid. In a fit of
rage, Ultimis Nikolai fired upon his Primis self. However, the shot hit Primis Nikolai on
his armored plate, causing no damage. In retaliation, Primis Nikolai responded by killing
his Ultimis self, allowing Richtofen to secure his soul.

With all the souls collected, Primis Richtofen sent them to the House in Agartha where
Monty turned them into children. When the souls arrived in the House, Maxis told
Samantha and Eddie to put their toys away before coming down to the basement.

Creating a Paradox
Finally, Primis arrived at the House in Agartha. Primis Richtofen reunited with Maxis.
Sometimes later, Maxis became overwhelmed by the voice of the Shadowman begging
for his help from within the Summoning Key. When Maxis took the artifact, he released
the Shadowman and became trapped inside the Summoning Key. Once outside the
House, the Shadowman opened a gateway for the Apothicons, fracturing and corrupting
Agartha and revealing the Apothicon sun. Primis fought the Apothicons and the
Shadowman. During the battle, S.O.P.H.I.A. arrived in Agartha. Using the Summoning
Key and the Kronorium, Primis defeated the Shadowman with the help of S.O.P.H.I.A.
Maxis, still inside the Summoning Key, and S.O.P.H.I.A. then plunged inside the
Apothicon sun destroying the Apothicons and purging Element 115 from the final
universe.
After the battle, Monty realized Primis drank the blood from their blood vials, blood
coming from realities already closed off. This prevented Primis from fading out of
existence and resulted in a paradox. As Monty was looking for a way to get rid of Primis,
Primis Richtofen suggested him to send them somewhere they had never been to.
Afterward, Primis was sent back to 1294 where they saved Pablo Marinus during the
Great War between humanity and the Apothicons began, ultimately creating a loop in
time, a cycle.
Breaking the Cycle
The Great War
When Pablo Marinus arrived from Siberia in Northern France in 1294, he fought
alongside the Wolf King. He was saved from a Margwa by Primis Richtofen, after he
and his companions were sent to the Great War by Monty.

Primis Richtofen realized that Monty was lying about securing a better tomorrow. He
realized that going to the Great War wouldn't break the cycle, as it was the end of their
loop. Primis Richtofen finally understood that Monty wasn't inherently evil, he was trying
to survive by saving the multiverse the only way he knew how. By fulfilling the prophecy
of the cycle, Primis Richtofen and Doctor Monty had forged an endless loop.

With the help of Pablo Marinus, Primis Richtofen started a plan to break the cycle. As
Pablo Marinus was defending him from the zombies, Primis Richtofen powered up a
teleportation device to travel to the Alcatraz Pocket Dimension. Before he left, Pablo
gave him the elemental gem from the Staff of Fire. Primis Richtofen would then be
known as Post-Great War Richtofen.
Alcatraz Pocket Dimension
After their death, Salvatore "Sal" DeLuca, Billy Handsome, Albert "Weasel"
Arlington and Michael "Finn" O'Leary were now trapped inside a perpetual cycle in the
Alcatraz Pocket Dimension created by the Warden for the Shadowman.
The four mobsters began their escape plan before realizing they weren’t in the prison.
While fighting off the zombies and the Warden, they constructed a plane based on
Arlington design before taking off and crashing against the Golden Gate Bridge.
 The Cycle Continues
 The Cycle is Broken
If Salvatore DeLuca, Billy Handsome and Michael O'Leary kill Albert Arlington on the
Golden Gate, the "cycle continues", with the mobsters dying and returning to Alcatraz
and only Arlington having any memory of what happened before.
Upon arriving from the Proditione Fracture, another iteration of Primis arrived in the
Alcatraz Pocket Dimension, farther than they intended, and made their way to a
laboratory on the west side of the island. In the laboratory, they found Primis Richtofen,
before his journey to Morg City, reading the Kronorium as he waited for them to arrive.

The lone Richtofen stated they were late before giving them the blood vials. He then
strongly advised Primis Richtofen to read the Kronorium again when a portal appeared.
Upon reading it, Primis Richtofen realized the pages had changed while the lone
Richtofen left through the rift.

Primis traveled through the cell blocks while fending off zombies to escape through
another rift. However, this was prevented by the Warden who destroyed the rift before
Primis could leave. Primis Richtofen then realized they were now trapped inside the
Alcatraz Pocket Dimension.

While exploring Alcatraz, Primis Richtofen started hearing Samuel J. Stuhlinger inside

his head. He realized the lighthouse must have triggered a chain reaction in the Aether.
Primis also discovered the Warden's inner sanctum where they found the Warden's
body attached to an electric chair. As they were retrieving the Kronorium, Arlington, now
in the form of a seagull, stole the book. After recovering it, Primis placed it on the
Warden's body. Using the Kronorium, Primis helped several spirits trapped inside the
dimension before placing the Summoning Key inside the Warden's body to be used as
conduit to his soul. This resulted in the partial destruction of the lighthouse which fired a
red beam of light towards the sky and prompted the Warden to attack Primis stating
they now belonged to him before knocking them out and locking each of them in a cell.

The Warden explained to Primis that they would be trapped in the Pocket Dimension
forever, suffering, with their blood extracted by his machine as it was the key to keep
the gateway opened and freed the Shadowman and the Apothicons.

However, after the Warden left, Arlington arrived and helped Primis escaping their cells.
As they ran back to the lab, they were stopped by the Warden who turned into a giant
version of himself. He was, however, restrained by the spirits of Salvatore DeLuca, Billy
Handsome and Finn O'Leary who launched him into the sky. Inside the lab, another
cryopod was revealed and Primis started its thawing sequence. Primis then confronted
the Warden in front of the Dark Mechanism next to the Model Industries to prevent him
from acquiring the last piece of the Mechanism. During the fight, Primis Richtofen
decided to step inside the Dark Mechanism and gave his blood. In the meantime, the
cryopod opened revealing Post-Great War Richtofen wearing a chainmail and holding
the elemental gem. He joined the fight and used the gem to kill the Warden and the
zombies, freeing their spirits from the pocket dimension.

Post-Great War Richtofen revealed to Primis Nikolai that the future had changed and
handed him the Kronorium advising him to read it. He explained to Primis Nikolai that he
must keep his soul in order to defeat Monty to which Primis Nikolai replied "Who??".
Several portals appeared and Post-Great War Richtofen moved to the Dark Mechanism
where he revealed to Primis Richtofen that the cycle was now broken and that their
insurance policies - the blood vials - were no longer needed. He grabbed the
Summoning Key and joined Primis, who had smashed their blood vials, before stepping
through the portals leaving Primis Richtofen to die as the pocket dimension was
collapsing.

Nikolai's Grand Scheme

After leaving Alcatraz, Primis Nikolai, now assuming the role of leader, Dempsey,
Takeo, and Post-Great War Richtofen teleported inside the Hangar 4 at Groom Lake in
1963 where they met with their Ultimis selves. Primis Nikolai revealed to them that there
would be a war to be fought, the Great War, before teleporting away from the Hangar.

