Aft

Aft was a Ta-MatoranTa-MatoranThe Fire-element Matoran of Ta-Metru and Ta-Koro, forgers of masks and Kanoka, lava farmers, and the standing core of the Ta-Koro Guard during the war for Mata Nui. native to Ta-MetruTa-MetruThe fire district where Ta-Matoran perfected their craft and powered Metru Nui's industry for thousands of years. who served as a Lava FarmerLava FarmerTa-Matoran who harvested the Mangai Volcano's lava for tools and soil, sustaining Mata Nui's entire ecosystem. in Ta-KoroTa-Koro Kolhii StadiumThe largest Kolhii venue on Mata Nui, host to the championship match in which the Mask of Light first appeared before the public eye. during the Mata NuiMata Nui (Location)An island created by accident on the Great Spirit's face, home to the Matoran for a thousand years. era. He lived through the seal of the Matoran SphereMatoran SpheresThe silver hibernation pods used by Teridax, posing as Turaga Dume, to capture, store, and transport the entire Matoran population of Metru Nui during the Great Cataclysm., the Bohrok WarThe Bohrok SwarmsThe six-tribe Matoran Universe cleanup force awakened to strip the island of Mata Nui back to bare rock for the Great Spirit's reawakening., the RahkshiRahiThe Rahi were the biomechanical wildlife of the Matoran Universe, built largely by the Brotherhood of Makuta, ranging from background fauna to engineered war beasts. destruction of Ta-KoroTa-Koro Kolhii StadiumThe largest Kolhii venue on Mata Nui, host to the championship match in which the Mask of Light first appeared before the public eye., the return to Metru NuiMetruIn the Matoran language a metru was a single district of Metru Nui; the city was divided into six such districts, one for each element, and the term covered both the place and the elemental community that lived in it., the takeover of the Matoran UniverseThe Matoran CouncilThe governing body of the sunken city of Mahri Nui, a rotating council of Matoran leaders who met monthly in the Council Chamber of the Mahri Nui Fortress to plan the city's future, distribute the gifts from above, and decide the response to the Barraki incursion. by TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna., and the migration of the surviving MatoranThe Matoran CouncilThe governing body of the sunken city of Mahri Nui, a rotating council of Matoran leaders who met monthly in the Council Chamber of the Mahri Nui Fortress to plan the city's future, distribute the gifts from above, and decide the response to the Barraki incursion. population to the reformed Spherus MagnaMata Nui: Great Spirit of the Matoran UniverseBuilt by the Great Beings as a biomechanical guardian, betrayed by Teridax, and returned in a smaller form to reshape Spherus Magna., and was last recorded residing with his fellow Ta-MatoranTa-MatoranThe Fire-element Matoran of Ta-Metru and Ta-Koro, forgers of masks and Kanoka, lava farmers, and the standing core of the Ta-Koro Guard during the war for Mata Nui. and the wider Fire TribeFire TribeThe master smiths of Bara Magna who forged tools for all tribes before the Shattering scattered them into conflict. in the Great VolcanoThe Great VolcanoThe volcano in the country north of the desert of Bara Magna that the Element Lord of Fire claimed as his seat and inside which the Ta-Matoran later settled with the Fire Tribe on Spherus Magna..

Origin in Ta-MetruTa-MetruThe fire district where Ta-Matoran perfected their craft and powered Metru Nui's industry for thousands of years.#

