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Characters: A Game Of Gods Nomads
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A list of the Nomads, the seemingly omnipotent space gods which arguably serve as the main antagonists of A Game Of Gods. There have been two distinct groups seen —the Grecian Nomads, whose names are all letters from the Greek alphabet and who run the Challenges in A Game Of Gods; and the Roman Nomads, whose names are derived from Roman numerals and who run the challenges in Twilight of the Gods. In Infinities, the Nomads are revealed to be survivors from an ancient, dying universe, who turned to unconventional reproductive methods to bolster the survival of their race. Pure Nomads are artificial Nomads created from abstract concepts or ideas, while Impure Nomads are those created from other mortals. open/close all folders The Grecian Nomads Lambda (λ)The First Nomad introduced, and the one who seems to have taken the most direct hand in the Challenges. Which Champion he picked is unknown at this time. His motives, while seeming to deviate from other Nomads to some extent, are not clear. An Impure Nomad, Lambda was once a mortal and a participant in the Game of Gods; he is heavily implied to be Shinji Ikari, or a variation thereof. Long before the current Champions became involved, he was in love with another Nomad by the name of Rho (heavily implied to be Asuka Langley Soryu), but an unexplained incident took place, which saw her transformed into the horrendous abomination known as Echidna; though he initially accepted this drastic change as the only possible solution to whatever had occurred, Lambda eventually became sick of the needless torment that this horrific new form put his wife through, and vowed to find a way to free her. To that end he conspires against his fellow Nomads, and ultimately assists the Champions during the final act.- Big Bad: Possibly and likely.
- Big Bad Ensemble: His plans involve the survival of the Challengers, even while he commits genocide on the Nomads.
- Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Everything pertaining to Lambda tends to be jet black and covered with geometric silver lines. His avatar also holds to this pattern, having jet-black skin and glowing geometric silver tatoos; his eyes are also silver.
- Brought Down to Normal: Implied to happen at the very end.
- Compelling Voice: He has the power to Geas (not Geass) people.
- Deity of Human Origin: Was once a Champion, eons ago.
- Determinator: Throughout the final act, Lambda suffers through a veritable cavalcade of grievous injuries that would easily have killed anyone else many times over, including—but by no means limited to—suffering horrific burns to his hands and getting a sizeable chunk of one arm shorn clean off; in spite of these wounds, however, he endures and keeps going, and ultimately it takes a direct hit from a Wave Motion Gun to bring him down.
- Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: With Echidna, though in this case the Cthulhu was not always a Cthulhu. And no longer is, by the end of the game.
- Eleventh Hour Ranger: Ultimately sides with the Champions after Omega has been defeated, just in time to help them in the battle with Digamma.
- Eviler than Thou: He casually and effortlessly annihilates Sovereign for trying to reclaim Saren, making a member of one of its galaxy's most feared entities look like an anemic infant in comparison.
- Of the Big Bad Ensemble, however, he's practically a Saint by comparison to the others.
- Evil Is Petty: His behaviour towards the Champions, and some of his fellow Nomads, has a decidedly Trollish bent. Initially, at least...
- Jerk With A Heart Of Sterling Silver: There is one being in the whole of the Multiverse that he cares for deeply, and that is Echidna.
- Good Is Not Nice
- Killer Game Master: If his tendency of throwing scaled-up, superpowered monsters at the party is any indication.
- Large and in Charge: His avatar is roughly three meters tall.
- Lawful Evil
- Legacy Character: Like Phi, Lambda was not the first Nomad to bear that name.
- Light is Not Good: Radiant and with the power to heal even the dead, he is however quite sadistic.
- Depending on whether or not his plans work out, this may be subverted.
- Man In Silver//Badass Long Robe: His raiments are described as wrought from flowing, liquid silver.
- Make My Monster Grow: Seems to be rather fond of this, judging from the dragonfly in the Paved With Good Intentions challenge.
- Power Fist: His weapon of choice, a pair of ornate silver gauntlets.
- Powers That Be: One of them, at any rate.
- Must Make Amends: Is seemingly trying to find a way to reverse Echidna's condition.
- Shock and Awe: Makes heavy use of this while fighting alongside the Champions.
- Time Abyss: Tells Sovereign that he was already "rearranging galaxies" by the time the Reapers first came into being.
- Ultimate Blacksmith: Towards the end of the game, he was shown putting the finishing touches on a weapon capable of killing gods, and has a number of others in his possession. It is this very weapon which finishes off Digamma during the final battle.
- When He Smiles: A lucid Echidna brings a genuine, non-malicious smile out of him.
Zeta (ζ)First appeared during the Nomad meeting to deal with "her". Appears to be young with his eyes hidden and purple as his color. Seems to be incredibly lazy. Gamma (Γ) Digamma (ϝ)The Fifth Nomad to make his presence known, an elderly lover of long, vicious battles, and therefore Challenges. - Anthropomorphic Personification: Of the Cost of War.
- As Long as There Is Evil: His final words imply this.
- Big Bad Ensemble: Has been planning the below for a while now. What he has planned beyond it, we do not yet know.
- Blood Knight//Boisterous Bruiser
- Complete Monster / Moral Event Horizon: Horrifically torturing Raz for talking back to him... and making The Doctor, Samara, The Critic, Rayman, and Agent Washington watch.
- Torture is something many of the Nomads indulged in. Nothing of note. Digamma wants to wipe out both Nomads and Champions with Unicron... And finish off any survivors with his army.
- Combat Sadomasochist: He views the pain that comes as a consequence of Control Battling to be part of the fun.