Acquiring the Elemental Shard

Primis and Ultimis then arrived at Camp Edward, Nevada on October 13th, 2025. They
reactivated the facility and its A.I, Rushmore. They needed the Elemental Shard for the
next step of their journey. The shard was locked inside the American Pyramid
Device and Rushmore needed to test them to give them access to it. During their
exploration, they found Peter McCain trapped inside an android; with the help of
Rushmore, which deemed Peter as "someone very important to humanity's future",
Primis and Ultimis transferred him inside an Elemental Orb. Peter then flew away from
Camp Edward. When they opened the Pyramid, they released Cornelius Pernell who
was transformed by the shard into an entity called Avogadro. With the release of
Avogadro, a nuke was detonated but was ineffective. They managed to contain
Avogadro inside the APD long enough for Rushmore to transfer it to the Hanford Site.
After they retrieved the shard, Maxis contacted them saying it was "too late". Maxis then
teleported Samantha and Eddie away from the House before being eating alive by
Monty. When Samantha arrived at Camp Edward, she unleashed her fury causing
tremendous damage to Camp Edward before stating to Eddie that they would fight the
Great War, kill Monty and burn the House to the ground.
Resolving the Paradox
After their journey in Camp Edward, Primis and Ultimis, accompanied with Samantha
and Eddie, settled down in a forest. They proceeded to celebrate their future victory
around a campfire, drinking and eating. Primis Nikolai explained to them that the Great
War, the Apothicons, the Keepers, the Dark Aether, the Shadowman and Monty are just
legend and tales from the Kronorium. He revealed both the Shadowman and Monty
became corrupted by the Dark Aether, one from his own ambition and the other trying
desperately to save his friend. He revealed the greatest war was the war they were
fighting against themselves. As they keep celebrating, Primis Nikolai told them to think
about what they desired, where they would like to go. Unbeknownst to them, their drinks
were poisoned by Primis Nikolai. They are seen to be sleeping off the effects of their
before it later being revealed that they had died painfully with only Ultimis Richtofen
surviving as he is used by Nikolai to contact Victis.

Undead Richtofen then contacted Victis who got out of their cryogenic pods before the
Alcatraz Pocket Dimension collapsed. They stepped through a portal and left the pocket
dimension. Victis arrived in the abandoned Group 935's Siberian facility and Undead
Richtofen told them to build an Agartha device. In the facility, they encountered Pablo
Marinus who survived the operation performed by Ultimis Richtofen in 1945 and was
then living inside the facility as a hermit for years.
Pablo Marinus told Victis he could build the Agarthan Device for them. Victis recovered
the Vril Vessel inside the facility as well as the blood of an Apothicon inside the
stranded Ascension Group ship. They also retrieved the Elemental Shard sent by Primis
Nikolai and gave them to Pablo Marinus. When the Agarthan Device was completed,
the presence of the Apothicon Blood caused the species of Apothicons and Keepers to
reunite as one, resolving the duality that existed between the species. As Victis
activated the Agarthan Device, it started to evolve, affecting all the Element 115 around
the area. Primis Nikolai tasked Victis to stay close to the Device and to protect it until it
reached its final state. Once charged, Victis returned the Agarthan Device to Pablo
Marinus who used it to create a portal in order to go to The Great War and help Primis
Richtofen in breaking the cycle. Victis then retrieved the device and sent it to Primis
Nikolai.

Using the Agarthan Device, Primis Nikolai destroyed the Summoning Key to open The
Way Through before killing Undead Richtofen. With the destruction of the Summoning
Key, reality collapsed, and the entirety of creation started to fade away including Victis,
the zombies, the Apothicons, Element 115 and Monty himself. Everything that spewed
forth from the Aether was banished to where they belonged, the Dark Aether.

Primis Nikolai then asked Samantha to kill him. With the death of Primis and Ultimis, the
paradox was resolved. As the multiverse faded away, Samantha and Eddie walked
towards the light and into the new universe - and a better tomorrow.

Dark Aether Story

Rise of the Elder Gods
After the Multiverse was banished into the Dark Aether, several various beings sprung
up within — chiefly the entities who would be known as the Elder Gods. The Dark
Aether was ruled by the Old Ones, who waged war against one another for power. One
of the most powerful of these Elder Gods was Kortifex the Deathless, who was a Lord of
the Dark Aether. However, his power would be challenged by four other
gods, Saraxis the Shadow, Bellekar the Warlock, Inviktor the Destroyer,
and Norticus the Conqueror — who once commanded the armies of Kortifex. At some
point, five artifacts associated with each of these five gods made their way to the so-
called "realm of mortals", Earth.
Projekt Endstation
As World War II drew closer to an end, the Nazis were desperate to win the war by any
means, with several programs dedicated to ensuring a victory for the Reich. One of
these programs was the Uranveiren, the Nazi program dedicated to atomic research
and uranium enrichment. During summer 1943, Kurt Diebner, the head of Uranveiren
approved the proposal of a massive particle accelerator and collider called "Cyclotron"
designed by Doctors Ulrich Vogel and Lukas Kurtz. Projekt Endstation was funded and
headed by Vogel. The site was located in Morasko, a wooden area in the Reich District
of Danzig-West Prussia in Nazi-occupied Poland.
The Incident
On March 7th, 1944, at 10:03 pm, Vogel and Kurtz performed the twelfth test of the
Cyclotron. During the process, the particle accelerator malfunctioned and opened a rift
between their world and the Dark Aether. Creatures started coming through the
gateway and men close to the collider began to necrotize and turn into zombies. The
small outbreak was contained but the Cyclotron was now operating on its own without
external source of power.
Exo-Element 1 Studies
In the course of the next few days, Vogel studied the fallen soldiers to find a way to
reverse their condition. The discovery and study of the rift was also seen with great
interest by Adolf Hitler and the German High Command. On March 16th, they were able
to isolate an exotic and unknown element they classified as "Exo-Element 1" which
would later be dubbed Aetherium. Vogel started working on a decontamination chamber
designed to reverse the condition of the fallen soldiers and restore their brain activity.
He believed that if they could control the process of necrotization, they could weaponize
it and create an army of undead soldiers to save the Reich.

On April 3rd, the decontamination chamber was complete and was nicknamed "Der
Wechsler" by Kurtz. The chamber was able to remove the Exo-Element 1 from the
brains of the undead soldiers, restoring some higher functions and reducing the violent
outbursts but not enough to bring them back to a state before the contamination.

With the loss of Normandy, Hitler turned once again his attention of Endstation and, by
August 1944, tasked Vogel to weaponize all their findings. Vogel continued to work on
his idea of an army of soldiers who could rise up after being killed. A wonder weapon
was also created from an Exo-Element 1 collector, the Decompressive Isotopic
Estrangement Machine.
At some point in late 1944, a new Endstation facility was established
beneath Berlin including a tunnel made to open and sustain a rift to the Dark Aether. On
November 15th, Kurtz developed lures and an Exo-Element 1 harvester which could
only collect essence from Tempests. The next day, Vogel developed a conversion
machine using specimens rich in Exo-Element 1 which would allow them to open a
portal to the Dark Aether.
Despotic Desperation
The incident at Endstation awoke the Dark Aether artifacts which were under the
possession of SS-Oberführer Wolfram Von List, the commander of the SS battalion "Die
Wahrheit". Von List was responsible for the plunder of antiquities around the world
forcing experts to help him including explorers and historians. A demonologist,
Professor Gabriel Krafft, was also forced to work with the battalion. It was Krafft's
knowledge of the occult that led Von List to the artifacts.
Kortifex, through his artifact, bonded himself to Von List and granted him his power to
raise the dead back to life. Von List returned to the city of Stalingrad and used his new
power to raise an army of zombies in service to the Third Reich. Krafft sent a distress
call to the Allied special forces, who were soon deployed in the city. However, they
became trapped in a containment spell by Kortifex and were forced to face Von List's
undead army. Within Stalingrad, several portals appeared leading to other places
trapped in the spell, such as Paris and Normandy in France, and an army
camp in Japan territory.
Operation Baldr
Having studied the relativistic effects of the Dark Aether since the incident at Endstation,
Vogel proposed a plan to Uranveiren and the German High Command. Sending an
army in the Dark Aether to summon as a last resort to ensure the victory of the Third
Reich. On December 14th, 1944, the plan was approved and named "Operation Baldr"
from the Norse god who rose after death.

After a month of preparation, Task Force Baldr, under the command of Gruppenführer
Müller, arrived at the Morasko facility.

