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Season 1: A Game Of Gods Champions (Retired) | Twilight Of The Gods Overlords | NPCs (Nomads)
Season 2: Infinities Champions | Taskforce Sifuri (Team Magic | Team Science) | Eclipse of the Gods Overlords (Retired)

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.

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    Nomads in General 
  • Anthropomorphic Personification: The Pure Nomads are personifications of abstract concepts.
  • Big Bad Ensemble: In the original game, Lambda, Digamma, and Omega each had nefarious plans for the Challengers and their fellow Nomads. These plans had mutually exclusive goals, and the three Nomads were working at cross-purposes during AGOG's endgame.
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Each of the Nomads is associated with a particular color or combination of colors, which is reflected in both their appearance and the color of their text.
  • Deity of Human Origin: The Impure Nomads are former mortals who were elevated to godhood by other Nomads for one reason or another.
  • Dysfunctional Family: The Roman Nomads are gradually revealed to be this. Centum is the patriarch of the clan and Deca and Decim are his daughters, but his lover Quinque is neither their mother nor his wife. The actual mother and wife, Bes, is still around, and she has a very frosty relationship with her husband. The two daughters, meanwhile, seem to have conflicting loyalties: Deca is closer to her father and Quinque, while Decim despises Quinque and prefers Bes. How Millena, Quingenti and Unus fit into all this is anyone's guess.
  • Genocide from the Inside: In season 1, each member of the Big Bad Ensemble wants to kill off all the other Nomads and become the last of their kind, with the possible exceptions of people close to them (i.e., Lambda's wife Rho) or potential allies/tools (Zeta for Lambda, Xi for Digamma).
  • Greek Letter Ranks: The Grecian Nomads are all named after Greek letters. While their rank structure is somewhat ambiguous, Omega is the group's apparent (if hands-off) leader.
  • Jerkass Gods: While their morality varies from one individual to the next, the Nomads in general get their kicks by abducting mortals and forcing them to compete in life- and/or dignity-threatening challenges.
  • Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: The Grecian Nomads are not of one mind on most subjects. As time went on, they got into heated arguments more and more frequently on such topics as what should be done about ECHIDNA, how specific challenges should unfold (and to what extent were they permitted to interfere with each other’s challenges), how much they should interact with the Champions, and whether or not they should be afraid of beings like the Tenth Doctor or the G-Man.
  • Uncertain Doom: Of the Greek Nomads, only Xi, Chi, Eta, Iota, and Zeta are shown to still be alive by the end of the game. Tau, Phi, and Digamma are all dead, Omega is suffering a Fate Worse than Death, and Lambda and Rho are implied to have only days to live. What happened to the rest of them is anyone's guess.
  • The Worf Effect: The Nomads were the big boogeymen of the first season of Chronicles of The Gods, but future seasons would use them as punching bags to establish how much more threatening the current Arc Villain was by comparison.

    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.