Aft's early life on Metru NuiMetruIn the Matoran language a metru was a single district of Metru Nui; the city was divided into six such districts, one for each element, and the term covered both the place and the elemental community that lived in it. is largely undocumented, owing to the memory loss inflicted by the Matoran SphereMatoran SpheresThe silver hibernation pods used by Teridax, posing as Turaga Dume, to capture, store, and transport the entire Matoran population of Metru Nui during the Great Cataclysm.. The chronicled record places his origin in Ta-MetruTa-MetruThe fire district where Ta-Matoran perfected their craft and powered Metru Nui's industry for thousands of years., the fire-working district of the city. His trade in that period is not recorded. The single documented event of his Metru NuiMetruIn the Matoran language a metru was a single district of Metru Nui; the city was divided into six such districts, one for each element, and the term covered both the place and the elemental community that lived in it. life is his summoning to the ColiseumThe ColiseumCentral tower of Metru Nui, serving as government seat, sporting arena, and, during Teridax's masquerade, a prison for the city's Matoran population. by a disguised TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna., where he was placed into a Matoran SphereMatoran SpheresThe silver hibernation pods used by Teridax, posing as Turaga Dume, to capture, store, and transport the entire Matoran population of Metru Nui during the Great Cataclysm. and taken away from the city.

His rescue came at the hands of the Toa MetruMetruIn the Matoran language a metru was a single district of Metru Nui; the city was divided into six such districts, one for each element, and the term covered both the place and the elemental community that lived in it., who used their Toa PowerToa PowerThe fundamental energy of a Toa, depleted when destiny's fulfilled and transferable through specially prepared stones. to wake the sealed MatoranThe Matoran CouncilThe governing body of the sunken city of Mahri Nui, a rotating council of Matoran leaders who met monthly in the Council Chamber of the Mahri Nui Fortress to plan the city's future, distribute the gifts from above, and decide the response to the Barraki incursion. after extracting the spheres. The sphere had two recorded effects on Aft. The first was the gradual erasure of his Metru NuiMetruIn the Matoran language a metru was a single district of Metru Nui; the city was divided into six such districts, one for each element, and the term covered both the place and the elemental community that lived in it. memories. The second was a physical reduction: he became shorter and weaker than he had been on the city, in line with the documented general effect on all sealed MatoranThe Matoran CouncilThe governing body of the sunken city of Mahri Nui, a rotating council of Matoran leaders who met monthly in the Council Chamber of the Mahri Nui Fortress to plan the city's future, distribute the gifts from above, and decide the response to the Barraki incursion.. His arrival on Mata NuiMata Nui (Location)An island created by accident on the Great Spirit's face, home to the Matoran for a thousand years. was therefore as a reduced, memory-stripped MatoranThe Matoran CouncilThe governing body of the sunken city of Mahri Nui, a rotating council of Matoran leaders who met monthly in the Council Chamber of the Mahri Nui Fortress to plan the city's future, distribute the gifts from above, and decide the response to the Barraki incursion. with no recoverable knowledge of his origin in Ta-MetruTa-MetruThe fire district where Ta-Matoran perfected their craft and powered Metru Nui's industry for thousands of years..

Lava Farmer of Ta-KoroTa-Koro Kolhii StadiumThe largest Kolhii venue on Mata Nui, host to the championship match in which the Mask of Light first appeared before the public eye.#

On Mata NuiMata Nui (Location)An island created by accident on the Great Spirit's face, home to the Matoran for a thousand years., Aft took up Lava Farming as his trade. Lava Farming was a Ta-MatoranTa-MatoranThe Fire-element Matoran of Ta-Metru and Ta-Koro, forgers of masks and Kanoka, lava farmers, and the standing core of the Ta-Koro Guard during the war for Mata Nui. profession centred on the cultivation, channelling, and management of the lava flows that surrounded Ta-KoroTa-Koro Kolhii StadiumThe largest Kolhii venue on Mata Nui, host to the championship match in which the Mask of Light first appeared before the public eye., the village built into the slopes of the MangaiLava LauncherA Skakdi weapon carried by Hakann that fired spheres of lava and drew its ammunition from ambient heat, abandoned when its wielder was mutated in the Pit. volcano. The trade required the natural Ta-MatoranTa-MatoranThe Fire-element Matoran of Ta-Metru and Ta-Koro, forgers of masks and Kanoka, lava farmers, and the standing core of the Ta-Koro Guard during the war for Mata Nui. resistance to heat and fire that was the common property of the species, allowing the farmer to work in conditions that would have killed a MatoranThe Matoran CouncilThe governing body of the sunken city of Mahri Nui, a rotating council of Matoran leaders who met monthly in the Council Chamber of the Mahri Nui Fortress to plan the city's future, distribute the gifts from above, and decide the response to the Barraki incursion. of any other element. Aft possessed that resistance as the residual manifestation of his inaccessible elemental Fire powers, in line with the wider Ta-MatoranTa-MatoranThe Fire-element Matoran of Ta-Metru and Ta-Koro, forgers of masks and Kanoka, lava farmers, and the standing core of the Ta-Koro Guard during the war for Mata Nui. population.

