Garan

Garan was a MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. of Earth and the leader of the Voya Nui Resistance TeamVoya 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., the last six Matoran of 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. who escaped enslavement when the 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. seized the island. He carried Pulse Bolt Generators and counted BaltaBaltaBalta is a Ta-Matoran residing on Spherus Magna, distinguished by his dark red and yellow-orange coloring and his Great Kanohi Huna. A member of the Voya Nui Resistance Team, he carries Twin Repellers and possesses an innate but dormant connection to the element of Fire. as his best friend and right-hand Matoran.

When the Piraka attacked the Matoran Cliff Village with Zamor Spheres, they brought every Matoran but the resistance under their control. Garan and his fighters learned that the Piraka were using the enslaved Matoran to drain the lava from Mount Valmai in their search 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.. To strike the first blow, Garan and KaziKaziKazi is a Ko-Matoran of Ice who wears a Kanohi Matatu and is distinguished by his white and light-blue coloring. A member of the Voya Nui Resistance Team, he wields Echo Forks and resides on Spherus Magna. stole a completed Zamor Launcher that the Piraka AvakAvakA Skakdi thief whose perfect prisons made him invaluable to the Piraka's Mask of Life heist. had just finished crafting, and afterward concluded the device was a weapon rather than a tool. Garan and Balta later trailed HakannHakannThe Skakdi bully known for pure aggression, from Dark Hunter mercenary to Piraka thief driven by violence and power. and Avak and overheard enough to confirm the Piraka were not Toa.

Garan was eventually captured and questioned in the Chamber of Truth by VezokVezokThe Beast was a Piraka thief split in two by the Spear of Fusion, then imprisoned by the Order of Mata Nui.. Unwilling to betray his friends, he lied in answer to every question but the last, which asked about the six Spirit Stars that had appeared in the sky; he replied truthfully that the stars were no trick of the Matoran and that six new Toa had come to destroy the Piraka. He was then thrown into a crevice of lava, though he was later rescued from the Chamber of Truth and rejoined the group.

Brave and intelligent, Garan led the resistance as a capable tactical thinker who believed the Matoran would prevail because they worked together while the Piraka did not. The Voya Nui Resistance Team joined with the Toa NuvaToa NuvaThe form the Toa Mata took after stepping into the Energized Protodermis beneath the Bahrag, with new masks, new tools, and the elemental scale to fight Karda Nui., AxonnAxonnAxonn served as an arbitrator under the Hand of Artakha and later as an Order of Mata Nui agent, guarding the Kanohi Ignika on Voya Nui for thousands of years., and 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. to drive the Piraka from the island. After the Toa Inika descended into the Cord, Garan wished to follow to learn whether 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. still existed, but Axonn insisted the Matoran remain until the Inika returned.

When the Toa Mahri destroyed the Cord, Voya Nui returned to the Southern Continent. Garan later evacuated the Matoran Universe and came to reside on Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint..