Element Lord of Sand

The Element Lord of Sand was a former member of the GlatorianGlatorianTribal warriors of Spherus Magna who settled disputes through arena combat, until the Skrall conquest enslaved most of them. species and one of the seven Element LordsElement LordsSeven elemental warriors transformed by the Great Beings who refused to end their war even after the world broke. on Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint.. She was the master of the element of Sand and the ruler of the Sand TribeSand TribeBara Magna's strangest tribe, Zesk and Vorox degraded by cataclysm into barely-sentient packs., one of the elemental factions that tore the planet apart in the Core WarThe Core WarThe generations-long war on Spherus Magna over Energized Protodermis that produced the Shattering, the exodus of Mata Nui, and the long Glatorian peace on Bara Magna..

Elevation to Element Lord#

Over a hundred thousand years before the present, the Great BeingsThe Great BeingsScholar-inventors of Spherus Magna whose creations shaped the Matoran Universe and whose absence defined the conflicts that followed. chose one warrior from each of the elemental tribes of Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint. to become an Element LordElement LordsSeven elemental warriors transformed by the Great Beings who refused to end their war even after the world broke. and lead that tribe. The warrior selected from the Sand TribeSand TribeBara Magna's strangest tribe, Zesk and Vorox degraded by cataclysm into barely-sentient packs. became the Element Lord of Sand, granted the ability to create and control sand. She was one of seven such rulers, each bound to a single element and set over a tribe of GlatorianGlatorianTribal warriors of Spherus Magna who settled disputes through arena combat, until the Skrall conquest enslaved most of them. and AgoriAgoriThe villager species of Bara Magna, organised by tribe and settlement, who governed their villages and arranged the Glatorian arena system..

The Core War and the Shattering#

The discovery of a pool of Energized Protodermis near the planet's core touched off the Core WarThe Core WarThe generations-long war on Spherus Magna over Energized Protodermis that produced the Shattering, the exodus of Mata Nui, and the long Glatorian peace on Bara Magna., a conflict in which the tribes fought one another for control of the substance. The Element Lord of Sand led the Sand Tribe into that war. The fighting ended only when the Shattering broke Spherus Magna apart. She was left on Bara MagnaBara MagnaA desert world of tribal warfare and scarce resources, one of three landmasses that formed Spherus Magna., one of the fragments, where she remained trapped for a hundred thousand years.

The Sand Tribe she had commanded did not fare better. The GlatorianGlatorianTribal warriors of Spherus Magna who settled disputes through arena combat, until the Skrall conquest enslaved most of them. and AgoriAgoriThe villager species of Bara Magna, organised by tribe and settlement, who governed their villages and arranged the Glatorian arena system. who had fought for her, cut off and left to wander the deserts of Bara Magna, regressed over the long ages into little more than beasts, eventually becoming the VoroxVoroxThe warrior caste of the Sand Tribe, reduced to feral pack hunters in the wastes of Bara Magna after the collapse of their civilisation in the Core War. and the ZeskZeskThe Zesk were a primitive subspecies of the Agori, members of the Sand Tribe whose genes were altered by the Great Beings and who regressed into bestial scavengers living alongside the Vorox in the Wastelands of Bara Magna.. A smaller number ended up stranded on the fragment Bota Magna, where better conditions allowed them to keep their faculties.

Survival on the reformed planet#

The Element Lord of Sand remained alive through the whole of her long confinement. She never crossed paths with the explorers TardukTardukTarduk is an Agori of the Jungle Tribe, distinguished by his dark green and lime coloration. A treasure hunter by trade, he wields claws and spikes and makes his home on the reformed Spherus Magna., Crotesius, and Kirbold during their journey. When Spherus Magna was reformed and made whole again, she survived into that new age and continued to live on the restored planet.