Editing Moord Nag (section)

==History==
===Background===
Triggering as a young woman whose agency was taken from her, the woman who would become Moord Nag called for a corpse-eater made of shadows.<ref name="SB1">'''On Moord Nag's territory:'''<br>All of Namibia, half of Angola, Botswana, and a slice of South Africa<br><br>'''On Moord Nag's power:'''<br>Breaker/spectral minion of ambiguous solidity (as it desires) and form. Kill people = minion gains a bit of mass.<br>Started off like a palm-sized critter. Gained maybe a tablespoon of mass per kill.''<br>''She's had a few setbacks along the way. Trying to game it/fool the shard kinda backfired once or twice. Power eraser ate a good chunk once. Found someone who made clones, ate clones. Looked like it worked for a bit, then power rebelled, and she lost a huge chunk of her minion at a critical moment.<br>She basically has auto-defense. Her spirit will identify incoming attacks & hostility and move to block.<br>If I were to stat her out in Weaverdice, I'd give her a series of 'stances'. Ride, Safe, Offense. With her spirit behavior changing accordingly.<br>She doesn't manually control the spirit, but [[Shard#Breadth .26 Depth|Breadth and Depth]] are set enough & her conflict yields are high enough that it's effectively a subconscious extension of her anyway, with trust on both sides.<br>She doesn't turn it off or put it away. She's not in a position where she ever would or has to. She can send it away. But again, moot point.<br>It can move through walls but only by destroying them in the process. There's something congealed in there, so it wouldn't pass through a keyhole.<br><br>'''On Moord Nag before "breadth and depth" set in:'''<br>Moord Nag was a traumatized pokemon trainer with one pokemon in a war-torn country, and her pokemon didn't always cooperate. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/27598665 archived conversation on Spacebattles]</ref>
===Story Start===
With the aid of Aasdier, Moord Nag became the de facto ruler of much of Namibia with many smaller warlords paying her homage, a position she has held for eight years.<ref name="25.5 e3" /> Now her effective territory extends past Namibia, well into Angola, Botswana, and even a small part of South Africa.<ref name="SB1" />
===Post-[[Battle against Echidna|Echidna]]===
Was called to [[Khonsu Meeting|a meeting]] following the emergence of a global threat and was already seated when the full contingent of Undersiders and their allies arrived. [[Weaver]] attempted to use her swarm to see if she had any weapons, Aasdier blocked and killed the insects. She listened as Doctor Mother thanked them for coming before she mentioned that people died every day. Teacher said that he had given her the ability to understand and speak English and that it wouldn't cost her anything to use it. She told him that she wouldn't speak it.

Doctor Mother asked Moord Nag if she would help them and she turned her down. [[Tattletale]] then told [[Faultline]] about her before Moord Nag corrected her, saying that she wasn't alone because she had Scavenger. Doctor Mother asked her what it would take to get her to fight and Moord Nag told her she would need to replenish her power. Doctor Mother said that [[Cauldron]] would supply her and Moord Nag told her that she would need five thousand lives. Dragon and Chevalier objected to the deal though Moord Nag told them that the contract was sealed before walking away.<ref>[[Scarab 25.5]]</ref>

Moord Nag later rode Scavenger into battle against Khonsu. She stepped off Scavenger before it lunged at the Endbringer. Scavenger was trisected, but continued to wind around and tear into Khonsu's body. It attacked Khonsu's injuries, knocking him off balance, and then pushed Moord Nag out of the way of one of Khonsu's fields. Aasdier proved himself resistant to the fields' effects. Then, having enough, Khonsu teleported away from the battlefield to the next site. Aasdier was left behind.<ref name="25.6 e3">Still, he was feeling the hurt.  Moord Nag’s shadow ripped into the site of the injury, widening it, danced back as Khonsu swung one arm at the skull, clipping and shattering one antler, and then lunged again, driving itself into another injured area.<br><br>It caught Khonsu off-balance, and he landed on his back on the ground.  The shadow flowed over him, the skull butting him in the face to knock him down once again as he tried to rise.  It simultaneously extended out, reaching across the battlefield to push Moord Nag back out of the way of a swiftly approaching Khonsu-field.  She stumbled a little as she was deposited a hundred feet back, but she didn’t really react.  The shadow had more personality than she did, here.<br>[...]<br>The Endbringer teleported, and thanks to the Thanda, we were collectively teleported with it.  My bugs, Moord Nag’s shadow, and several tinker-made mechanical soldiers were left behind, as we found ourselves on a beach riddled with stones the size of my fist. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13 Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.6]]</ref>
===[[Timeskip]]===
After her debut on the battlefield against the new Endbringer, the warlord was unsuccessfully targeted by [[Leviathan|its sibling]].<ref name="25.6 e4">'''Indiscriminate''', January 20th, 2012 // Khonsu<br>Notes: First appearance.  Scion/Moord Nag victory.  List of all one hundred and sixty three targets and casualty numbers '''here'''.<br><br>'''Lüderitz''', April 2nd, 2012 // Leviathan<br>Notes:  Loss?  Driven away by Eidolon.  Secondary targets Swakopmund, Gamba, Port-Gentil and Sulima.<br>Target/Consquence: Moord Nag.  Guerilla tactics continue, losses in notable but not devastating numbers, but his target survives. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13 Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.6]]</ref>