Vogel sent instructions in Berlin on how to open the portal and on January 27th, he
ordered all personnel to evacuate the Morasko facility. He also tasked Kurtz to take care
of his young daughter, Angelika, as he stayed behind. Soon after, Task Force Baldr
crossed the threshold to the Dark Aether. The crossing was too much for the cyclotron
with several seals blowing up in the process contaminating the facility with more Exo-
Element 1. Vogel, however, stayed in the facility and continued to monitor the Task
Force for the next two days to ensure they were in position believing he secured the
future of the Reich. Unbeknownst to Vogel, Task Force Baldr would become corrupted
by the Dark Aether and turned into different creatures.
Discovery of Endstation by the Red Army
On February 3rd, 1945, the 8th Guards Army of the Red Army arrived in Morasko and
entered the facility. They recorded on film their progress, the rift created by the cyclotron
and the zombies attack that followed. A week later, a cleaning crew led
by NKVD Colonel Pavel Lazarev arrived at the facility. 14 soldiers were killed during the
cleaning process. After the zombies were eliminated, Lazarev tasked Sergeant Kazimir
Zykov of the 1st Guards Tank Army to stop the cyclotron. After being sealed inside the
facility, Zykov successfully shut down the particle accelerator but was sent in the Dark
Aether by doing so where he remained for years to come.
On February 21st, Kurtz and Angelika were captured by the Red Army. Kurtz was
interrogated by Lazarev who accepted to spare Angelika's life if Kurtz gave the names
and location of the Endstation scientists. Kurtz agreed and both were allowed to live in
the Soviet Union under new names. Lukas Kurtz became Ivan Valentin while Angelika
Vogel became Aleksandra Valentina.

The film reels about Projekt Endstation were sent to the Soviet archives and remained
hidden for almost 40 years.

Reactivation of the Cyclotron

In March 1983, following the announcement of the Strategic Defense Initiative by US
President Ronald Reagan, KGB Chairman Viktor Chebrikov ordered the reactivation
of Omega Group, a special Spetsnaz unit originally created to
study Psychotronic phenomena. Colonel Lev Kravchenko was given command of the
unit and was tasked to find a way to counter the SDI, as it was considered a serious
threat against the Soviet Union. Kravchenko, however, believed he was made a
scapegoat by Chebrikov, thinking Omega Group would be disbanded in a matter of
months, if not weeks.
Omega Group was reorganized with Doctor Aleksandra Valentina in charge of their
Psychotronics Research and Doctor William Peck, an American who defected to the
Soviet Union, as their Exoscientific Phenomena Research Lead. Kravchenko then
ordered to scour the KGB archives for anything that would give them a strategic
advantage over the United States and NATO.

Valentina saw this as an opportunity to start her plan. Throughout her childhood, she
was visited by the Forsaken, who claimed to be her "father". He guided her throughout
her life, instructing her to complete Operation Baldr and open a portal to the Dark
Aether. It also showed her where to find the Endstation film reels hidden within a NKVD
intelligence vault when she first joined the KGB.

On July 15th, 1983, Valentina presented the reels to Kravchenko who immediately
flagged them for review with the Chebrikov and the committee. After the reels were
reviewed, Chebrikov authorized Omega Group to weaponize the findings of Projekt
Endstation and harness the power of the Cyclotron and the Dark Aether. The new
operation was dubbed Operatsiya Grobovshchik, or Operation Undertaker.

The Endstation facility in Morasko was secured by Omega Group in late August 1983
and after two months of study, the Cyclotron and the other experimental devices were
restored to operational condition by late October. The reactivation of the Cyclotron took
place on November 1st, 1983, and was overseen by Valentina and Peck. Valentina
tasked two men, officers Medvedev and Orlov to reactivate the collider. The men were
successful, but Orlov was turned into a Megaton in the process. With the reactivation of
the Cyclotron, several gateways and dimensional breaches started to appear around
the world including a massive super-breach in the Ural Mountains. As the facility
became overrun, Omega Group left the area.
Formation of Requiem
On November 3rd, an emergency meeting took place regarding the Outbreak Zones.
The meeting included the US Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and the Director
of the CIA William Casey who were tasked by Reagan to find a "proportional response"
to the situation while also containing and suppressing the threat. The Associate Deputy
Director of the Directorate of Science & Technology at the Agency proposed to create a
sub-group within the DS&T staffed internationally while remaining firmly under US and
CIA control.
Two days later, on November 5th, the CIA "Office of Requiem" was created by Casey.
The Associate Deputy Director of the DS&T was named as the Director of Requiem,
leading the group. Under his leadership, four departments were created: Field
Operations led by Special Operations Officer Grigori Weaver, Containment and Security
led by Major Mackenzie Carver, Unnatural Science led by Doctor Elizabeth Grey and
Energy Research led by Doctor Oskar Strauss, a former member of Projekt Endstation,
who joined the United States after the war.
In the following days, Tatyana, a contact of BND agent Samantha Maxis, told Maxis that
the KGB uncovered something from their archives and a ground operation was
happening in Poland. Tatyana managed to steal a copy of the Endstation film and sent it
to Maxis. Believing that the BND was compromised by Omega Group, Samantha left
the agency but asked Dieter, the only BND agent she still trusted, to send the
Endstation tape to Requiem.
After the CIA received the tape, Samantha contacted Weaver to persuade him to look at
the footage. When Weaver asked her to turn herself to the CIA for protection, she
refused and even fought off teams sent by Weaver to retrieve her. Maxis then left
Germany and arrived in Romania to pursue a new contact within Omega Group,
Captain Sergei Ravenov, who, she believed, could be turned.
Operation Cerberus
With the intel provided by Maxis, Requiem authorized Operation Cerberus, a
reconnaissance operation in Poland, on November 13, 1983. A Strike Team was
dispatched at the Projekt Endstation facility where they discovered the Cyclotron and its
gateway to the Dark Aether. During their exploration of the site, the Strike Team entered
the other dimension and encountered Mayak, the Megaton Overlord. The Strike Team
also found a modified computer where a stranger made contact with them and retold his
journey in the Dark Aether and the dangers present in this dimension.
The Strike Team managed to partially resurrect Orlov using Der Wechsler, allowing him
to assist them in shutting down the Cyclotron to close the rift opened at Morasko. Orlov
warned the Strike Team that Omega Group had big plans and stayed behind to ensure
the facility would be destroyed. Raptor One exfiltrated the team as a nuclear detonation
occurred. Weaver congratulated the team personally but noted that their fight was far
from over.
In the months following the destruction of Projekt Endstation, more rifts appeared
around the world.
A New Arms Race
Following the success of Operatsiya Grobovshchik, a new operation called Operatsiya
Inversiya, or Operation Inversion, was approved by Omega Group on November 9 and
would be led by Valentina. The goal of the operation was to weaponize Aetherium and
anything they could find within the Dark Aether to win the Cold War. The construction of
a facility in Vietnam, Outpost 25, began on November 11. The location of the facility was
chosen because of its dimensional fertility as a dimensional breach opened near the
region. Outpost 25 would be overseen by Peck.
Aetherium Development
At Outpost 25, Peck designed a portal chamber on December 8th and a month later, in
the night of January 8th, 1984, Peck and Doctor Dimitri Kuhlklay managed to create a
stable rift to the Dark Aether. Teams of Omega soldiers were now sent daily to collect
Aetherium crystals and biological, botanical, and geological specimens as well as liquid
samples. Peck noted that Aetherium could yield massive amounts of energy and could
be used as a sustainable power source leading him to design an Aetherium Reactor on
February 10th. Outpost 25 was now entirely running on three reactors.
The excursions to the Dark Aether proved to be extremely dangerous inflicting heavy
loss among Omega ranks. To address the problem, Kravchenko requested the
conscription of Aetherium miners, dubbed "Aethernauts", which was approved on
February 15th. Soon after, prisoners from work camps started to arrive at Outpost 25,
comprised of common criminals, political dissidents, foreign prisoners, and intellectuals
from both the Soviet Union and Vietnam. While the collection of Aetherium crystals rose
to 237%, the excursions were still incredibly dangerous, with a quarter of Aethernauts
sent to the Dark Aether never coming back. To provide protection to the mining teams,
Kuhlklay designed the Red Soldier Mechanized Armor although Peck took credits for it.
Some miners who came back exhibited mild radiation poisoning or returned fully
necrotized; others suffered long-term memory losses. To circumvent this, Peck
developed a memory transference machine, hoping it would restore the fractured minds
of their conscripts. Peck also developed a truth serum to help recover memories.
On March 14th, five more test sites were opened throughout the Soviet Union with four
of them successfully creating their own breaches. Omega Group were now able to
control where and when a dimensional breach would occur with nearly 70% accuracy.
On March 19, Peck designed the first teleportation prototype at Outpost 25. Work on
weaponizing the process began early April and a missile battery in the Ural Mountains
identified as a candidate. On April 8th, Kuhlklay developed the RAI K-84, the first
assault rifle powered with Aetherium but was scolded by Peck for wasting their time.
On May 11th, the canvassing for potential targets of Operatsiya Inversiya was
completed by the KGB. While Valentina pushed hard to include Berlin in order to
achieve her plan, the Committee selected Washington, D.C. and Manhattan, New York
City.
Requiem also developed new technologies using Aetherium samples retrieves from
various Outbreak Zones they contained. Carver and his Containment and Security
Division developed the Weaponized Aetherium Neutralizer Devices which equipped all
their operators in the field. Requiem also planned to thoroughly study the Dark Aether
from within Soviet territory in the Ural Mountains and designed several devices for the
operation: a Specimen Analyzer station and a Recon Rover conceived by Grey and the
Unnatural Science Division on March 13th and April 14th respectively, an Extraction
Rocket and an Essence Conversion Module designed by Strauss and the Energy
Research Division on April 17th and April 28th respectively as well as a Dimensional
Disruptor satellite created by Carver and the Containment and Security Division on
March 8th. Requiem also developed an Aetherium Explosive designed to destroy
massive Aetherium crystals detected in the Ural Outbreak Zone.
Fall of Outpost 25
Following the destruction of Endstation, Samantha Maxis, now operating on her own,
had regular contact with Ravenov who gave her documents and intel regarding the
operations conducted by Omega Group. With the information provided by Ravenov,
Maxis realized the full extent of Omega Group's plan. She decided to travel to Vietnam
to meet with Ravenov and infiltrate Outpost 25 to expose them and deliver their
research to Requiem. However, Omega Group intercepted some communications from
Maxis and became aware of her plan. In early June 1984, Gorev, Kravchenko's right-
hand man and Tactical Operations Lead, traveled to Outpost 25 and warned Peck about
Maxis. He tasked Peck to capture and interrogate her to find who was the mole at the
facility.
Peck managed to capture Maxis and started not only to interrogate her but also torturing
her with no result. When he realized what happened, Ravenov contacted Weaver to
warn him about Maxis' situation. Weaver and the rest of Requiem senior staff discussed
preparations for Operation Lost Property, a rescue mission to exfil Maxis and acquire
any intel present in the facility. Under secret orders from the Director of
Requiem himself, Peck sent Maxis to the Dark Aether telling her she was worthless, and
nobody was coming for her. Secretly, As time flowed differently in the Dark Aether,
Maxis spent a considerable amount of time in the shadowy hellscape. As time went by,
she reflected on herself and her past. Her memory, however, became blurred and it
became difficult to remember who she was. At one point, she awoke with blood on her
hands and holding a knife in the middle of what seemed to be a frenzied attack against
Omega soldiers. Her hatred towards Peck grew stronger each day.
On June 15th, 1984, the dimensional breach at Outpost 25 released a massive burst of
Aetherium creating a lethal phasic barrier around the facility and turning everyone into
zombies and other creatures. Peck managed to hide in a safe room and contacted
Omega Group HQ for rescue as he believed he was the sole survivor, not aware that
Ravenov also survived in a nearby village. With the help of Ravenov, a Requiem Strike
Team managed to enter the facility using one of the teleporters. The team reluctantly
helped Peck restoring the facility power in exchange for Maxis, but unbeknown to them,
they helped him send all the research back to Omega. The team also found another a
modified computer and continued to communicate with the mysterious stranger. After
using a truth serum on him, Peck revealed that Maxis was lost in the Dark Aether. The
serum soon wore off and Peck tricked the team into disrupting the dimensional rift
destroying all electronics and intel stored in the facility. The team, however, used
Requiem's Dimensional Disruptor satellite to open a new breach allowing Maxis to
escape. The team and Maxis managed to leave the facility and regrouped with
Ravenov. Suddenly, a massive Orda appeared in the village but was neutralized by the
team who fled the area. As Raptor One arrived, Ravenov informed Maxis that an
operation was happening in the Ural Mountains, and he had to stay in the field like she
once did.

