Nomad

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**Nomad** (*NOMAD*, **ノマド**) is a multinational corporation, one of the most powerful in the Human World, having enough resources to change policies and making money from many different legal and illegal means.

In public, Nomad presents itself as a normal cooperation, concerned with humanitarian and egalitarian goals. However, behind the curtain they use technology of the demon realm itself, to create chaos and corruption. Nomad makes money with illegal fighting arenas and weapon sales, and their CEO Edwin Black is in fact the Vampire King of the Demon Realm.

Officially, as they hide their criminal activity, they can not be attacked directly by the Taimanin. Some factions inside the UFS support or fight against Nomad as well, as the group has strong connections to America.

## Policy

The end goal of Nomad was ultimately the end goal of Edwin Black, total destruction of the old world and rebirth into a new age of demons. The group will ally with any organization or Nation, that might give it a temporary advantage, while internally harsh fights for dominance take place. Specially, certain parts of the UFS are pro Nomad in the hope to gain more hell technology. It has been pointed out that Black's approach here, unlike other Demon Nobles that wish to rule, has been rather subtle using money and political influence.

Since Nomad has so much influence over the Japanese-UFS governments and functions as a shelter for Demons, they are one of the main enemies of the Taimanin.

## Structure

On the top stands Edwin Black a Vampire, which with his right-hand woman Ingrid, that serves as the more public face of Nomad, controls all Nomads interests.

Executives like Oboro, Fürst, Kaliya tend to guard the groups interested but remain mostly hidden from public records. They will in most cases overlook operations, bases or be sent out when something goes wrong. Nomad is made out of disguised demons of multiple types but also many humans, hoping to gain more power.

Nomad as a multinational conglomerate has ample funds and numerous enterprises for precision instruments, heavy industry, service, military, and more. Smuggling, slave trade, assassination, illegal arm deals and so on, are the more hidden acts. One of its most well-known businesses in the criminal underworld is the Chaos Arena and Demon Arena.

The main part of their group operates in the UFS but also has bases in Yomihara, Japan.

Groups, like the Chaos Arena, Zero Nations, House of Greed (unknowingly), Oboro Ninja Troops are all groups acting as proxies.

## History

Nomad was founded in and still has strong connections to the UFS, some factions like being considered Pro Nomad and others Anti Nomad. Edwin Black the originator and CEO is in fact the Vampire King of the demon realm, though this is obviously hidden information to normal people. Ingrid in her human disguise became the highest ranked secretary/executive, which takes care of almost all public appearances and negotiations.

When Nomad was founded is a bit unclear, but it possibly has been around and influencing politics for a long time. As it became an international cooperation, it split responsibilities into contractors for different purposes be it legal or illegal, that way they could always avoid any form of countability. It builds multiple bases, some public while others remained secret. One being the Palace of Darkness. Under Tokyo in Yomihara. They control a large part of Yomihara and have direct control over the Demon Gate which connects the location to the demon realm.

**Nomad** was responsible for the Koukawa Massacre in the old timeline and became an enemy of the Taimanin cause of their hidden push for hell-tech. Nomad used the Oboro Ninja Troops as pawns to attack and kill Taimanin, and faced no consequence even after the troop was destroyed, as they could deny any connection. However, the Taimanin Asagi and people within Section Three even back then were aware of Nomad being the "snake head" of the group. Even 3 years after the Ninja Troops were defeated, Nomad continued with their criminal push, establishing places like the Chaos Arena.

The "Senior" Taimanin, an Igawa clan elder which was the figurehead for the Taimanin at that time, cooperated with Nomad, which lead to the death of many Taimanin. Only after Asagi, that had retired after defeating Oboro, returned were the Taimanin able to cut the hidden ties to Nomad. The Chaos Arena, was found after TA1 and raided, but videos of the events made their way on the dark net, spreading more awareness of demons. In Taimanin Asagi 2 Nomad would try and later succeed to steal information about the Inner Demon transformation from Dragon Gate, a rival criminal group, that worked together with the Chinese Union.