He suffered through the disruptions that the Mata NuiMata Nui (Location)An island created by accident on the Great Spirit's face, home to the Matoran for a thousand years. era inflicted on the village. The infected RahiRahiThe Rahi were the biomechanical wildlife of the Matoran Universe, built largely by the Brotherhood of Makuta, ranging from background fauna to engineered war beasts. attacks that pre-dated the arrival of the Toa MataWho are the Toa Mata?Six warriors built to order by Artakha, stored in canisters, dropped into the ocean. This is the origin story of Bionicle's heroes and why their first week of work was entirely amnesiac. reached Ta-KoroTa-Koro Kolhii StadiumThe largest Kolhii venue on Mata Nui, host to the championship match in which the Mask of Light first appeared before the public eye. as they reached every KoroPo-KoroPo-Koro was the Po-Matoran village in Po-Wahi, led by Turaga Onewa and guarded by Toa Pohatu, reached through a single statue-lined road called the Path of Prophecies., and the Bohrok WarThe Bohrok SwarmsThe six-tribe Matoran Universe cleanup force awakened to strip the island of Mata Nui back to bare rock for the Great Spirit's reawakening. that followed brought direct swarm engagements against the village's defenders. Aft was not a member of the Ta-Koro GuardTa-Koro GuardThe Ta-Koro Guard was the largest standing Matoran fighting force on Mata Nui, captained by Jaller and active from the early Rahi conflicts through the return to Metru Nui., and the chronicled record does not place him in the front line of those defences. He survived the campaigns in the position of an ordinary MatoranThe Matoran CouncilThe governing body of the sunken city of Mahri Nui, a rotating council of Matoran leaders who met monthly in the Council Chamber of the Mahri Nui Fortress to plan the city's future, distribute the gifts from above, and decide the response to the Barraki incursion. of his village, sharing the conditions of the wider population.

Rebuilding at Kini-NuiThe Battle of Kini-NuiWhile the Toa Mata descended into Mangaia to confront Makuta Teridax, six Matoran with bamboo disks held the temple gate that was their only way back.#

After the defeat of the Bohrok-KalBohrok-Kal Kaita ZaA theoretical fusion of Tahnok-Kal, Pahrak-Kal, and Nuhvok-Kal, capable of fusion in principle but never assembled during the Bohrok-Kal campaign., Aft was summoned to Kini-NuiThe Battle of Kini-NuiWhile the Toa Mata descended into Mangaia to confront Makuta Teridax, six Matoran with bamboo disks held the temple gate that was their only way back. with the rest of the MatoranThe Matoran CouncilThe governing body of the sunken city of Mahri Nui, a rotating council of Matoran leaders who met monthly in the Council Chamber of the Mahri Nui Fortress to plan the city's future, distribute the gifts from above, and decide the response to the Barraki incursion. population, where he was rebuilt by the TuragaOnewaOnewa served as Toa Metru of Stone, led Po-Koro through the Dark Time, and constructed the Metru Nui statue honoring the fallen Toa Mahri Matoro. into a stronger, larger, and more agile form. The mass rebuilding was the TuragaOnewaOnewa served as Toa Metru of Stone, led Po-Koro through the Dark Time, and constructed the Metru Nui statue honoring the fallen Toa Mahri Matoro. council's response to the changed conditions facing the island in the period leading into the RahkshiRahiThe Rahi were the biomechanical wildlife of the Matoran Universe, built largely by the Brotherhood of Makuta, ranging from background fauna to engineered war beasts. attacks, and Aft's upgrade followed the same pattern as the rest of his cohort.

