Origins

"Every story has a beginning...and an end."

- "Origins" trailer

"Unleashed after the Germans unearthed the mysterious Element 115, this next chapter in the Zombies legacy will explore the saga’s origins as players reunite with an unlikely band of soldiers that come together to defeat the greatest evil the world has ever seen, using a period-specific arsenal that includes Wonder Weapons that harness supernatural powers, a diesel-drone and Mark IV tank, as well a new perk machine and power-ups – and that’s just the start. Players will need all the help they can get to succeed in defeating the undead, as well as evading an unprecedented 1,000-foot tall robot abomination."

- Origins release article

Origins is a Zombies map included in the upcoming Apocalypse downloadable content for Call of Duty: Black Ops II. It is the seventeenth (chronologically the first) Zombies level.

Overview
The "original characters" (Takeo, Nikolai, Richtofen and Dempsey) return as the four playable characters. The  z ombies have the classic yellow eyes. The map features Wonder Weapons that harness supernatural powers, a diesel-drone and Mark IV tank, as well a new Perk-a-Cola machine and Power-Ups.

The zombies have yellow eyes in this map, suggesting that the demonic entity from Mob of the Dead or Samantha Maxis would be the Demonic Announcer. However it is most likely not Samantha, due to her not even being born yet.

Trivia

 * This is the first Zombies map to feature a new starter pistol, the Mauser (Prototype CXS).
 * The group is younger, due to Origins being set many years before the events of World at War.
 * This is the first time the original group has made a physical appearance in Call of Duty: Black Ops II.
 * This is the third time the player(s) can ride in a vehicle in Zombies, the first time being in TranZit and the second being in Mob of the Dead.
 * Origins marks the first ever Call of Duty feature to take place during the First World War.
 * This also makes the level the earliest-set feature in Call of Duty, with the previous earliest-set feature taking place in the 1930s.
 * Origins is the first map in Zombies history to feature rainfall.
 * This is the first time Tank, Nikolai, and Takeo are playable in Black Ops II, but also the first time Takeo is seen or referenced directly at all in Black Ops II.
 * The zombies in Origins feature original yellow eyes, meaning that the Demonic Announcer was changed between the time of Origins and Mob of the Dead.
 * This is the first time Tank Dempsey, Nikolai Belinski, Takeo Masaki and Edward Richtofen met.
 * The MP40 makes a return since last appearing in Call of Duty: Black Ops.