  • 11th-Hour Ranger: Ultimately sides with the Champions after Omega has been defeated, just in time to help them in the battle with Digamma.
  • An Arm and a Leg: Blink unintentionally stabs him in the left hand with her naginata during the final battle. The blade cuts into the space between his middle and ring fingers and keeps going, splitting his arm down the middle all the way to the elbow.
  • Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Lambda wears robes made of a silvery liquid, and he’s a mood swinger who can go from sardonic calm to explosive rage at a moment's notice. In other words, he’s mercurial.
  • Awesome, but Impractical: Lambda's Eye Beams are extremely powerful and can potentially cripple beings as resilient as Unicron, a literal dark god in the form of a mechanical planet. However, they take a long time to charge up to that level of power, and using them this way leaves him drained for a long time afterward, meaning he can't bring his full strength to bear against any remaining enemies.
  • Barrier Warrior: He makes liberal use of AT Fields in combat, both to shield himself, his allies, and/or his possessions from enemy attack, and to turn those very attacks back on their sources.
  • Blasphemous Boast: While preparing to face Unicron, Lambda thinks to himself that the modifications he's made to the Chains of Judecca, the same chains that once held Lucifer prisoner in the deepest circle of Hell, have made them so resilient that not even God Himself could break free of them.
  • Brought Down to Normal: It is implied that he and Rho both lost their Nomad powers and turned back into normal humans at the very end of the game, shown by their Tron Lines fading away, their skin, hair and eye colors reverting to natural ones, and them shrinking down from three-meter giants to more realistic heights.
  • Chain Pain: Lambda attacks Unicron using the Chains of Judecca, holy chains that were previously used to imprison the Devil in the universe of Dante's Inferno. He uses one end of the chain to ensnare Unicron by a tusk and pull him off course, then uses the other end to whip and lash him, ripping deep chasms into the planet eater's surface.
  • Covert Pervert: The fact that Lambda designed his personal AI assistant Lakhesis to look like a naked version of his wife probably says something about him.
  • Dark Is Evil: 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.
  • Deity of Human Origin: Was once a Champion, eons ago.
  • Determinator: Even for a god, Lambda ends up taking an extreme level of punishment during the final act. It starts with all the flesh getting burned/abraded off his hands in ways that he cannot easily heal, and it only gets worse from there. The narration notes that anyone else in his position would have given up in face of the pain, and yet his soldiers on, determined to rescue his wife and ensure that they both live to see tomorrow.
  • 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.
  • Divine Intervention: He directly intervenes in the Crossover challenge when it becomes apparent that the Champions and Overlords aren't strong enough to defeat the fully awakened Yaldabaoth on their own. He possesses the body of Dr. Ikari and projects silvery AT Fields to reflect Yaldabaoth's attacks, giving the Challengers a chance to finally destroy the deity's physical form without fear of retaliation.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Lambda is a callous dick to Champion and fellow Nomad alike, has no qualms about making the former suffer, and is secretly plotting to wipe out most of the latter. He sincerely loves his wife, though, and freeing her from her torment is his main goal.
  • Everyone Has Standards: He thinks Quingenti is a monster who doesn't deserve to live. He's rather pleased when he realizes that the Champions killed him.
  • 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.
  • Evil Is Petty: His behavior towards the Champions, and some of his fellow Nomads, has a decidedly Trollish bent. Initially, at least.
  • Eye Beams: He can shoot devastating beams of silver energy from his eyes. At full power, they can wreak massive damage even to a being as vast and powerful as Unicron.
  • Fingore: Lambda gets most of the flesh burned off his hands while fighting Unicron, either from his hands getting drenched by Unicron's acidic Angolmois energies or from the friction burns caused by his own chains. He has no time to get these injuries treated properly and makes do with putting on a pair of special gauntlets to numb the pain while he goes to deal with other matters.
  • Geas: He can impose Geasa on Champions to prevent them from taking actions he does not want.
  • God of Order: He holds dominion over the concept of Law, to the point that his Inevitable minions consider him synonymous with it, and uses a gigantic armillary sphere of his own creation to observe and modify various laws throughout the multiverse. On a more immediate scale, he can impose Geasa on people.
  • Instant Armor: He materializes a suit of armor around himself during the final battle against Digamma. It makes him look like a silver, human-sized version of Evangelion Unit-01.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: There is one being in the whole of the Multiverse that he cares for deeply, and that is Echidna.
  • Killer Game Master: He's fond of throwing mutated monsters at the Champions whenever it seems like they're having too easy a time of things, and he personally ran the Prison Break challenge, a meatgrinder of scenario that resulted in several Champions' (thankfully temporary) deaths.
  • 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.
  • Make My Monster Grow: He mutates an ordinary dragonfly into an acid-spewing monster the size of a small plane during the Paved With Good Intentions challenge.
  • Must Make Amends: Is trying to find a way to reverse Echidna's condition.
  • Pet the Dog: Lambda is generally callous if not cruel toward anyone who isn't his wife, but he does occasionally display a gentler side.
    • Immediately after the Crossover challenge, he leaves Kimimaro a brief note sincerely thanking him for protecting Aska.
    • Before leaving Thor, he made sure to teleport Drs. Langley and Ikari back up to the surface so they wouldn't starve to death while trapped in the temple's basement.
  • Power Fist: His weapon of choice, a pair of ornate silver gauntlets.
  • 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.
  • Uncertain Doom: Between the extent of their injuries and Iota's comment that the two of them would live "a couple more days" if he opened a portal for them instead of letting them open one themselves, it is strongly implied that Lambda and Rho died not long after they stepped through the portal together at the end of the game.
  • 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.

