Angonce

Angonce is one of the Great BeingsThe Great BeingsScholar-inventors of Spherus Magna whose creations shaped the Matoran Universe and whose absence defined the conflicts that followed. who ruled Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint. before the Shattering. He named the 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. robot, stayed out of the work on the BaterraBaterraMechanical shapeshifters built by the Great Beings to end the Core War by killing every armed combatant on Spherus Magna, and the failsafe that never shut them down., and was said to have remained near the AgoriAgoriThe villager species of Bara Magna, organised by tribe and settlement, who governed their villages and lived by the Glatorian arena system. when the other Great Beings fled. When the people of the Matoran Universe reached the reformed planet, he discovered that the Great Beings' weapon against Toa, MarendarMarendarThe Great Beings' anti-Toa failsafe weapon, awakened on Spherus Magna and left deliberately unresolved., had already escaped. (BIONICLE: Journey's End; Empire of the Skrall; The Yesterday Quest)

Spherus Magna and the Core War#

Angonce once ruled Spherus Magna with the other Great Beings. Wanting more time to create, they made the Element LordsElement LordsSeven elemental warriors transformed by the Great Beings who refused to end their war even after the world broke., who soon took control of the planet. When the discovery of energized protodermis set off the Core War, the Great Beings got hold of some of the substance for their experiments, and despite their efforts at diplomacy the war raged on. (BIONICLE: Journey's End; All Our Sins Remembered)

Angonce ran tests and found that the planet was doomed. The Great Beings responded by building Mata Nui and the Matoran Universe within him. At the same time some of them built the BaterraBaterraMechanical shapeshifters built by the Great Beings to end the Core War by killing every armed combatant on Spherus Magna, and the failsafe that never shut them down., but Angonce kept out of that project, preferring to focus on the hope Mata Nui represented. (BIONICLE: Journey's End)

His fellow Great Being HeremusHeremusThe Great Being whose hope for the giant robot supplied the name Mata Nui, a builder of the Baterra, and one of the rulers of Spherus Magna before the Shattering. said the robot embodied a great spirit, and Angonce named it Mata Nui, the Matoran translation of "Great Spirit". (BIONICLE: Journey's End)

After the Shattering#

Spherus Magna shattered, and the Great Beings fled. Where they went, no one knew. Under torture by the Sisters of the SkrallSisters of the SkrallThe female Skrall faction, exiled from their males and armed with innate psionic powers that made them the true rulers of the Rock Tribe., TumaTumaTuma rose from the survivors of the Baterra massacre to rule the Skrall Empire from Roxtus until Mata Nui defeated him in single combat. said the Great Beings had all been in the great burning tower in the Valley of the Maze before they vanished, but that Angonce had always been more curious about the Agori than the others and would have stayed close enough to keep an eye on them. (Empire of the Skrall)

Whether that was true, the serial doesn't confirm. The Sisters doubted the story themselves, though they decided to go to the Valley of the Maze and find out. (Empire of the Skrall)

The Sisters of the Skrall and the search#

The female Skrall are born with psionic powers. Their legends said one of them had once met Angonce, and that he taught her to ascend to a whole new level of power, so far beyond her people that she never had contact with them again. Every Skrall female hoped to find Angonce one day and learn his secrets. (Empire of the Skrall)

Tuma used that hope to save himself and his warrior Stronius. Paralysed and in pain, he shouted Angonce's name, and offered what he knew in exchange for their freedom and a pledge to destroy any Baterra the Sisters met. Privately, he told them he thought the whole legend was nonsense. The Sisters agreed to the bargain, while planning to make sure the Baterra knew exactly where Tuma was. (Empire of the Skrall)

Reign of Shadows and the cursed brother#

Angonce is quoted, though not seen, in Reign of Shadows. A Great Being imprisoned in a fortress on Bota Magna, speaking from the darkness to HelryxHelryx: the first Toa ever createdHelryx was the first Toa ever made, commissioned by the Great Beings on Artakha long before the Toa Mata. She founded and led the Order of Mata Nui., AxonnAxonnAxonn served as an arbitrator under the Hand of Artakha and later as an Order of Mata Nui agent, guarding the Kanohi Ignika on Voya Nui for thousands of years. and the others, recalled that Angonce once called the title "Great Being" the worst thing that ever happened to them, because they started to believe it was accurate. (Reign of Shadows)

Angonce appears in person at the end of the serial. Studying his ancient equipment, he learned that Mata Nui had gone dormant, that the Mata Nui robot and its prototype had been destroyed, and that the robot's inhabitants had survived and were coming out onto the restored planet. He feared that Toa, Glatorian, Matoran and Agori would go looking for the Great Beings and find nothing but death. (Reign of Shadows)

Marendar and The Yesterday Quest#

The Great Beings had worried about the power of the Toa. If the Toa went bad once Mata Nui returned, the Agori would stand no chance. So they built a creature with one purpose, to destroy Toa, named it MarendarMarendarThe Great Beings' anti-Toa failsafe weapon, awakened on Spherus Magna and left deliberately unresolved., an Agori word meaning "salvation", and sealed it in a vault. (The Yesterday Quest)

Angonce realised that the sudden appearance of so many Toa on Spherus Magna might activate it. He hurried to the vault, but he was too late: Marendar had smashed its way through three feet of metallic protodermis and was gone, programmed to kill every Toa on the planet. (The Yesterday Quest)

At the same time, the Glatorian GeluGeluGelu is a Glatorian of the Ice Tribe, native to Bota Magna, who formerly served as a secondary Glatorian for the city of Iconox. White and dark blue in color, he wields an Ice Slicer and a Thornax Launcher and resides on the reformed Spherus Magna. was guiding three Toa, Orde, Chiara and Zaria, toward Bota Magna to find the Great Beings and tell them Mata Nui's mission was done. The serial ended before the two threads met. (The Yesterday Quest)

Legacy#

Angonce is the one Great Being the later stories treat as a person rather than a faceless order. He named Mata Nui, kept his hands off the Baterra, worried openly about what the Great Beings had become, and went to the Marendar vault himself when the Toa arrived. Journey's End describes him as having dark-coloured eyes. (BIONICLE: Journey's End; Reign of Shadows; The Yesterday Quest)