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Bionicle: Secrets of Mata Nui

Canonically, the shape you assume after the transformation is"What you think a toa should look like", so its really up tto the character :) Toa Mata adorer would probably have their build. Ahkmou on the orher hand might end up looking more like a phantoka makuta, for example.

So the sky's the limit.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

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Location: The Kingston-Gray estate
Outfit: ASTRA Armor
Skills/Powers/Equipment: N/A

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The place was growing more bizarre by the second. Victoria watched Percy... interact... with what in the stretchiest terms may be called a doorhandle, and retrieve a key that seemed to also work as a homing beacon. The whole scheme seemed to her convoluted for the sake of being convoluted, which... kind of explained a lot about some things about Danni and Dorian, considering they spend a bunch of time of their life here.

Still wary of what sort of reality defying magic could be hiding here despite the necklace working rather well so far, she approached the handle slowly and shook hands with the house. A key that looked older than the country appeared in her hand, just short of a few cobwebs on it. "Well... let's see, I guess." she said for herself, following behind the Dorian and Percy towing operation.

If Vicky was to be honest, a mop closet would do for her just as long as there was a power plug in it. She has never even visited another person's house, let alone stay for any longer time, and it was making her feel like she was intruding on holy ground. She felt like the walls were just exuding this pressure that wanted to push her back the way she came. It was probably just in her head, or maybe it was this magical mansion, but it left her feeling like she was shrinking, and it only intensified as she walked deeper into the house.

She finally reached a door the key was seemingly pointing her to, and, curiosity overpowering her shyness, unlocked it, unsure what to expect. What she saw wasn't any of the variants she imagined, but the more she thought of the scene in front of her, the more she saw the appeal. In front of her was what appeared to be an endless white void, with only a hanging chair that seemed to be built to handle more weight than one would usually expect, and a shelving unit to the side big enough to accommodate all of her armor pieces. "You know what? I like." she finally decided. She thought about how to name such a place, and a sanctum seemed appropriate.

Bionicle: Secrets of Mata Nui

Kaha

Matoran

Species: Ba-Matoran
Gender: Male
Kanohi: Powerless noble Ruru

History before the Great Cataclysm:

Contains spoilers for later parts of the story

Kaha has been a trader from the Southern Continent. He peddled goods between the Southern, Northern continent and Metru-Nui. He just so happened to be in the city of legends when Teridax put his scheme into practice, being rounded up by Vahli and put into a matoran sphere like everybody else.

He was aware that Akira used to be one of the continent's many Toa over the years, but never met her.

Post-awakening history:
Finding himself without memories on a tropical paradise of an island, Kaha gravitated towards the people with the most similar color scheme. As such, he took residence in Onu-Koro, where his natural resistance to pressure led him to initially work the deepest parts of the great mine.

However, whith his inability to see well in the dark like his peers, he soon changed professions and became a rahi tamer, forming a friendship with Midak, a fellow surface dweller.

His search for useful rahi to tame often leads him to other Wahi, and he is therefore somewhat known in the other Koro. It was during these travels that he found a rather pretty ring, which he started wearing.

Personality:
Kaha always felt like an alien in his home, something he didn't know was cause by him not being of even the same tribe. Regardless, he has thus grown to be happy being alone withhis own thoughts, and caring for the beasts he tamed.

That said, while his existence might appear to be peaceful, it is anything but. His ill fit tohis own home has left him slightly bitter, and he resents and blames the Makuta for all of it, knowing that if he was given the power, he would stop at very little tomake him go away.

Other skills and powers:

• Rahi tamer: Choosing to work with Rahi beasts as his occupation, Kaha is very knowledgeable about their behavior and properties.

Trivia:

• Theme: Starset - Antigravity
• Voice actor: Joe Flanigan
• Text color: Mediumorchid

Toa - Contains spoilers for events later in the game

Species: Ba-Toa
Gender: Male
Kanohi: Great Faxon

History before the Great Cataclysm:

Contains spoilers for later parts of the story

Kaha has been a trader from the Southern Continent. He peddled goods between the Southern, Northern continent and Metru-Nui. He just so happened to be in the city of legends when Teridax put his scheme into practice, being rounded up by Vahli and put into a matoran sphere like everybody else.

He was aware that Akira used to be one of the continent's many Toa over the years, but never met her.

Post-awakening history:
Finding himself without memories on a tropical paradise of an island, Kaha gravitated towards the people with the most similar color scheme. As such, he took residence in Onu-Koro, where his natural resistance to pressure led him to initially work the deepest parts of the great mine.