  • Brilliant, but Lazy: Doesn't seem to like lifting a finger, but he's behind the creation of the common room. He has no trouble upgrading it either.
  • It Amused Me: When the Champions confront Zeta and learned that he was the one who put them through the Persona 4 challenge, he explains that he did it because he thought it would be interesting.
    Rey: You just thought it would be FUN, is that it??
    Zeta: Well, yeah.
  • Remote Body: Toward the end of the game, it's revealed that the teenage-looking Zeta who’s been interacting with the Nomads and whom the Champions initially meet is just a robotic proxy of the real Zeta, an elderly man trapped in an obelisk. He has dozens more such proxies operating the machines in his lair.

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: Upon being struck and mortally wounded by Lambda's god-killer weapon, Digamma spends his last moments sneering at his enemies that killing him now means nothing and that the multiversal war his forces are waging will rejuvenate him in time.
    Digamma: It Doesn't Matter What You've Done To This Body! The War Will Remake And Sustain Me, As It Always Has. The Boxes Of Ammunition And The Instruments Of Lethality That Fire Them? I Paid For Them. The Shells And The Earth And People They Break? Mine To Direct! The Posters Calling Young Sapients To Fling Themselves Into Harms Way For Leader And Landmass? That Is ME Calling Them To The Slaughter! It May Take Thousands, Millions, Hell, Maybe Even A Billion Or So Years For It To Work, But I'll Be Back In The Flesh Someday. With This War, Well... Heehehhehehehhohohohhohahahahahhahahah AHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!! Until Then, Insects, I'll Be Seeing You On The Next Front. ENJOY YOUR REST WHILE YOU CAN!
  • Assimilation Backfire: He absorbs both Dis Baba and Iota during the final battle to gain their powers (or at least stop them from interfering). It doesn't work out as he intended either time: Dis Baba is completely unperturbed by being eaten and gives Digamma nothing but indigestion, whereas Iota actively tries to corrupt Digamma and take control of his body from within. Digamma is ultimately forced to eject them both before they can do any further damage to him.
  • Big Bad Ensemble: Has been planning the below for a while now. What he has planned beyond it, we do not yet know.
  • Bling-Bling-BANG!: His scythe is golden. Dis Baba calls him out on the impracticality of it just before the final boss fight of the original game.
  • 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 adorned with ostrich feathers.
  • 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, Digamma ended up being the last foe the Challengers faced in A Game of Gods.
  • Funetik Aksent: Digamma speaks in an exaggerated southern drawl, and as the game went on, the troper playing him increasingly began representing this by replacin’ most "th" sounds wit “D” and usin’ a lotta vernaculah. Some examples from a single conversation on page 738:
    Digamma: Now Did I Say Ya Could Git Down, Insect?
    Da Time Out Ain't Over Yet, Time Lord.
    Dat's Fun, Insect. But Dis Is Da Doctor. And I Know What Ya Do.
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: His face is burnt and scarred beyond any recognition of its original features. And boy howdy is he evil.
  • Light Is Not Good: Dresses in immaculate white and gold robes, cloak, and gloves. Wields powers relating to light and plasma. Thoroughly sadistic and evil.
  • Meaningful Name: Digamma is a defunct numeral.
  • Moral Event Horizon: In-universe, Digamma crossed it when he decided to torture Raz as punishment for committing suicide to get out of a challenge. He decapitates Raz but keeps him alive so the boy can watch as he telekinetically breaks every bone in his body, then forces him to undergo a Painful Transformation into a malformed sack of meat. All the while the other Common Room Champions are telekinetically restrained and Forced to Watch, with the Doctor being further restrained by being crucified with rusty metal stakes to keep him from interfering. When all this is done, Digamma drops Raz's still-living head atop his mangled body and just leaves him that way, while Tau mockingly nails a postit note to Raz's forehead stating that this is his fair and just punishment for breaking the Nomads' laws and that anyone who tries to help him will be punished in turn. When the other Champions return to the Common Room and see the state Raz is in, the ones who aren't pure evil are outraged and collectively vow to make the Nomads pay for torturing a child.
  • Multiarmed And Dangerous: He grows an extra pair of arms in his One-Winged Angel form, letting him dual wield his scythes and throw out torrents of plasma from his free hands.
  • Nigh-Invulnerable: Even by Nomad standards, Digamma is extremely resilient. He tanks the Champions' strongest attacks and mighty blows from his fellow Nomads to little effect, and even major injuries like the loss of a limb barely slow him down. It ultimately takes getting skewered by a weapon specifically designed for slaying gods to bring him down, and even then, he holds on long enough to deliver a lengthy villainous speech before succumbing to the injury.
  • One-Winged Angel: Digamma Episimon, the form he assumes for the final boss fight. He grows an extra pair of arms, gains an extra scythe, dons battle armor and sprouts gatling guns from his shoulders.
  • Pitiful Worms: Digamma looks down on mortals and scornfully calls them insects.
  • The Power of the Sun: He can release blasts of destructive solar plasma in battle.
  • Shoulder Cannon: Gains a pair of these in his One-Winged Angel form, in the form of gatling cannons.
  • Sinister Scythe: His weapon of choice is a golden scythe, befitting his character as a profoundly evil and sadistic Blood Knight who draws strength from the death and destruction caused by war.
  • Slasher Smile: Perpetual rictus, thanks to how horribly scarred his face is.
  • This Is Gonna Suck: His reaction to realizing that the bident which just skewered him is about to release a pulse of deicidal energy? A relatively subdued "Ohhh, Fuck Me...".
  • War God: A particularly nasty example. Digamma embodies the cost of war, meaning that all the worst aspects of warfare fall under his divine purview. He himself is a sadistic Blood Knight who revels in death and destruction, and his goal seems to be to plunge the multiverse into an eternal Hopeless War that will sustain him forever.
  • Would Hurt a Child: He tortures Raz in a horrific fashion to punish the boy for committing suicide to get out of a challenge.

