Ape

Template:Characterbox The Apes are soldiers in service of the Dark Master, Malefor, in the Legend of Spyro series. According to Ignitus, because of said sevices, they were also dubbed as the Dark Armies. Strangely, although they are known as apes, they actually bear a resemblance to baboons or mandrills.

Ranks

Notable Officers

The Apes have ranks in their army, but the Ape King, Gaul, rules the Apes of all ranks. When Cynder was under the influence of the Dark Master, she served as the general for the Apes. Among Gaul's forces is another Ape called the Assassin. He wears a mask like his underlings who pilot the Dreadwings or man the elemental cannons, but his is thick and heavy, muffling his words whenever he speaks. It is possible that he is Gaul's second in command.

• Gaul (King)
• Cynder (General, formerly)
• Assassin/Advisor (Gaul's possible second-in-command)
• Conductor (Possible chief of security as well as head distributor)
• Electric King (Cynder's personal bodyguard)

Henchmen

The Ape army consists of soldiers, leaders and commanders, etc., each with their own different attack methods.

• Ape Soldiers
• Ape Leaders
• Ape Commanders
• Disciples (DS version of A New Beginning)
• Ape Gunners
• Ape Cannons

Additional Forces of the Apes

The Apes have recruited numbers of different varieties of beasts to support their brutal causes. They mainly mount on the bat-like Dreadwings for aerial transport or assaults. On the ground, they rely on gigantic creatures resembling scorpions (appearing only in The Legend Of Spyro: A New Beginning) and snails. Two varieties of Death Hounds also serve as the Apes' attack dogs but, along with the snails, only appear in The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night.

• Dreadwings
• Buffalo Beetles
• Conduits
• Death Hounds
• Snail Riders

Story

Service to the Dark Master

After the Dark Master was cast out of the Dragon Realms, he built an army of Apes and taught them how to artificially harness the power of the Spirit Gems, the dragons' life source. It was then that the Apes served as the perfect army for the Dark Master (for the time being). The ruler and king of the Apes was Gaul, a loyal servant of the Dark Master. The duties of his army were to fight battles against the dragons, win battles in order to gain ground, occupate the Dragon Realms and destroy Spyro's egg.

Attack on the Dragon Temple

Under Malefor's orders, Gaul`s forces infiltrated the Dragon Temple and destroyed the dragon eggs in order to prevent the birth of the purple dragon, but Spyro's egg was saved by Ignitus. The Dark Master also needed a dragon who was born on the Year of the Dragon to free him from Convexity. Cynder's egg was captured and she was poisoned by the Dark Master's powers, turning her into an evil dark dragon to help him spread destruction throughout the world and becoming a general to the Apes.

The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning

Apes first apeared in this game when a group of Swamp Apes captured Sparx as means of using him as a lantern. Spyro killed the apes and freed Sparx, the leader of the Ape group having escaped to alert Cynder of the young dragon. After leaving his home to find out who he truly is, Spyro is chased by Apes in the Swamp. They later appeared, having overruned the Dragon Temple, but Spyro, along with Ignitus, wiped them all out.

From that point on, the Apes would become the main enemy Spyro would encounter. They apear in Dante's Freezer, Tall Plains, Munitions Forge and finally Cynder's Lair. There is one particular Ape in Munitions Forge called the Conductor, who drives a steam engine called Steam.

The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night

Apes appear in the second part of the trilogy in on several occasions, but you do not fight them primarily. They first appeared when they launched an all-out attack on the Dragon Temple lead by an Ape called the Assassin, riding on a Dreadwing, but Spyro and the Guardians foiled their plans. They are mentioned when a letter from Hunter of Avalar explains that the Ape King, Gaul, has placed a bounty on all of the dragons, including Spyro. The Apes appeared again after attacking Fellmuth Arena, capturing Cynder in the process, and they appeared lastly in the end, on the Mountain of Malefor.

The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon

In Dawn of the Dragon, the cheetah hermit in the Valley of Avalar reveals that the skeletons that attacked Spyro and Cynder are the Apes. According to him, they only served Malefor because they were greedy and wanted his power, and they showed no true loyalty to him. For those reasons, Malefor repaid the Apes for their services by turning them into Shadow Apes upon his return to the Realms. They appear as skeletons covered in mist-like shadows; mere ghosts of their former selves and no longer the main minions of Malefor. The Apes are doomed to dwell in the darkness until Spyro and Cynder find and defeat them. The Grublins have taken their place in the battle, leaving the Shadow Apes to attack stragglers from the shadows.

Gallery

• Gaul leading his army of Apes to battle (A New Beginning)
  Gaul leading his army of Apes to battle (A New Beginning)
• Gaul leading his army of Apes to battle (The Eternal Night)
  Gaul leading his army of Apes to battle (The Eternal Night)
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  The Ape Army under the command of Malefor

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