However, whith his inability to see well in the dark like his peers, he soon changed professions and became a rahi tamer, forming a friendship with Midak, a fellow surface dweller.

His search for useful rahi to tame often leads him to other Wahi, and he is therefore somewhat known in the other Koro. It was during these travels that he found a rather pretty ring, which he started wearing.

During his travels, he has joined some of his fellow traders for safety in numbers, but one day, he joined a Ta-Matoran trader named Takua, who turned out to be more of a trouble magnet. When their little group was crossing <LOCATION TBD>, they have come upon an ancient toa, buried in the sands. To their amazement, once the rays of light shone on her after they dug her up, she has reactivated, and a bolt of energy came forth from her hand, hitting Kaha and some others, leaving them transformed into toa themselves.

Personality:
Kaha always felt like an alien in his home, something he didn't know was cause by him not being of even the same tribe. Regardless, he has thus grown to be happy being alone withhis own thoughts, and caring for the beasts he tamed.

That said, while his existence might appear to be peaceful, it is anything but. His ill fit tohis own home has left him slightly bitter, and he resents and blames the Makuta for all of it, knowing that if he was given the power, he would stop at very little tomake him go away.

Other skills and powers:

• Rahi tamer: Choosing to work with Rahi beasts as his occupation, Kaha is very knowledgeable about their behavior and properties.

Trivia:

• Theme: Starset - Antigravity
• Voice actor: Joe Flanigan
• Text color: Mediumorchid

Primality

I won't be joining. Had trpuble coming up with a character and then a similar 1x1 fell into my lap. Apologies.

Bionicle: Secrets of Mata Nui

Akira

Toa

Species: Vo-Toa
Gender: Female
Kanohi: Rongoa, the mask of healing, in the shape of the Kirill

Appearance:
Akira is of average height for a Toa of her element, with a little more bulk in her muscles than would be usual. Her paint scheme is navy blue with white accents.

She has runes of white color tattooed on her body, in a language that is not recognizable to anyone but a great Rau user. She does not know their meaning, but the runes glow faintly when she uses her elemental powers.

Akira's stance is relaxed, and she moves quickly and fluidly, preferring agility to strength. In personal contact, she is often leaning on something or slouching.

History before the Great Cataclysm:

Contains spoilers for later parts of the story

Akira lived in the center of the southern continent for her entire life as a matoran. She was working as a messenger and carrier, operating a small boat drawn by rahi to ferry goods over rivers.

At that point, her life was pretty uneventful, until one day a team of Toa appeared in one of the ports seeking transport to her homeland. They were happy to ride with her and shared much of their stories with her, igniting a passion for adventure within the matoran.

As a thanks for her assistance and company, one of the Toa gave her a pretty polished gemstone.

She has never seen those Toa again in person, but one day, the toa that gave her the gem appeared in her dream, telling her that they have achieved their destiny and saying goodbye. The next morning, Akira woke up transformed to a toa.

Gobsmacked with the change, she spent an entire week contemplating why she was chosen, and what her destiny would be. A resolution came when a turaga passed by. She was shocked to see the toa that appeared to her, transformed.

Over the next few weeks, the turaga stayed with her, teaching her how to use her new powers, both physically and ethically. An opportunity to prove what she was made of finally arrived with a dark hunter raid on one of the ports.

Akira joined the couple of toa already there, Stratos and Raik, and together they drove the two hunters off with little damage to the port.

The trio didn't stay together as a permanent team, each one of them instead choosing a part of the large continent to watch over, banding together to confront the largest threats.

As time progressed, Akira became a renowned and accomplished Toa, but she grew frustrated over having to deal with the same assailants over and over, as no prison seemed to hold them for long, and the Toa Code forbade her from killing them to deal with them permanently.

It was then that Makuta Nihilix arrived to her village, looking for her. They talked for many days, with him explaining what he felt was going on in the brotherhood, and why he had a need for her. It took some persuasion, but finally, Akira realized that what the Makuta proposed was exactly what she wanted to do. On the third day, she became the first of Nihilix's Hagah, directing him to Stratos and Raik as potential recruits.

As new toa arrived to the area over time to ensure it was defended, the original trio packed up their bags and left for the far south per their new master's instructions to build a grand fortress on Artidax and start recruiting and training volunteer Toa and Matoran.

Akira has founded the Priests, a support leg of the order. She has trained with Stratos and Nihilix to expand her own usefulness, but her main focus remained preparing new recruits for life as part of the order, and supporting the Knights and Inquisitors in battle. As such, she studied and taught medicine, psychology and basics for new Toa such as mask and elemental power controls.

