Ehrye

Ehrye is a Ko-MatoranKo-MatoranIce Matoran who were quiet scholars and star-watchers, built to survive the frozen peaks of Ko-Wahi. who ran errands for the seers and apprentices of the Knowledge TowersKnowledge TowerThe crystalline spires of Ko-Metru that housed memory crystals, sheltered the district's Scholars, and stored much of the city's accumulated knowledge. in Ko-MetruKo-MetruKo-Metru was Metru Nui's frozen intellectual quarter, home to the scholarly Ko-Matoran race.. He wanted to be a scholar, a step Nuju refused him. Knowing where the Ko-Metru Great DiskThe Great Disks: six Kanoka of level nineThe Great Disks were six Kanoka of Metru Nui, each at the maximum power level of nine, one hidden in every district. The Toa Metru recovered all six. was hidden, he tried to sell the secret to his friend AhkmouAhkmouA Po-Matoran carver of Metru Nui, one of the six Great Disk holders, who betrayed his fellow Matoran to the Dark Hunters, served Makuta Teridax, and became a false Turaga during Teridax's reign., refused to give it up when NidhikiNidhikiOnce a guardian of Metru Nui, Nidhiki traded his Toa honor for Dark Hunter gold and paid the price. came instead, and later helped the Toa Metru find the disk. (BIONICLE Adventures 1: Mystery of Metru Nui; BIONICLE Adventures 2: Trial by Fire)

Messenger of the Knowledge TowersKnowledge TowerThe crystalline spires of Ko-Metru that housed memory crystals, sheltered the district's Scholars, and stored much of the city's accumulated knowledge.#

On Metru Nui, Ehrye was an errand-runner for the Knowledge Towers' seers and apprentices. He hoped to become a scholar, but Nuju denied him the promotion. (BIONICLE Adventures 1: Mystery of Metru Nui)

He was impatient for a Ko-Matoran: eager, quick to act and talkative, which counted against him as a would-be seer. Somehow he learned where one of the Great Disks was hidden. (BIONICLE Adventures 1: Mystery of Metru Nui)

The deal with AhkmouAhkmouA Po-Matoran carver of Metru Nui, one of the six Great Disk holders, who betrayed his fellow Matoran to the Dark Hunters, served Makuta Teridax, and became a false Turaga during Teridax's reign. and the trap#

Ehrye agreed to give the location to Ahkmou, a Po-Matoran, for a fee. When he went to collect, Nidhiki of the Dark HuntersThe Dark HuntersA band of mercenaries and thieves founded on Odina by the Shadowed One and Ancient, hired out across the Matoran Universe, and left a battered ruin by the time Teridax ruled the universe. was waiting for him instead. Asked for the disk, Ehrye refused, because the Great Disks were the key to defeating the MorbuzakhMorbuzakhA sentient plant monster created by Teridax to terrorize Metru Nui and control its population through fear. that had been attacking the city. (BIONICLE Adventures 1: Mystery of Metru Nui)

Nidhiki took his revenge. He trapped Ehrye at the top of a Knowledge Tower under a stack of blocks built to topple on him if moved the wrong way, both to punish the Matoran and to delay any Toa who came looking. (BIONICLE Adventures 1: Mystery of Metru Nui)

Rescue by NujuNujuNuju served as a Ko-Metru seer, Toa Metru of Ice, and Turaga of Ko-Koro who spoke only in bird calls translated by Matoro.#

After becoming a Toa, Nuju tracked Ehrye down using Vakama's vision of the six Matoran, and found him at the top of the tower. He freed him and brought him to the Great Temple. (BIONICLE Adventures 1: Mystery of Metru Nui)

There, with the other Matoran, the Toa Metru pieced together the evidence and worked out that Ahkmou was the traitor. Onewa wanted to teach him a lesson, but Vakama held him back. (BIONICLE Adventures 1: Mystery of Metru Nui)

