Azibo

Azibo was an Onu-MatoranOnu-MatoranEarth-wielding Matoran of the deep who adapted to darkness and built the Matoran Universe's defensive cavalry. prospector of the Great MineGreat MineOnu-Koro's most important mining complex, and home to an unexpected gateway to the island's darkest secrets. near 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., valued for his command of Onu-Koro's Principle of Prosperity. He served under Chief ProspectorProspectorProspectors sorted ore, protodermis, and minerals for mining settlements, work that was less glamorous than important to Matoran survival. MamruMamruMamru was an Onu-Matoran native to Metru Nui who became the Chief Prospector of Onu-Koro on Mata Nui, responsible for finding the ore deposits of the Great Mine before eventually evacuating to Spherus Magna., who considered him his best prospector. The buried SundialSundial: The Codrex Pointer of Onu-WahiThe Sundial was a large organic structure buried in the rock of Onu-Wahi that served as a hidden entrance to the Mangaia and, once shrunk and given to Takanuva, as a means of pointing the way to the Codrex. at the bottom of Shaft B was not his find: the prospector who discovered it in the Mata Nui Online Game is never named, and Azibo himself only appears in its sequel. (Mata Nui Online Game; Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final Chronicle)

Origins on Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive.#

Almost nothing of Azibo's life on 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. Nui survives in the record. He lived and worked in Onu-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., and like most of the city's MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. he was rounded up by the VahkiVahkiMetru Nui's mechanical law enforcement squads, designed to maintain rigid order but ultimately undermined by chaos beyond their programming. while MakutaMakuta (Species)Shadowy Antidermis beings and the Brotherhood's elite, Makuta commanded darkness and shaped the Matoran Universe's fate. TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna. impersonated TuragaTuragaFormer Toa who fulfilled their destiny and transformed into leaders. Turaga wield Noble Kanohi masks and weakened elemental powers, guiding their communities. 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., sealed in a Matoran SphereMatoran SphereRound containers that wiped memories and hid Makuta Teridax's manipulation of the Matoran., and stored away. (BIONICLE Adventures 4: Legends of Metru Nui; BIONICLE 2: Legends of Metru Nui)

The ToaThe Toa: Heroes of the Matoran UniverseThe Toa were biomechanical guardians sworn to protect the Matoran, bound by a strict code and defined by sacrifice across every age of the universe. 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. carried the spheres out of the ruined city and revived the sealed population on the island that would become Mata NuiMata Nui (Location)An island created by accident on the Great Spirit's face, home to the Matoran for a thousand years.. Azibo woke smaller and weaker, with no memory of his former life, and under TuragaTuragaFormer Toa who fulfilled their destiny and transformed into leaders. Turaga wield Noble Kanohi masks and weakened elemental powers, guiding their communities. 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. he 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. from parts of the airships the Toa had used. (BIONICLE 2: Legends of Metru Nui; BIONICLE World)

Prospector of the Great MineGreat MineOnu-Koro's most important mining complex, and home to an unexpected gateway to the island's darkest secrets.#

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., the prospectors' job was to find the ore deposits of the Great MineGreat MineOnu-Koro's most important mining complex, and home to an unexpected gateway to the island's darkest secrets.. MamruMamruMamru was an Onu-Matoran native to Metru Nui who became the Chief Prospector of Onu-Koro on Mata Nui, responsible for finding the ore deposits of the Great Mine before eventually evacuating to Spherus Magna., the Chief ProspectorProspectorProspectors sorted ore, protodermis, and minerals for mining settlements, work that was less glamorous than important to Matoran survival., led the work, and Azibo worked under him. Mamru placed great faith in him, calling Azibo his best prospector and describing his knowledge of the Principle of 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., Prosperity, as invaluable to their job. (Mata Nui Online Game; Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final Chronicle)

The Great MineGreat MineOnu-Koro's most important mining complex, and home to an unexpected gateway to the island's darkest secrets. was the main excavation of 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., a network of deep shafts that supplied stone and protodermisProtodermisThe engineered substance building the Matoran Universe, protodermis exists in countless refined states from mundane metal to diamond-hard crystal to the destruction-or-transformation force of energized form. to villages across the island. It was divided into shafts designated by letters and mine shafts designated by numbers. Shaft B reached the greatest depth and ended against a layer of rock that the miners could not break, which halted protodermis mining in Shafts 3 and 8. (Mata Nui Online Game)

Azibo wore a MatatuMatatuWorn by Toa Metru Nuju and his later Turaga form, the Matatu let its bearer move and strike at any target within line of sight by force of will alone., a mask that grants telekinesis when worn as a Great mask by a Toa but which, like other Matoran masks, gave him no power. He was a working figure rather than a public one, tied to the mine rather than to the village square. 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. recovered his sluice from a crevice during her visit to Onu-Koro, he explained the Principle of Prosperity to her, telling her that it demanded great determination and skill but brought great wealth. (Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final Chronicle)

The disk in Shaft B#

At the bottom of Shaft B, set into the unbreakable rock layer, lay a strange disk with astrological markings. In the Mata Nui Online Game, an unnamed Onu-MatoranOnu-MatoranEarth-wielding Matoran of the deep who adapted to darkness and built the Matoran Universe's defensive cavalry. prospector had found it, and he could not explain why a sundial would be buried underground. That prospector is not identified as Azibo, who is first named in the Final Chronicle. (Mata Nui Online Game)

A sundial needed a gnomon to work, and nothing 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. fitted. The trade the prospector needed was astrology. The astrologer NixieNixieNixie was a Ga-Matoran Astronomer of Ga-Koro who tracked the Red Star, recorded prophecies, and supplied Takua with the Gnomon that opened the Onu-Wahi Sundial. of Ga-KoroGa-KoroGa-Koro is a village on the island of Mata Nui, inhabited by the Ga-Matoran and associated with both Nokama and Gali. The settlement was formerly under the power of Teridax., who studied the stars, was the obvious person to ask. (Mata Nui Online Game)