Back at Outpost 25, a detachment of Omega soldiers led by Valentina arrived to meet
with Peck. To his surprise, Kravchenko also traveled to Vietnam. After having
expressed his discontent with Peck's actions, Kravchenko asked him to show a
demonstration of his commitment to Omega. Kravchenko then pulled out a knife and cut
one of Peck's eyes.

Ural Outbreak Zone

Upon returning to Requiem HQ, Maxis was placed in quarantine before being tested.
While Requiem estimated she only spent roughly 48 hours in the Dark Aether,
physiological and metabolic data from the tests indicated she spent several months in
the other dimension like she has claimed, they also noted changes like her eyes that
were now purple. Requiem also kept her in isolation as they believed she was
responsible for the outburst of Aetherium in Outpost 25. She was subsequently
questioned by Carver, Strauss and Grey who were interested with her experience in the
Dark Aether. She was deemed unfit to return in the field and was kept inside Requiem
HQ for several months, they also seized the radio she used to contact the Requiem
strike teams. Weaver, who visited her often, decided to give her a female rottweiler to
keep her company.
On June 20th, 1984, Requiem was authorized to launch Operation Threshold, a
massive endeavor aimed to study the Ural Outbreak Zone and retrieved Aetherium
samples using devices developed by Requiem departments in the previous months.
The operation started to interfere with Omega's plan but both organizations tried to stay
away from each other to prevent an escalation of the conflict.

Unable to use teleporters within the Ural Outbreak Zone, Omega started to install Boost
Modules designed at Outpost 25 on June 21st. The landing pads however could not be
retrieved forcing Omega's staff and soldiers to be fitted with parachutes. Omega survey
teams noted that the Outbreak Zone was made of a massive phasic barrier separating
small regions like islands in the ocean. They also noted that the barrier grew by 100
micrometers since it first appeared on November 1st, 1983. They believed the barrier
was maintained by giant Aetherium crystals acting as terraforming nodes to match the
properties of the Dark Aether.