Search through the ArchivesThe Archives of Metru NuiThe Archives of Onu-Metru were the central repository of Matoran knowledge and Rahi specimens, maintained by the Archivist Corps beneath the city's surface. and Ko-MetruKo-MetruKo-Metru was Metru Nui's frozen intellectual quarter, home to the scholarly Ko-Matoran race.#

Ehrye went with Whenua, Nuju and Tehutti into the Archives after the Onu-Metru disk. To make sure the Matoran didn't slip away, Ehrye and Tehutti were left on an Archives level Tehutti didn't know. The Toa got past a giant Ussal crab, frost leeches, a two-headed Tarakava and the Archives beast before finding the disk in a supply closet. (BIONICLE Adventures 2: Trial by Fire)

In Ko-Metru, Tehutti was struck by a Keerakh's staff and lost all sense of where he was, so Ehrye told the Toa which part of the district held the disk. Whenua drew the Keerakh away by tunnelling through a road, and Nuju climbed up and took the disk from inside an icicle hanging from one of the highest Knowledge Towers. (BIONICLE Adventures 2: Trial by Fire)

The Matoran NuiMatoran NuiSix Matoran combining into one, a rare, exhausting fusion that's stronger than any Toa, and we've only seen it twice in canon. at the Great FurnaceThe Great FurnaceThe largest furnace in Ta-Metru, site of the Morbuzakh King Root's nest and the recovery of the fused Great Disks that became the Kanohi Vahi.#

Using what Ehrye, Vhisola and Nuhrii knew, the Toa worked out that the Morbuzakh King Root was in the Great Furnace. Vines attacked as they approached, and Tehutti showed the Matoran a merging technique he had learned in the Archives. They became the Matoran Nui and held off the vines while the Toa went in. (BIONICLE Adventures 2: Trial by Fire)

Soon afterwards, Ehrye and the other finders were captured by Vahki on the orders of Teridax, disguised as Turaga Dume, and sealed in Matoran spheres. The Toa Metru carried the spheres to Mata Nui. (BIONICLE Adventures 4: Legends of Metru Nui; BIONICLE 2: Legends of Metru Nui)

Mata NuiMata Nui (Location)An island created by accident on the Great Spirit's face, home to the Matoran for a thousand years., return, and later years#

His time in the sphere left him smaller, weaker and without his memories. Under Turaga Nuju he helped build Ko-Koro from the parts of the airships used in the Great Rescue. (BIONICLE: World)

A thousand years later, after the Bohrok-Kal were beaten, he was rebuilt into a form like the one he had on Metru Nui. (Mata Nui Online Animations)

When the Rahkshi attacked Mata Nui, the Ko-Matoran had to leave Ko-Koro. (BIONICLE: Mask of Light)

Ehrye helped build the boats for the return to Metru Nui and worked on repairing the city. When Jaller had the Matoran stop work to force the Turaga to say where the Toa Nuva had gone, Ehrye stopped too, though he went back to it later. (BIONICLE Adventures 1: Mystery of Metru Nui; BIONICLE Legends 1: Island of Doom)

Footnote in the Time Trap illusion#

Time Trap reveals that Ehrye nearly became a Toa. Teridax read the stars and saw that Ehrye, Nuhrii, Vhisola, Orkahm, Ahkmou and Tehutti were destined to be the Toa Metru, so he planted other names in Lhikan's mind. Mata Nui had seen this coming and changed the stars: the Matoran Teridax steered Lhikan toward were the true destined Toa all along. (BIONICLE Adventures 10: Time Trap)

In one of Teridax's illusions in the same book, Ehrye and his fellow finders did become the Toa Metru, and a huge ice sculpture of Toa Ehrye stood in Ko-Metru. (BIONICLE Adventures 10: Time Trap)

Legacy#

Ehrye's story turns on a single choice. He set out to sell a secret for his own advancement, then refused to hand it over to a Dark Hunter because the city needed the disk, and he paid for it in Nidhiki's trap. (BIONICLE Adventures 1: Mystery of Metru Nui)