Annona

Annona was an ancient predatory entity that lived for most of recorded history beneath the surface of Bara MagnaBara MagnaA desert world of tribal warfare and scarce resources, one of three landmasses that formed Spherus Magna. and fed on the dreams and emotions of sentient beings. She claimed to have existed before the Great BeingsThe Great BeingsScholar-inventors of Spherus Magna whose creations shaped the Matoran Universe and whose absence defined the conflicts that followed. themselves and credited her long subterranean exile to a single failed attempt to dominate their minds. Her surface activity was limited to two recorded episodes: the extinction-level feeding event that the survivors called the Dreaming PlagueThe Dreaming PlagueAn entire Agori tribe lost the ability to dream, then lost their minds, then died. The cause was not a disease at all., and her final pursuit and banishment by SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War., TellurisTellurisAn Iron Tribe scavenger and one of the few immune to the Dreaming Plague, reduced to solitary vengeance., and the Golden-Skinned BeingThe Golden-Skinned BeingA fusion of nine beings produced by Skakdi experimentation on Zakaz, the Golden-Skinned Being made dreams real for those who fed him. at the close of the Bara MagnaBara MagnaA desert world of tribal warfare and scarce resources, one of three landmasses that formed Spherus Magna. era.

Origins and Banishment Underground#

Annona's own account placed her existence before that of the Great BeingsThe Great BeingsScholar-inventors of Spherus Magna whose creations shaped the Matoran Universe and whose absence defined the conflicts that followed.. She had been native to the world that would later be called Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint., and she had survived through her capacity to draw nourishment directly from the minds of other living things. The form of nourishment she required was the latent dream energy of sentient beings, and the act of feeding eventually exhausted that energy in its source. Whether she had fed on other populations in the period before the Great BeingsThe Great BeingsScholar-inventors of Spherus Magna whose creations shaped the Matoran Universe and whose absence defined the conflicts that followed.' arrival was not documented in the records that survived her.

When she became aware of the Great BeingsThe Great BeingsScholar-inventors of Spherus Magna whose creations shaped the Matoran Universe and whose absence defined the conflicts that followed., Annona reached for their minds as she had reached for any other prey. The contact failed in a direction she had not anticipated. Rather than yielding the dream energy she expected, the Great BeingsThe Great BeingsScholar-inventors of Spherus Magna whose creations shaped the Matoran Universe and whose absence defined the conflicts that followed. sapped her dreams instead, leaving her diminished and afraid. She withdrew into the rock beneath Bara MagnaBara MagnaA desert world of tribal warfare and scarce resources, one of three landmasses that formed Spherus Magna. and remained there for an interval that her own testimony measured in centuries.

The retreat was complete enough that the Great BeingsThe Great BeingsScholar-inventors of Spherus Magna whose creations shaped the Matoran Universe and whose absence defined the conflicts that followed. appear to have considered the matter closed. Their subsequent construction work on the planet, the founding of the AgoriAgoriThe villager species of Bara Magna, organised by tribe and settlement, who governed their villages and arranged the Glatorian arena system. tribes, and the eventual division of Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint. into Bara MagnaBara MagnaA desert world of tribal warfare and scarce resources, one of three landmasses that formed Spherus Magna., Bota MagnaBota MagnaA verdant jungle moon separated from Spherus Magna for 100,000 years, then restored by Mata Nui himself at the climax of the Core War., and Aqua MagnaAqua MagnaThe endless ocean where the Matoran Universe found refuge and Mata Nui made his final stand. by the ShatteringThe 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. proceeded without any further intervention from Annona. She remained beneath the desert, hungry, and absent from every record produced during that period.

The Dreaming Plague#

Annona's first known surface activity in the post-ShatteringThe 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. era was the feeding event that consumed the Iron TribeThe Iron TribeAn entire civilization consumed by dream-hunger, leaving only scattered survivors who dared not reveal their origins.. The tribe occupied the mountainous region at the edge of what was then still pre-ShatteringThe 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. territory, mining ore and trading with the Fire TribeFire TribeThe master smiths of Bara Magna who forged tools for all tribes before the Shattering scattered them into conflict. for finished weapons. Annona located the population from below and began drawing dream energy from individual miners working the outer ranges.

