Defilak
Defilak is a dark green and silver Le-Matoran who serves as leader of the Mahri Nui Council and as an inventor. He wears a powerless Kualsi and wields Electro-Blades alongside an Air Launcher. As a Le-Matoran, he carries an inactive affinity for the element of Air and resides on Spherus Magna.
Defilak was a Le-MatoranLe-MatoranGreen-powered Matoran obsessed with thrills and transport. They're basically Bionicle's daredevils. who led the Council of the underwater village of Mahri NuiMahri NuiA matoran settlement that sank, survived, and was ultimately crushed beneath Voya Nui, leaving behind one of Bionicle's most poignant lost civilizations.. When the Onu-Matoran Reysa was mysteriously killed near the village's Fields of Air, Defilak ordered a search of the Black Water to discover what lay beyond the village, setting the events around the Kanohi IgnikaThe Mask of Life (Kanohi Ignika), explainedA failsafe forged by the Great Beings to recharge a god. It curses everyone who touches it, and by the end of Bionicle it had learned how to be a hero. in motion.
Defilak descended into the Black Water aboard his submarine, accompanied by his friend Sarda, Gar and Idris. The patrol was attacked from all sides by an organized school of Takea sharks led by PridakPridak: the most savage of the BarrakiPridak was the most savage of the six Barraki warlords and commanded an army of sharks. The League of Six Kingdoms ended with all six imprisoned in the Pit., and the submarine was destroyed. Pridak interrogated the survivors and revealed to Defilak the truth of the BarrakiThe BarrakiSix warlords who built an empire spanning most of the Matoran Universe, fell to a Brotherhood strike, and spent millennia imprisoned in the Pit. and their former empire, the League of Six Kingdoms.
During the battle for the city, Defilak fought to protect Mahri Nui's existence. With Gar and Idris he destroyed the lightstones around the village so that a Venom Eel enlarged by the Ignika could not see the settlement and bear down on it.
When the Toa MahriToa Mahri: The Toa Who Saved the UniverseThe Toa Mahri were the water breathing form of the sixth Toa team, transformed by the Mask of Life on the way down to the drowned city of Mahri Nui. They fought the Barraki for the mask and recovered it at the cost of one of their own. arrived, the Matoran of Mahri Nui mistook them for escaped prisoners of the Pit and attacked. Defilak stopped the fight and allowed Matoro to enter the city, then challenged the Toa to prove themselves by freeing the Air Fields from Carapar's Keras crabs. He later observed the Toa being taken prisoner by the Barraki and came to believe the two were allies.
In the village's final days the Toa Mahri explained to Defilak that the Matoran would have to travel up the Cord into Voya Nui's Nui Caves to survive, for Voya Nui would crush Mahri Nui when the Cord was severed. Defilak carried Electro-Blades and an Air Launcher, the latter a tool the Mahri Nui Matoran used in the deep water. He wore a powerless KualsiKualsiThe Kanohi Kualsi let its wearer teleport to any place within their field of vision, with Toa Hagah Iruini its best-known bearer. and lived on through to Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint..
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Le-Matoran
Green-powered Matoran obsessed with thrills and transport. They're basically Bionicle's daredevils.
Toa Mahri: The Toa Who Saved the Universe
The Toa Mahri were the water breathing form of the sixth Toa team, transformed by the Mask of Life on the way down to the drowned city of Mahri Nui. They fought the Barraki for the mask and recovered it at the cost of one of their own.
The Barraki
Six warlords who built an empire spanning most of the Matoran Universe, fell to a Brotherhood strike, and spent millennia imprisoned in the Pit.
Kualsi
The Kanohi Kualsi let its wearer teleport to any place within their field of vision, with Toa Hagah Iruini its best-known bearer.
Pridak: the most savage of the Barraki
Pridak was the most savage of the six Barraki warlords and commanded an army of sharks. The League of Six Kingdoms ended with all six imprisoned in the Pit.
The Mask of Life (Kanohi Ignika), explained
A failsafe forged by the Great Beings to recharge a god. It curses everyone who touches it, and by the end of Bionicle it had learned how to be a hero.
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300-foot Venom Eel
A Venom Eel mutated to colossal size by the defensive reaction of the Ignika, active in the waters around Mahri Nui during the search for the Mask of Life.
Defilak's Submarine
Defilak's Submarine was a Takea-shaped underwater craft built by the Mahri Nui Matoran Defilak. Its one voyage into the black water ended when Pridak's Takea sharks sank it and took its crew prisoner.
Engineer
Engineers, also called Inventors, were Matoran whose work was to build the machinery and devices that improved life across the Matoran Universe, a trade most famously held by Nuparu, builder of the Vahki and the Boxor.
Gar
Gar was an Onu-Matoran of Mahri Nui and Defilak's best friend, one of the four submariners captured by Pridak in the Black Water and the volunteer who offered to sacrifice himself so that Idris could carry the warning back to the underwater city.
Hydruka
Aquatic scorpion-like Rahi domesticated by the Matoran of Mahri Nui to harvest Airweed, and the natural prototype for the Air Launcher weapon.
Idris
Idris was a Ga-Matoran of Mahri Nui, the volunteer who helmed Defilak's Submarine into the Black Water, was captured by Pridak alongside Sarda and Gar, and helped trap Karzahni before carrying Lesovikk's breathing helmet home towards Mahri Nui.
Keras
Large coral crab Rahi native to the ocean of Ga-Metru and the reefs of Ga-Wahi, briefly tamed during the Bohrok War and later conscripted by Carapar.
Kualsi
The Kanohi Kualsi let its wearer teleport to any place within their field of vision, with Toa Hagah Iruini its best-known bearer.
Morak
Morak was a Hydruka of Mahri Nui, one of two named members of the air-harvesting species that kept the underwater Matoran colony alive.
Mutagen
Pit Mutagen was a power-source energy that leaked into the waters of The Pit during the Great Cataclysm and mutated almost every being exposed to it.
Reysa
Reysa was an impatient Onu-Matoran Hydruka shepherd of Mahri Nui whose unexplained death at the Fields of Air opened the chain of events that put Defilak's submarine into the Black Water and exposed the Barraki to the underwater city.
Sarda
Sarda was a Ta-Matoran from Toa Lesovikk's homeland, mutated to breathe water and serving as a jailer under Hydraxon in the Pit.
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