<P> (Worm Handlers (蟲 使い, mushitsukai)) A people who dwell on the fringes of the Sea of Corruption, domesticating the slug - worms and living as scavenger merchants and mercenaries . Generally viewed as disgusting and treated as outcasts and an "untouchable" race by all the other societies, they are also at first the only people who have had encounters with the Forest People, whom the Worm Handlers greatly respect and idolize . They are originally hired by both the Doroks and Torumekians as soldiers, but later come to view Nausicaä as their goddess and savior, accompanying her to the Crypt and protecting her during the final battle . </P> <P> Miyazaki has said that he invented these people from the very start, to represent inequality and to explore the nobility of those whose existence may be abhorrent to the rest of society . He described them as being of the lowest caste but regrets not being able to explore them more deeply in spite of the length of the saga . </P> <P> (Giant God Warriors (巨 神 兵, Kyoshinhei)) Gargantuan biomechanical beings, Daniel Haas has referred to them as "man - made living weapons", considered to have been the primary instruments of destruction during the Seven Days of Fire . While the ceramic skeletons of God Warriors are a common sight across the landscape, the creatures are believed extinct at the beginning of the story . They have the ability to fly by "twisting space" and can fire devastating energy beams . These abilities are fueled by nuclear energy and contact with them is known to cause radiation poisoning, which suggests that the Seven Days of Fire may have been at least partially a nuclear holocaust . The characters of the manga refer to the radiation emitted by the God Warriors as "poisonous light ." As later proven no conventional weapons work on them and all attempts to destroy them were futile . </P> <P> (Ohma (オーマ, Ōma)) A God Warrior who is accidentally activated by those who find him . He is passed around while barely sentient until he is given to Nausicaä by Namulith . At first he has the mentality of a child or toddler . He assumes Nausicaä is his mother and sees confirmation of that assumption when she presents him with his missing core component . Nausicaä gives him the name Ohma, meaning innocence in the Eftal language . Nausicaä acts out the role of his mother, to control his destructive powers and to adjust his single minded perception of the divisions in the world . Soon afterwards Ohma starts deteriorating and rotting away until his death, although a reason is never given it is assumed that it Is due to the continued use of his nuclear powers (The fire of heaven). Through their interactions Ohma's intelligence increases drastically and he begins to mature: discoursing about justice and how he was tasked with judging mankind . Together they travel to Shuwa where Nausicaä instructs him to deliver the final blow to the heart of the Crypt, once she discovers the nature of the entities in the Crypt and their designs for the future of the world . Ohmus dies from the massive damage received while battling the crypt . </P>

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