Elias Schneider

**Elias Schneider** is a character in BlastGen. He is the deuteragonist and a minor antagonist of the Zombies mode, being one of four playable characters alongside Donovan Miller, Daniel Halvik, and Oscar Thomas.

## Background

Elias Schneider is a former officer in the German armed forces before he was stripped of his rank and discharged after being suspected of being a mole. Feeling resentful for his superiors' actions, Elias sought to send the world into chaos, even if it was the last thing he done. He worked closely with a research center known as the Brahms Research Facility, who were developing an unknown chemical agent that was to be used as a bioweapon against Germany to cripple the military and ultimately bring the government to its knees and surrender its power. Elias was responsible for assassinating major military and political leaders, but was captured by the Bundeswehr. However, the soldiers were bribed by the facility and they let Elias free. Convinced that Germany was under attack by an unseen enemy, the president of Germany authorized the creation of an elite, classified Bundeswehr unit known as the Wolfsgeschwader to investigate these incidents.

Fearing that they would be found responsible and arrested, the Brahms Research Facility relocated their base of operations to France, who agreed to let them work there if they don't disturb the peace. However, the Wolfsgeschwader found out about their relocation and raided multiple houses in Paris, looking for the lab. When they finally found their lab, a Wolfsgeschwader squad was attacked using the experimental bioweapon, causing them to be fatally poisoned and die. However, they were revived as a zombie and dropped their weapons and viciously tried to attack the security forces in the facility, forcing them to fight back. Upon finding out about the resurrective effects of the bioweapon, Elias went rogue and stole samples of the bioweapon. He was responsible for the zombie epidemic in the United States, infecting nearly the entire population of California with the effects of the bioweapon. Elias was then captured by a SAS officer named Oscar Thomas. When Elias told Oscar about what he did, he was furious at his actions, but promised to spare him if he told Oscar everything about his actions and help him fight off the undead enemy. Elias then staged a pandemic in the Czech Republic, causing many to be infected. The pair then picked up Daniel Halvik from a survivor shelter, a bouncer at a bar and one of the few survivors of the "zombie virus" as he described it.

The now three men then traveled to California, the heart of the global zombie epidemic, and found Donovan Miller, and killed off his entire group, and forced him to get into their helicopter. They then cleared out any other human resistance and landed at a hotel in Los Angeles to clear the area of the zombie threat. What happens afterwards is unknown, but it is assumed that he survived alongside everyone else, as he appears in every other map. Though, in the end of Castle's story cutscene, Elias is seen being held against a wall by both Donovan and Daniel, struggling to get free as Oscar lectures him about the secrets he kept from his "friends" and he knew that Elias was a loose end and couldn't be kept alive, and was executed by the former. In an alternative ending, Elias infects himself with the last sample he has, and when the three confront him, he fully turns and attacks Donovan, infecting him with the bioweapon but is killed by Oscar, but Donovan turns as well and kills Daniel, who in turn was killed by Oscar, leaving him as the only survivor.

## Personality

Elias is a self centered narcissist who is obsessed with his research. He shows visible mercy when he kills zombies, often feeling sorry for killing them. He is also shown as quite an anarchist figure, doing whatever it took to remove the government and put Germany into chaos, and was angered when these efforts failed. He also seems to be a valorous leader figure, often telling the others what to do, which annoys Oscar. He is somewhat of an enigma to his fellow survivors, with both Donovan and Daniel unaware of Elias's involvement with the zombie epidemic until the end of Castle. Elias does not like firearms that aren't German, sometimes preferring to use melee weapons such as the Knife. His favorite weapon is the Axe, somewhat likes sniper rifles, likes German made firearms, and hates pistols. He dislikes Donovan, and is neutral towards Daniel and Oscar, and is a unique character in this case because he is neutral towards two characters.

## Appearance

Unlike other characters, Elias's outfit varies from each map. If on the map Hotel, he wears his Bundeswehr dress uniform with a holstered Five-seven, and any maps beyond Hotel with the exception of Castle, he wears a bomber jacket, a beret, a vest with a plate carrier, and BDU pants with kneepads and a holstered Beretta M9 regardless of what pistol he has equipped. On Castle, he will wear black knight armor with a chain mail helmet.

## Trivia

* The fact that Elias prefers German weapons over others makes him a Germanophile because he is obsessed with his country and heritage, but this is contradicted by the fact he wants to bring Germany to ruin.
* He is the only character in BlastGen's Zombies mode that prefers melee weapons.
* His secretive nature and his involvement in orchestrating the events of the Zombies mode makes the community widely consider Elias to be the true villain in the BlastGen Zombies mode. But, according to the game guide, Elias is the servant of a much darker force, but who or what this dark force is will forever be unknown.