He met HahliHahliA Ga-Matoran scholar who rose to become Chronicler of Mata Nui, then Toa Inika, then Toa Mahri of Water during the final crises of the Matoran Universe. during one of her visits to Ta-KoroTa-Koro Kolhii StadiumThe largest Kolhii venue on Mata Nui, host to the championship match in which the Mask of Light first appeared before the public eye. and spoke with her about his work as a Lava FarmerLava FarmerTa-Matoran who harvested the Mangai Volcano's lava for tools and soil, sustaining Mata Nui's entire ecosystem.. Later, after the KolhiiKolhiiKolhii was the inter-village athletic contest of Mata Nui, descended from the earlier Akilini of Metru Nui and played by all six Koro until the island's evacuation. Championship at Ta-KoroTa-Koro Kolhii StadiumThe largest Kolhii venue on Mata Nui, host to the championship match in which the Mask of Light first appeared before the public eye., the RahkshiRahiThe Rahi were the biomechanical wildlife of the Matoran Universe, built largely by the Brotherhood of Makuta, ranging from background fauna to engineered war beasts. struck the village, and Aft was evacuated with the rest of the population when the molten landscape consumed Ta-KoroTa-Koro Kolhii StadiumThe largest Kolhii venue on Mata Nui, host to the championship match in which the Mask of Light first appeared before the public eye..

Return to Metru NuiMetruIn the Matoran language a metru was a single district of Metru Nui; the city was divided into six such districts, one for each element, and the term covered both the place and the elemental community that lived in it. and the Coliseum ceremonies#

After the defeat of MakutaTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna. in MangaiaTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna. and the discovery of the route back to Metru NuiMetruIn the Matoran language a metru was a single district of Metru Nui; the city was divided into six such districts, one for each element, and the term covered both the place and the elemental community that lived in it., Aft returned to the city with the rest of the MatoranThe Matoran CouncilThe governing body of the sunken city of Mahri Nui, a rotating council of Matoran leaders who met monthly in the Council Chamber of the Mahri Nui Fortress to plan the city's future, distribute the gifts from above, and decide the response to the Barraki incursion. population. He assisted in the rebuilding of Metru NuiMetruIn the Matoran language a metru was a single district of Metru Nui; the city was divided into six such districts, one for each element, and the term covered both the place and the elemental community that lived in it. until the Staff of ArtakhaThe Staff of ArtakhaA restoration artifact forged by Artakha himself, used by Helryx to reverse the environmental damage of the Great Cataclysm. completed the remainder of the work in a single elemental event, restoring the city to its pre-cataclysm condition. The chronicled record places him in the audience of two of the major ColiseumThe ColiseumCentral tower of Metru Nui, serving as government seat, sporting arena, and, during Teridax's masquerade, a prison for the city's Matoran population. ceremonies of that period. The first was the ceremony held in honour of MatoroMatoroA quiet Ko-Matoran translator who became a Toa Inika and then a Toa Mahri, Matoro gave his life with the Mask of Life to restore Mata Nui., after the Toa MahriToa InikaSix former Matoran who entered Karzahni broken and emerged as the next Toa team, transformed on the shore of Voya Nui by a lightning strike from the red star.'s sacrifice that had restored the Great SpiritMata Nui: Great Spirit of the Matoran UniverseBuilt by the Great Beings as a biomechanical guardian, betrayed by Teridax, and returned in a smaller form to reshape Spherus Magna. to the brink of waking. The second was the ceremony in which TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna. revealed that he had taken control of the body of Mata NuiMata NuiBuilt by the Great Beings to restore Spherus Magna, Mata Nui sustained an entire civilisation inside his body, was deposed by Teridax, and reclaimed his purpose as a mortal on Bara Magna. and become the de facto ruler of the Matoran UniverseThe Matoran CouncilThe governing body of the sunken city of Mahri Nui, a rotating council of Matoran leaders who met monthly in the Council Chamber of the Mahri Nui Fortress to plan the city's future, distribute the gifts from above, and decide the response to the Barraki incursion..

