Apothicon Elder God

An Apothicon Elder God, Elder or Overlord is a variant of Apothicon and rank within the Dark Aether that was introduced in Call of Duty: Black Ops III in a cipher from Shadows of Evil, and later physically in the map Revelations. They appeared again in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 in the intro of Alpha Omega and within Tag der Toten.
==History==
===The Cycle===
====In the Beginning====
The Elder Gods, like all Apothicons, were formerly Keepers - ancient inter-dimensional beings responsible for creating and safeguarding all of reality. Whilst many members of this race experimented with the Aether, one small splinter group - among whom was one who would come to be known as the Shadowman - began to experiment with the Aether's opposite - the Dark Aether , becoming corrupted by it in the process. These experiments culminated in the construction of a device, the Aether Pyramid, that could "hold power over reality itself". Following this, a civil war broke out between the splinter faction and the rest of the Keepers, with the larger group ultimately being victorious. As punishment, the small fraction were set to be banished to the Dark Aether itself. Knowing they had lost, the group hid the Aether Pyramid on Earth's moon, also sending meteorites of Element 115 - the essence of the Aether - to the planet in the hopes of the humans there waging war against each other and ultimately assisting the Apothicons' escape.
====The Great War====
Unwittingly discovering the Element and falling victim to the whispering of the Apothicons, humans allow the Apothicons to escape the Dark Aether and arrive on Earth. However, the Keepers returned to once again fight their sworn enemies alongside humanity, starting The Great War. The Great War ended when Four strange, powerful knights defeated the Apothicon forces, each wielding an Elemental Staff. Soon after, the Apothicons were once again banished by the Keepers into the Dark Aether. 
====Agarthan Device====
In 1885, after being instructed by the Keepers to build the Pack-a-Punch Machine, Jebediah Brown was told to construct an object known as the Agarthan Device, which had the ability to both grant the user's every desire, as well as to open and close worlds. One of the components of this Agarthan Device was the blood of an Elder God.
====Tugarin====
In the 1960's, the corpse of an Elder God was discovered lying dormant beneath the ocean by the Ascension Group, where it's blood was extracted and contained aboard the Soviet ship known as the Tugarin. It was then brought to Siberia and experimented until it eventually broke containment, causing a zombie outbreak and killing all of the personnel on the ship.
==== Second War of Agartha====
Soon after Primis and the Summoning Key's arrival to the House, the Shadowman, was accidentally released by Ludvig Maxis by interacting with the Summoning Key. Immediately after, the Shadowman revealed the so-called Apothicon Sun, the source of all Element 115, in Agartha, and once again opens the Dark Aether, beginning a Second War of Agartha. Many Apothicons were involved in the invasion of the Aether, including the Elder Gods. However, thanks to the work of Primis, Maxis, and Sophia, the Elder Gods and their Apothicon kin were once again banished from Agartha forever.
===Breaking the Cycle===
====The Way Through====
After the cycle was broken by Primis Nikolai, he, alongside Ultimis Richtofen awakened Victis, who remained cryogenically frozen beneath Alcatraz, in order to transport them to Siberia to construct the Agarthan Device. There, they managed to find the Apothicon Blood of the Elder God, which assisted them in creating the Seal of Duality. The blood accepted that it must merge itself with the Device, stating that the duality between the Keepers and the Apothicons needed to be resolved. After the Seal of Duality was built, the Apothicons (including the Elder Gods) and Keepers were merged back into one species again for the first time since the Apothicons' initial corruption by the Dark Aether. Shortly after, the Summoning Key was destroyed and the Agarthan Device was used to create a new universe separate from the Aether's influence, banishing everything else in the Multiverse, including the Apothicons, to the Dark Aether once again.
== Appearance ==
The Elder Gods are extremely large creatures, bearing a massive, wide mouth which is surrounded by many sharp teeth. They do not possess any limbs besides various tentacle-like appendages around their body, but make up for this by being able to fly.
==Behavior==
An Elder God serves as the hindrance to access the Pack-a-Punch Machine in Revelations, by swallowing the machine at the start of the match. Once all Corruption Engines are activated, the Elder God can be trapped at the Nacht area by utilizing the Death Rays. From there, the player can enter the innards of the Elder God to gain access to Pack-a-Punch.
==Gallery==
Apothicon1.png|Side-view of an Elder God in Revelations
ElderGod Transporting 115 BOIII.png|An Elder God transporting Element 115 from the Apothicon Sun.
Apothicon Stomach BO3.jpg|The insides of an Elder God that had consumed the Pack-a-Punch Machine.
ElderGod Statue Revelations BO3.png|A statue of an Elder God in Revelations, during the boss-fight.
ApothiconsAlphaOmegaIntro.png|The Shadowman leading Elder Gods and Margwas.
KeeperApothiconBattle TagDerToten Bo4.png|Elder Gods fight alongside Margwas against the Keepers.
ElderGod Drawing BO4.png|A drawing of the Elder God discovered by the Ascension Group.
ElderGod Blood BO4.png|The blood of an Elder God, known as the "Apothicon Blood".
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