Skout was in her previous life Nomad‘s wife
Nomad once found a human lover. They married privately and started to live in the woods were both of them thought they could live in peace. But on one day a bounty hunter found Nomad and tried to kill him. Nomad won the fight but his wife was killed by the bounty hunter. He used his magic so his wife could be reincarnated. Since such a feat required large amounts of magic he lost his memories in the process.- Jossed. While someone who looked a lot like Skout know the Nomad, she was closer to a "sister" to him, since her father was his creator.
The Nomad went on a rampage in the past as a result of something happening to the woman from his flashback
Something happened to the woman who looks like Skout from the Nomad’s flashback and this event caused the Nomad to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge/unleash his full power which is what caused him to become so notorious and feared.- Jossed. The Nomad's reputation was around before Melinda took his memories as a result of general distrust and fear of magic.
The bounty on Nomad's head was due to him eloping with the young woman in the flashback.
Nomad was always harmless, but the parents of the girl in the flashback heavily disapproved of Nomad (he was magic, he was from some ethnicity/social class they didn't like, etc), so when they ran off, the parents did a campaign of misinformation to make him far worse than he really was.- Jossed. El Rey wants the Nomad in order to absorb him and his magic.
El Rey has magic powers himself.
In charge of an entire kingdom and particularly interested in the capture of a magic user? Perhaps he doesn't want the competition.- Confirmed. Or rather, his crown does. Though it's not so much that he doesn't want competition as he wants to absorb the Nomad's power.
- Bonus confirmation as of Fiesta, where he appears to Paragon as a conspiracy of ravens and completely shreds him to bits.
Skout is Nomad's daughter with the woman from his past
First, think about it from a "like father, like child" kind of interpretation; Both are nicer than the other characters and Skout wants to become knowledgable, which the Nomad likely had to become to master his magic abilities. The red hair is inherited from her mom. Neither of them know it due to their circumstances, which is why they don't recognize each other.- Likely Jossed due to the fact that the Nomad is a scarecrow, and thus, nonbiological.
A recurring event in each episode will be Skout allowing Nomad to escape
Skout understands that Nomad is not as bad as she has been led to believe, and also grateful to Nomad for saving her life. Unfortunately, she can't convince Toth or anyone else of this fact. So each episode, Skout does something to distract Toth and the Dandy Lions, allowing Nomad to flee. Eventually, however, the ethics of hunting Nomad will drive a wedge between the two.
- More or less Confirmed, at least for Season 1.
Bliss Hill isn't the only place severely lacking water.
In the first episode, when Toth burnt down the forest the Nomad was in, it lit remarkably quickly. Dying forests burn a lot more easily than perfectly healthy ones, and a lack of water would be a probable cause for that. And in the second episode, there's an old man who tries to collect some water from a crack in the wall, only to be told he has to pay for even a single drop, as if it was an incredibly precious commodity. And, most importantly, the wanted poster at the end lists the reward in "gallons". I suppose gallons could be the name of a liquid that's not necessarily water, but it seems like water scarcity is going to be a theme.
- Confirmed. The Oasis is one of the only places in the world with a water supply, and it comes up as a recurring plot point.
This is a Stealth Prequel to RWBY. The Nomad is the wizard from the story of the Four Maidens
Both are Really 700 Years Old, have magic in a setting where it is considered to be an outstanding trait, and locked himself away before some people got him out of his home. The Nomad might not have been visited by four maidens, yes, but the tale could have been changed over time. The Nomad's ability to grant life could be related to the wizard's ability to give magic to others. In addition, Toth is like Summer of the four seasons; she destroys the forest like summer's relic of destruction, and forces the Nomad out of his home like the maiden persuading him to leave.- And El Rey is Salem. Look, they both have an evil eye thing going on.
Potentially, the reason Nomad is being hunted has to do with the water shortage.
Nomad is a being who can bring life to inanimate objects. Who is to say he couldn't say, bring life to an entire forest? Revive an ecosystem, including its forests? Dom Paragon is shown as profiting from the scarcity of water, so I can imagine him and other figures wanting to kill Nomad, to prevent him from ending the water shortage.- Jossed. El Rey (or his crown) seems to want to absorb every user of magic, and Don Paragon wants to be granted some of El Rey's magic and power as a reward for the Nomad's capture.