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.

  • 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.
  • Flash Step: What his Super-Speed boils down to.
  • The Fog of Ages: Phi has been a Nomad for so long that he can't remember his original mortal life or name.
  • 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: He is slain by Digamma during the final battle, though an apparition of him—in his original appearance as Tomoya—does appear before Narumi in the latter's last scene.
  • Loser Deity: Compared to the other Greek Nomads, Phi comes off as an incompetent buffoon. He's not very good at his self-appointed job, he once broke into the Common Room and crashed on the couch to throw himself a pity party, and his peers don't respect him, to the point that Lambda has struck him for acting foolish on two separate occasions.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: While fighting the Champions during the endgame, he messes with their heads by using his necromantic powers to take on the forms of their dead loved ones. He turns himself into Andre the Giant, Itachi Uchiha, Nora Estheim, and Victor Reznov (though the last one just bemuses his intended victim).
  • 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.
  • You Kill It, You Bought It: He originally was a Champion who killed the original Phi with his bare hands.

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.

  • Mysterious Watcher: He rarely deals with Nomads or Challengers directly. He usually just stands there, observing them.

Omega (Ω)

The second Nomad to appear before the Champions, Omega has the appearance of a jovial fat man with green Tron Lines. Though he acts more overtly friendly toward the Champions than Lambda, his friendly demeanor hides sinister intentions...

  • Bad Boss: Omega has functionally enslaved several of his Nomad underlings. He imprisoned the real Zeta within an indestructible obelisk and forced him do the Nomads' IT work, he brainwashed Eta into a mentally broken Human Weapon to serve as his attack dog, and he turned Rho into the living monster factory that is ECHIDNA. And then, of course, there's his plan to kill off all the Greek Nomads but himself...
  • 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: Omega comes off as a relatively genial Nomad in his first appearance, but his next appearance shows that this was all an act. Not only has he secretly been killing those Champions who went missing, but he plans to wipe out the other Nomads so he can be “the one”.
  • Combat Tentacles: He initially attacks the Champions and their Nomad allies with mechanical tentacles ending in surgical equipment.
  • Disc-One Final Boss: Omega was supposed to be the final boss of the original A Game Of Gods and his defeat was supposed to mark the end of the game. Due to the interference of certain players, however, the game kept going for another 30-40 pages and the Champions who hadn't already left found themselves having to go through four more boss fights.
  • Not-So-Harmless Villain: In the only other time he appeared, Omega seemed to be some genial executive come down to say hello.
  • Not-So-Small Role: Omega appeared once relatively early on in the game's life and then disappeared, being conspicuously absent from every scene involving the Nomads for hundreds of pages. Then he reappeared on page 803, in a post which revealed that he had secretly been killing off all the missing Champions to create a weapon that would subject his fellow Nomads to a fate worse than death.
  • The Older Immortal: Season 2 reveals that Omega is an Original, one of the Celestials who survived the destruction of their original universe. This makes him older than practically all the Nomads featured in Season 1.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: Omega's goal is the complete destruction of the entire multiverse.
  • Shock and Awe: He can shoot emerald lightning from his fingertips.
  • We Need a Distraction: He created the Game of Gods as a way to distract the other Nomads from his real intentions, knowing that they'd get so hooked on it that they wouldn't notice him slowly building a doomsday device under their noses.