One of Nomads scientists, Kiryu Sabato, a student of the executive Fürst, was almost killed in the raid and later put in charge of a second Chaos Arena. However, he was not loyal and sold data to Dragon Gate and in the end rather joined with the Taimanin, to avoid getting killed by Ingrid. Fürst himself returned after years of study in the Demon Realm and together with Oboro planned to infiltrate the village of the Taimanin directly using a disguise of a doctor.

In Taimanin Asagi 3, the manipulations of Nomad behind the scenes lead almost to a war between Chinese Union and UFS, as well as the assimilation of Japan, pushed by Prime Minister Asai Koujirou. Asai having stronger ties to Nomad than anybody expected and the Taimanin blamed for a political assassination. While Gosha Village was under siege and things looked their most grim, Asagi and her adopted daughter were able to kill Oboro and Edwin Black. Leaving Nomad leaderless, stopping any other plans the group had. The current state of Nomad after Asagi 3 is not known, with only Ingrid remaining.

### Timeline ZERO

Nomad itself was founded in **2053**.

Within the ZERO Universe, **Nomad** has founded a Chaos Arena, but this time with Kaliya as the leader and not Oboro. Edwin Black seems to have almost vanished but is still known, he and Kaliya seem to have a disagreement about the Asagi of this world. Black even actively sabotaging events if he views Asagi as worth it. Almost none of the history past their foundation is accurate for that timeline.

### Timeline TABA

Nomad is functionally identical to the main timeline up until TA3. Nomad is one of the enemies of the Fuuma Organization and Fuuma Kotaro is able to "recruit" some of the members.

### Timeline RPGX

Nomad itself was founded or refined in **2063**. Black made contact with Shinganji Sakyo for finances, as he wished to create "Nomad" as a way for positive change. This version of Nomad is far less evil because of the TABA Reset, which gave Black more "human" characteristics and freed him from a part of his power.

Multiple minor changes exist in that timeline, as the Koukawa Massacre was started by Teutates and not Nomad, but otherwise Nomad works much the same. Black seems to be more absent, giving Ingrid even more autonomy. Nomad members are sometimes seen cooperating with Taimanin, as groups such as the Igawa Revolt Group or Task Force G are more relevant enemies.

### Timeline Action

Multiple minor changes exist in that timeline, which are not all yet known. In the later parts of the story, thanks to the actions of both Momochi Toyo and Astaroth, a large amount of data about Nomads criminal activities and the long term goal to rule the world with money has been revealed to the wider public. Though propaganda of Nomad pushes against it, they have been weakened considerably. The Taimanin used this chance and allied with the Death Wraith Tribe, which oppose Nomad and any vampire. Attacking one of Nomads bases to smoke out the executives and Black, resulted however, in a stalemate. Where Nomad as a whole is standing right now is currently unclear.

## Members

 **Members** | **Medium Rank** | Lina • Alectra • Julia • Helene • Power Lady • Masked Woman • Minobe Enji • Isuka • Kii • Mismarin • Elena • Noah Brown (AT)
 **Low Rank or Affiliated** | Ishiyama Ryoji • Ishiyama Takuto • Byg • Dogle • Big Gogo • Sokushitsuki • Gielant • Morizawa • Zessica Falfer • Rosie • Rosen • Shikimi • Alma the Witch • Gin • Inti Raymi • Nielsen • Vinea • Simurgh • Scient • Orobas • Nielsen | Either waiting to be become part of Nomad or part of partner or sub-organization.

## Trivia

* The name "Nomad": people that travels from place to place with no permanent home. Officially: Nomad states that it is a borderless and unifying global player that has "earth" as its home. The hidden meaning is, that a large part of members are demons, which are travelers from the Demon World. Edwin Black also never remains on the same place and travels between USF, Japan and Demon Realm constantly.
* While the idea of "Nomad" being a positive force is propaganda in most universes, it seems to be a serious attempt in the RPGX world.
* Early fan translations have Nomad written in all capital letters, but later releases just writes it as "Nomad".

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