The record does not detail Aft's role during the Reign of ShadowsReign of ShadowsThe year Teridax ruled the Matoran Universe from inside Mata Nui's body, and the scattered resistance plots that ran against him until the Great Spirit returned from Bara Magna. that followed. He was not a member of the Matoran ResistanceThe Matoran ResistanceThe covert insurgency waged by six unenslaved Matoran of Voya Nui against the Piraka occupation, sustaining Matoran agency through the interval between the Piraka takeover and the recovery of the Mask of Life., and he is not placed in the ArchivesThe Matoran ResistanceThe covert insurgency waged by six unenslaved Matoran of Voya Nui against the Piraka occupation, sustaining Matoran agency through the interval between the Piraka takeover and the recovery of the Mask of Life. cell that included MackuMackuMacku was a Ga-Matoran of Metru Nui and later Ga-Koro, attendant to Turaga Nokama, Kolhii partner to Hahli at the championship at Ta-Koro, and a member of the Chronicler's Company., KapuraThe Matoran ResistanceThe covert insurgency waged by six unenslaved Matoran of Voya Nui against the Piraka occupation, sustaining Matoran agency through the interval between the Piraka takeover and the recovery of the Mask of Life., and HafuThe Onu-Koro Trading GuildThe commercial union of the Onu-Matoran traders of Onu-Koro, led by Zemya, pressing the Turaga on the village's marketplace isolation, the Lightstone shortage, and the dangers of the routes that fed the underground city.. He survived the period in the position of an ordinary Ta-MatoranTa-MatoranThe Fire-element Matoran of Ta-Metru and Ta-Koro, forgers of masks and Kanoka, lava farmers, and the standing core of the Ta-Koro Guard during the war for Mata Nui. of the city, continuing in whatever Lava-Farming or related work the conditions of the TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna. administration permitted.

Migration to Spherus MagnaMata Nui: Great Spirit of the Matoran UniverseBuilt by the Great Beings as a biomechanical guardian, betrayed by Teridax, and returned in a smaller form to reshape Spherus Magna.#

After the Battle of Bara MagnaThe Battle of Bara MagnaThe Great Spirit Robot fell from the sky carrying Teridax in stolen flesh, and the desert world below produced a champion who carried Mata Nui's consciousness back into the fight. and the death of MakutaTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna. TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna. at the hands of Mata NuiMata NuiBuilt by the Great Beings to restore Spherus Magna, Mata Nui sustained an entire civilisation inside his body, was deposed by Teridax, and reclaimed his purpose as a mortal on Bara Magna., Aft evacuated the heavily damaged Great Spirit RobotThe Great Spirit Robot, explainedBionicle's whole universe lives inside a 40-million-foot robot built by the Great Beings. Here is what it is, why it was built, and how it ended. with the other MatoranThe Matoran CouncilThe governing body of the sunken city of Mahri Nui, a rotating council of Matoran leaders who met monthly in the Council Chamber of the Mahri Nui Fortress to plan the city's future, distribute the gifts from above, and decide the response to the Barraki incursion. and migrated to the surface of the newly reformed planet of Spherus MagnaMata Nui: Great Spirit of the Matoran UniverseBuilt by the Great Beings as a biomechanical guardian, betrayed by Teridax, and returned in a smaller form to reshape Spherus Magna.. On the recombined planet, the Ta-MatoranTa-MatoranThe Fire-element Matoran of Ta-Metru and Ta-Koro, forgers of masks and Kanoka, lava farmers, and the standing core of the Ta-Koro Guard during the war for Mata Nui. population settled with the Bara MagnaThe Battle of Bara MagnaThe Great Spirit Robot fell from the sky carrying Teridax in stolen flesh, and the desert world below produced a champion who carried Mata Nui's consciousness back into the fight. Fire TribeFire VillagersThe villager tribe of the Region of Fire on Okoto, residents of the volcanic mountains and lava plains under the Protector Narmoto, the descendants of Mamuk who endured the Skull Spider menace and witnessed the arrival of Tahu in the second age. in the region of the Great VolcanoThe Great VolcanoThe volcano in the country north of the desert of Bara Magna that the Element Lord of Fire claimed as his seat and inside which the Ta-Matoran later settled with the Fire Tribe on Spherus Magna., the merger of the two fire-aligned populations giving Lava Farmers a direct correspondence in the new volcanic landscape. Aft's last recorded location is in that volcano. His status at the close of the chronicled record is given as alive.