The [[PRT]] would later reach out for deals with other warlords to get support against endbringers, such as [[Isango]] and [[Pyndanser]]<ref>Many argue the deal is too soft, especially considering the human rights violations by Isango, a mass-teleporter. Isango employs soldiers as young as 14, and has engaged in raids on hospitals, including one incident where a hospital was taken hostage and barricaded for two weeks, with civilians of the area being barred from access. With no clear reasoning given, aside from the need to allocate resources, there is only speculation as to why the PRT made this move, something we've already observed with Moord Nag and Pyndanser. - [https://redd.it/ib6g6j Outrage over PRT Alliances with Isango]. [[PHO Sunday]]</ref>
===Post-[[Timeskip]]===
When [[The Slaughterhouse Nine-Thousand]] appeared Moord Nag lent her support to trying to stop Jack from bringing about [[End of the World]]. The extent and form of this aid is unknown and was ineffective in preventing the event regardless.<ref>''"Every… major… group… helping… teams… defeat… Jack…  Cauldron… Thanda… PRT… Protector… ate… Wards… Brockton B… ay villains… Moord Nag… Irregulars… Faultline… Triumvirate…"''<br><br>We'd just lost our last major advantage in determining how this could play out.  Jack was getting everything.  He was a wiki-walk away from getting details on everyone who was arrayed against his new Slaughterhouse Nine. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/03 Excerpt] from [[Sting 26.6]]</ref><!--may have deployed against a contingent of nine, much like how the thanda helped against the 8 siberians cube battle.-->
===[[Gold Morning]]===
Having survived the opening moments of the event, Moord Nag was contacted by Cauldron for another meeting. She was given an interpreter to tell her about the particulars of the conversation.<ref name="27.2">All of the other major players were present, minus the Birdcage contingent.  The Thanda had six members in near-identical robes.  Their logo was a block of letters arranged in a five-by-five grid.  Moord Nag had a ring of skulls around a black circle.  Faultline’s crew had a wavelength, like a reading on an seismic monitor.<br>[...]<br>I looked over the room.  Moord Nag and the South American capes had interpreters rattling off the particulars of the conversation.  The Protectorate, the Irregulars, Faultline’s crew, the Suits… all bristled with anger. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/17 Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.2]]</ref>

