Iruini

Iruini is a ToaToa (2001)Biomechanical heroes bonded to elemental powers and masks. Not born, but chosen and transformed. of Air who served as a member of the Toa HagahToa HagahElite Toa teams appointed by the Brotherhood of Makuta to serve as personal guardians, later rebelling against their creators., an elite team assigned to work for the Brotherhood of MakutaMakuta (Species)Shadowy Antidermis beings and the Brotherhood's elite, Makuta commanded darkness and shaped the Matoran Universe's fate.. Alongside his fellow Toa Hagah NorikNorikToa of Fire and leader of the Toa Hagah, who broke with the Brotherhood of Makuta to recover the Avohkii and led his team through a thousand years of mutation as a Rahaga before being restored., he came to discover that the Makuta were corrupt and that the Brotherhood was enslaving and oppressing the MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body..

Turning against their former masters, the Toa Hagah raided a Brotherhood of Makuta fortress and stole the Kanohi Avohkii, the Mask of Light, determined to keep it from the Brotherhood. In the escape every member except Norik and Iruini was captured. The captured Toa Hagah were mutated by Roodaka into the diminished forms of the Rahaga. Norik and Iruini eventually rescued their comrades, only to be mutated into Rahaga themselves. Many years before TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna. posed as Turaga Dume, the two had fought their way through Visorak, Exo-Toa, and Dark Hunters outside the Brotherhood's gates in the course of this struggle.

As a Rahaga, Iruini remained on Metru Nui after the Great Cataclysm. He was a skeptic among his kind: when NorikNorikToa of Fire and leader of the Toa Hagah, who broke with the Brotherhood of Makuta to recover the Avohkii and led his team through a thousand years of mutation as a Rahaga before being restored. spoke of the legendary Rahi Keetongu, Iruini openly derided the idea, holding that the creature did not exist. He revealed to Matau that the Rahaga had once been Toa, and that Roodaka was responsible for their mutation. While searching with Matau for materials to build airships to carry the Matoran to safety, he shared his doubts about Keetongu, even as the others remained divided on whether to seek the Rahi out.