The early effects of feeding were reported by the victims themselves as a simple cessation of dreaming. Within weeks, the affected AgoriAgoriThe villager species of Bara Magna, organised by tribe and settlement, who governed their villages and arranged the Glatorian arena system. deteriorated further. Some became insane. Others died. The condition spread through the tribe in a pattern that mimicked an infectious disease, though no pathogen was ever identified, and the survivors had no way to know that the cause was a single entity steadily extracting the dream energy of an entire population.

The episode came to be called the Dreaming PlagueThe Dreaming PlagueAn entire Agori tribe lost the ability to dream, then lost their minds, then died. The cause was not a disease at all., and it was understood throughout the AgoriAgoriThe villager species of Bara Magna, organised by tribe and settlement, who governed their villages and arranged the Glatorian arena system. tribes as a natural illness specific to the Iron TribeThe Iron TribeAn entire civilization consumed by dream-hunger, leaving only scattered survivors who dared not reveal their origins.. The neighboring tribes closed their borders. Trade collapsed. An Iron TribeThe Iron TribeAn entire civilization consumed by dream-hunger, leaving only scattered survivors who dared not reveal their origins. member who attempted to seek refuge with another tribe was driven into the forest and killed. The tribe collapsed in isolation. Only SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War. and TellurisTellurisAn Iron Tribe scavenger and one of the few immune to the Dreaming Plague, reduced to solitary vengeance., both immune to Annona's feeding for reasons that were never determined, survived the event.

By Annona's own later admission, the dreams of the Iron TribeThe Iron TribeAn entire civilization consumed by dream-hunger, leaving only scattered survivors who dared not reveal their origins. were a satisfying meal large enough to sustain her without further feeding for many years. The death of the population that supplied the meal was, from her perspective, an incidental consequence. She returned underground and resumed her wait.

Interventions with the Sisters of the Skrall#

At some point between the Dreaming PlagueThe Dreaming PlagueAn entire Agori tribe lost the ability to dream, then lost their minds, then died. The cause was not a disease at all. and the close of the Bara MagnaBara MagnaA desert world of tribal warfare and scarce resources, one of three landmasses that formed Spherus Magna. era, Annona acted on the surface in a manner that was not directly related to her feeding. She made contact with the female SkrallSkrallA black-armored warrior species from Spherus Magna that dominated northern Bara Magna under Tuma's rule., the faction that became 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., and gave them psionic abilities. Her stated motive was amusement. She intended to observe whether the gifted females would use their new powers to destroy the male SkrallSkrallA black-armored warrior species from Spherus Magna that dominated northern Bara Magna under Tuma's rule. population, and she lost interest in the experiment when the SistersSisters 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. were driven into hiding rather than triggering the conflict she had hoped for.

The intervention was the only documented case in which Annona granted abilities rather than removing them. The recipients were not aware of the source. 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. carried their psionic gift through their subsequent history as a property of their own faction, and the linkage to Annona was not established until her later contact with SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War. in the chamber beneath Bara MagnaBara MagnaA desert world of tribal warfare and scarce resources, one of three landmasses that formed Spherus Magna..

The episode established two facts about Annona that the historical record had not previously confirmed. The first was that she could project influence to the surface without leaving her underground refuge. The second was that her engagement with sentient populations was not strictly limited to feeding; she retained the capacity for curiosity and for what she herself framed as amusement, both directed at outcomes she had no intention of participating in.

