Alistair Rhodes

Alistair Rhodes is a character featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Zombies mode, as part of the Chaos Story. He is the father of Scarlett Rhodes, and an accomplished archaeologist in a mission to stop the The Order from acquiring Prima Materia
Rhodes also appears in the Dark Aether Saga, being mentioned in a radio from Shi No Numa in Call of Duty: Vanguard as well as in two intel from Citadelle des Morts in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. It is currently unclear if he is the same character from the Chaos Story.
==Chaos Story==
Alistair was a passionate, if at times obsessive archaeologist who found himself fascinated with the unknown. He fathered a daughter, Scarlett Rhodes, who he could care for in her youth. During a trip to the Museum of London, Alistair had Scarlett watch for any sign of trouble while he attempted to steal an artifact from the museum. Unfortunately, the police would arrive and catch Alistair in the act, arresting him. Scarlett would then come under the care of various aunts and sisters, as well as Stanton Shaw, a close friend of Alistair's.
===Acquiring the Scepter of Ra===
In September of 1910, Alistair travelled to to meet Bruno Delacroix, a former enforcer of a criminal gang in the Paris underworld who joined the French Foreign Legion after he had attempted to assassinate Michel Depardieu, a rival gang boss. This led to his former boss, Lebeau, placing a bounty on Bruno’s head. Alistair explained to Bruno that his former associates stole an object he is looking for and that neither they nor their employers, a cult known as the Order, should be allowed to have it. Bruno agreed to help and the two traveled to , the capital of the . 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 at 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 in the . Unfortunately for the duo, the gang found them and stormed the cistern to get the Scepter back before their employers, the Order, arrived. 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 needed him.
===Traveling to Cambodia===
Several months after the event in Morocco, in March 1911, Alistair met with Shaw in the city of in the French Protectorate of Cambodia. Alistair was trying to convince Shaw to help him on his journey when German soldiers captured the chemist. The German officer told Shaw that the containers they used, which Shaw had claimed would work perfectly, had leaked the poison gas they stored and killed 147 of his men. Shaw was saved from being executed thanks to Alistair who promised to give the officer the greatest weapon the world had ever seen with the help of Shaw. They traveled to Angkor Wat where Shaw decoded symbols on a wall and learned about the 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 would need him again one day before leaving. Unbeknownst to Alistair, the High Priest was following him.
Sometime after, Alistair found the Norse Artifact was in the in London and was about to be moved to a private collection in the Harvard University in the United States the next year. Alistair also discovered the key for the Artifact in a magazine which featured 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.
===Meeting with Diego in Mexico===
Alistair and Diego met in a saloon in during the . 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. 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 loan 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 would be strong enough to overcome what was to come, Alistair wrote a letter to Scarlett where he explained his travels, the Order’s intentions, and a list of three people she could trust with his rescue. He sent the letter with a package containing the key for the Norse Artifact as well as tickets for the . Upon receiving the letter, Scarlett left for Rhodes Manor.
===Abduction by the Order===
On the evening of March 20th, 1912, Alistair Rhodes invited dozens of friends and relations to the 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 fended 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 guests survived, thanks to the glyphs.
After the four completed a trial, Godfrey killed his three comrades and ordered the rest of the cultists to load Alistair into a car and leave before being confronted and shot by Scarlett. Afterwards, Scarlett hopped into a car and pursued the cultists. Unfortunately, her car broke down during the pursuit and crashed on the side of the road. Alistair was then loaded into a plane before it took off.
===Demise in Delphi===
At some point after his kidnapping, the Order had brought Alistair to the ancient underground city of , where they encountered Medusa, who turned them into stone. Scarlett, Bruno, Shaw and Diego would themselves come to the city of Delphi to rescue Alistair, only to discover his demise all too late.
==Dark Aether Saga==
Alistair Rhodes was a wealthy amateur demonologist, researching and writing about powerful objects called Sentinel Artifacts. At some point, Rhodes hired Sir Archibald Fotherington-Smythes to recover a Sentinel Artifact believed to be located in the Principality of Avalon, paying a large amount for the excavation to be efficient and secretive, leaving Sir Archibald to recruit the workers among the local population.
In Autumn 1913, Rhodes participated in the in Ghent, Belgium. During a reading of 's handbook, Rhodes met an inquisitive little boy, Gabriel Krafft, who kept questioning about the occult following his reading. Rhodes became Krafft's personal hero and inspiration in life.
==Gallery==
===Call of Duty: Black Ops 4===
AlistairRhodes CallofDutyZombies2 Issue1 Cover Comic.jpg|Alistair Rhodes on the cover of the first issue of Call of Duty: Zombies Vol. 2 (comic).
Alistair Dead of the Night BO4.png|Alistair Rhodes as seen in the Dead of the Night intro cinematic, where he is captured.
AlistairRhodes DOTN DirectorCut BO4.png|Alistair Rhodes as seen in the Dead of the Night Director's Cut video.
AlistairTurnedToStone AncientEvil BO4.PNG|Alistair, turned to stone.
==Trivia==
*Alistair seems to have taken part in several trophy hunting as seen by the many trophies displayed in the Trophy Room and the Master Bedroom in Rhodes Manor such as, tiger, rhino and lion heads, various antlers, a stuffed bear, bear and zebra rugs and elephant tusks.
**He also seems interested by the as seen by the skull displayed in the Master Bedroom or the skeleton displayed in the Library.
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