Nomad


 * This article is about the NPC. For this NPC in combat, see Nomad (monster). For the music track, see Nomad (music track).

Nomad is a non-player character who wanders around the Soul Wars activity area. When players first arrive on the island, they will encounter Nomad and his imp familiar, Zimberfizz. Nomad will offer players a free tour of the battlefield along with a short explanation, or a book that explains fighting in the Soul Wars activity. He plays a major role in the quest Nomad's Requiem, in which he was the primary antagonist.

Nomad built the Soul Obelisk and used it to gain immense power from souls. He is currently the second level quest boss, fought by conventional methods, in the game. He also appears to suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder, one minute being collected and calm, the next being maniacal and chaos craving. Either that, or he's very good at concealing his emotions.

When Soul Wars was first introduced he looked extremely similar to an Elite dark mage, but over time has transformed into his current figure.

Rewards
Nomad may reward players by exchanging Zeal points for:
 * Experience in Slayer or any Combat skill with the exception of Summoning. This amount varies upon your level in that skill. Saving 100 zeal points and spending them all at once will give a bonus to the experience received.
 * Gambling for random items.
 * Charms.
 * Bringing Slayer monsters back from the dead as pets.

Trivia

 * The Soul wars tutorial was changed after the release of Nomad's Requiem.
 * Before his graphical update, Nomad looked exactly like an Elite dark mage, this was either a placeholder graphic, or he was a former Elite Dark Mage himself.
 * Currently, a Jagex Moderator, Mod Rathe, uses Nomad's chat head avatar on the forums.
 * He is one of two character that is in RuneScape's top ten most powerful monsters who does not appear on a RuneScape Catch Card, because he was added after the cards. The other one is Nex.
 * Strangely, you can see his nose on this in game avatar but not on his chat head.
 * Nomad shares a similar appearance to Garland from Final Fantasy IX.
 * For the time between the release of Nomad's Requiem to the release of Dungeoneering, many players speculated that he was the Mahjarrat, Bilrach.
 * The spell he uses to kill the player in the tutorial appears to be an Iban Blast of some sort.
 * His chat-head shows some resemblance to Darth Malak from Star Wars:Knights of the Old Republic.
 * Before the graphical update in association with the quest Nomad's Requiem, he looked similar to an Elite dark mage. This and the fact that at the start of the quest, Nomad was called a traitor by the Elite dark warrior suggests that Nomad used to serve Lucien. It might also explain where Nomad teleported to at the end of the quest.Old-nomad_chathead.png
 * After completing Animal Magnetism, you can speak to him with Ava's device to allow your soul wars cape to collect your ammo inside Soul Wars.