History WebAnimation / NomadOfNowhere

The show premiered in March 2018, with the first season ending in September that same year. A second season was put into production, with script writing getting "pretty far along", before being halted due to Rooster Teeth's restructuring in the wake of the Creator/WarnerMedia merger, and writing and animation staff were moved to other projects at RT such as ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''. In September 2020, Cwierz [[https://imaginmation.tumblr.com/post/630245672348794880/squashing-camp-camp-rumors-misinformation casually name-dropped]] ''Nomad'' as one of several shows that the company was looking to find a production partner for.

** In "The Witch and the Knight", [[spoiler: the first three times the scarecrow comes to life is different times of the day, mid-day, twilight and night. The first time at mid-day is during a time when there's still green and plenty, as though representing that the age of magic is still on the rise. The second time at twilight speaks for itself, as the land is growing barren, as though ushering the twilight of the age of magic. When the scarecrow lasts comes to life at night, signifying that the age of magic has ended. Coincidentally, all three instances also signify the beginning, middle and end of Melinda's childhood with her father.]]

*** Notably, [[spoiler: Melinda's father is different ages in all three times, simultaneously representing the passage of time ''and'' the waning of magic.]]

* KnightOfCerebus: The Undertaker in "The Kindness of Strangers," with him being the first legitimately terrifying threat encountered in the series.

* CerebusRetcon: In Episode 1, the Nomad is incredibly upset when an animated broom gives its "life" shielding the Nomad from an attack. In Episode 10, we learn that [[spoiler: the broom originally belonged to Melinda, the witch who he had been sworn to protect a hundred years ago, and is one of the last objects he has to remember her with]].

** Red Manuel is mostly shown to be a hilariously boorish and incompetent idiot, but Episode 9 recasts his goofiness in a darker light [[spoiler:when he has a genuine stroke of brilliance and simply follows the Champion of Toro to find the Nomad, and then tries to ''shoot'' Skout after he realizes she's helping the Nomad. Furthermore, Episode 12 reveals that his {{Jerkass}} tendencies are a result of him being tired of [[NoRespectGuy never getting any respect]] from anyone, which helps show him to be more pathetic than genuinely evil]].
* CerebusSyndrome: Episode 5 quickly becomes incredibly dark: The Nomad is nearly gutted by a demented cemetery keeper who callously destroys his objects brought to life in order to figure out necromancy.
** Episode 6 brings this further, with the resultant tone remaining as an undercurrent for the rest of the season.

* DramaticIrony: Played with. The Nomad that Skout meets in Episode 1 is clearly the one and only, but Skout (initially) believes it ''isn't'' him, since he looks nothing like his Wanted poster. Throughout the episode, she spends time with the Nomad she knows as "Friend", without a clue that the "Dreaded Nomad" is a misunderstood loner.
** In "End of the Line", the civilians believe that the Nomad has caused all sorts of trouble, such as driving an [[TheSociopath undertaker]] insane, and causing a circus to go bankrupt. All of those events were the result of the Nomad ''fixing'' more serious problems.
* DudeNotFunny: Episode 5 has an Undertaker with a rather morbid sense of humor. When he uses one of his puns on a visitor, they admit they understood the joke, [[DudeNotFunny they're just offended by the unprofessionalism of the joke]].

* {{Irony}}: The Undertaker wonders why the Nomad is upset whenever the former kills an animated object. "Do you feel responsible for them? Do you feel the need to protect them? Unless... they're here to protect you." For all his curiosity, [[spoiler:he comes up with all sorts of theories, save for one: the Nomad is ''himself'' an animated object.]]

* LighterAndSofter: Than most of Rooster Teeth's other fare; while there's still a fair amount of darkness and subversion, the Nomad himself is a [[NiceGuy very nice]] person, the overall tone leads more toward lighthearted comedy and adventure, and the series [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking doesn't have as much swearing]]. On the other hand, that hasn't stopped the tone from getting darker and darker as the season goes on, but even then it's still significantly cheerier than most of Rooster Teeth's other work.

** Both Skout and the Nomad [[spoiler:survive a fall into an abandoned mine in Episode 9 with apparently minor injuries.]]

* ReadingIsCoolAesop: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]][=/=][[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in the first episode. Everyone mocks Skout for the books she tries to use to learn how to survive in the wilderness and these get destroyed over the course of the first episode. She even has to destroy the last one on purpose to save her team. That said, her "book-knowledge" allowed her to identify a poisonous plant Red Manuel stupidly touched, right after [[LaserGuidedKarma he threw away her book on plants.]]

** In Episode 2, contrary to what Barty hoped, magic cannot solve your problems (or at least, the Nomad's magic cannot). [[spoiler: In the case of bringing the Mill's wheel to life, it made things worse by destroying the homes of Bliss Hill.]]
** Episode 3 follows up on this when [[spoiler: the Nomad saves Bliss Hill from a bounty hunter and the townsfolk thank him, yet at the end of the episode, the sheriff asks him to leave again and never return. The reason? [[LastofHisKind The Nomad's the only one who can do magic,]] and and if word got out, it would immediately attract even more bounty hunters to Bliss Hill. So, while they're grateful, they can't harbor a wanted man of the Nomad's caliber.]]

