Bionicle category
Piraka
17 entries tagged Piraka, 7 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Bionicle Piraka: the Six Skakdi Thieves Who Hunted the Mask of Life and Vezon.
- Bionicle Piraka: the Six Skakdi Thieves Who Hunted the Mask of LifeThe Piraka were six Skakdi who quit the Dark Hunters, took over Voya Nui by posing as Toa and went after the Mask of Life in 2006. Here's who they were, how the Voya Nui story played out and what happened to them afterwards.
- Zamor SpheresHollow spheres carrying gas, liquid, or energy, fired by Zamor Launchers and used by the Piraka to enslave the Matoran of Voya Nui, by the Toa Inika to free them, and by a long list of older operators going back to Toa Jovan.
- The Toa Nuva on Voya Nui: The Piraka Deception and the Catastrophic ArrivalThe Toa Nuva's launch from Metru Nui in pursuit of the Kanohi Ignika, their defeat on the slopes of Mount Valmai by the Piraka, and the opening weeks of the Voya Nui campaign.
- The Quest for the Mask of Life: The Voya Nui DescentThe Toa Inika and the Piraka raced each other through the trap-tunnels under Mount Valmai for the Kanohi Ignika, and Matoro learned the price of carrying it.
- VezonHe started as a weapon misfire and a throwaway joke, and the canon spent four years quietly turning him into its most useful expendable asset.
- Spear of FusionThe Spear of Fusion is the artifact Hakann used in reverse on Vezok in Mangaia, splitting off Vezon as a separate being. Vezon then carried it to Voya Nui until Jaller destroyed it.
- The 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.
- AvakA Skakdi thief whose perfect prisons made him invaluable to the Piraka's Mask of Life heist.
- Piraka StrongholdA fortress built by enslaved Matoran, it became the nexus of the Piraka's failed conquest of Voya Nui.
- HakannThe Skakdi bully known for pure aggression, from Dark Hunter mercenary to Piraka thief driven by violence and power.
- The Piraka FusionWhen two Skakdi warriors become one creature, the result is barely more than a weapon with a hunger to destroy.
- ProtoditesMicroscopic, violent Rahi that could fly independently but found their most crucial existence as the biological substrate of Zaktan's body.
- Piraka RebellionWhen five Skakdi conspirators tried to overthrow the Dark Hunters' leader, they got far enough to make him nervous.
- VezokThe Beast was a Piraka thief split in two by the Spear of Fusion, then imprisoned by the Order of Mata Nui.
- Piraka RapA promotional hip-hop track recorded to market the 2006 Piraka toyline during one of Bionicle's most divisive narrative arcs.
- Piraka OutpostTwelve defensive strongholds the Piraka built across Voya Nui to control Mount Valmai and their main fortress.
- ReidakA sadistic Skakdi thug who traded the Dark Hunters for the Piraka and paid the price.