Aiyetoro

Aiyetoro is an Onu-MatoranOnu-MatoranEarth-wielding Matoran of the deep who adapted to darkness and built the Matoran Universe's defensive cavalry. from Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive. who lived and worked as a miner in Onu-KoroOnu-KoroOnu-Koro was the earth engineers' city, where underground isolation created one of Mata Nui's most self-sufficient settlements, until the Bohrok came. on the island of Mata Nui. Little is recorded of his life beyond his trade, which places him among the many ordinary MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. whose work kept their villages going. (Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final Chronicle)

Metru Nui#

Aiyetoro lived and worked in Onu-MetruOnu-MetruThe deep archive-city that made mining and historical records preservation the beating heart of Metru Nui., though his trade there isn't recorded. Like most of the city's Matoran, he was captured by VahkiVahkiMetru Nui's mechanical law enforcement squads, designed to maintain rigid order but ultimately undermined by chaos beyond their programming. acting for TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna., who was disguised as Turaga DumeDumeDume is a Turaga of Fire and the former ruler of Metru Nui, distinguished by his red and black coloring and the Noble Kanohi Kiril, the Mask of Regeneration. As a member of the Turaga of Metru Nui, he wields a Staff of Office and commands a weakened mastery of Fire. He later resides on the reformed Spherus Magna., and 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.. The Toa MetruToa Metru and Toa HordikaSix Matoran elevated by Lhikan to save their city, mutated by Visorak venom, and restored in time to deliver the population to safety. rescued him along with the others, and he woke on the shores of Naho BayNaho BayThe body of water that made up most of Ga-Wahi, named for a fallen Toa of Water and home to the floating village of Ga-Koro on its surface. on Mata Nui. (BIONICLE Adventures 4: Legends of Metru Nui; BIONICLE 2: Legends of Metru Nui)

Mata Nui#

Time in the sphere had wiped Aiyetoro's memories and left him smaller and weaker. He still helped build Onu-KoroOnu-KoroOnu-Koro was the earth engineers' city, where underground isolation created one of Mata Nui's most self-sufficient settlements, until the Bohrok came. under Turaga WhenuaWhenuaToa Metru of Earth and later Turaga of Onu-Koro, formerly an Onu-Metru archivist whose career in the Archives shaped his role across the rescue of Metru Nui and the long residency on Mata Nui., using parts from the airships that had carried the Matoran to the island. (BIONICLE Adventures 4: Legends of Metru Nui; BIONICLE World)

In Onu-Koro he became a miner, digging for ore. When 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. visited during the Kolhii Tournament, he was struggling to finish his shift without a lightstone. She fetched one for him from the Great Mine, and he paid her 25 widgets and explained the Virtues honoured in Onu-Koro: "It is our Duty to dig, and our Destiny to find them!" (Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final Chronicle)

When the RahkshiBionicle Rahkshi: the Sons of Makuta from Mask of LightRahkshi are armoured hunters made from kraata, the slug-like creatures of the Makuta. Six of them chased the Mask of Light across Mata Nui in 2003. Here's what they are, the different kinds and where they turn up in the films, books and comics. attacked Onu-Koro, Aiyetoro was evacuated with the other Matoran. (BIONICLE: Mask of Light)

Return and aftermath#

Aiyetoro helped build the boats that carried the Matoran back to Metru Nui, and once there he worked on rebuilding the parts of the city that had fallen into ruin. When JallerJallerJaller served as Captain of the Ta-Koro Guard, led the Toa Inika to Voya Nui, and commanded the Toa Mahri through the recovery of the Mask of Life. ordered the Matoran to stop work to make the Turaga say where the Toa Nuva had gone, Aiyetoro downed tools too, but he eventually went back to work. (BIONICLE Adventures 1: Mystery of Metru Nui; BIONICLE Legends 1: Island of Doom)

Island of Doom is the last story to mention him. Greg Farshtey later said, outside the stories, that Aiyetoro moved to Spherus Magna with the other surviving Matoran after Teridax's defeat. (BIONICLE Legends 1: Island of Doom)