** Episode 6 brings this UpToEleven, with the resultant tone remaining as an undercurrent for the rest of the season.

** In Episode 2, contrary to what Barty hoped, magic cannot solve your problems (or at least, the Nomad's magic cannot). [[spoiler: In the case of bringing the Mill's wheel to life, [[UpToEleven it made things worse by destroying the homes of Bliss Hill.]]]]

* {{Irony}}: The Undertaker wonders why the Nomad is upset whenever the former kills an animated object. "Do you feel responsible for them? Do you feel the need to protect them? Unless... they're here to protect you." For all his curiosity, [[spoiler:he's right on all but one account: the Nomad is ''himself'' an animated object.]]

* {{Irony}}: The Undertaker wonders why the Nomad is upset whenever the former kills an animated object. "Do you feel responsible for them? Do you feel the need to protect them? Unless... they're here to protect you." For all his curiosity, [[spoiler:he comes up with all but one theory: the Nomad is ''himself'' an animated object.]]

* RealityEnsues:
** In Episode 2, contrary to what Barty hoped, magic cannot solve your problems (or at least, the Nomad's magic cannot). [[spoiler: In the case of bringing the Mill's wheel to life, [[UpToEleven it made things worse by destroying the homes of Bliss Hill.]]]]
** Episode 3 follows up on this when [[spoiler: the Nomad saves Bliss Hill from a bounty hunter and the townsfolk thank him, yet at the end of the episode, the sheriff asks him to leave again and never return. The reason? [[LastofHisKind The Nomad's the only one who can do magic,]] and and if word got out, it would immediately attract even more bounty hunters to Bliss Hill. So, while they're grateful, they can't harbor a wanted man of the Nomad's caliber.]]
** Episode 5 has an Undertaker with a rather morbid sense of humor. When he uses one of his puns on a visitor, they admit they understood the joke, [[DudeNotFunny they're just offended by the unprofessionalism of the joke]].
** [[spoiler:Episode 8 has the Nomad board a train wearing a [[PaperThinDisguise purple bandanna as a disguise]]. Skout immediately sees right through it and even lampshades on how obvious of a disguise it is.]]
** [[spoiler:In Episode 12, Skout tells it straight to Red Manuel's face that being a jerk won't win him the respect he craves.]]

The show premiered in March 2018, with the first season ending in September that same year. A second season was put into production, with script writing getting "pretty far along", before being halted due to Rooster Teeth's restructuring in the wake of the Creator/WarnerMedia merger, and writing and animation staff were moved to other projects at RT such as ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''. In September 2020, ''Nomad of Nowhere'' was [[https://imaginmation.tumblr.com/post/630245672348794880/squashing-camp-camp-rumors-misinformation casually name-dropped]] as one of several RT shows that the company was looking to find a production partner for.

The show premiered in March 2018, with the first season ending in September that same year. A second season was put into production, with script writing getting "pretty far along". Production was halted due to Rooster Teeth's restructuring in the wake of the Creator/WarnerMedia merger, and writing and animation staff were moved to other projects at RT. It's currently unknown if there are any plans to return to this series at a later date.

''Nomad of Nowhere'' is a 2D Western-Fantasy animated web series from Creator/RoosterTeeth, created by Georden Whitman and directed by Jordan Cwierz, the latter of whom took on the role of showrunner following Witman's departure from the studio. The show premiered in March 2018, with the first season ending in September that same year. Since then the show has been on hiatus.

* CrownOfPower: This is the backstory of the King [[EvilOverlord El Ray]], once centuries ago he was a warrior who discovered a mystical crown that granted him magical powers. Using it he ruled over the lands as a BenevolentMageRuler, until in his old age the crown's power began to fade. El Ray summoned a wizard to try to fix the problem, but instead the crown consumed the poor man, [[PoweredByAForsakenChild stealing his life and power tor recharge]]. When El Ray put the crown back on, both his power and his youth was returned. Corrupted by the potential for power this gave him, El Ray became a tyrant and went onto consuming all the magic of Nowhere (save the titular Nomad) to ensure his dominion. It's even implied the crown itself is [[ArtefactOfDoom sapient, and very evil]].

* RhinoRampage: "El Ray" has an armored, electrical rhino attack Toth and Skout as they search for the Nomad in a sandstorm.

* ConstructedWorld: The series takes place in "Nowhere," a mysterious world where magic seems to have disappeared for the last century and its inhabitants have had to "make do." The whole kingdom is ruled by the mysterious El Rey, with each quadrant of Nowhere administered by a different supernatural Governor. The first season takes place entirely in the Southwest region of Nowhere, which is primarily depicted as a harsh and vast desert. While there are cultural influences from Earth seen in the series (i.e., the use of Spanish by several different characters), the series also tries to emphasize this world being different from our own, with several examples like the existence of magic and presence of [[OurElvesAreBetter the Y'dala]].