Place in the Ta-MatoranTa-MatoranThe Fire-element Matoran of Ta-Metru and Ta-Koro, forgers of masks and Kanoka, lava farmers, and the standing core of the Ta-Koro Guard during the war for Mata Nui. record#

Aft's documented life is comparatively brief, with a single chronicled appearance in Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final ChronicleTakua's Journey Across Mata Nui: The Chronicler's Path to Kini-NuiA wandering Ta-Matoran with no memory of how he reached the beach walked the six villages of Mata Nui, witnessed the Toa Mata's awakening, and organized the defense that held Kini-Nui.. His significance in the wider Ta-MatoranTa-MatoranThe Fire-element Matoran of Ta-Metru and Ta-Koro, forgers of masks and Kanoka, lava farmers, and the standing core of the Ta-Koro Guard during the war for Mata Nui. record lies less in any single dramatic action than in the unbroken thread of his survival across every major upheaval of the Matoran UniverseThe Matoran CouncilThe governing body of the sunken city of Mahri Nui, a rotating council of Matoran leaders who met monthly in the Council Chamber of the Mahri Nui Fortress to plan the city's future, distribute the gifts from above, and decide the response to the Barraki incursion.'s closing era. He was sealed in a Matoran SphereMatoran SpheresThe silver hibernation pods used by Teridax, posing as Turaga Dume, to capture, store, and transport the entire Matoran population of Metru Nui during the Great Cataclysm. on Metru NuiMetruIn the Matoran language a metru was a single district of Metru Nui; the city was divided into six such districts, one for each element, and the term covered both the place and the elemental community that lived in it., rescued and rebuilt on Mata NuiMata Nui (Location)An island created by accident on the Great Spirit's face, home to the Matoran for a thousand years., evacuated from Ta-KoroTa-Koro Kolhii StadiumThe largest Kolhii venue on Mata Nui, host to the championship match in which the Mask of Light first appeared before the public eye. when the RahkshiRahiThe Rahi were the biomechanical wildlife of the Matoran Universe, built largely by the Brotherhood of Makuta, ranging from background fauna to engineered war beasts. destroyed it, returned to the rebuilt Metru NuiMetruIn the Matoran language a metru was a single district of Metru Nui; the city was divided into six such districts, one for each element, and the term covered both the place and the elemental community that lived in it., endured the Reign of ShadowsReign of ShadowsThe year Teridax ruled the Matoran Universe from inside Mata Nui's body, and the scattered resistance plots that ran against him until the Great Spirit returned from Bara Magna., and migrated to Spherus MagnaMata Nui: Great Spirit of the Matoran UniverseBuilt by the Great Beings as a biomechanical guardian, betrayed by Teridax, and returned in a smaller form to reshape Spherus Magna. at the end of the war. He held no title and led no faction. He kept his trade, and he reached the reformed planet alive.