The Paladins barely found their first batch of Matoran and some stray Toa recruits when the forces of Makuta Ratoth attacked. Akira fought with the others, carving a nasty swathe in the Makuta's forces. However, there were too many, and one by one her old comrades fell. Raik was shattered by Ratoth, and even Nihilix fell to her talons. That was when mortally wounded Stratos sacrificed herself, summoning a weak nova with her remaining power, succeeding in destroying most of the Brotherhood forces, including Ratoth hersel.

After the battle, only Akira and Krika were left standing, with the Priest having to do her best to repair the dents in the Makuta's armor before he met the same fate as Nihilix.

With the order almost destroyed, Krika tasked Akira to leave the base to build the order anew. She has travelled all across the universe, but she never levered any toa to join them, although with some she found understanding and a promise of aid if she needed it.

She reached Metru-Nui and finally her recruitment gained some traction, as many of the matoran were afraid when the Toa Mangai started disappearing and the promise of fresh start on an island far away was appealing.

All of this was rendered naught as Teridax caused the Great Cataclysm, and the Matoran who were willing to join Akira lost all memories of her.

Akira thought about helping the Toa Metru in their task, but with a great deal of self loathing, she stayed hidden, as it was not her task and revealing her existence to Teridax might have jeopardized the chance for the Order to ever reconstruct.

Following the great ships to Mata Nui, she got through before Teridax sealed the path and made Mangaia his lair. She was not unnoticed however, and soon she was facing the Makuta's rahi, as Vakama's cease fire didn't apply to her.
Before her final stand, she launched the power rings containing the fallen Paladins’ Toa Power to all regions of Mata Nui, hoping that Destiny will lead the next Paladins to them, as well as hiding her copy of the Codex on one of the small islands in Onu-Wahi, and a map to it in Turaga Whenua's library.
She was confronted by an overwhelming force of Rahi soon after, and was knocked off of a cliff in <LOCATION TBD>. She survived the fall and started to heal thanks to her healing armor, but she fell into a coma from lack of energy, the tide slowly burying her in the sand of the beach.

Post-awakening history:
Akira is currently inactivated, buried on a beach in <LOCATION TBD>. During her inactive period, damage has accumulated and she has lost all of her memories, remembering only her name.

Personality:
While she has lost her memories, Akira's personality that was shaped by them seems intact. As such, she is a rather kind and benevolent being, who would spend an entire day healing the Matoran for nothing in return.

Until she suddenly isn't. Her fury and anger are cold and quiet, but vehement and unyielding. Coupled with her frustrations over her amnesia, she feels no remorse in taking down Makuta's beasts by the boatload, if that is what it takes to keep these matoran safe.

Equipment:

• Heavy armor: Akira's armor makes her stand out from the Toa Mata, as hers is made out of bare metal rather than colored pieces, and is shaped like medieval plate armor, clearly made for battle and easy maintenance.
• Bidents: Akira's main tools are a set of bidents that can join to form a double-sided staff, similar to the rahkshi weapons.
• Urumi: A thin flexible blade that can be rolled into a coil, which Akira carries around her waist. The blade has a massive potential for causing collateral damage, requiring a trained user, and usually not used when fighting among allies. Akira uses electromagnetic induction to better control the blade in use.

Combat skills and powers:

Contains spoilers for later part of the story

• Knight: Akira has been trained by Stratos in the ways of the Knight order. In combination with her Urumi, she is capable of wiping out a company of Visorak on her own.
• Inquisitor: Nihilix trained Akira to be able to stand up to a Makuta and any other single opponent. While she makes good use of her staff, it is her elemental powers that she shaped for this role to deadly effect.
• Nova ray: A technique Akira developed. She can focus near nova blast levels of power into a shaped ray, rather than omnidirectional blast. Like a Nova Blast, it takes an impractical amount of time to charge, and she must also maintain high level of concentration. Therefore, it is a tool of most value when an offending fortress needs removing, rather than as a quickdraw tool against an approaching army.

Other skills and powers:

Contains spoilers for later parts of the story

• Healer: Being granted a mask of healing upon her transformation, Akira took care to absorb as much medical knowledge as she could to make the best use of it.
• Survivor: After the battle of Artidax, Akira spent a great deal of time traveling alone, having to learn how to live and survive off of the land.