The Chamber Beneath Bara Magna#

In the closing weeks of 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. and TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna. confrontation over RoxtusRoxtusThe largest Agori village on Bara Magna and the seat of Tuma's Skrall, Roxtus was the centre of the Empire of the Skrall until Mata Nui defeated Tuma in single combat., SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War. became aware that the Dreaming PlagueThe Dreaming PlagueAn entire Agori tribe lost the ability to dream, then lost their minds, then died. The cause was not a disease at all. was returning. The serpent-form MetusMetusMetus was a transformed Agori from Spherus Magna who worked as a Glatorian recruiter. Originally a member of the Ice Tribe, he later joined the Rock Tribe. White and ice blue in coloration, Metus wielded an Ice Axe and an Ice Shield., mutated by 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. at the end of the Bara MagnaBara MagnaA desert world of tribal warfare and scarce resources, one of three landmasses that formed Spherus Magna. campaign, had stopped dreaming. SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War. gathered TellurisTellurisAn Iron Tribe scavenger and one of the few immune to the Dreaming Plague, reduced to solitary vengeance. and MetusMetusMetus was a transformed Agori from Spherus Magna who worked as a Glatorian recruiter. Originally a member of the Ice Tribe, he later joined the Rock Tribe. White and ice blue in coloration, Metus wielded an Ice Axe and an Ice Shield. and tracked the source of the plague north into the mountains.

They located a triangular furrow in the earth that matched no known animal. Annona's tentacles broke through the ground, took TellurisTellurisAn Iron Tribe scavenger and one of the few immune to the Dreaming Plague, reduced to solitary vengeance. and MetusMetusMetus was a transformed Agori from Spherus Magna who worked as a Glatorian recruiter. Originally a member of the Ice Tribe, he later joined the Rock Tribe. White and ice blue in coloration, Metus wielded an Ice Axe and an Ice Shield., and were summoned by SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War.'s deliberate provocation to take him as well. The three were drawn into a buried chamber that Annona had prepared for the encounter.

She did not present herself directly at first. SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War. woke in what appeared to be a healer's room in a city called New AteroAteroThe free city at the heart of Bara Magna, home to the Arena Magna and the Great Tournament, destroyed by Tuma and the Skrall during the opening match., 750 years after the events he remembered. The illusion was specific and detailed: a friendly Water AgoriAgoriThe villager species of Bara Magna, organised by tribe and settlement, who governed their villages and arranged the Glatorian arena system. attendant, an aged KiinaKiinaKiina is a Glatorian of the Water Tribe who served as the secondary Glatorian for the village of Tajun on Spherus Magna. Colored in shades of dark and light blue, she wielded a Vapor Trident and a Thornax Launcher in combat. Following the reformation of Spherus Magna, she continued to reside on the restored world. with a useless left arm, a marketplace beyond the door. The deception broke when SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War. pursued an Iron TribeThe Iron TribeAn entire civilization consumed by dream-hunger, leaving only scattered survivors who dared not reveal their origins. woman he had loved before the plague had killed her, and she shot him with a ThornaxThornaxThornax was a hardy desert fruit native to Bara Magna, eaten unripe as stew and fired ripe from launchers across Glatorian and Skrall ranks..

He woke a second time in the chamber surrounded by Iron TribeThe Iron TribeAn entire civilization consumed by dream-hunger, leaving only scattered survivors who dared not reveal their origins. AgoriAgoriThe villager species of Bara Magna, organised by tribe and settlement, who governed their villages and arranged the Glatorian arena system. speaking in unison in a voice that was not theirs. The bodies shimmered and resolved into 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.. Annona's voice spoke through them. She confirmed her gift of psionic abilities to the SistersSisters 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., her authorship of the Dreaming PlagueThe Dreaming PlagueAn entire Agori tribe lost the ability to dream, then lost their minds, then died. The cause was not a disease at all., and the simple framing of the Iron TribeThe Iron TribeAn entire civilization consumed by dream-hunger, leaving only scattered survivors who dared not reveal their origins.'s extinction. She had been hungry. She had fed.