- Cool Helmet: Gains one in his One-Winged Angel form; to be specific, a Spartan helmet adourned with ostrich feathers.
- Evil Old Folks
- False Reassurance: A favourite tactic of his.
- Fantastic Racism: Sneers at Lambda for being Challenger-based. Calls any sentient being below Nomads an insect. Oh, and sees Echidna as a mongrel.
- Final Boss: By process of elimination.
- Gatling Good: See Shoulder Cannon.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: His face is burnt and scarred beyond any recognition of its original features. And boy howdy is he evil.
- Grumpy Old Man
- Light is Not Good: Dresses in immaculate white and gold robes, cloak, and gloves.
- Meaningful Name: Digamma is a defunct numeral.
- Multiarmed And Dangerous: In his One-Winged Angel form.
- One-Winged Angel: Digamma Episimon, the form he assumes for the final boss fight.
- Our Monsters Are Weird: His Dervishes and Militantiaries.
- Pride
- Screw Politeness, I'm A Senior!
- Shoulder Cannon: gains a pair of these in his One-Winged Angel form, in the form of gatling cannons.
- Sinister Scythe
- Slasher Smile: Perpetual rictus, thanks to how horribly scarred his face is.
Phi (Φ)The Fourth Nomad to appear, and only seems to care for the pacing of challenges. Though hints of a darker past crack through every now and then. He has chosen Raz as his champion. He eventually sides with the Champions when they bust out. It's soon revealed through a flash back that he used to be a champion by the name of Tomoya Okazaki- BFG: Gains one in the last challenge.
- Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: His color seems to be red, though we only have the red Phis in the pupils of whoever he possesses to signify that.
- Demonic Possession: Whenever he wishes to intervene, he possesses someone and they act trough his will.
- Fiery Redhead / Evil Redhead
- Flash Step: What his Super Speed boils down to.
- Golden Thigh Ratio: Rare male example.
- Hidden Depths: He keeps having a dream of someone in the snow begging for help. Turns out to be the last few moments of his old life as Tomoya.
- Killed Off for Real
- My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Hinted with him offering TRON something that the others would not give him in a hundred years ( Going home), and helping the Champions on their Reach challenge.
- Though he doesn't shy away from showing Rey just how unforgivable he could be by demonstrating his powers.
- Necromancer: Has this power, as he brings up Zeta Prime and Shirotabi from the dead.
- He can even pull off a psuedo-Shape Shifter Guilt Trip with this technique as he can bring back people from the dead and possess them.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: The red Phis are a warning to other Nomads, letting them know that their challenge has gone on too long.
- Shout Out: Let's see...
- Super Speed: He shows it off at the last challenge, and he moves so fast that it's a Flash Step.
- The Watcher: While he does watch certain events, he more or less likes battles and rarely when the challenge slows down, he pops down and helps out the champions in some form.
- Weapon of Choice: Laser Blade and Power Fist.
- You Kill It, You Bought It: He originally was a Champion who killed the original Phi with his bare hands.
Psi (Ψ) Epsilon (ε) Delta (Δ)A heavily augmented Nomad, Delta is the orchestrator of the Halo: Reach challenge. He has a rather negative relationship with Lambda, to the point where the two engaged in indirect combat when the other Nomad interfered with his challenge. Delta is an enigma, even to his fellow Nomads. However, one thing is certain: he's planning something. Omega (Ω)- Big Bad Ensemble: Out of the blue, proceeded to set the Common Room on lockdown, kill the forgotten Challengers for their energy, and poise a superweapon over the entire complex.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
- Complete Monster: All he cares about is the power and energy gained from killing every other life form on the planet, including both Nomads and Challengers.
- Greed
- Not So Harmless Villain: In the only other time he appeared, Omega seemed to be some genial executive come down to say hello.
Eta (H)A Nomad that was trained by Omega to be a ruthless killing machine after many years of psychological and physical torture. He regained his memories back. Xi (Ξ)The only female Greek Nomad encountered, Xi is the architect of the Magical Girl challenge. A conversation amongst the Nomads implies that this is her first time running a game, for which she is really excited; furthermore, it alludes that she is younger and less-experienced than other Nomads, like Lambda or Phi. For her semi-amnesiac avatar, see Blink on the Challengers page Pi (Π)A mysterious Nomad who manifests as an indistinct white ghost. Its gender is uncertain, and when it speaks, only other Nomads seem capable of understanding it. Chi (χ)One of the younger Nomads. Appeared in the Halo: Reach challenge to help Phi take on the Covenant security programs. Omicron (O) Sigma (Σ)A rather Chaotic and crazed Nomad. Appeared first in the Nomad meeting, and spewed raw sewage on one of the waiting challengers just because the Reach challenge wasn't moving fast enough. [[Alpha (A)]]Appearing late in the challenge, Alpha is apparently one of the oldest Nomads. Noted for being rather usually attached to the champions and not having a form that stays the same for very long, his/her true intentions are unknown at this point. - Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Unlike the rest of the Nomads that have appeared, Alpha simply speaks in black text. If this is because he/she doesn't care to pick one or chose black first is anyone's guess.
- Ambiguous Gender: Alpha is not stated as being ether male or female but seems to almost change at will.
- Eldritch Abomination: Alpha's changes at times make him/her clearly not of human or even humanoid origin.
Upsilon (Y) Iota(ι) The Roman Nomads Centum (C)Deca (>)One half of Decadem (X). Is the cheery side. Hinted to be Ushio Okazaki. Decim (<)The other half of Decadem (X). Is the sadist side. Quingenti Unus
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