Amphibax

Amphibax was a soldier of EhlekEhlekA Barraki warlord with electrical powers who led aquatic forces against the Brotherhood of Makuta.'s army who became a Dark HunterThe Dark HuntersA mercenary organization founded on Odina by The Shadowed One and Ancient, contracted across the Matoran Universe for assassination and theft, and ultimately reduced to a battered remnant by the fall of the universe itself.. Few outsiders could describe him, for few had ever seen him and lived, and he made his name as a specialist in aquatic warfare under The Shadowed OneThe Shadowed OneThe Shadowed One is the leader of the Dark Hunters, a black, yellow, and silver figure based on Spherus Magna. Armed with a staff and a Rhotuka, the Shadowed One directs the organization..

Service under Ehlek#

Amphibax once served in EhlekEhlekA Barraki warlord with electrical powers who led aquatic forces against the Brotherhood of Makuta.'s army during the reign of the League of Six KingdomsLeague of Six KingdomsThe League of Six Kingdoms was an alliance composed of various species, with ties to Xia and many other islands. Connected to both the Order of Mata Nui and the Brotherhood of Makuta, the League included Pridak among its ranks, and its members collectively held several powers of unknown scope. Its stated objective was the overthrow of Mata Nui., the alliance of warlords that controlled much of the Matoran UniverseMatoran UniverseA civilization of biomechanical beings living inside a colossal robot, destroyed when Teridax seized control. between roughly 95,000 and 80,000 years ago. When the BarrakiThe BarrakiSix warlords who built an empire spanning most of the Matoran Universe, fell in a single Brotherhood ambush, and spent millennia mutated in the Pit. were captured and the League was disassembled, Amphibax set out to search for and rescue Ehlek. The attempt cost him a hand. He became an undersea wanderer afterward, drifting through the oceans without a master.

The Dark HuntersThe Dark HuntersA mercenary organization founded on Odina by The Shadowed One and Ancient, contracted across the Matoran Universe for assassination and theft, and ultimately reduced to a battered remnant by the fall of the universe itself. later recruited him. The Shadowed OneThe Shadowed OneThe Shadowed One is the leader of the Dark Hunters, a black, yellow, and silver figure based on Spherus Magna. Armed with a staff and a Rhotuka, the Shadowed One directs the organization. took him to be an exile from some undersea land, and Amphibax did nothing to correct the impression.

Missions for the Dark Hunters#

Amphibax specialized in aquatic work: missions beneath the surface, attacks on Brotherhood of MakutaThe Brotherhood of MakutaAn organization of Makuta created by Mata Nui to police his universe and build Rahi, later seized by Teridax and turned into the instrument of the Plan that overthrew the Great Spirit. vessels, and raids on the coastlines of MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body.-inhabited islands. His reputation became a weapon in its own right, since rumors that he was in the area were enough to halt local sea traffic.

He was eventually assigned to oversee events on Voya NuiVoya NuiAn island born from catastrophe and hiding the universe's most powerful artifact, Voya Nui was everything Bionicle 2006 promised: danger, mystery, and a race against time. from the surrounding seas, watching the rogue PirakaPirakaSix rogue Skakdi mercenaries who broke from the Dark Hunters to hunt the Mask of Life on Voya Nui. who had seized the island. He did not know that the imprisoned BarrakiThe BarrakiSix warlords who built an empire spanning most of the Matoran Universe, fell in a single Brotherhood ambush, and spent millennia mutated in the Pit., the very warlords he had once served under, lay directly below him in The PitThe PitThe Order of Mata Nui's maximum-security underwater prison where the Barraki warlords were held until catastrophe broke their chains.. When Voya Nui returned to the Southern ContinentThe Southern ContinentThe Southern Continent was a vast landmass beneath the Matoran Universe, scarred by Voya Nui's separation and held under Makuta Mutran's nominal dominion., he went back to OdinaOdinaOdina is a member of both the Dark Hunters and the Cliff Screechers, operating within the Matoran Universe. Formerly in possession of the powers of Vamprah, Odina retains no elemental abilities in the present day.. He and the rest of the Dark HuntersThe Dark HuntersA mercenary organization founded on Odina by The Shadowed One and Ancient, contracted across the Matoran Universe for assassination and theft, and ultimately reduced to a battered remnant by the fall of the universe itself. fled to XiaXiaA hostile island southeast of Metru Nui, home to the Vortixx and their brutal mercenary culture. after OdinaOdinaOdina is a member of both the Dark Hunters and the Cliff Screechers, operating within the Matoran Universe. Formerly in possession of the powers of Vamprah, Odina retains no elemental abilities in the present day. was overrun by RahkshiRahkshiArmor suits powered by parasitic Kraata, Rahkshi were Teridax's most effective soldiers and among Bionicle's most visually iconic early enemies., and after TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna.'s death he evacuated Xia and came to live on Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint..

Abilities and equipment#

Amphibax was calculating and intelligent, but not above acts of outright savagery. He wielded sharp claws on one hand and, in place of the hand he had lost, a spiny whip. He was a powerful swimmer, able to survive at great depths for long stretches without air, and on land he was a capable runner and tree climber. His hearing and sight were both heightened beyond the ordinary.