Annona's true form then revealed itself in the chamber. SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War. later described it as resembling a small red sun, with reddish afterimages of forms too disturbing to articulate, surrounded by spined crimson tentacles. The resemblance to Tren KromTren KromTren Krom maintained the Matoran Universe before Mata Nui's activation and spent the following hundred millennia fused to a cave on a remote island. was noted by the survivors but no relationship between the two entities was ever confirmed. TellurisTellurisAn Iron Tribe scavenger and one of the few immune to the Dreaming Plague, reduced to solitary vengeance. and MetusMetusMetus was a transformed Agori from Spherus Magna who worked as a Glatorian recruiter. Originally a member of the Ice Tribe, he later joined the Rock Tribe. White and ice blue in coloration, Metus wielded an Ice Axe and an Ice Shield., the latter restored to bipedal form, broke through the wall and dragged SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War. toward the surface, only to find that the daylight ahead was Annona herself emerging into the open air.

Confrontation on Aqua Magna#

Annona had decided that the local supply of dreamers was insufficient and had begun to teleport to a new feeding ground. SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War. ran into her energy field as it activated, pulling TellurisTellurisAn Iron Tribe scavenger and one of the few immune to the Dreaming Plague, reduced to solitary vengeance. and MetusMetusMetus was a transformed Agori from Spherus Magna who worked as a Glatorian recruiter. Originally a member of the Ice Tribe, he later joined the Rock Tribe. White and ice blue in coloration, Metus wielded an Ice Axe and an Ice Shield. with him. The three emerged in the ocean off Aqua MagnaAqua MagnaThe endless ocean where the Matoran Universe found refuge and Mata Nui made his final stand., within sight of the Gold Being's FortressThe Gold Being's FortressA vast cliffside fortress raised on Spherus Magna by the Golden-Skinned Being and unmade during Annona's attack..

The fortress was the seat of the Golden-Skinned BeingThe Golden-Skinned BeingA fusion of nine beings produced by Skakdi experimentation on Zakaz, the Golden-Skinned Being made dreams real for those who fed him., an entity created on ZakazZakazThe island where Skakdi civilization developed, shaped by isolation and harsh Makuta rule. from the merged forms of a ZyglakZyglakZyglak are a species of dark red, dark blue, and white creatures who are amphibious and wield spears and knives in combat. Formerly confined to the Pit, the Zyglak now inhabit Spherus Magna., a VortixxVortixxThe amoral weapons dealers of Xia who sold to anyone willing to pay., a Steltian, and the mutated PirakaPridakPridak was the most feared of the six Barraki, commander of a shark army and the dominant voice of the League of Six Kingdoms before its imprisonment in the Pit. PridakPridakPridak was the most feared of the six Barraki, commander of a shark army and the dominant voice of the League of Six Kingdoms before its imprisonment in the Pit., all immersed in a tank of energized protodermisThe Three VirtuesThe Three Virtues were the foundational principles given by Mata Nui to the Matoran, shaping social order, ritual, and the cosmology of Spherus Magna.. His followers were SkakdiSkakdiA brutish warrior species from Zakaz whose pair-dependent elemental powers and moral void made them one of Bionicle's few irredeemable factions.-class warriors built from the dreams of their constituent species. The conflict between Annona and the Golden-Skinned BeingThe Golden-Skinned BeingA fusion of nine beings produced by Skakdi experimentation on Zakaz, the Golden-Skinned Being made dreams real for those who fed him. was therefore one between two opposed approaches to dream energy. Annona consumed it. The Golden-Skinned BeingThe Golden-Skinned BeingA fusion of nine beings produced by Skakdi experimentation on Zakaz, the Golden-Skinned Being made dreams real for those who fed him. used it as the raw material for his warriors and for his planned conquest.