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.

  • Abstract Eater: He can eat intangible concepts like memories and multiversal anomalies. Indeed, he seems to have picked Natsu as a Champion specifically to fatten him up on life experiences before consuming him.
  • Almighty Janitor: Is considered a puppet and pet, though has enough power to rival Digamma, Lambda, and Omega.
  • Combat Tentacles: Once he regains his memories and full power, he starts using a set of Doctor Octopus-esque mechanical tentacles in combat. Each is tipped with a large needle, letting them suck things out of (or inject things into) whatever they skewer.
  • Disabled Deity: When we finally get to see Eta's true body, he is not in a good way. He's gaunt and emaciated, he's missing both arms, and he is clearly not well mentally.
  • God Was My Copilot: Eta actually fought alongside the Champions for a good chunk of the game, having taken on the forms of Gajeel Redfox and Wendy Marvell. They reveal the truth after Blink outed herself as Xi and Dis Baba revealed his own deceptions, thanking Natsu for reminding them of something other than endless hunger before vanishing into thin air.
  • Jedi Mind Trick: After interrogating Tau for Omega's location, he wipes Tau's memories of their conversation by saying "You will forget everything that has transpired, and believe you had a polite little chat with me.".
  • Living Lie Detector: He can taste honesty like a snake tasting the air, so he can tell that Tau is being honest with him when the latter admits to having no idea where Omega's personal quarters are.
  • Revenge: Once Eta regains his memories of his past and remembers how Omega perverted him into a world-destroying attack dog, he becomes fixated on killing Omega to get revenge.
  • Sleep-Mode Size: Eta appears as a young adult or a grown man most of the time, but after being forced to eat himself to escape from Omega, he ends up stuck in the form of a small child, with most of his powers stripped away.

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.

  • The Baby of the Bunch: Xi is barely a hundred years old, with most of the other Greek Nomads being many orders of magnitude older than her. They treat her like a child as a result, much to her chagrin.
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Unlike the other revealed Nomads, who all stick to a single colour, Xi transitions from red to blue and then to royal purple when talking.
  • Damsel out of Distress: Digamma dragged her off to his lair to punish her for being a "traditore" at the start of the endgame, though she was able to escape of her own accord (albeit not unscathed).
  • Genki Girl: She certainly seems to be the most cheerful and energetic of the Nomads by far.
  • Pet the Dog: Although she does not revive everyone, and the events of the challenge still happened, Xi brings every named character (save the Collector itself) who died in the Magical Girl challenge back to life.
  • Rape as Backstory: It is strongly implied that Quingenti raped her in addition to torturing her when she was his captive. This is part of the reason why she wants to inflict a Death of Personality on herself and spend the rest of her life as Blink.

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.

  • Ambiguous Gender: Assuming, of course, that Pi has a gender to begin with.
  • Big Damn Heroes: In a sense. Pi makes their first appearance by teleporting into the Common Room right as Lambda and Phi were going to attack the Champions and persuading Lambda to give their “toys” a much-needed break.
  • Cute Ghost Girl: Even if Pi's gender is indeterminate, it otherwise fits the bill.
  • Painting the Medium: Why can't the Champions understand what Pi is saying? Because they can't read hir white text.

Chi (χ)

One of the younger Nomads. Appeared in the Halo: Reach challenge to help Phi take on the Covenant security programs.

Tau (Τ)

An orderly Nomad who first appeared during the Halo Reach challenge, barging into the Common Room to chastise Omicron for getting chummy with the Champions. He picked the Doctor as his Champion and doesn't get along well with Sigma.
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: His Color-Coded Speech alternates between green, purple, and pink, while his body is "dark red with flashes of blue and green".
  • Establishing Character Moment: His first appearance tells you everything you need to know about him: he’s a stickler for rules, he believes that Nomads shouldn’t get chummy with Champions and should instead command their fear and respect, and he cruelly tells the Doctor that he’s now Out of Continues. A nice god, he is not.
  • Order Versus Chaos: Downplayed. He vouches for order and following rules and often butts heads with Sigma, who preaches chaos, but the two are never shown coming to blows over it.
  • Out of Continues: Invoked. He tells the Doctor that he removed his remaining regenerations and warns him to play things smart if he doesn't want to end up dead.

