Richtofen on his side at first builds the staffs as he knows they will help protect him. During Origins, Samantha asks Primis to build and upgrade the replica staffs so that they could free her from Agartha.

Maxis instructs Richtofen to build replica staffs. In Dimension 63, Maxis uses the information he finds in Pablo's journal and the main tomb chamber to create schematics of the staffs (seen in Origins). Their light shone down and cleansed all the sickness for as far as the eye could see.' The original staffs will then become lost as Primis. In another cipher, it said about Primis and the staffs: 'After the Great Battle, they stood upon the mound. Primis can be seen fighting with the staffs alongside the Keepers and crusaders against the zombies and the Apothicons on the Shadows of Evil wall run. In a cipher, Pablo describes Primis as 'four knights with magical elemental staves', saving him from death by decimating a Margwa. In the Great War, Primis used the staffs as weapons. In Origins, parts of the Amplification Rod can be found scattered around the map, and the elemental stones are located in the crazy place.

Only by combining the two together can the true power of the staffs be revealed.

The staffs consist of two main parts, the Amplification Rod, which is the staff itself, and the elemental stones, which is the crystal appearing in the end of the staffs. They are used by Primis in the Great War. They also make a brief appearance in Shadows of Evil and Revelations in Black Ops III. The Elemental Staffs are buildable Wonder Weapons that appear in the Zombies map Origins in Call of Duty: Black Ops IIand Call of Duty: Black Ops III.

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