On July 8th, Peck arrived at a missile silo in the Ural Outbreak Zone with the tasked of
continuing work with Operatsiya Inversiya. Work on Reality Inversion warheads began
immediately. Zykov began communicating with Peck from one of the modified
computers Omega retrieved from the Outbreak Zone. Soon after, Peck assisted Omega
soldiers into capturing four Tempests, crystalline humanoid capable of teleportation and
attracted by the Aetherium power nodes. Peck noted the way they metabolized
Aetherium and found a way to use them for the Reality Inversion warheads. By July
14th, the design of Reality Inversion warheads was finished; using the captured
Tempests to metabolize Aetherium and increase the yield of the missiles, the warheads
were able to create a dimensional breach as large as 500 meters on impact and, in turn,
forming an Outbreak Zone of over 800 kilometers. Moreover, the electromagnetic
interference generated by the Tempests would prevent the West from detecting the
warheads and firing back.
On July 22nd, Kravchenko took the leadership of Operatsiya Inversiya from Valentina.
Much to Valentina's disappointment, Kravchenko learned that something was lurking in
the Dark Aether and that while the West was still a threat, something far bigger loomed
on the other side. This information was secretly given to Kravchenko by the Director of
Requiem himself. The Reality Inversion warheads were now pointed against this new
enemy. On August 16th, Valentina received the vision of her "father" reassuring her that
not all was lost, and his plan was still on schedule with new instructions for her.
Knowing that Ravenov was still alive, she purposefully and indirectly leaked intel and
documents regarding Operatsiya Inversiya to him. At one point, Gorev noticed Peck's
strange behavior talking with a modified computer and met with Valentina to discuss
about it. Fearing her plan might be discovered, she scolded Peck and questioned his
loyalty in Omega as he explained he learned about an army gathering in the Dark
Aether and the "greatest evil the world had ever known". Valentina also prevented
Gorev to warn Kravchenko about it, saying she would report to him directly.
In early October 1984, Zykov revealed himself to the Requiem Strike Team in the Ural
Mountains, Requiem soon realized that Zykov was behind the communications with
the modified computers as well as the crafting stations, the Dark Aether crates,
the beverages with physiologically altering effects, the kiln fortifying weapons. Zykov
warned Requiem that an army was mobilizing in the Dark Aether, and they needed to
be ready. He also pleaded to help him escape and go home.
Confrontations
Failure of Operatsiya Inversiya
On November 16th, with the help Ravenov, who acquired a listening device designed by
Valentina working with the Beacon mechanism used by Requiem's team to navigate
through the Ural Outbreak Zone, and the help of Grey and her comms
protocols, Maxis established a covert and secure communication line with Requiem's
Strike Team without Weaver's knowledge. She exhorted the Strike Team to meet
with Ravenov in the Ruka's missile silo and help him thwart Operatsiya Inversiya. When
a Strike Team arrived at the location, Ravenov managed to secure the control room of
the silo. They discovered that the warheads were still pointed to the US East Coast.
When Ravenov asked Maxis for a target, she stated that no one should have access to
the warheads, and they should be dumped into the Pacific Ocean. To launch the
missiles, Ravenov needed the help of the Strike Team to retrieve the warheads launch
keys as he prepared them. After initiating the launch sequence however, they found out
that massive Aetherium crystals were obstructing the warhead hatches and a giant
Tempest called Legion guarding them. With only nine minutes before launch, the Strike
Team successfully defeated Legion and destroyed the crystals allowing the hatches to
open. As the warheads launched, Raptor One, who was sent by Maxis, arrived and the
team left the area while Ravenov stayed in the Ural Mountains. In the weeks following
the event at Ruka, the Strike Team was cleared to return to active duty after almost
facing a court martial only to be spared by the Director of Requiem.

Weaver, who was furious about what happened, confronted Grey and warned her to
never cross his path ever again. He also confronted Maxis and, after a heated
exchange, confined her to her quarters again with no more walks around the facility with
her dog. Weaver soon received new orders from the Director of Requiem and, on
December 1st, had Maxis taken away for "additional testing" based on reports from
Grey about the high levels of Aetherium contamination in her bloodstream and changes
on a cellular level. As she was taken away, Weaver promised to take care of her dog.

