Nord (character)

''“Holy shit, Web. One’s still alive.”''

--Nord, Chapter One

Nord (character)
Nord is a main character and antagonist in the webseries who first appears in the first chapter. He is described as "a younger, more robust man" than Web. His hair colour is "dark", and an age guess estimates him to be in his early to mid-thirties. He is Web's counterpart with an instinct for killing. In Chapter One they are contrasted, noting Nord's "snail-paced mind". They both are soldiers working with the camps, assumed to be Sodom and Gomorrah and both die in Chapter Three.

"A clod of an officer and an idiot-at-large, the younger man was a model of the order-obeying killing machine the Elite had been looking for."

Nord appears to be shaken slightly after witnessing a body try to pull itself out of a trench they encounter in the first chapter, and fires into the body alongside Web. He regains his slow wits and evidently goes back to normal in Chapter Two.

Nord dies a violent death along with Web in Chapter Three, to The Gauntlet, a rebellion faction that eventually takes a large role in the latter chapters of the webseries. During the ambush, Nord is shot in the back of the head, killing him instantly. Web is shot three times and dies immediately after Nord is killed. His body is presumed looted by the partisans and the group moves on, leaving both soldiers dead in the clearing.

Weapons
Nord bears a M19A11 and an unnamed knife. He is never noted to carry a rifle or assault weapon.

Critical Response
In an online video call meeting, the primary author who wrote the Crimson Earth chapters apologized for killing off the two primary characters, stating, "it was a mistake to begin with. I imagined they would just usher in the world of Crimson Earth, but in my rush to find out what to write I killed them off."

International Publication
Two of the Wallryder bases in Adelaide, Australia and Kyoto, Japan wrote in a collaborative blog post on Google+ about the mishap, saying "we sort of ruined the idea that these two misfits would be our primaries, but the author has made the decision. Editing the story after it has been released internationally would be bad form. The author has chosen to keep the names of the upcoming characters exclusively with the Wallryder staff, but as of today Nord and Web are officially out of the picture."