Annona reached the fortress first and cast illusions on the SkakdiSkakdiA brutish warrior species from Zakaz whose pair-dependent elemental powers and moral void made them one of Bionicle's few irredeemable factions. guards, immobilising them in fabricated combat against empty air. The Golden-Skinned BeingThe Golden-Skinned BeingA fusion of nine beings produced by Skakdi experimentation on Zakaz, the Golden-Skinned Being made dreams real for those who fed him. emerged, identified Annona's intent, and summoned stalagmites of stone from the ground that pierced her body in multiple places. The wounds were severe but did not stop her. Annona was at the same moment consuming the latent dream energy of every SkakdiSkakdiA brutish warrior species from Zakaz whose pair-dependent elemental powers and moral void made them one of Bionicle's few irredeemable factions. follower of the Golden-Skinned BeingThe Golden-Skinned BeingA fusion of nine beings produced by Skakdi experimentation on Zakaz, the Golden-Skinned Being made dreams real for those who fed him. at once, which both fed her and disabled the warriors mid-fight. She tore free of the spikes. The fortress began to dissolve.

Banishment#

The resolution came through a coordinated dream-shaping operation between SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War. and the Golden-Skinned BeingThe Golden-Skinned BeingA fusion of nine beings produced by Skakdi experimentation on Zakaz, the Golden-Skinned Being made dreams real for those who fed him.. TellurisTellurisAn Iron Tribe scavenger and one of the few immune to the Dreaming Plague, reduced to solitary vengeance. charged Annona with an improvised weapon and was killed. SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War. and MetusMetusMetus was a transformed Agori from Spherus Magna who worked as a Glatorian recruiter. Originally a member of the Ice Tribe, he later joined the Rock Tribe. White and ice blue in coloration, Metus wielded an Ice Axe and an Ice Shield. wrenched one of the stone spikes free, and SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War. threw it into a joint of one of Annona's tentacles, lodging it where she could not reach to dislodge it. The wound was minor but bought time.

The Golden-Skinned BeingThe Golden-Skinned BeingA fusion of nine beings produced by Skakdi experimentation on Zakaz, the Golden-Skinned Being made dreams real for those who fed him. made contact with SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War.'s mind across the distance and identified the win condition. Annona fed on dreams. The Golden-Skinned BeingThe Golden-Skinned BeingA fusion of nine beings produced by Skakdi experimentation on Zakaz, the Golden-Skinned Being made dreams real for those who fed him. was capable of converting dreams into reality. The most efficient method of starving Annona was to direct SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War. to dream that no being on the planet could dream, wish, or hope, and to have the Golden-Skinned BeingThe Golden-Skinned BeingA fusion of nine beings produced by Skakdi experimentation on Zakaz, the Golden-Skinned Being made dreams real for those who fed him. make that condition real.

SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War. executed the dream. The Golden-Skinned BeingThe Golden-Skinned BeingA fusion of nine beings produced by Skakdi experimentation on Zakaz, the Golden-Skinned Being made dreams real for those who fed him. made it real. The dream energy that fed Annona ceased to exist across Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint. and the nearby worlds. Annona recognised the trap immediately. She offered a bargain. If the Golden-Skinned BeingThe Golden-Skinned BeingA fusion of nine beings produced by Skakdi experimentation on Zakaz, the Golden-Skinned Being made dreams real for those who fed him. and his dream-shaper would create for her a world of her own to inhabit and feed in, she would leave Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint. untouched and accept the relocation as her surrender. The Golden-Skinned BeingThe Golden-Skinned BeingA fusion of nine beings produced by Skakdi experimentation on Zakaz, the Golden-Skinned Being made dreams real for those who fed him. agreed, with the condition that SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War. would compose the dream.

SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War. dreamed a lush green paradise populated entirely with creatures identical to Annona, each of them dream-eaters. The Golden-Skinned BeingThe Golden-Skinned BeingA fusion of nine beings produced by Skakdi experimentation on Zakaz, the Golden-Skinned Being made dreams real for those who fed him. realised the dream. Annona was transported into it. The trap turned on the predator's own appetite. Annona and her newly created kin would feed on one another until the population was exhausted, with no other dreamers available to sustain any of them. SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War. confirmed the betrayal to the Golden-Skinned BeingThe Golden-Skinned BeingA fusion of nine beings produced by Skakdi experimentation on Zakaz, the Golden-Skinned Being made dreams real for those who fed him. in a single phrase as Annona faded from the beach. The dream-eating entity was removed from Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint. and from every world adjacent to it, banished to a location that existed only because she had been promised it.