Moord Nag later fell under Khepri's control and was used as part of a ploy for the goddess to capture [[Glaistig Uaine]].<ref name="Speck 30.4">I took control of Alexandria, instead, Pretender.  ''Controlling the person who was controlling the manipulative bitch Alexandria.''  I took Legend, who was part of that fight, two foreign capes and Moord Nag.<br><br>They were the ones running interference, buying us time to breathe.<br><br>Now I positioned them.  As I’d done with my bugs, I lined up the shot.<br><br>[[Zion|He]] took the bait, shooting.  I moved everyone out of the way. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/22 Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.4]]</ref> Khepri sent her into the front-lines alongside [[Alexandria]] and [[Legend]] as [[Ash Beast]] attacked Scion. Mere minutes afterward, she was pulled back and sent through dimensions to scavenge from the dead.<ref name="30.5 e1">I needed to consolidate my strength.  I had capes gathering materials.  Moord Nag was among them, one of the scariest warlords of Africa, now traveling between dimensions to scavenge from the dead, her pet shadow devouring mountains of flesh from mass graves and battlefields, swelling in size. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24 Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref> Moord Nag was then redeployed alongside other heavy hitters, relieving the force that had been fighting Scion. Sifara used his power to move Moord Nag closer only for Moord Nag to have a stroke from mental stress. This stemmed from Khepri's control being very similar to her trigger event.<ref name="30.5 e2">I sent Moord Nag in with the other heavy hitters, relieving the force that Scion was fighting.<br><br>''Sifara'' moved the ball, moving Moord Nag a distance forward.  Her pet shadow ''Scavenger'' loomed, as large as it had ever been.<br><br>And Moord Nag promptly had a stroke.  I watched as Scavenger dissipated into smoke.<br><br>''Wha- what?  Why?''<br><br>I reached out to Moord Nag, and I could feel the damage being done.  I moved her back just as I’d moved her forward, shifting more capes onto the battlefield to deliver some ranged fire.<br><br>''Why?''  I was stunned, and putting my thoughts together in regards to this was like trying to swim in molasses.<br><br>Had to act, instead of thinking.  ''Investigate.''<br><br>I used my ability to read the physical states of the creatures I controlled, reading my swarm much as I’d check a spider’s level of hunger, its health, fertility or the amount of venom available.<br><br>Almost across my entire swarm, people were threatening to lose their minds.  Literally.<br><br>It was stress, a factor I hadn’t taken into account.  I controlled their bodies, but I didn’t control their minds.  They were bystanders, watching this all unfold, and even though I regulated their heartbeats, kept their breathing level, the mental stress accumulated.<br><br>There were exceptions in every category, but I could assess my gathered army with broad strokes of the brush.  The thinkers were coping best, the tinkers nearly as well.  The masters struggled the most, followed by the shakers and breakers.  The rest fell in some middle ground.  Moord Nag… my control over her had apparently tapped into some kind of trauma or phobia she had, so she’d been the first to reach some kind of fever pitch in terms of the buildup of stress-induced chemicals and reactions.<br><br>I was killing my own minions.<br><br>I moved quickly, scrambling to get measures in place before I lost any more.<br><br>An open portal and a telekinetic let me move Moord Nag to the only available, capable healer I had available. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24 Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref> 

Khepri sent her to Panacea to be healed and, after the healer initially refused, sent the repaired warlord back out against Zion. However, the golden man was able to bash the pair away before Scavenger could reach full size.<ref>For all it mattered, they might as well have been a kids on the schoolyard, sticking their legs out to trip someone.  Scion found his momentum again.<br><br>Panacea was healing Moord Nag.<br><br>I reached for the warlord, bringing her to me.<br><br>Scion struck her aside before Scavenger could swell to his full size. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24 Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref> In the final battle in [[New York]], Moord Nag and Aasdier fought Zion side by side with Lung.<ref name="30.6 e2">Scion was in the midst of fighting a monstrous, hulking dragon-man and the warlord with the death-eating shadow.  He saw the first of the faces that the reality-manipulator had created and lashed out, demolishing it.<br><br>[...]<br><br>Scion fought his way free, and the warlord went on the offensive, lashing out.  She’d collected the bodies of the dead, as the faerie girl had collected their ‘spirits’.  She was strong, though not quite as strong as she would have been if things hadn’t gone sour.<br><br>He tore into h- her pet and the damage was permanent.  She pressed forward anyways, forcing him to retreat above the skyline. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/26 Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.6]]</ref>
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===Early-[[Ward]]===
Her location was unknown, possibly on [[earths|a world]] with African migrants.

===Post-[[Mathers Compound Assault|Fallen fall]]===
Was likely targeted for abduction by [[Teacher]] in his attempt to collect powerful parahumans.<ref>“Time is of the essence. [...] Your Valefor is healed and gone.  Warlords from your old Earth have been snatched up, and people don’t yet know.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/08/25 Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.2]]</ref>

===Post-[[Time Bubble Pop]]===
Moord Nag was seen among the elite circle of [[Teacher's Group]].<ref name=fashion>Moord Nag was on Teacher’s side, wearing white - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/06/04 Excerpt] from [[Dying 15.6]]</ref> 

===Post-[[Attack on Teacher]]===
In the wake of the [[Wardens]] assault, she escaped alongside Teacher to [[Earth Cheit]], where she was able to avoid capture, where many of the Taught hadn't.<ref name="16.1II">As there had been armed guards guarding the way between bunker and facility, there were capes waiting for us on the other side.  One of them handed me an info sheet. <br>
:'''At Large'''
:'''Earth Cheit, Church Capitol West'''
:Teacher – Benjamin Terrell
:Overseer/Custodian – A76
:Moord Nag – Lou Joubert<br>[***]<br>
“Thanks,” I said.  It was always good to get an update.  The list had been twice as long on my last visit, two days ago. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/08/13 Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.1]]</ref>