Air

Air is one of the elemental powers of the Matoran UniverseMatoran UniverseA civilization of biomechanical beings living inside a colossal robot, destroyed when Teridax seized control.. Its bearers use the Le- prefix and the colour green, as with the Le-MatoranLe-MatoranGreen-powered Matoran obsessed with thrills and transport. They're basically Bionicle's daredevils., the Le-KoroLe-KoroLe-Koro is a village situated within Le-Wahi, inhabited by the Le-Matoran and home to Turaga Matau and Toa Lewa. The settlement was once held under the control of Teridax. and Le-WahiLe-WahiLe-Wahi is a region on the island of Mata Nui, inhabited by the Le-Matoran and Rahi. Formerly subject to the power of Teridax, the region is no longer under that influence. regions on the island of Mata NuiMata Nui (Location)An island created by accident on the Great Spirit's face, home to the Matoran for a thousand years., and the Le-MetruLe-MetruThe teal district where Le-Matoran managed everything that moved through Metru Nui, from chutes to airships. district of Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive.. Its best-known Toa were LewaLewaToa of Air, member of the Toa Mata and Toa Nuva, whose career was marked by repeated possession, body theft, and aerial campaigns from Le-Wahi to Karda Nui., MatauMatauA former Le-Metru test driver who became a Toa Metru, Matau wielded air, illusion, and shape-shifting before sacrificing his Toa power to wake the sleeping Matoran., and LesovikkLesovikkA Toa of Air and former commander whose team was destroyed, leaving him fractured and searching for purpose., each from a different era. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

Toa of Air#

Toa of AirToa of AirWielders of the Element of Air, typically transformed from Le-Matoran, tasked with protecting the Matoran Universe. can create, control and absorb air. In practice that means blasts and gusts of wind, cyclones, solidified air bubbles, vacuums made by stripping the air from an area, and riding wind currents for limited flight. Their main limit is that once they use up their elemental energy, they have to wait for it to recharge. Turaga of Air keep only a trace of the power: where a Toa could raise a whirlwind, a Turaga could manage a stiff breeze. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated; BIONICLE Adventures 3: The Darkness Below)

Cyclones are the element's most visible signature. In Trial by Fire, Matau pushed his powers to their limit and found himself in the centre of a whirlwind that sucked the breath from his lungs. Air also combines with other elements: with water it can make a storm or waterspout, and with fire a tornado of flame. (BIONICLE Adventures 2: Trial by Fire; BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

Like other Toa, a Toa of Air can release all their elemental energy at once in a Nova BlastNova BlastA Toa's most destructive technique, releasing all elemental power at once at the cost of total power drain., at great risk to everything nearby. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

LewaLewaToa of Air, member of the Toa Mata and Toa Nuva, whose career was marked by repeated possession, body theft, and aerial campaigns from Le-Wahi to Karda Nui., Toa Mata of Air#

LewaLewaToa of Air, member of the Toa Mata and Toa Nuva, whose career was marked by repeated possession, body theft, and aerial campaigns from Le-Wahi to Karda Nui. was the Toa Mata of Air on the island of Mata Nui, protector of the Le-MatoranLe-MatoranGreen-powered Matoran obsessed with thrills and transport. They're basically Bionicle's daredevils. of Le-KoroLe-KoroLe-Koro is a village situated within Le-Wahi, inhabited by the Le-Matoran and home to Turaga Matau and Toa Lewa. The settlement was once held under the control of Teridax. and TuragaTuragaFormer Toa who fulfilled their destiny and transformed into leaders. Turaga wield Noble Kanohi masks and weakened elemental powers, guiding their communities. MatauMatauA former Le-Metru test driver who became a Toa Metru, Matau wielded air, illusion, and shape-shifting before sacrificing his Toa power to wake the sleeping Matoran.. He was carefree and quick to act ahead of the rest of the team, which brought both rescues and setbacks. (BIONICLE Chronicles 2: Beware the Bohrok; BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

The worst setback came during the BohrokBohrokHive-minded mechanical creatures designed to reshape worlds, the Bohrok represent a threat the Toa Mata never expected. campaign. Le-Koro fell to Matoran controlled by krana, and Lewa himself was overcome and fitted with a krana, joining the swarm's controlled forces until OnuaOnuaOnua was the Toa Mata and Toa Nuva of Earth, a quiet, deliberate warrior whose patience and underground mastery anchored his team across the Matoran Universe. freed him. (BIONICLE Chronicles 2: Beware the Bohrok)

He went on to become a Toa NuvaToa NuvaThe form the Toa Mata took after stepping into the Energized Protodermis beneath the Bahrag, with new masks, new tools, and the elemental scale to fight Karda Nui. of Air, with stronger powers than before. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

MatauMatauA former Le-Metru test driver who became a Toa Metru, Matau wielded air, illusion, and shape-shifting before sacrificing his Toa power to wake the sleeping Matoran. and 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.#