On December 3rd, after two days of travel, Maxis arrived at Block 8, a classified facility
of the CIA built with an Aetherium-seal. She was maintained in isolation after she
attempted to flee the facility upon arrival. Maxis was subjected to several interrogation
sessions led by the Director of Requiem to assess her powers. After fifteen days, the
Director managed to push her by stating that nobody at Requiem was caring for her and
that she was just a "sad, little, lost girl". Filled with anger, Maxis used her telekinetic
abilities to break the glass in her room. The Director continued to torture Maxis over the
next two months. During one session, he threatened to shoot her dog if she didn't
teleport her somewhere safe.
Capture of the Strike Team
At one point, Ravenov contacted Weaver, using Maxis direct line, informing him that
several Omega scientists, later know as "The Omega Eight", were ready to defect to
Requiem as dissent and division were spreading within Omega Group. Weaver was
soon authorized to launch Operation Excision to retrieve the defectors.
On November 30th, Kravchenko reported that the missiles couldn't get recovered and
belonged to the ocean. He soon decided to take direct actions against Requiem and
tasked Doctor Hugo Jager, the Research Lead of Necro-Analytics at Omega, to infiltrate
the defecting group of scientists. Jager's mission was to eliminate the scientists and set
up a trap for Requiem's elite Strike Team, this operation was called Operatsiya
Issecheniye. Kravchenko also became suspicious of Valentina after learning from Gorev
that Peck has been talking to Zykov from one of the modified computers and planned to
speak with her directly.
On December 14th, Weaver contacted the Strike Team and informed them to meet with
Ravenov and the Omega Eight near a Sanatorium. Their helicopter, however, had
crashed and were now missing. After the Strike Team located the crash site, they
recovered a message left by Jager indicating the scientists survived and were heading
near to the monument on the island located on the lake next to the sanatorium. The
Strike Team also learned about the Aetherium Neutralizer; a device developed by one
of the defectors, Doctor Natalya Zarkova, to neutralize Aetherium particles allowing safe
passage through the deadly phase. A modified Recon Rover was left behind by the
scientists to be used by the Strike Team to reach them. When the Strike Team arrived
at the Monument, they discovered the corpses of the scientists and a message from
Jager taunting them and revealing his mission. Jager also indicated that the Aetherium
Neutralizer was now in Omega's possession. As the monument was being overrun with
an Orda appearing, Weaver ordered the team to leave the area. Raptor One arrived
soon after to exfil the team, but they were shot down by Omega on their way out.
Kravchenko arrived at the crash site. As Omega soldiers dragged Raptor One body out
of the helicopter, Kravchenko ordered the team to surrender. They were captured soon
after.
The Forsaken Threat
In the early weeks of January 1985, Omega Group realized the extent of Valentina's
deception and learned about her true identity as Ulrich Vogel's daughter. After the
Operatsiya Inversiya failure and the loss of the Reality Inversion
warheads, Valentina left Omega Group and remained hidden in Berlin where she found
the Endstation lab and began her work to open a portal to the Dark Aether and
complete Operation Baldr.
The Director of Requiem, however, knew about Valentina's plan and secretly sent an
experimental robot, Klaus, designed by Grey, as well as a nuclear device to a CIA
safehouse hidden beneath the Wall in order to stop her. However, the team intercepted
a communique meant for the Director regarding Project Janus. To prevent any leak
about the project, the Director activated Klaus to kill the operatives stationed at the
safehouse.
Defeating Valentina
In late January 1985, Valentina opened a portal to the Dark Aether by following the
instructions left by her father forty years before. An outbreak zone appeared around one
of Berlin's checkpoints unleashing the undead Nazi soldiers that once was Task Force
Baldr. Requiem managed to contain the situation and evacuate the inhabitants by using
a cover story about a leak of nerve gas stockpile dating from the war. The nuclear
device, however, was lost when the outbreak happened.
On February 2nd, after being held prisoner in Potsdam for several weeks, the Strike
Team was deployed by Kravchenko in the Berlin Outbreak Zone to stop Valentina and
prevent the Dark Aether army to enter their world using Raptor One's life as leverage.
The same day, Valentina crossed the threshold to the Dark Aether and met with her
"father" who convinced her to ascend and lead their army. Leaving her mortal body,
Valentina ascends into a scarlet and crystalized form. It was then she submitted to the
entity who disguised itself as her father, The Forsaken, a powerful entity who gained
dominion over the Dark Aether and its Elder Gods, and looked upon the world to devour
it since the day Omega Group reopened the portal at the Endstation facility in Morasko.
The Strike Team reactivated Klaus and uncovered the Endstation lab. Under the
command of Gorev, Jager and Peck, the Strike Team began working on a new Reality
Inversion warhead to close the portal. The team recovered the uranium stolen from the
lost nuclear device by a Megaton and collected essence from Tempests using
Endstation lures. As the team progressed, Valentina stepped out of the portal
unleashing more zombies and Tormentors. She proclaimed that the dawn of a new
Reich was upon them with her army on its way. Valentina and the Strike Team battled
throughout the Outbreak Zone but, ultimately, the team managed to defeat Valentina.
The team strapped her to the conversion machine built by her father and activated it,
killing her. Her energy refined the essence, completing the Reality Inversion warhead.
Klaus understood what its mission was and grabbed the warhead before stepping in the
Dark Aether. The explosion closed the portal and stopped the outbreak.
Kravchenko contacted the Strike Team to inform them that Raptor One was waiting for
them. The team arrived in the streets of East Berlin. As they untied Raptor One,
Kravchenko arrived with his helicopter and attacked the Strike Team. At that
moment, Maxis contacted the team and exhorted them to reach one of the building
roofs. Maxis used her new powers to open a portal on the roof for the team to escape
through. The team was teleported in a room at Block 8 where they met Weaver and
Maxis who was accompanied by her dog, Notso. As the Director of Requiem reviewed
the footage, he noted that Valentina was no longer a problem and Project Janus could
proceed unimpeded. He, however, noted that Maxis was becoming a problem that
needed to be dealt with. He continued to torture her, and by February 1985, forced her
to kill a captured Omega operative by threatening to kill Grey, Maxis complied but was
distressed by her actions. Over the next two months, the Director continued to assess
Maxis' powers which included telepathy, telekinesis, teleportation of objects and
creation of two-way portals among several others. He also made her realized how
powerful she really was.
Two days after the event of Berlin, Kravchenko wrote a report to Chebrikov. In order to
save himself and prevent Omega Group to be disbanded, he made up a story in which
Requiem created an Aetherium-based narcotic compound capable of inducing
aggressive paranoia and hallucinations which was injected into Valentina by a Requiem
strike team during a mission in the Ural Mountains. Kravchenko stated that the team
was captured, interrogated and later executed while he personally resolved the situation
in Berlin.
Escalation
By March 1985, the situation in the Ural Outbreak Zone became critical with an
increased Dark Aether activity and hostile encounters. Gorev reported to Kravchenko
that Dark Aether Vortices started to appear every day accelerating the expansion of the
phase and the terraformation of the region. Requiem also reported increased activities
and expanded Operation Threshold to the Atlantic and Algeria were two massive
outbreak zones appeared. Several outbreaks also occurred
in Germany and Nebraska where people claimed to have heard the voice of deceased
relatives. Both organizations assumed this escalation by the Forsaken was in retaliation
for the Berlin Incident.
On May 21st, several Outbreak Zones including the Ural Outbreak Zone collapsed
entirely with their Phase expanding rapidly and Aetherium levels raising by 5000% in
just a few minutes. Requiem reported that the areas were now uninhabitable for life as
they knew it and several teams were missing. They believed the Dark Aether vortices
heavily contributed to the acceleration of the terraforming process. By the end of the
day, each Outbreak Zone continued to slowly grow by 0.25 inches. They came to the
conclusion that severing their connection with the Dark Aether would be the only
solution to reverse the terraforming.
Securing Zykov
Before Valentina's scheme, the KGB approved a new operation for Omega Group on
January 11th, 1985, Operatisya Izbavitel, or Operation Deliverer. The goals of the
operation was to build a particle accelerator and dimensional amplifier to
recover Kazimir Zykov and retrieve information about the Forsaken as well as the
construction of a containment chamber to capture the entity before its reprogramming
and use against the Western bloc. However, the approval of the operation was not
unanimous, with members of the committee citing the cost of Omega's operation and its
limited success. The committee was also concerned about investing in the Dark
Aether as the risks outweighed the rewards. Chebrikov warned Kravchenko that the
future of Omega Group was tied with the outcome of that new operation.
In the days following his report about the Berlin incident, Kravchenko met
with Gorev, Jager and Peck. Kravchenko revealed Izbavitel to Gorev and Jager and his
new plan with Peck, much to Gorev's dismay and confusion. Zykov provided several
schematics and parts to Peck in order to build a device to help him escape and a
machine to kill the Forsaken. Unbeknownst to Zykov however, Omega planned to
capture the Forsaken rather than kill it. On January 22nd, Peck finished designing the
particle accelerator and dimensional amplifier with the particle accelerator matching the
specification of the Endstation cyclotron. Peck also contacted the Director of
Requiem informing him about the new operation.
On February 9th, Peck reported to Kravchenko that, after several weeks, he finally
managed to triangulate the position of Zykov within the Dark Aether, but it'll require
Omega to harness primordial aether energy to extract him from the nightmarish
dimension. Peck suggested that Test Site Anna, a facility located in Ukraine which was
shuttered following an incident in 1981 and was originally used for Operatsiya Inversiya,
would be the perfect facility to build the machines to free him because of the large
power grid and its equipment made to handle excess amounts of Aetherium.
On March 28th, Peck finalized the containment chamber design for the Forsaken,
including a spherical device secretly using specifications from the Director of Requiem.
That night, Gorev and Kravchenko discussed the potential targets for unleashing the
Forsaken including, Washington, D.C, New York City, London, Berlin and Afghanistan.
On April 18th, all the resources and personnel of each department at Omega were
diverted in support of Operatsiya Izbavitel. With every other operation suspended,
personnel were sent to Test Site Anna while skeleton crews remained at every outpost
and facility. The reallocation of resources accelerated the timeline of operation and
Peck was confident that everything was going to be fully operational by July with an
extraction scheduled for July 4th, 1985. However, Kravchenko revealed to Peck that the
timeline had moved by a month and he needed to be ready for June 4th. Peck
contacted the Director of Requiem soon after to inform him about the change.
In early May, Ravenov, who was blacklisted by the CIA following Operation Excision,
contacted Weaver and revealed that he had information regarding Operatsiya Izbavitel
and its location in the Zakarpatska Oblast with a courier sent to a Requiem's dead drop
in Madrid with documents hoping that Maxis would be released in exchange, knowing
the Director was listening. Maxis was still at Block 8 following the Berlin Incident, but the
Director allowed her to contact the different strike teams still in the field, before the
collapses, as well as sending letters to Weaver and Elizabeth Grey.
On May 12th, Requiem was authorized to proceed with Operation First Domino, a direct
response to Omega's Operatsiya Izbavitel, with all the departments working together on
this operation aimed to secure Zykov and take him into custody before Omega. On May
28th, the Director approved Maxis for the operation stating that she has learned a lot
about her powers and how to control them. However, he prevented her from returning in
the field and had to remain at Block 8 during the operation where she would use her
powers to open a portal for the Strike Team.
Last Stand and Aftermath
In the early hours of June 4th, 1985, Peck and Kravchenko ran several tests to open a
dimensional gateway from the facility observation tower while Jager and Gorev waited
in a nearby airfield ready to extract the Forsaken once he would be sealed in the
containment chamber, and bring it to an Omega facility near Moscow. Both men,
however, had doubts about the success of the mission.

