Godbound: The Oasis States and their God-Kings, Part 3

Few in Arcem have both mastered and debased the power of flesh and blood as the Oasian, safe perhaps their distant relatives in the Ancalian barrows. While they are most famous for their inbreeding and theurgic might the Oasian nobles and their augmented warriors are a fearsome military in Arcem. It is perhaps fortunate they seem more content to keeping to their desert as all should fear the godly warriors from the burning sands.

Inaros with the Ramses skin, from Warframe

Armies of the Desert

The forces of the Oasis states consist of augmented warriors: bloodline of superior stock than ordinary humans but far removed from the noble lines or more recent creations born of eugenics in hope of reinvigorating the ranks with superior soldiers. Others are the result of flesh warping and organ-grafting, short lived abominations dedicated to their masters or animal-headed savage beast-men. The warriors of the desert are agile and precise but their overall potency pale compared to the Ancalian cousins and they are not as durable as the undying automatons of Nezdovha. However they are more organized, more numerous and far more established as warriors. Elite warriors and heroes armed with ancestral theotechnical weaponry from the days of Polyarchy of Kham can cause far more havoc and carnage on a battlefield than peasants with spears and crude automatons. Morale of the Nobles is questionable, however: their erratic personalities make them prone to scatter in confusion as each one start barking conflicting orders, each convinced of the absolute certainty of their plan.

In battle, aerial supremacy is a common tactic: not every Noble is gifted with wings (biological or mechanical) but other forms of personal flight are extremely common, from theurgic incantations to billowing dust clouds and summoned mounts. Flying high above the battlefield, the battle-sorcerers of the Oasian Nobles rain divine judgment upon their enemies and, sometimes, may or may not destroy those they no longer have a need for or those who have slighted them.

Statting the Nobles

Aside from their statline below (Lesser, Average, Greater, Battle-Sorcerer or Sorcerer-Lord) which represent a gradient increase in overall noble power, potency and insanity each Noble is likely to have a semi-unique set of Gifts which extrapolate a mixture of personal skills and inherited transhuman legacy.

• All Nobles of Average or greater rank have at least Adept of the Gate. Battle-Sorcerers all have Adept of the Way and the Sorcerer-Lords have Adept of the Throne. There might be a few Greater Nobles who lack such a gift but then simple substitute it for a suitable Gift of the Words of Alacrity, Might, Endurance or Command to represent a lineage warrior-princes and generals who prefer to lead armies than use sorcery.
• All Nobles of Average or Greater rank have at least one Word bound to allow them some forms of Miracles.
• Quite a few, if not most Nobles are utterly immune to fire and heat. Of course, do keep in mind a Godbound of Fire can utterly bypass such resistance. This does give, however, a massive advantage when the Oasian fight on their own turf as they need not fear the environmental effects of the scorching desert. Augmented warriors can exist in the harshest of environments with almost no water or food, similar to the passive effect of the Desert Word.

Enemy	HD	AC	Atks	Dmg	Move	Morale	Saves	Effort	Actions
Augmented Warrior	3	5	+6	1d8+2	30’	11	14+	1	1
Lesser Noble	5	4	+8 x2	1d10+2	40’	8	13+	6	1
Noble	7	3	+10 x2	1d12+2	40’	8	12+	7	1
Greater Noble	9	3	+12 x2	1d8 Straight	40’ Fly	8	11+	8	1
Battle Sorcerer	12	3	Auto x2	1d10 Straight	40’ Fly	7	10+	9	2
Sorcerer Lord	14	3	Auto x2	1d12 Straight	40’ Fly	7	9+	10	2

The Gifts of the Oasian Nobles are quite varied and compared to the mechanical Boyar they tend to have a few more Gifts, as they tend to rely on flashy powers and their use of Effort when fighting something on their level of power. Lesser Nobles and above have at least two gifts, one rolled in each column.

D8	Combat Gift	Support Gift
1	Sirocco Sword	Firewalker
2	Nimbus Of Flame	All Directions As One
3	Firestorm	Heart Of The Lion
4	Omnipresent Reach	Veiled Step
5	The Seeking Flight	Sandshaper
6	Sunstrike	Shining Mirage
7	Searing Blade	Hope Of Dawn
8	Flesh Of Shifting Sand	Purity Of Brilliant Law

Oasian Names

Of course, none of these kind of posts are complete without an expansive list of names, which can be used for the posthuman nobles and their various near-human underclasses of servants and warriors alike. Oasian names naturally draw heavily upon Egyptian names with a slight fantasy bent.

OASIAN NAMES
D20	Male Names	Female Names	Nickname/Title
1	Ekhem	Katsiu	The Pure
2	Anen	Berner-Ib
3	Aftri	Nejet	The Flawless
4	Khufen	Tuaitthesit
5	Geb	Neferneshmt	The Fair
6	Arqur	Nerset
7	Baseka	Tiye	The Unfair
8	Heriabgher	Tamit
9	Ejed	Meritamun	Sun-Blessed
10	Bat	Sekhi
11	Netermest	Neferuntu	Sand-Touched
12	Thaparthal	Inhapi
13	Inaros	Mejed	Hand of the Storm
14	Semenre	Benerib
15	Minmose	Henutmire	The Destroyer
16	Djet	Iput
17	Bebnum	Kapes	The Magician
18	Khafra	Menhet
19	Menkhaure	Semat	The Motherless/Fatherless
20	Nectanebo	Khensa