Trivia:

• Theme: Ace combat Zero OST - Zero
• Voice actor: Shirley Manson
• Text color: Steelblue

Bionicle: Secrets of Mata Nui

Contains spoilers for later parts of the story

“Strength, Responsibility, Dedication.”
- Virtues of the Paladin order

The Paladin Order

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Overview

The paladins were formerly the Toa Hagah team of Makuta Nihilix. They are a group who do not follow the Toa Code, and instead are sworn to the Paladin Codex. They wear special armors and weapons, and use unconventional fighting styles. Their goal is the defeat of the Teridax-led Brotherhood of Makuta and its restoration to its original purpose of producers of Rahi.

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History

When Makuta Teridax started rallying the Brotherhood for his own cause, not all of the Makuta joined him. Makuta Nihilix saw the path to destruction that was being laid, and sought to create a resistance that would bring the Brotherhood back to its original path.

Finding a like-minded individual in Makuta Krika, the two set a plan in motion that would preserve what the new brotherhood would need, and aid in defeating Teridax's group should they gain momentum.

Krika was to act as a mole in the splinter group, archiving the rahi viruses and hiding important artifacts and intelligence and feeding them to the resistance group.

Nihilix meanwhile worked carefully to remove all mentions of himself from historical records, before vanishing from Destral. He recruited a team of Toa Hagah to be the main body of the resistance, basing them on the far side of the universe on the island of Artidax, where he created some of the artifacts and rituals the Paladins would use, along with replacing the Toa Code with the Paladin Codex.

Things took a different direction though, as Teridax didn't organize a splinter group, but in one meeting took the entire brotherhood. In a stroke of luck, he assigned Krika to be Miserix’ executioner. In alignment with his role, he smuggled Miserix off of Destral to the one place where he thought he would be safe, Artidax.

They were unfortunately discovered by Makuta Ratoth en route during her inspection of her domain. A fight ensued to prevent Teridax from learning of Miserix's survival, at the end of which only Miserix, Krika and the paladin Akira were left standing, with Nihilix's armor destroyed and his essence forced to seek shelter in a battered exo-toa and leave to get a new armor forged.

After the battle, Krika locked Miserix on Artidax to keep him safe until the resistance rebuilt, and tasked Akira with taking the power rings of the fallen Paladins and finding and training new recruits. He then returned to Destral to his original task.

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Organization

The order was intended to have several groups that would take care of a part of the resistance's needs, headed by the council of grandmasters.

Inquisitors
Inquisitors are the order's elite duelists, dedicated to learning everything there is to know about the makuta and training to eliminate them. They were to be led by Makuta Nihilix himself. The group was otherwise composed of Toa only.

Knights
Where the Inquisitors were meant to fight the makuta, the Knights would have fought the rest of their armies, and as such trained to fight in and against larger groups. They were to be led by Toa Stratos and included any species, although mostly Toa and Matoran.

Keepers
Every large group needs infrastructure and funding, and that is what the Keepers did. Toa Raik directed this group of mostly Onu, Le and Po matoran.

Priests
The priests were a support group of healers, trainers, philosophers and psionics, acting in conjunction with the other groups, whether in battle or in personal issues. Lead by Toa Akira.

Seekers
The smallest group of all, Seekers were to be the Order's spies, headed by Makuta Krika.

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Specialties

Power rings
A Paladin counterpart to the Toa Stone. The toa of the order immediately transferred their power to these special rings, to preserve their power in the likely case of their demise to raise a new generation of paladins. The rings are forged from protosteel and do not activate the transformation unless a ring of an active Paladin is nearby, a mechanic introduced to make sure they would be led to the order.

Armors
Nihilix created a virus that could be applied during a forging process that would transfer a slightly modified mask power into a set of armor, and another that any mask wearing species could take to be able to tap into the Armor's power, relieving the Paladins from their dependency on the masks. Some Paladins chose to don another mask, while others opted for a sturdier helmet.

Weaponry
Unlike the code following Toa, the Paladins equipped lethal weaponry, often made by rebuilding their toa tools. Oftentimes they would also bear a second item, such as a shield, ranged weapon or a tool made to focus elemental energy.

Viruses
As a group founded by makuta, the vault on Artidax was stocked with various augmenting viruses that can be used for an advantage in battle, like temporary sense overdrive or flight.

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Assets

Artidax fortress
The base of the order, abandoned save for Miserix being locked up in the crypts, still holds many secrets.
Pool of energized protodermis
Any base frequented by a makuta has to have some. Intended for use in rahi creation, it has been used by the Master keeper to experiment with transforming masks and weapons as well.

Rahi virus vault
With the energized protodermis available, the true makuta kept with their original task and created rahi in their free time. Over time they stocked up on viruses to create the most helpful species.