The Dreaming PlagueThe Dreaming PlagueAn entire Agori tribe lost the ability to dream, then lost their minds, then died. The cause was not a disease at all. ended with her removal. The Iron TribeThe Iron TribeAn entire civilization consumed by dream-hunger, leaving only scattered survivors who dared not reveal their origins. remained extinct apart from SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War.. Annona herself, by the terms of the bargain, was alive at the moment of her transit and was understood to have remained alive after it, though her continued existence in the fabricated paradise was contingent on the dream-supply within that world, which by SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War.'s design was projected to exhaust itself within a year of her arrival.

Powers and Appearance#

Annona's physical form, when she chose to reveal it, was a large red orb resembling a small sun, with reddish afterimages of disturbing shapes shifting within the surface and a corona of crimson tentacles covered in spines. Survivors compared the form to Tren KromTren KromTren Krom maintained the Matoran Universe before Mata Nui's activation and spent the following hundred millennia fused to a cave on a remote island.. She did not maintain a fixed appearance, however, and could project her presence through illusory copies of other beings, as she demonstrated through the Iron TribeThe Iron TribeAn entire civilization consumed by dream-hunger, leaving only scattered survivors who dared not reveal their origins. AgoriAgoriThe villager species of Bara Magna, organised by tribe and settlement, who governed their villages and arranged the Glatorian arena system. and 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. in the chamber confrontation.

Her primary capability was the consumption of dream energy from sentient minds. The process did not require physical contact and could operate at substantial range and across populations rather than individuals. Sustained feeding from a single source produced first the cessation of dreaming, then mental deterioration, and ultimately insanity or death. The dream supply of an entire tribe sustained her for many years on a single feeding.

Annona possessed a broad set of secondary psychic abilities. She could teleport across interplanetary distances, as her transit from Bara MagnaBara MagnaA desert world of tribal warfare and scarce resources, one of three landmasses that formed Spherus Magna. to Aqua MagnaAqua MagnaThe endless ocean where the Matoran Universe found refuge and Mata Nui made his final stand. demonstrated. She could construct sustained illusions of substantial complexity, including the fabricated New AteroAteroThe free city at the heart of Bara Magna, home to the Arena Magna and the Great Tournament, destroyed by Tuma and the Skrall during the opening match. and the fictional aged KiinaKiinaKiina is a Glatorian of the Water Tribe who served as the secondary Glatorian for the village of Tajun on Spherus Magna. Colored in shades of dark and light blue, she wielded a Vapor Trident and a Thornax Launcher in combat. Following the reformation of Spherus Magna, she continued to reside on the restored world. she presented to SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War.. She could project mind control over SkakdiSkakdiA brutish warrior species from Zakaz whose pair-dependent elemental powers and moral void made them one of Bionicle's few irredeemable factions. and other warriors, locking them in combat against opponents that did not exist. She could grant psionic abilities to other beings, as established by her gift to 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.. Her telepathic projection allowed her voice to be spoken through unwilling hosts, and her own true voice was reported as carrying the same destabilising effect on the listener as direct observation of her body.

The combination of feeding ability, illusion, teleportation, and influence over other minds made Annona a category of opponent for which no Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint. faction had a standing response. Her eventual removal required the unique combination of SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War.'s immunity to her feeding, the Golden-Skinned BeingThe Golden-Skinned BeingA fusion of nine beings produced by Skakdi experimentation on Zakaz, the Golden-Skinned Being made dreams real for those who fed him.'s dream-to-reality conversion, and the willingness of both to expend a substantial dream operation on a single target. No other recorded entity of the era combined those capabilities, and no equivalent threat appeared in the surviving history of Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint. after her banishment.