The Gold Being's Fortress

The Gold Being's Fortress was a huge castle raised on a cliff above a beach on the reformed Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint. by the Golden-Skinned BeingThe Golden-Skinned BeingA fusion of nine beings produced by Skakdi experimentation on Zakaz, the Golden-Skinned Being made dreams real for those who fed him.. It housed the Being's SkakdiSkakdiA brutish warrior species from Zakaz whose pair-dependent elemental powers and moral void made them one of Bionicle's few irredeemable factions. army, and it began to dissolve during his battle with AnnonaAnnonaA predatory entity older than the Great Beings, the dream-eater Annona fed on the minds of sentient life and ended the Iron Tribe before its banishment.. (Reign of Shadows; Sahmad's Tale)

Construction on Spherus Magna#

After TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna. died, the Golden-Skinned BeingThe Golden-Skinned BeingA fusion of nine beings produced by Skakdi experimentation on Zakaz, the Golden-Skinned Being made dreams real for those who fed him. led his crowd of SkakdiSkakdiA brutish warrior species from Zakaz whose pair-dependent elemental powers and moral void made them one of Bionicle's few irredeemable factions., along with the enthralled Toa MahriToa Inika and Toa MahriSix ordinary Matoran transformed by lightning from the Red Star into heroes who ultimately revived the Great Spirit itself., out of the Matoran Universe and through the new jungles of Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint. to the shores of Aqua MagnaAqua MagnaThe endless ocean where the Matoran Universe found refuge and Mata Nui made his final stand.. There, after talking with the Skakdi, he raised the fortress on the highest of the cliffs beyond the beach. 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., who saw it, thought all of Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive. could probably have fit inside with room to spare. (Reign of Shadows)

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. watched the castle take shape out of nothing. Its walls were stone and its towers bristled with weapons. Nobody laboured to build it. The Being's power made the wishes of those around him real, and the fortress was one result. (Reign of Shadows; Sahmad's Tale)

AnnonaAnnonaA predatory entity older than the Great Beings, the dream-eater Annona fed on the minds of sentient life and ended the Iron Tribe before its banishment.'s arrival#

AnnonaAnnonaA predatory entity older than the Great Beings, the dream-eater Annona fed on the minds of sentient life and ended the Iron Tribe before its banishment., a powerful being who fed on dreams, teleported to the coast to feed. SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War., MetusMetusMetus was a transformed Agori from Spherus Magna who worked as a Glatorian recruiter. Originally a member of the Ice Tribe, he later joined the Rock Tribe. White and ice blue in coloration, Metus wielded an Ice Axe and an Ice Shield. and TellurisTellurisAn Iron Tribe scavenger and one of the few immune to the Dreaming Plague, reduced to solitary vengeance. had grabbed hold of her as she teleported and were dropped off the coast near the fortress. (Sahmad's Tale)

Annona distracted the SkakdiSkakdiA brutish warrior species from Zakaz whose pair-dependent elemental powers and moral void made them one of Bionicle's few irredeemable factions. with illusory warriors before the Golden-Skinned BeingThe Golden-Skinned BeingA fusion of nine beings produced by Skakdi experimentation on Zakaz, the Golden-Skinned Being made dreams real for those who fed him. came out to face her. She meant to feast on the Skakdi's dreams. He answered that his kind took dreams and made them real, and that she would go hungry that night. (Sahmad's Tale)

Battle and dissolution#

The two boasted of their powers, and then the Golden-Skinned BeingThe Golden-Skinned BeingA fusion of nine beings produced by Skakdi experimentation on Zakaz, the Golden-Skinned Being made dreams real for those who fed him. conjured stone spikes that impaled and wounded AnnonaAnnonaA predatory entity older than the Great Beings, the dream-eater Annona fed on the minds of sentient life and ended the Iron Tribe before its banishment.. He turned away and left her to die. (Sahmad's Tale)

In desperation, AnnonaAnnonaA predatory entity older than the Great Beings, the dream-eater Annona fed on the minds of sentient life and ended the Iron Tribe before its banishment. devoured all the dream energy in the Skakdi at once. It restored her strength and drove them insane. The Being's power made their maddened dreams real, monstrous things began to appear, and the fortress began to dissolve. (Sahmad's Tale)

Aftermath#

Telluris charged Annona and was burned to nothing, and Sahmad, with Metus's grudging help, wrenched loose one of the stone spikes and drove it into her. The golden being then told Sahmad his plan: Sahmad wished for all the people of Spherus Magna to lose the ability to dream, starving Annona. She bargained for a world where she could feed, and Sahmad dreamed one full of beings like her, where they would destroy each other. Annona left for it. (Sahmad's Tale)

Afterwards Sahmad and the Being restored everyone's dreams. The Being said he wouldn't stay on the coast of Aqua Magna for long. Writer Greg Farshtey later said the Being recreated the fortress, but no story shows it. (Sahmad's Tale)

Nature of the structure#

The fortress wasn't an ordinary building. It appeared in moments and began to fade without being struck down, because it existed through the Golden-Skinned BeingThe Golden-Skinned BeingA fusion of nine beings produced by Skakdi experimentation on Zakaz, the Golden-Skinned Being made dreams real for those who fed him.'s power to make dreams real. When Annona poisoned the dreams around it, the fortress came apart with them. (Reign of Shadows; Sahmad's Tale)

Other great structures, such as the cities of the Matoran UniverseMatoran UniverseA civilization of biomechanical beings living inside a colossal robot, destroyed when Teridax seized control. and the ColiseumThe ColiseumCentral tower of Metru Nui, serving as government seat, akilini arena and, during Teridax's masquerade, the place from which the city's Matoran were rounded up into spheres. of Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive., were built to last. This one wasn't, and Kopaka's sighting in Reign of Shadows and Sahmad's account of the battle are the only stories that show it. (Reign of Shadows; Sahmad's Tale)