At 9:32 AM, during test number 8, an uncontrolled dimensional breach occured in the
facility consuming every Omega personnel and soldiers with the exception of Peck and
Kravchenko. Kravchenko prevented Peck from closing the gateway until they
had Zykov. The Requiem Strike Team arrived soon after outside of the facility from a
portal created by Samantha. Supported by Ravenov, the team used an Omega
teleporter to enter the facility and were greeted by Kravchenko who informed them they
were too late. The team reached the observation tower watching over the town square
replica where an activate teleporter was located. Kravchenko, Peck, and the Strike
Team witnessed the return of Zykov from the Dark Aether. The lost russian thanked
them before turning himself to be the Forsaken. The entity revealed that while forty
years had passed on Earth since Zykov closed the Endstation gateway, four centuries
happened during which Zykov had to survive and evolve. As he consumed more
powerful beings than himself, Zykov ultimately evolved and was replaced by the
Forsaken. The entity then flaunted to Peck how he had tricked him into releasing him
from the Dark Aether, and that their realm would now be consumed. Kravchenko lashed
out at Peck before zombies swarmed the tower. At this moment, Samantha manifested
herself in the facility and used her powers to temporarily hold the Forsaken off. Having
heard an explosion, Gorev and Jager flew above the facility and discovered what was
happening. The two men agreed to ignore Kravchenko's cries for help and
reinforcement, leaving the failure of the operation on Kravchenko alone and left the
area. Jager had a secret contact who could grant both men safe passage to the West.
The Strike Team learned that the Forsaken was now protected by a phasic barrier and
that an Aetherium Neutralizer was required to reach the entity. With the assistance of
Peck, the team built a make-shift device. They also received the help of an unlikely
ally, Sparagmos; a Zealot of the Dark Aether seeking revenge over the Stealer of Souls
for enslaving his Disciples. With his guidance, the team forged the Chrysalax.
As the team activated the device, an explosion occured in the observation tower where
Peck and Kravchenko were located after Peck mistakenly shot a gas pipe. The Strike
Team then proceeded to town square. With the help of Samantha, who used her
powers to powered Aetherium Gun Turrets, the team managed to expose the Forsaken
core. As the Forsaken launched a massive counterattack, Samantha sacrificed herself
and dived into the its core, sealing herself in the Dark Aether. Weakened, the Forsaken
was drawn into the spherical device in the containment chamber. With its capture, the
Outbreak Zones around the world began to lessen and collapsed. Soon after, a
helicopter arrived to transport the spherical device out of the Soviet Union. The Strike
Team bid farewell to Ravenov before leaving with Raptor One.
At his deck, the Director of Requiem noted that with Samanthat Maxis now locked in the
Dark Aether, she was no longer a problem for Project Janus. He ordered the Strike
Team to be sent to Blacksite 13 for "indefinite containment" before shutting
down Requiem. He then ordered his agents to move on Requiem's Senior Staff.
Watching Grey, Carver, Strauss, Weaver, Raptor One and the Strike Team being
arrested from his monitors, the Director, Eddie, grabbed his briefcase from his desk and
left his office.
Five Years Later
Having survived the events at Test Site Anna, Peck traveled to a boat house in Japan in
1990. There, he would rent a boat from a local fisherman to travel to the Pacific Ocean,
where the Operatsiya Inversiya warheads laid in the Pacific's waters to find "some old
friends".

Chaos Story
Ancient Times
For millennia, the Earth was filled with Prima Materia, the first matter, the raw chaos.
The resource was plentiful, humanity mined deep into the Earth to recover it. With it,
ancient rulers, kings, priests and emperors created powerful and prospering
civilizations. But the power of Prima Materia consumed them, their benevolence turned
to greed and they stopped caring for their people. One by one, their civilizations fell, and
wars were waged. Thus, the Prima Materia was extinguished. But humanity found a
way to create an endless supply of this first matter. This knowledge was deemed too
dangerous and that mankind couldn’t be trusted. Men of science, philosophy and
reason came together to protect and keep that knowledge safe. They were known as
the Nine.

Their collection of knowledge grew as mankind progressed. Each new discovery made
was secured by the Nine to preserve it from humanity. Over the centuries, their
collection became legend and mankind’s ultimate pursuit.

But the Nine were mortals and as such were affected by their thoughts and beliefs.
Once, they decided to release their knowledge to the world as a beacon of humanity’s
intelligence and potential. Wars were fought. The Nine took their knowledge and hid it
once again from mankind. But they believed that among all humanity, some people
were worthy of their knowledge. They came to create the Sentinel Artifacts, based
around the different mythologies known to man.
Sometimes after the 2nd century BCE, Perseus arrived in Delphi with his men and his
mount Pegasus. Perseus met with the Pythia and gave her his demands, activating a
Sentinel Artifact to prove himself worthy of taking his father's throne on Mount Olympus.
When the Pythia refused, auguring disaster, Perseus had her two sisters detained.
Fearing for their lives, the Pythia activated the Sentinel Trial before being locked to her
chair by Perseus. At first, she helped Perseus and his men but as the months went by,
she stopped helping them. After the Pythia's sisters tried to escape, Perseus had them
beheaded. The trial ran for centuries and Perseus, now alone, was trapped in a
chamber by the Pythia before being attacked by zombies.
During the second half of 19th century, Alistair Rhodes, a wealthy British adventurer,
bought a country estate in Hampshire, England after he learnt about Druid ruins on the
land and renamed it Rhodes Manor. At the end of the century, Alistair brought his young
daughter, Scarlett to a museum where he asked her to watch for anybody observing
them while he was looking for an item, a black rock glistening with diamonds.
Unfortunately, policemen arrived and Alistair was arrested. Scarlett was separated from
her father and grew up with relatives, in care homes or amongst nuns. She never saw
her father again for the next 15 years.
In 1909, hundreds of dissident members of the Rosicrucian Order in England created a
new cult under the leadership of the High Priest of Chaos. The goal of this new Order is
to force mankind to evolve by acquiring the Sentinel Artifacts and accessing the
knowledge of the Nine. Alistair, who has learned about this new order and judging their
intentions as nefarious, started his journey to access the knowledge of the Nine and
empower humanity with it.
Alistair Rhodes Travels
Morocco
The following year, in September 1910, Alistair traveled to Morocco to meet Bruno
Delacroix, a former enforcer of a criminal gang in the Paris underworld who joined the
French Foreign Legion after the attempted assassination of Michel Depardieu which
resulted with the death of his child and a bounty on Bruno’s head from his former boss,
named Lebeau. Alistair explained to Bruno that his former associates stole an object
he’s looking for and that they should not be allowed to have nor their employers, the
newly formed Order. Bruno agreed to assist Alistair and the two traveled
to Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. They ambushed the convoy and
stole a large wooden box before driving to the Basilica Cistern with the rest of the
criminal gang hunting them. After arriving to the cistern, Alistair revealed that the
wooden box contained the object he was looking for, the Scepter of Ra. Alistair needed
the Scepter to reveal a map hidden inside the cistern pointing to Angkor Wat in
the French Protectorate of Cambodia. Unfortunately for the duo, the gang found them
and Lebeau ordered the members to storm the cistern to get the Scepter back before
the arrival of the Order. Bruno managed to kill the gang members, but Alistair was
captured by Lebeau. Bruno rushed to Lebeau to save Alistair and took several bullets in
the chest but managed to crush his skull with his bare hand, killing him. Bruno
succumbed to his injuries only to be revived by Alistair with the Scepter of Ra. Breathing
again, Bruno swore to help Alistair whenever he needs him.

Only one gang member survived the encounter. When he got out of the cistern, the
High Priest and several cultists were waiting for him. After learning that the Scepter of
Ra has been stolen from the gang, the High Priest and the cultists stabbed him to
death.

