The Energized Ice Sword

The energized ice sword was the tool of MatoroMatoroA quiet Ko-Matoran translator who became a Toa Inika and then a Toa Mahri, Matoro gave his life with the Mask of Life to restore Mata Nui. during his time as a Toa InikaToa Inika: six Matoran struck by lightningSix Matoran of Metru Nui chased the Toa Nuva to Voya Nui and were struck by lightning from the red star. That strike made them the Toa Inika.. Like all six Inika tools it carried the electrical energy of the red star lightning that made the team, and Matoro used it to channel his element of Ice. It served him through the fight for 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. on Voya NuiVoya NuiAn island born from catastrophe and hiding the universe's most powerful artifact, Voya Nui was everything Bionicle 2006 promised: danger, mystery, and a race against time. and down to the Chamber of Life. When the Inika followed the mask into the PitThe PitThe deep-water prison of the Matoran Universe, built by the Order of Mata Nui to hold the Barraki and other beings too dangerous to execute. and its power turned them into 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., the sword became a twin cutterThe Twin CuttersThe paired ice blades carried by Toa Mahri Matoro, transformed from his Energized Ice Sword of the Toa Inika era and consumed by the Kanohi Ignika at the moment Matoro gave his life to resurrect the Great Spirit.. (Toa Matoro, LEGO set 8732; BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated; BIONICLE Legends 6: City of the Lost)

Origin in the Inika transformation#

Before he was a Toa, MatoroMatoroA quiet Ko-Matoran translator who became a Toa Inika and then a Toa Mahri, Matoro gave his life with the Mask of Life to restore Mata Nui. was a Ko-Matoran who served Turaga 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. as his translator. (BIONICLE: Mask of Light)

He was one of six Matoran from Metru Nui who set out to find the Mask of Life. They reached Voya NuiVoya NuiAn island born from catastrophe and hiding the universe's most powerful artifact, Voya Nui was everything Bionicle 2006 promised: danger, mystery, and a race against time. in Toa canisters during a storm, and a bolt of lightning from the red starRed StarThe Red Star was an orbiting facility that revived the dead and enabled the Great Spirit Robot's cosmic travels. turned them into the Toa Inika. They emerged with new tools, and Matoro's was the energized ice sword. (BIONICLE Legends 3: Power Play; BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

The red star's lightning marked every Inika tool. Jaller fired electrified fire through his sword, Hahli shot electrified water from her laser harpoon and Nuparu blasted electrified earth from his laser drill. (BIONICLE Legends 3: Power Play)

Construction and electrical signature#

The energized ice sword was a single blade, the ice version of the Inika tools, and Matoro used it both to fight and to channel his element. Different sources call it the energized ice sword, the ice sword and the energy sword. (Toa Matoro, LEGO set 8732; BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

Earlier Toa of Ice carried their own blades, among them KopakaKopakaKopaka was the Toa Nuva of Ice, the loner of the Toa Mata, and one of the six warriors created on Artakha to protect the Great Spirit Mata Nui.'s ice sword, but the charge of the red star belonged to the Inika alone. It came from the way they were made, not from the element of Ice itself. (BIONICLE Legends 3: Power Play; BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

Position within the Inika loadout#

The Toa Matoro set paired the sword with a Zamor launcherZamor LauncherThe Zamor Launcher is a weapon belonging to the Shooting Zamors group, formerly wielded by the Piraka, the Toa Inika, and Toa Jovan. It is no longer in use., a sphere-firing weapon each of the Inika carried. (Toa Matoro, LEGO set 8732)

Matoro's mask was the Kanohi IdenThe Kanohi IdenThe Kanohi Iden allowed its user to project their spirit from their body, granting invisibility, speed, and the ability to inhabit hostless forms., the Mask of Spirit, which let his spirit leave his body and travel unseen. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

Service in the Voya Nui campaign#

On Voya NuiVoya NuiAn island born from catastrophe and hiding the universe's most powerful artifact, Voya Nui was everything Bionicle 2006 promised: danger, mystery, and a race against time. the Toa InikaToa Inika: six Matoran struck by lightningSix Matoran of Metru Nui chased the Toa Nuva to Voya Nui and were struck by lightning from the red star. That strike made them the Toa Inika. joined the Matoran resistanceVoya Nui Resistance TeamSix Matoran of Voya Nui who recognised the Piraka as impostors and waged a covert campaign against them before the arrival of the Toa Inika. against the six PirakaBionicle 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., who had enslaved the island's Matoran with spheres of antidermis and were digging toward the Mask of Life. (BIONICLE Legends 3: Power Play)

The sword's best-known moment came in the Chamber of LifeChamber of LifeThe Chamber of Life was the vault beneath the Lake of Lava of Mount Valmai on Voya Nui where the Kanohi Ignika, the Mask of Life, lay hidden., where the Inika fought VezonVezonHe started as a weapon misfire and a throwaway joke, and the canon spent four years quietly turning him into its most useful expendable asset. and his giant spider steed FenrakkFenrakkA Fenrakk Spawn mutated by the Mask of Life's curse and fused to Vezon as a guardian, then reborn as Kardas after Vezon rode it into the lava of the Chamber of Life.. Matoro used the energized ice sword to coat the floor beneath the beast with ice so that it slipped and fell. The Toa won, and the mask chose Matoro as its guardian before flying off into the sea. (BIONICLE Legends 5: Inferno)

The descent into the Pit and the Mahri transformation#

The Inika followed the mask down the Cord, the passage linking Voya Nui to the sea below. When a giant eel cracked it, they escaped into the black water of the PitThe PitThe deep-water prison of the Matoran Universe, built by the Order of Mata Nui to hold the Barraki and other beings too dangerous to execute.. There a burst of light and energy from 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. transformed them into water-breathing Toa, 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.. (BIONICLE Legends 6: City of the Lost)

Their masks and tools changed along with their bodies. Matoro's energized ice sword became a twin cutterThe Twin CuttersThe paired ice blades carried by Toa Mahri Matoro, transformed from his Energized Ice Sword of the Toa Inika era and consumed by the Kanohi Ignika at the moment Matoro gave his life to resurrect the Great Spirit., the tool he carried through the rest of the hunt for the mask. (BIONICLE Legends 6: City of the Lost; BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

Legacy and successor#

The sword's story ends with that transformation, and Matoro's ends soon after. He carried the twin cutter through the search for the mask in the deep sea, and when the Great Spirit Mata Nui was dying, Matoro put on the Ignika and gave his life to revive him. (BIONICLE Legends 6: City of the Lost; BIONICLE Legends 8: Downfall)

The energized ice sword belongs to the short Inika period, between Matoro's years as a Matoran and the underwater mission that ended his life. Its red star charge was something no other Toa of Ice carried. (BIONICLE Legends 3: Power Play; BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)