Toth and the Dandy Lions will eventually side with Nomad
Toth has a soft spot for Skout and it seems like she's more bound to the laws and rules to bring Nomad in, rather than outright hatred of him. She may eventually defect from Don Paragon's side if Skout convinced her enough.- Jossed as of Fiesta. It looks like Toth is going to be a new villain, taking Don Paragon's place as The Dragon to El Rey.
The reason Nomad is The Last of His Kind...
Is because of some sort of massive calamity that was magical in nature occuring 100 years ago, resulting in a massive bias against magic and those who use it, which in turn lead to massive pogrom of all magic.- Jossed The magic is gone because El Rey absorbed all the magic users.
The Nomad is The Needless
Don Paragon had a point. A prolonged trek through the sun-bleached desert, without any food or water on-hand, should have reduced the Nomad to a "pathetic crawl", not cheerful skipping. The Nomad's cabin, including the kettle and dishes therein, had also fallen into obvious disuse, despite the fact that he hadn't abandoned the thorn grove.- This is supported in Compass, where The Nomad has to prevent Skout from succumbing to exhaustion and dehydration whilst apparently suffering from neither, despite being pursued by Toro's champion for what is implied to be a very long time.
- Likely confirmed given that he's an animated scarecrow.
Toth may eventually do something that drives Skout away from her
As we've seen, Toth is someone who has a single-minded obsession with following the rules, despite the fact that the rules are stupid or just plain harmful. She is ruthless enough to demand tribute from a people who are at the end of their rope, and even burn down a forest. Skout is someone who tries to find more constructive solutions to problems, and clearly dislikes Toth's ruthless. Eventually, Toth will do something so despicable to enforce the rules, that Skout may tell her off for caring more about the rules then about people, before running away.
Toth might brush off her words, or she'll be forced into an intolerable situation that finally makes her speak up to Don Paragon.
- In Episode 6, after saving Skout’s life instead of going after the Nomad, Toth gets chewed out by Don Paragon for jeopardizing the mission to save someone he sees as expendable. At the end of the episode, Skout tries to thank Toth for saving her, but Toth just walks away wordlessly. It seems that Toth might be taking what Don Paragon said to heart, and this could be what drives Skout away.
- Partly Confirmed. Although Toth's allegiance isn't with Paragon or the Dandy Lions, but rather only to herself and the Y'dalla.
One of the currencies of this world is gallons of water.
It would be a bit odd to see people surviving in the desert with all the aristocrats hogging the water. Not to mention the fact that the wanted poster Ranch Hand brings says that the reward is 1,000 Gallons, and there is that (unfair) trade deal for water for oil. And the reason why it's only ONE of the currencies is because people have been seen giving gold to others.- Confirmed.
The Nomad's First Wanted Poster Was Accurate
Just when Toth starts to come around towards his side something will push him far enough to reveal his old wanted poster wasn't an exaggeration, but what he could very well become if he wanted to. Thus returning things to the status quo.- Jossed. The posters are exaggerations. In truth he's just an animated scarecrow.
Skout comes from the Iron Boarder
The Ranch Hand states he got his mechanical hand from the Iron Boarder, implying the Iron Boarder is technologically advanced and highly mechanized place. In the same episode Skout says she use to fix oil pumps all the time back home, implying she came from a place where such things are common. So this is why I think she might come from the Iron Boarder.- Confirmed as of Episode 7. Skout is heading towards the Iron Border, which she refers to as "home" when talking to the Nomad.
The Nomad is the descendant of the Nomad in the poster
That might explain why he doesn't understand his own powers despite supposedly being active for over a century. He's not the original Nomad. He's just wearing his clothes. The woman from his flashback was his mom.- Jossed. The Nomad is an animated scarecrow, therefore having no parents but the magician who created him, and the woman in his flashback is the magician's daughter, closer to a sister to him.
The series takes place in the same universe as Courage the Cowardly Dog.
Courage, Muriel, and Eustace live in the middle of Nowhere where creepy stuff happens. Sure, their Nowhere might have been stated to be in Kansas but this IS Wild Mass Guessing and it just seems a bit too natural of an idea to fool around with. Or maybe it's just my age showing given most crossovers I have encountered are comparing the Nomad to Wander. The series takes place on Athas.
The world we've been shown so far is a desolate desert, parched for water and starved of life save for predominantly reptilian creatures. Magic here is shown to be feared and hated, even if practitioners never use it for evil purposes, and those known to possess its power are hunted down. It's even possible that El Rey's crown has given him the power of a sorcerer-king, while also corrupting him into the same sort of egomaniacal overlord that the other sorcerer-kings are. The show takes place further into the future of the world, perhaps after metal is rediscovered and gunpowder is created. El Rey's crown is consuming him.
After it absorbs all of the magicians, the crown has grown over his eye and down the sides of his head. Eventually, it will completely assimilate him.- Or it already has.
Skout will cast magic using a spell book
It has been repeatedly shown that Skout is a big reader of books and we also know that spell books do still seam to exist in the world. So I think that eventually Skout will find a spell book and use it, perhaps due to getting into a situation where using it is the only way to get out. Magic is a key part of the ecosystem, which is why Nowhere is such a desolate wasteland.
In Episode 6's flashback where the King slowly consumes more and more magic, at the same time the environments around the castle became more and more barren as species died out. Of course, this could be a purely symbolic representation of how the Kingdom itself fell into ruin and decay as the El Rey's crown compelled him to absorb more power, or it could be that the magical creatures were a key part in maintaining the ecosystem on a global scale. Either actively tending to it or passively. Compare the state of the world and where the Nomad lived prior to the series. The world is a barren wasteland where resources and water are in limited supply. Yet the bramble patch where the Nomad lived was filled with an abundant and thriving ecosystem the likes of which Skout have never seen before, and the Nomad is the last magical creature in Nowhere. Perhaps its coincidence, or perhaps the El Rey's avarice had farther reaching consequences then he realized or bothered to care about. Nomad can also take life away.
Perhaps that's one of the possible reasons behind his feared reputation. Maybe he can do that by clapping with the back of his hands, which according to Asian superstitions can either bring doom or evil spirits. Alternative, that's why he claps with the gloves on. Skout is unknowingly the descendent of an old friend the Nomad once knew.
That's why, for a moment, he had a vision of a red-haired girl peering out of the house. The Nomad is a creation of the red-haired girl in the Episode 1 Flashback.
She created him either as a servant or a friend with magic before the two became closer and she taught him magic. However when El Rey began to devour magicians, she went into hiding with the Nomad.- Jossed, but close. Her father created him.
The girl in the episode 1 flashback was the Nomad's sort-of adopted daughter
Either she was the daughter of a fellow magic user on the run who didn't make it or she was orphaned by all the violence that followed El Rey going off the deep end and the Nomad found her without anyone else to take care of her. Skout is either her descendant or her reincarnation.- Sorta Jossed. He was created by her father to protect her. They seem to act closer to siblings than a parent-child dynamic.
The Nomad will reveal his skills as The Gunslinger.
It's likely that the Nomad was one of the four governors 100 years before the series started. The reason I say that the Nomad is the gunslinger is due to the fact that the gunslinger is seemingly emphasized in episode 6, getting more screen time than the other three. Not only that, the vision ends with a close-up of the governor's chest, in the same spot where the glowing light on the Nomad appears.- To add on to that, it was implied that El Rey used his magic to give his governors powers, and it could very well be that the Nomad had to go on the run when El Rey decided to take back the power that he had given to his governors when his power is beginning to run out again.
- That the Nomad is an Expy of Vash the Stampede certainly adds to it. The 'eyes' of the gunslinger even resemble Vash's glasses.
- This is supported by the fact that Governor Toro's Champion had a compass that points directly to the Nomad's location. It makes sense that the Governors would be able to easily locate each other.
- Jossed. The Nomad is an animated scarecrow who seems to have no connection to the governors.
Toth and her people.
In episode 6, it's stated that a major reason Toth is working for Don Paragon is because her people are in need of aid, meaning that, at the very least, her family/tribe/clan/town/etc. is in desperate need of food/water/resources that the Don can provide, or at the very most, the entire Y'dallan race is on the verge of extinction, and they need the aid of El Rey (or at the very least, Don Paragon if he ever becomes governor) to survive.Unfortunately, the Y'dalla kinda sorta hate El Rey with a passion due to him making the magic go away, and would rather Face Death with Dignity than accept aid from him or his lackeys. As such, when they find out who Toth's working for they're gonna royally call her out on it, and quite possibly even cast her out. If that's the case, I can see this ending two ways:
1. Toth's heart grows harder, and she continues her pursuit of Nomad, sliding further down the slippery slope of evil, which will ultimately lead to her climactic Karmic Death.