Cambodia
Several months after the event, in March 1911, Alistair met with Stanton Shaw in the
city of Siem Reap in the French Protectorate of Cambodia. Shaw is close friend of
Alistair and a chemist who was so obsessed with his work that his wife left him and took
their children with her. Alistair was trying to convince Shaw to help him on his journey
when German soldiers captured Shaw. The German officer told Shaw that the gas they
used based on his formula leaked through the containers killing 147 men although
Shaw claimed it would be perfectly safe during transport. Shaw was saved from being
executed thanks to Alistair who promised to give the officer the greatest weapon the
world has ever seen with the help of Shaw. They traveled to Angkor Wat where Shaw
decoded symbols on a wall and learned about Prima Materia sealed behind it. The
soldiers managed to enter the hidden room and found a small jar on an altar. Upon
opening it, Prima Materia was released into the air and attacked the officer and the rest
of the soldiers turning them into zombies. Alistair and Shaw fled through the temple
while being pursued by the zombies. While fleeing, Shaw managed to create an
explosive powerful enough to collapse the tunnel after them. The explosion, however,
was so powerful that a part of the temple collapsed almost killing the duo. Later, they
recalled what happened and Alistair confessed to Shaw he was never there for the
Prima Materia and was glad that thanks to the explosion the Order was denied any
information about it. Alistair told Shaw that he’ll need him again one day before leaving.
Unbeknownst to Alistair, the High Priest was following him.
Sometimes after, Alistair found out the Norse Artifact was in the Natural History
Museum in London and was about to be moved to a private collection in the Harvard
University in the United States the next year, in 1912. Alistair also discovered the key
for the Artifact in a magazine featuring a Mexican spy named Diego Necalli with the key
around his neck. After learning Diego was willing to meet Alistair, Alistair’s
butler, Godfrey, made the travel arrangements.
Mexico
Alistair and Diego met in a saloon in Ciudad Juárez during the Mexican Revolution.
Alistair told Diego he was looking for the greatest power mankind has ever known and
that he needed his medallion. Diego replied his medallion was a family heirloom and
recounted that his mother told him it was part of something bigger that needed to be
protected, to be kept safe. He refused to give it to Alistair before the two men were
interrupted by the High Priest and members of the Order, wearing normal clothes
instead of their ceremonial dress, who were also looking for the key. A fight broke out
and Diego was knocked unconscious while Alistair was captured by the Order. Alistair
managed to steal a revolver from one of the cultists before being saved by Diego and
the two men escaped using a carriage. Diego finally agreed to give his medallion to
Alistair, hoping to have it returned one day, before telling him to leave the city for his
safety. Although they couldn’t get the medallion, the Order was able to find Scarlett.
Fearing for his life and believing she is strong enough to overcome what is to come,
Alistair wrote a letter to Scarlett where he explained his travels and the Order’s
intentions. He sent the letter with a package containing the key for the Norse Artifact as
well as tickets for the RMS Titanic. Upon receiving the letter, Scarlett left for Rhodes
Manor.
Burning of Rhodes Manor
In the evening of March 20th, 1912, Alistair Rhodes invited dozens of friends and
relations in Rhodes Manor. Before the guests arrived, Godfrey knocked out Alistair and
locked him in the wine cellar. Godfrey fell under the influence of the Order after being
killed and revived with the Scepter of Ra with a red mark appearing on his forehead.
During the party, Scarlett arrived at Rhodes Manor only to be fend off by Godfrey and
pursued by the High Priest and his cultists into the forest nearby. Inside the Manor,
Godfrey, still under the influence of the Order, started drawing glyphs on the ground
before being approached by some of Alistair’s guests, Gideon Jones, Christina
Fowler and Jonathan Warwick. At the same time, members of the Order activated the
Celtic Artifact, which was in the possession of Alistair Rhodes, starting the trial and
releasing Prima Materia into the Manor turning all the guests into zombies. Only
Godfrey and the three other guests were saved from the Prima Materia thanks to the
glyphs.

Outside of the Manor, Scarlett led the High Priest and the cultists in the woods where
she killed several cultists. She was briefly subdued by the High Priest but managed to
kill him. He warned her that she can’t stop them and more will come. Scarlett entered
Rhodes Manor only to find the guests, who were changed back to normal, were killed by
the Order. She took a revolver and started looking for her father.

With the trial completed and the Shadow Werewolf killed, a vision of the Norse Artifact
appeared inside the Manor. At the same moment, the red mark appeared on Godfrey’s
forehead and he killed Gideon, Christina and Jonathan, calling them unworthy before
ordering the rest of the cultists to load Alistair into a car and leave. Scarlett shot Godfrey
in the back and asked him where Alistair Rhodes was. Godfrey told her she was too late
and can’t stop what was to come. During the confrontation, a fire broke out and soon
the all Manor was on fire. Scarlett jumped in a car and pursued the cultists.
Unfortunately, her car broke during the pursuit and crashed on the side of the road.
Alistair was then loaded into a plane before it took off.

In the following month, Scarlett contacted Bruno Delacroix, Stanton Shaw and Diego
Necalli as they were the only people her father trusted to help her if he was captured by
the Order. On April 10th, 1912, the four met in Southampton where Scarlett explained to
them what happened that night and what they’ll have to do, steal the Norse Artifact.
They all agreed to help her find her father and the group embarked on the Titanic.

Sinking of the Titanic

During the night of April 14th, 1912, the group started their plan to steal the Norse
Artifact. Diego charmed one of the passengers, Lady McKendrick, and stole the key to
the millionaire suite where Bruno and Shaw sent a gas into the cargo room using the
pneumatic tubes in the suite. Once the guard was knocked out, Scarlett entered the
room and using a device of her own invention to open the safe where the Artifact was
kept. Unfortunately, the plan didn’t go as planned when a cultist, bearing the red mark
on his forehead, stole the Artifact from Scarlett and took the medallion. While trying to
flee, he was stopped by Bruno, Shaw and Diego who regrouped with Scarlett.
Surrounded, the cultist activated the Norse Artifact but was kicked out of the protective
circle by Scarlett and turned into a zombie like the rest of the passengers and crew.
Soon after, the Titanic struck a massive iceberg allowing water to seep in. The team
proceeded to complete the trial and beat the Eye of Malice and Despair. After the trial
was completed, all the passengers and the crew turned back to normal and a vision of a
doorway surrounded by two snake heads appeared in the cargo hold. Soon after, the
Titanic started sinking and Scarlett, Bruno, Shaw and Diego took a lifeboat. While they
were waiting for rescue, Shaw recalled having seen the doorway before only in books, it
was in Delphi. A red mark appeared on Bruno’s forehead.
Journey to Delphi
In the following days, the team traveled to Delphi in the Kingdom of Greece and
ventured in a cave where they found a sealed door. The voice of an Oracle, the Pythia,
invited them to breathe the vapors to find the knowledge they were seeking but warned
them it was not intended for mortal man.
Opening the Door
Upon breathing the vapors, the team was transported across millennia and woke up in
an ancient coliseum during what it seems antiquity. They watched the High Priest of
Chaos activating the Egyptian Artifact in front of hundreds of cultists, all spared by the
Prima Materia. The High Priest were forcing slaves to complete the trial for him, and
Scarlett, Shaw, Diego and Bruno were the next contenders. The team completed the
trial, beat the Guardian, an elephant named Fury, and Wrath, the Champion of the Nine,
another elephant. Once the trial was completed, a portal appeared with the word
"Poseidon". Upon reaching his hand into the portal, the High Priest was attacked by
Prima Materia only to be saved by the glyphs under his mask. Scarlett ordered the High
Priest to grant them clemency as dictated in the Novum Ignotum proclamation, but the
High Priest ordered his cultists to behead them.
Freeing the Oracle
After awakening from the hallucination, Scarlett immediately went towards a gate near
them, placing her hand upon ancient symbols to open the gate. As the gate opened, it
revealed a tunnel, revealing the ancient city of Delphi. Noticing the ropes to climb down
to the city, the crew realized that they were not the first to tread upon this city. Whilst
inside the city, they are led by the Pythia to the Temple of Apollo, where they found she
was imprisoned within the city. She proclaimed that like her, Alistair was trapped in
Delphi.
Whilst on their journey, the crew encountered Perseus, who has turned into the Zombie
Warlord. While examining some runes, Bruno was taken over by his Dark-self, and
killed Shaw. Shaw was subsequently revived by Bruno using the Sceptre of Ra,
allowing the Order to take control. Soon after, the crew confronted Perseus, who took
control of Pegasus by striking him with his sword. After killing both Pegasus and
Perseus and retrieving the key, the crew returned to the Temple of Apollo to free the
Oracle. Scarlett stayed with the Pythia while Diego, Bruno, and Shaw left to find Alistair,
beneath the Temple. They discovered that Alistair alongside several members of the
Order, was turned to stone. Diego realized the true intent of the Oracle, and rushed to
save Scarlett. As Scarlett freed the dying Oracle, she became mesmerized by the
Pythia which allowed her to gain knowledge of modern history. Diego confronted the
Pythia, who revealed herself as Medusa. Diego hid behind a pillar as the Pythia
attemped to attack him. She then released Scarlett, now in a comatose state, before
picking up one of the cultist's mask and walked towards the Eternal Flame. Protected
from the Prima Materia, she witnessed a vision in the Eternal Flame. As Diego hid with
Scarlett behind a pillar, Medusa proclaimed that she would access the Library of the
Nine, and that the Earth would be hers.