MatauMatauA former Le-Metru test driver who became a Toa Metru, Matau wielded air, illusion, and shape-shifting before sacrificing his Toa power to wake the sleeping Matoran. was 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. of Air on Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive.. He had been a Le-Matoran of Le-MetruLe-MetruThe teal district where Le-Matoran managed everything that moved through Metru Nui, from chutes to airships., the city's transport district, until Toa LhikanLhikanToa of Fire, leader of the Toa Mangai, and the last Toa of Metru Nui, who surrendered his Toa Power to create the Toa Metru and died defending Vakama. gave him a Toa Stone and the Toa Suva turned him into a Toa. (BIONICLE Adventures 1: Mystery of Metru Nui; BIONICLE 2: Legends of Metru Nui)

His Aero SlicersAero SlicersThe Toa Tools wielded by Toa Metru Matau, capable of channeling Air, serving as melee blades, and doubling as glider wings and rotors for flight. could be fixed to his back and switched into glider wings and rotors. He first flew with them by accident: in Legends of Metru Nui he slipped from Vakama's grasp while hanging from a Ko-MetruKo-MetruKo-Metru was Metru Nui's frozen intellectual quarter, home to the scholarly Ko-Matoran race. chute support and the slicers carried him into the air. (BIONICLE 2: Legends of Metru Nui; BIONICLE Adventures 3: The Darkness Below)

As a Toa HordikaToa HordikaToa mutated by Visorak venom into bestial hybrids, forced to fight their primal nature and hunt for a cure., Matau kept his element and fired air RhotukaRhotukaRhotuka were wheels of pure energy generated by living beings, shaped by the user's nature, and launched through natural or artificial launchers. spinners. After the Hordika mutation was undone and the Toa Metru gave up their power, he became a Turaga of Air. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

Le-MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. and the geography of Air#

Le-MetruLe-MetruThe teal district where Le-Matoran managed everything that moved through Metru Nui, from chutes to airships. was the transport district of Metru Nui, home to the chute network that carried Matoran and goods around the city. After the Great CataclysmThe Great CataclysmThe day Makuta Teridax put the Great Spirit to sleep, the Great Spirit Robot fell from the sky, Metru Nui flooded, and Voya Nui tore loose from the Southern Continent., the Le-Matoran made their home on Mata Nui in Le-KoroLe-KoroLe-Koro is a village situated within Le-Wahi, inhabited by the Le-Matoran and home to Turaga Matau and Toa Lewa. The settlement was once held under the control of Teridax., a village high in the trees of the Le-Wahi jungle. (BIONICLE Adventures 1: Mystery of Metru Nui; BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

Le-Wahi was dense jungle. In both eras, Air communities lived around ways of moving fast, whether the chutes of Le-Metru or the treetop routes of Le-Koro. (BIONICLE Chronicles 2: Beware the Bohrok; BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

Le-Matoran can't use elemental power themselves, but they're known for being nimble and at home in high, precarious places. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

LesovikkLesovikkA Toa of Air and former commander whose team was destroyed, leaving him fractured and searching for purpose. and the older line#

LesovikkLesovikkA Toa of Air and former commander whose team was destroyed, leaving him fractured and searching for purpose. was a Toa of Air who led the Toa Cordak long before the Toa Mata. When his team met a band of Zyglak, he hesitated for a fatal second and his whole team was killed. Afterwards he felt unworthy of being called a Toa and spent tens of thousands of years wandering, looking for the Matoran friends who had been sent to Karzahni. (Dreams of Destruction; BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

In the waters around Mahri Nui he finally faced KarzahniKarzahniBionicle used one cursed name three times, for a being, a realm and a plant, and every one of them earns it. This article untangles all three., who trapped him in a vision of the day his team died. In the vision Lesovikk summoned a cyclone and saved them, and he only broke free when a reference to the Zyglak brought back the real memory. He then helped trap Karzahni. (Dreams of Destruction)

After the Battle of Bara Magna he reached Spherus Magna, where a wave of energy from the Ignika cured the mutations the Pit's waters had given him. He then stormed up to PohatuPohatuPohatu was the Toa Mata and Toa Nuva of Stone, guardian of Po-Wahi, whose speed and steady humour anchored the team through every era of the Matoran Universe. and KopakaKopakaKopaka was the Toa Nuva of Ice, the loner of the Toa Mata, and one of the six warriors created on Artakha to protect the Great Spirit Mata Nui., furious that Karzahni had been set free, refused their help, and set off alone into the dark to find him. (BIONICLE: Journey's End; The Powers That Be)

Air in the cosmological order#

Air holds no special place among the elements in the way Light does, with its rare and hidden bearers. It's one of the six elements of the standard Matoran villages, and the Toa of Air role has been filled across every era of the story. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

The element did reach Spherus Magna's people, though not through an Element Lord. When 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. touched the Glatorian's weapons to the Ignika, GreshGreshA young Glatorian of the Jungle Tribe who served Tesara and later joined the alliance that defended Bara Magna during its final crisis. of the jungle tribe came away with power over air. (BIONICLE: The Legend Reborn)