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.

Twilight of the Gods shows that Alpha picked Gilgamesh as their Overlord for that particular game.

  • Ambiguous Gender: Alpha is not stated as being ether male or female but seems to almost change at will.
  • 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.
  • Eldritch Abomination: Alpha's changes at times make him/her clearly not of human or even humanoid origin.

Upsilon (Y)

The Nomad who picked Yuuka Kazami as their Champion. Upsilon has a very abstract appearance, wearing clothes made of white fire and having a flat, featureless disc in place of a head.

They participated in the Roman Nomads' game in Twilight of the Gods, picking Gendo Ikari and his eventual replacement, Gilgamesh, as their Overlords.
  • Ambiguous Gender: Switches between male and female voices of different ages, as well as having a gender-neutral figure.
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Unlike Phi, Upsilon's primary color is white, outlined with red. Their Color-Coded Speech, meanwhile, is red with a strikethrough effect.
  • Creepy Monotone: With ever-present static overlain.
  • Only Sane Man: Upsilon is one of the few Nomads to recognize that they aren't at the top of the cosmic food chain and that there are beings out there who could make trouble for them if the Nomads make them angry. In particular, Upsilon is concerned that Yukari Yakumo could do a lot of damage if she tried to get Yuuka back.
  • Wreathed in Flames: Their body is draped in white fire in a manner reminiscent of a dress.

Iota(ι)

A sinister Nomad who manifests as a formless black mist. He initially appears during the Date Night challenge, offering Yukari Yakumo a proposal to keep her from interfering with the Nomads' affairs.

Rho (ρ)

The wife of Lambda, and a former Champion heavily implied to be Asuka Langley Soryu, or a variation thereof.

For more on her monstrous alter-ego ECHIDNA, see A Game of Gods NPCs.

  • 11th-Hour Ranger: She joins up with the Champions upon being freed from her ECHIDNA body, just in time to help them fight against Digamma in the final boss fight.
  • Attack Reflector: The head of her battleaxe can absorb incoming energy-based attacks, alter their elemental properties, and shoot them back at their source with twice the power.
  • Barbaric Battleaxe: Rho is a calm and loving person outside of combat, but she becomes a vicious, bloodthirsty fighter in the heat of battle. Fittingly, her weapon of choice is a massive battleaxe.
  • Brought Down to Normal: It is implied that she and Lambda both lost their Nomad powers and turned back into normal humans at the very end of the game, shown by their Tron Lines fading away, their skin, hair and eye colors reverting to natural ones, and them shrinking down from three-meter giants to more realistic heights.
  • Casting a Shadow: She can call down bolts of exploding dark energy and make cross-shaped pillars of the same stuff erupt from the floor. She had the same power in her previous form as Echidna, but she uses it with greater precision as Rho.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: Rho has jet-black skin, wields power over destructive dark energies, fights like a raging berserker in combat, and spent eons stuck in the form of an insane Eldritch Abomination before the Champions freed her. She is also firmly on the side of good, or at least the side of the Champions.
  • Deity of Human Origin: Like her husband, she's a former Challenger elevated to Nomadhood.
  • Latex Space Suit: Creates a purple plugsuit to preserve her modesty.
  • Naked on Revival: Rho is naked when she is "born" anew from Echidna's chest. It takes her about a minute to reach the state of mind needed to conjure up clothing for herself.
  • Purple Is Powerful: Rho has violet hair, violet Tron Lines and wears a violet plugsuit, and she's a formidable fighter with destructive darkness powers.
  • Spell Blade: She imbues Spriggan's bullets and grenades with her own dark energy during the final battle so they'll be able to do some damage to Digamma instead of harmlessly bouncing off.
  • Uncertain Doom: Between the extent of their injuries and Iota's comment that the two of them would live "a couple more days" if he opened a portal for them instead of letting them open one themselves, it is strongly implied that Lambda and Rho died not long after they stepped through the portal together at the end of the game.
  • Walking Spoiler: It's impossible to talk about Rho without acknowledging the fact that she is ECHIDNA, or that she and Lambda are both characters from Neon Genesis Evangelion ascended to godhood.