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Toth is fervently searching for the Nomad so as to turn him in for El Rey because [[spoiler:she can possibly get magic from El Rey to help save her people, [[OurElvesAreBetter the Y'dala]].]]

** The Nomad is as well, due to his cute nature and his simple desire to make friends.

* {{Adorkable}}: Skout, with her large book-learned knowledge, idealistic and innocent nature as well as a desperate desire to prove herself. %%The Nomad might also count.

* {{Irony}}: The Undertaker wonders why the Nomad is upset when ever the former kills an animated object. "Do you feel responsible for them? Do you feel the need to protect them? Unless... they're here to protect you." For all his curiosity, [[spoiler:he comes up with all but one theory: the Nomad is ''himself'' an animated object.]]

* AmbiguouslyGay: Toth and Skout. Both of them seem to have a certain fondness and admiration for one another, but they could be just HeterosexualLifePartners.
** Don Paragon as well because he dresses and speaks like an 18th century Dandy.

* UnrequitedLove: Skout has a blatant crush on Toth, but it's anyone's guess as to whether the latter reciprocates. Toth does seem to care about Skout's well-being to a greater extent than the rest of her men, though. Notably, Episode 11 has Toth's face turn red when Skout hugs her, hinting that she does feel the same way.

** In the season one finale, "Fiesta", [[spoiler: Don Paragon has been defeated and the Oasis & surrounding communities will no longer suffer under his tyranny. Furthermore, the Nomad being responsible for that has further broken his HeroWithBadPublicity reputation around Nowhere, with him and Skout now having the courage to [[LetsGetDangerous take the fight]] to El Rey's bounty hunters and Governors. Unfortunately, El Rey is now ''very'' much aware of the Nomad, and Toth's relationship with Skout has quite possible been irrecoverably ruined by the latter siding with the Nomad over her]].

* BookEnds: Episodes 1 and 10 have the bad guys [[KillItWithFire setting a place on fire to corner the Nomad]], with the Nomad saving Skout and the Dandy Lion in the first [[spoiler:and [[HourglassPlot Skout saving the Nomad]] and the Oasisin the last]].
* BrickJoke: Skout points out how Toth's packed so many knives. Later in the episode, the Nomad uses his magic to animate something in Skout's backpack. An instant later, a bunch of animated knives cut their way out of the backpack.
* ButtMonkey: Red Manuel, with other characters constantly mocking him for his inflated ego. At one point, the Dandy Lions expressed hope that he had somehow died after they went an extended time without seeing him. When he expresses frustration about all this, Skout points out it doesn't help that he's constantly a jerk.

* CerebusRetcon: In Episode 1, the Nomad is incredibly upset when an animated broom gives its "life" shielding the Nomad from an attack. In Episode 10, we learn that [[spoiler: the broom originally belonged to Melinda, the witch who he had been sworn to protect a hundred years ago.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: The first episode hints that Nomad used to live with a young red haired girl similar to Skout, but something happened and now he's all alone. [[spoiler: We learn in episode 10 that said girl was a witch whom he was sworn to protect after her father died at the hands of El Rey's men. She wiped the Nomad's memories of her to prevent him from both ousting himself as a magic user and so that he wouldn't follow her in her attempt to battle El Rey.]]

** In "End of the Line", the civilians believe that the Nomad has caused all sorts of trouble, such as driving an [[TheSociopath Undertaker]] insane, and causing a circus to go bankrupt. All of those events were the result of the Nomad ''fixing'' more serious problems.

** The Underkeeper's rambling over the Nomad's magic in Episode 5 and its possible "rules"/applications sounds more than a little like the fans of the show theorizing about how the Nomad's magic works.

* LighterAndSofter: Than most of Rooster Teeth's other fare; while there's still a fair amount of darkness and subversion, the Nomad himself is a [[NiceGuy very nice]] person, the overall tone leads more toward lighthearted comedy, and the series [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking doesn't have as much swearing]]. On the other hand, that hasn't stopped the tone from getting darker and darker as the season goes on, but even then it's still significantly cheerier than most of Rooster Teeth's other work.

* {{Pilot}}: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n87R2W7AIpE Sir Knight of Nothing]]", an old animated short Georden Whitman did in college. For this reason, the Nomad eventually wears knight armor in Episode 10.

** [[spoiler: In Episode 2, contrary to what Barty hoped, magic cannot solve your problems (or at least, the Nomad's magic cannot). In the case of bringing the Mill's wheel to life, [[UpToEleven it made things worse by destroying the homes of Bliss Hill.]]]]

** El Rey's quest to the crown in Episode 6 appears to have been directly inspired by the short "Sir Knight of Nothing," which, funnily enough, is where the series draws its inspiration from. The creators have also claimed that the scene was heavily based on by the "Tale of the Three Brothers" sequence from ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows.''