Maskforge
The sanctum of the Keepers, the large forge served not only to forge new masks, but also the Paladin armors and weapons.

Suva Nui
The holy place of the order, used for gatherings of the Priests. It was designed to keep an example of every known mask, and every Paladin toa could connect to it.

Mata Nui
Before Akira's defeat, she hid some Paladin artifacts on the island.
Power rings: Hidden in the villages for destined Matoran to be found.
Codex map: Hidden by Akira in Whenua's archive.
Codex copy: Hidden by Akira on an uninhabited islet in Onu-Wahi
Kanoka discs: Akira hid several Kanoka on Mata Nui for later use, either as projectiles or to be used in mask forging.
Armor virus vials: Anticipating some matoran would find the Power rings, Akira hid a few sets of armor virus vials that would allow them to forge a mask power into their gear and use the enhanced armor.

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Active members

Makuta Nihilix: Grandmaster, Master inquisitor. Alive, but unaccounted for, within the Matoran Universe.

Makuta Krika: Grandmaster, Master seeker. Alive, acting as a makuta faithful to Teridax.

Toa Akira: Grandmaster by succession, Master priest. Alive but inactive on Mata Nui.

Bionicle: Secrets of Mata Nui

The Wall of Prophecies

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• Forsythe's Pre-launch lore modifications
• Akira (Forsythe)
• Kaha (Forsythe)

Bionicle: Secrets of Mata Nui

Secrets of Mata Nui

@Forsythe, @Cleveraptor

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"In the time before time, the Great Spirit Mata Nui descended from the heavens, and brought the matoran into an island paradise. The Matoran tribes were separated, so the Great Spirit gave them the three virtues to follow: Unity, duty and destiny. Now working as one, the people named their island home Mata Nui, in honor of the Great Spirit.

But the Great Spirit's brother, Makuta, grew jealous of the people's reverence of his brother. So, he betrayed him, casting a spell that put the Great Spirit into an eternal slumber. But the people would not offer their praises to Makuta, so he cast a shadow over the land, causing the great Rahi beasts to go on a rampage.

And now, the Toa, six mighty heroes, have arrived as was prophecized. Together, they must find the great masks of power, and then confront the Makuta, to banish him once and for all and awaken the Great Spirit."

Or so the Turga's legends say.

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Overview

SoMN is a game following an alternate Bionicle timeline, where extra characters are introduced in the original 2001 saga. The characters are those destined to transform into a different set of Toa with a hidden past and destiny they have to uncover, while learning to use their powers and facing the fallout of their unexpected arrival.

The story explores how the addition of these characters would change the Bionicle storyline going forward. Any and all changes to the canon prior to the start of the game must be made in a manner that would leave the canon events happening as they did, without change.

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Character sheet

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The Wall of History

Place to link to important posts.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

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Location: The Kingston-Gray estate
Outfit: ASTRA Armor
Skills/Powers/Equipment: N/A

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"Baseline averag-" Victoria deadpanned, before realizing Dorian was right. He couldn't see. She took her phone, filmed a panoramic shot of the estate and the surrounding area, and then connected to the phone and edited the shot to look like what she saw, before sending it to Dorian. "There. Now you can. The place is so-" she struggled to find the right word. Bewitched? Cursed? "-Enchanted, it is a unicorn short of me thinking it was woven out of a rainbow." she explained.

Then the news dropped, and the whole conversation about Nemo being dead through Dorian apparently having visions of the future to Danni bringing up talking to ghosts - Because that's a thing, apparently. - happened. Vicky merely nodded in agreement: "One of the staff was Arcade's plant and tried to kill us, another has the philosophy that we have to suffer in life to amount to anything good. So plus one on checking he actually died, and this is not one of Nimue's pain games. At this point, if a member of the MC Institute staff says the sky is blue, I'd still rather check."

Her gaze followed the direction to the estate after James suggested they go inside, but one look at the creepy hand of a doorhandle that looked like it belonged to a SCP foundation's containment cell made her decide there was no way in hell she was touching it first. Instead she turned to Mads. "I'll be fine, thanks. Whatever this is, it's working wonders." she tapped the piece of jewellry around her neck. Hanging there very loosely. One tug from being snapped off, and sending her to the afterlife.

She pouted, grabbed an edge of her armor's chestplate and instructed the piece to detach to expose her silver, gold printed skin. She told the nanites to let the object pass through, and the necklace sunk below her nanite skin, now safe from being removed. Nodding approvingly, Vicky reattached the chest plate.

Primality

@Carlyle Still recruiting? I'm thinking of a metal/iron, or possibly magnetism as an element.