    The Roman Nomads 

Centum (C)

The leader of the Roman Nomads and the first to introduce himself to the Overlords, Centum is a showman through and through. He oversees the challenges and conducts business with both the Overlords and his fellow Nomads with no small amount of bombastic flair; he also acts as patriarch of the Roman family, being the father of Deca and Decim and the husband of Quinque.
  • Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Centum is a very theatrical character, and accordingly he looks like an actor who stepped off the stage of an ancient Roman drama.
  • Incoming Ham: He makes a very bombastic Big Entrance in his first appearance, booming with laughter as he materializes from an orb of fire.
  • Playing with Fire: He can conjure flames at will and even turn himself into the stuff.
  • Soul Power: He once temporarily shunted Doctor Doom's soul out his body and into a Doombot. Doom was not amused.
  • Technicolor Fire: The flames that he conjures up are pure red, without any trace of more natural colors like yellow or orange.

Deca (>)

One half of Decadem (X). Is the cheery side. Hinted to be Ushio Okazaki.
  • Creepy Child: She seems a little too overjoyed at the thought of countless innocents being slaughtered.
  • Gem Tissue: Her eyes are pink gemstones.
  • Killed Off for Real: In the very beginning of Eclipse of the Gods, she is killed off by Daido.
  • Shrinking Violet: When taking care of Nomad-related business, she'd rather leave the job to her superiors, including Decim.

Decim (<)

The other half of Decadem (X). Is the gloomy, depressed side.
  • Animal Motif: Creepy Crows. She can transform into them and use other such birds to spy on people.
  • Casting a Shadow: She has the power to smother light in her vicinity, bringing varying degrees of darkness.
  • Creepy Child: In her first appearance she calmly tells Daido that he's fated to die again and that he's going to slit her throat after he loses patience with her. The whole encounter leaves him rather disturbed.
  • Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Her eyes lack pupils and seem to absorb all light, reflecting her depressed and depressing personality.
  • Elegant Gothic Lolita: She's a pale young girl who carries a frilly parasol and dresses in excessively frilly and dark-hued Victorian-era clothing.
  • Enfant Terrible: Decim generally restricts herself to being a Creepy Child, either silently watching the Overlords or making confusing statements about the inevitability of Fate. But on one occasion she was in a bad mood after watching Centum get intimate with Quinque, and she decided to take her anger out on some of the Overlords by immobilizing and torturing them.
  • The Eeyore: She seems physically incapable of finding joy in anything, an attitude which brings down everyone around her.
  • The Fatalist: She firmly believes that everything is preordained and that You Can't Fight Fate. It's implied that this is why she's so depressed.
  • An Ice Person: She can encase people in ice just by looking at them or casting her shadow over them.
  • One to Million to One: She can turn herself into an entire flock of ravens and back again.
  • Personality Powers: Decim can control darkness and see the future. Naturally, she's a gloomy fatalist.
  • Polly Wants a Microphone: Decim can still talk while she's in her flock of ravens form. She can choose to speak through one bird, or through all of them.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Deca's red. Whereas Deca is bright and cheerful, Decim is gloomy and morose. This even carries over to their color respective color schemes, with Decim's eyes, hair, dress, and theatre mask all being a very dark shade of blue in contrast with her sister's bright pink hair, dress, eyes, and nose.
  • Seers: It's implied that she can see the future to some extent.

Quingenti

A Roman Nomad who delights in inflicting pain upon others. Proves more important to the plot of A Game Of Gods than Twilight Of The Gods, as it's revealed that he plays a significant role in the backstory of Blink, also known as the Grecian Nomad Xi. Quingenti put Xi through all manner of physical and mental abuse, forcing her to take on the form of Blink and lock away her memories as a means of escaping these torments. He attempts to reclaim Blink twice over the course of the game, so that he might continue torturing her; fortunately, both attempts are thwarted before anything horrible can happen.

He is the first Nomad to die in the course of the game, being killed by the Champions when he tries to stop them from escaping.

  • Arch-Enemy: To Xi. His torture of her is the entire reason why she wants to stop being a Nomad and forget she ever was one, and his demise is a suitably cathartic moment.
  • Dark Is Evil: His avatar is a pitch-black silhouette described as a black hole in human form, his manifestations are often accompanied by black mist, and he is one of the most unrepentantly malicious of the Season 1 Nomads.
  • Flechette Storm: His preferred method of attack, flinging needles and razor blades which cause excruciating pain to whatever they hit.
  • For the Evulz: Quingenti has no deeper motives to his actions. He tortured and violated Xi just because he could.
  • Going to Give It More Energy: He meets his end when Xi transfers all her Nomadic memories and power into him, somehow overwhelming him and obliterating his essence.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Xi runs him through with her naginata. This doesn't kill him, but it does weaken him enough for the Champions to defeat him.
  • Sadist: He revels in making others suffer.
  • Shock and Awe: He starts flinging bolts of lightning around willy-nilly once he's on his last legs.

