"Godfather" Castle

"It isn't the Cryptids that give me nightmares...it's the masters they serve."

- Godfather fears the power of the Ancestors.

General "Godfather" Castle is a character in Call of Duty: Ghosts Extinction mode. He is the commander of CIF Team One, a squad of the Rapid Reaction Force.

Biography
Before the reemergence of the Cryptids, Gen. Castle met SAS operative David Archer during the Tel Aviv War, striking Castle not the type to crack under pressure. Following retirement from the USMC, Castle became a commander of the Rapid Reaction Force.

Nightfall
Following the Nightfall Program's headquarters being compromised to the government, Castle began investigating Archer's past military experience, as well as his employee Dr. Samantha Cross. Days later, Castle dispatched CIF Team One to the second Cryptid outbreak, intending to locate Cross and kill or capture Archer, now deemed an international terrorist. Under the codename "Godfather", Castle watched his squad's progress, and presumed Cross was among Nightfall's casualties and demanded that Archer was brought out in handcuffs or a bodybag. His claim was quickly proven false when Samantha confirmed she was alive, hiding in the facility's research lab, only to be captured by Archer and taken with him into the Alaskan Frontier. Determined to salvage as much as possible of the mission, Godfather demanded the Breeder is killed, and later extracted his men from the facility's wreckage and began a search for Archer.

Mayday
Weeks into their search, Godfather was unexpectedly contacted by David Archer himself, intending to form an alliance with his forces against the invading Cryptid threat. Knowing the government would benefit greatly from his knowledge of the creatures, and fearing the President unable to perform the necessary decisions in the war, Castle agreed to extract Archer from his vessel under the condition Cross' severed head was brought with him. After receiving a distress call from Archer's ship, Stormbreaker, now stranded in the Tasman Sea, Castle yet again guided CIF Team One through another Cryptid outbreak, this time intent on killing Cross and saving Archer. After Cross disappeared from the vessel and the Kraken was defeated, Castle immediately evacuated the sinking ship, Archer recruited under the name DARPA alongside his soldiers. When Cross' body failed to resurface, he declared her KIA, the scene of destruction in the Beacon Chamber attributed to "severe weather." As his men descended on a Cryptid colony beneath Ball's Pyramid, Godfather conversed with an infuriated President, explaining Archer to be a necessary evil in the fight against the alien threat.