2. Toth continues the pursuit, but with much more regret, which will ultimately lead to her Heel–Face Turn. Doubly so if Don Paragon reneges on the deal, adding an element of Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal as Toth realizes the Necessarily Evil, all Bad Boss moments from Paragon she had to put up with, all the burnt bridges, were for nothing.
Skout is going to die or get incapacitated.
Knowing Rooster Teeth's history with important green eyed redheads, she's got a target on her. Someone will give Toth a massive What the Hell, Hero?? for her more questionable actions.
Perhaps Skout since that would likely have the biggest impact on her. But the Dandy Lions are also a possibly considering they have expressed Blind Obedience in the set and so them calling her out could make it look like she’s really gone too far.- Confirmed as of The Red Carpet.
The Nomad is the player character in a video game.
He never speaks because he’s a Heroic Mime (not unlike Link) and his chest glows whenever he completes a quest, signifying he’s earned an Extra Life.The Nomad will become the new King of Nowhere by the end of the show.
The Nomad is pretty much The Needless. And El Rey's evil crown needs to absorb SOMETHING from the user in order to perform various forms of magic. Episode 10 implies that there's something inside The Nomad that made him special. Maybe whatever's inside the Nomad is some sort of magical artifact with an almost limitless reserve of magic. By the end of the show, the Nomad will somehow defeat all 4 governors and El Rey, take the crown and be immune to its corrupting effects due to the fact that he's a scarecrow. He would be the ultimate King of Nowhere! Being Made of Iron is a trait shared by magic users.
In "Compass" the Nomad and Skout survive a long fall down an empty well shaft in which they hit the rock multiple times and even slam down hard on the rock bottom. While this could be explained away by cartoon logic it is also possible this is a trait of being a magic user such as the Nomad the fact that Skout is shown to look very similar to Melinda could mean she's related to her and thus have some hidden magical abilities which caused het to also be Made of Iron. The Nomad is easily set on fire.
Given that the Nomad is an animated scarecrow, it makes sense for him to be weak to fire. Episode 10 confirms that he's filled with hay, and hay is highly flammable due to its low water content.- Confirmed.
Skout is related to Melinda
in some way.Both characters have bright red hair, green eyes, and seem to have a preference for wearing the color green. This also goes with the fact that Melinda sounds exactly like Skout when in her "western" persona." The current "El Rey" is actually the personality of the crown itself in control of El Rey's body. The real El Rey is far different.
When we first see El Rey, he is shown to be kind and benevolent, using his magic to only help others. He is visibly horrified when the crown eats the magician sent in to examine it, and hesitates when placing it on his head once again. The current El Rey, the one obsessed with acquiring magic users, is the crown itself wanting to keep its power. Melinda became a governor
One of the governors who was shown in the episode "El Rey" appeared to look like Melinda and also like her seemed to have fire powers. This has led me and others to theorize that Melinda ended up becoming a Governor. Perhaps she was defeated by El Rey and he made her get Drunk on the Dark Side and turned her into a governor. The fact that Melinda was able to wipe memories shows that magic is capable of effecting the minds of others so perhaps she is Brainwashed and Crazy.Edit by OP: Also perhaps her governor name will Ember or something.
- Or possibly her name as a Governess would be Cinder
Melinda's potential fates
There could be several fates for Melinda after she left the Nomad.- She was most likely captured by El Rey and goons, robbed of her magic, and killed.
- She died but... she left behind an item in the desert that could help the Nomad and his allies defeat El Rey. An item she spent her lifetime trying to develop.
- Going on an above theory, she was captured, robbed of her memories by her own magic, and made into a governor. One episode may featured the brainwashed Melissa battling Nomad, with the latter trying to help her regain her sense of self.
- She is still alive, still wondering the desert, looking for the means to defeat El Rey. The means maybe inadvertently provided by Toth or Skout.
- She is Skout reincarnated, and Skout may gain the fire magic.
- Her attempts to stop El Rey failed and she fled Nowhere to beyond the Iron Border, where she settled down, had a family, and eventually died of old age, shamed that she could never fulfill her mission to stop El Rey or find her friend again. Skout is likely her granddaughter.