Quinque

Otherwise known as Quinny, Quinque is the lover of Centum and one of the Roman Nomads.

Unus

An enigmatic Nomad who looks like an overdressed gunslinger from the Wild West. His gun is generally the last word in any argument.
  • Deity of Human Origin: Or near enough. Infinities heavily implies that Unus is an ascended Shadow from Babylon 5.
  • Meaningful Name: Unus stands for one. Given his weapon, a gun, it only takes one shot to take down even the strongest Gods.
  • Stable Time Loop: It is strongly implied that Unus is a future version of Awar the Shadow, and that Unus brought his past self into the game to ensure his own existence.

    Minions of the Nomads 
Lesser entities created by the Nomads to act as their servants.

The Inevitables

Clockwork beings from the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse that embody the concept of law and order. The ones who serve Lambda can be recognized by their silver coloration and the lambda sigil prominently displayed on their bodies.

Two varieties of Inevitable are seen in this game: sword-wielding, human-sized Kolyaruts, and hulking, thunder- and lightning-hurling Maruts. One particular Kolyarut has dropped in on the Champions a few times to act as its master's spokesman.
  • Clockwork Creature: These supernatural beings resemble humanoids made of clockwork.
  • Elemental Punch: The Maruts can throw punches infused with electricity or destructive sonic energies.
  • Geas: The Maruts can invoke Lambda's power to impose terms and conditions upon their enemies during battle, with deadly consequences for any who break them. During a scuffle with Digamma's forces, they declared that it was forbidden to harm the Champions, and any Militantiaries who ignored this declaration were devoured and obliterated by spectral jaws erupting from the floor.
  • Magic Knight: Both varieties of Inevitable wield formidable magic in addition to being deadly physical fighters.
  • Mook Depletion: Lambda used to have armies of these things, but after Omega was vanquished and the Nomad’s world collapsed into a singularity, he only has eighteen Inevitables left: six Maruts and twelve Kolyaruts.
  • Quantity Versus Quality: The Quality to the Militantiaries’ Quantity. The Militantiaries vastly outnumber them, but the Inevitables are durable and powerful enough to make up the difference. During one battle, two Maruts proved an even match for a force of at least fifty Militantiaries.

The Invigilators

A group of identical men with silver disco suits and silver afros. These minions of Lambda visited the Common Room during a rare lull between challenges to make the Champions run laps around a racetrack.
  • Flash Step: They move so fast that they appear to teleport, letting them casually evade gunfire, get behind whoever was foolish enough to shoot at them, and whip them into submission.
  • Forced Sleep: One of them puts Calvin to sleep by poking him in the forehead.
  • Power Nullifier: They can shut down other beings’ powers and abilities. They use this on Calvin and Hobbes when the boy and his tiger try to invoke their superhero forms.
  • Smug Smiler: They're a pack of condescending jerks who are almost never seen without a mocking smirk on their faces.
  • Whip of Dominance: These cruel taskmasters are armed with armor-piercing whips that they use to force everyone onto their racetrack.

The Militantiaries

The foot soldiers of Digamma, these beings wear the colors of every army in existence. They live only to wage war at their master’s command.
  • Army of The Ages: They are soldiers taken from every fighting force from every era in every universe, all now fighting under Digamma's banner.
  • Humanoid Abomination: They are masses of painfully bright white energy in roughly humanoid form, with black spots for eyes. Their voices, meanwhile, sound like grainy radio clips and sound bytes that have been stitched together from various sources to form coherent sentences.
  • Master of Threads: They can attack with the very fibres of their uniforms, transforming them into needle-tipped filaments that stab at foes and worm their way into enemies’ wounds.
  • Spell Blade: They can imbue their bullets and projectiles with “bloody flame” to enhance their destructive power.
  • Still Wearing the Old Colors: Though they now pledge their allegiance to Digamma and his cause, they still wear the uniforms of whatever armies he took them from.
  • The Virus: If their fibers get into the wounds of someone with a military background and aren’t removed quickly, that person will transform into a new Militantiary.

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