The prospector wrote a letter asking Nixie why there would be a sundial underground, and gave it to TakuaTakuaAn Av-Matoran hidden on Mata Nui as a Ta-Matoran, who gathered the Toa Stones, served as Chronicler, and ultimately accepted the Avohkii to become Takanuva, the Toa of Light., the wandering chronicler whose journey across the island had brought him to the mine. Takua carried the letter to Ga-KoroGa-KoroGa-Koro is a village on the island of Mata Nui, inhabited by the Ga-Matoran and associated with both Nokama and Gali. The settlement was formerly under the power of Teridax., along with the LightstoneLightstoneGlowing crystals that powered Onu-Koro's mines and revealed secrets beneath Mata Nui. that would become a working part of the mechanism. (Mata Nui Online Game)

Opening the path to MangaiaMangaia: Teridax's lair beneath Mata NuiMangaia was Teridax's hidden lair beneath the island of Mata Nui. It held a pool of Energized Protodermis used to make Infected Kanohi and Rahkshi.#

NixieNixieNixie was a Ga-Matoran Astronomer of Ga-Koro who tracked the Red Star, recorded prophecies, and supplied Takua with the Gnomon that opened the Onu-Wahi Sundial. answered by giving TakuaTakuaAn Av-Matoran hidden on Mata Nui as a Ta-Matoran, who gathered the Toa Stones, served as Chronicler, and ultimately accepted the Avohkii to become Takanuva, the Toa of Light. a gnomon she had found at the base of Mount IhuMount IhuA snow-capped peak in Ko-Wahi where Kopaka sought his first mask and Nuju honored his mentor., and Takua carried it back to 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.. (Mata Nui Online Game)

TakuaTakuaAn Av-Matoran hidden on Mata Nui as a Ta-Matoran, who gathered the Toa Stones, served as Chronicler, and ultimately accepted the Avohkii to become Takanuva, the Toa of Light. returned to the bottom of Shaft B and, using the gnomon and his LightstoneLightstoneGlowing crystals that powered Onu-Koro's mines and revealed secrets beneath Mata Nui., activated the sundial. It opened a passage to a mysterious Golden Mask and let mining continue. The passage was later found to be an entrance to MangaiaMangaia: Teridax's lair beneath Mata NuiMangaia was Teridax's hidden lair beneath the island of Mata Nui. It held a pool of Energized Protodermis used to make Infected Kanohi and Rahkshi., Makuta's lair, and Takua went down it to witness the Toa MataWho are the Toa Mata?Six warriors built to order by Artakha, stored in canisters, dropped into the ocean. This is the origin story of Bionicle's heroes and why their first week of work was entirely amnesiac.'s battle with Makuta. (Mata Nui Online Game)

The credit for the discovery belongs to the unnamed prospector, NixieNixieNixie was a Ga-Matoran Astronomer of Ga-Koro who tracked the Red Star, recorded prophecies, and supplied Takua with the Gnomon that opened the Onu-Wahi Sundial., and TakuaTakuaAn Av-Matoran hidden on Mata Nui as a Ta-Matoran, who gathered the Toa Stones, served as Chronicler, and ultimately accepted the Avohkii to become Takanuva, the Toa of Light.. The game never links it to Azibo, the best-known prospector of 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.. (Mata Nui Online Game; Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final Chronicle)

After the Great Mine and legacy#

The Great MineGreat MineOnu-Koro's most important mining complex, and home to an unexpected gateway to the island's darkest secrets. did not survive the upheavals of the Mata NuiMata Nui: Great Spirit of the Matoran UniverseBuilt by the Great Beings as a biomechanical guardian, betrayed by Teridax, and returned in a smaller form to reshape Spherus Magna. era unchanged. When the BohrokBohrokHive-minded mechanical creatures designed to reshape worlds, the Bohrok represent a threat the Toa Mata never expected. attacked, the GahlokGahlokWater-element Bohrok swarms that flooded Mata Nui's aquatic zones with relentless purpose. flooded the mine and much costly equipment was lost. By the time of the Kolhii Tournament, Azibo, like the other Matoran, had been rebuilt into a stronger form after the defeat of the Bohrok-KalBohrok-KalSix elite Bohrok designed to free the imprisoned Bahrag, they nearly defeated the Toa Nuva before the Toa turned their own powers against them.. (Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final Chronicle)

Azibo was evacuated from 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. during 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. attack along with the other MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body.. After the defeat of MakutaMakuta (Species)Shadowy Antidermis beings and the Brotherhood's elite, Makuta commanded darkness and shaped the Matoran Universe's fate., he helped build the boats that carried the Matoran back to Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive., and he worked on rebuilding the damaged city, briefly downing tools 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 a halt to make the Turaga reveal where the 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. had gone. (BIONICLE: Mask of Light; BIONICLE Adventures 1: Mystery of Metru Nui; BIONICLE Legends 1: Island of Doom)

Azibo held no leadership rank, fought no recorded battles, and was not chosen for the ChroniclerChroniclerThe Matoran role of recording history and Toa deeds through word and carving, held by figures like Takua and Hahli.'s Company or the KolhiiKolhiiKolhii was the inter-village sport of Mata Nui, grown out of the older game of koli and played by all six Koro until the Matoran left the island. teams that won fame in the same period. What the story records of him is his trade: Mamru's best prospector, steeped in the Principle of Prosperity, a Matoran who did his work and kept the mine running. (Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final Chronicle)