Kumo

Kumo was a Le-MatoranLe-MatoranGreen-powered Matoran obsessed with thrills and transport. They're basically Bionicle's daredevils. who lived in Le-KoroLe-KoroLe-Koro is a village situated within Le-Wahi, inhabited by the Le-Matoran and home to Turaga Matau and Toa Lewa. The settlement was once held under the control of Teridax. on Mata NuiMata Nui (Location)An island created by accident on the Great Spirit's face, home to the Matoran for a thousand years. and worked as a crafter, making the throwing discs the village used. He came through each of the crises that hit the island during the years of the Toa MataWho are the Toa Mata?Six warriors built to order by Artakha, stored in canisters, dropped into the ocean. This is the origin story of Bionicle's heroes and why their first week of work was entirely amnesiac.. (Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final Chronicle; Mata Nui Online Game)

Metru Nui and the awakening#

Very little is recorded of Kumo's life on Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive., beyond that he lived and worked in Le-Metru. Like the rest of the city's Matoran, he was forced into a Matoran SphereMatoran SphereRound containers that wiped memories and hid Makuta Teridax's manipulation of the Matoran. during its fall and later woke on Mata NuiMata Nui (Location)An island created by accident on the Great Spirit's face, home to the Matoran for a thousand years. after the Toa MetruToa Metru and Toa HordikaSix Matoran elevated by Lhikan to save their city, mutated by Visorak venom, and restored in time to deliver the population to safety. carried the spheres out of the doomed city. (BIONICLE Adventures 4: Legends of Metru Nui; BIONICLE 2: Legends of Metru Nui)

Le-Koro and the disk trade#

Weak from his time in the sphere, Kumo still helped build Le-KoroLe-KoroLe-Koro is a village situated within Le-Wahi, inhabited by the Le-Matoran and home to Turaga Matau and Toa Lewa. The settlement was once held under the control of Teridax. under Turaga Matau, using recycled parts of the airships the Toa Metru had used to reach the island. (BIONICLE: World)

In the village he became a crafter and supplied its throwing discs. Some of them were used at the Disc Range tended by Tamaru, and he sold his discs for five bamboo wood apiece. (Mata Nui Online Game II: The Final Chronicle)

Crises on Mata Nui#

During the war with the infected RahiRahiThe Rahi were the biomechanical wildlife of the Matoran Universe, built largely by the Brotherhood of Makuta, ranging from background fauna to engineered war beasts., Kumo was among the Le-MatoranLe-MatoranGreen-powered Matoran obsessed with thrills and transport. They're basically Bionicle's daredevils. carried off by the Nui-RamaNui-RamaLarge insect-like Rahi with deadly claws and venom, known for kidnapping Matoran and attacking Le-Koro.. He and the other captives were later freed by their fellow Le-Matoran and OnuaOnuaOnua was the Toa Mata and Toa Nuva of Earth, a quiet, deliberate warrior whose patience and underground mastery anchored his team across the Matoran Universe.. (Mata Nui Online Game)

The respite was brief. When the BohrokBohrokHive-minded mechanical creatures designed to reshape worlds, the Bohrok represent a threat the Toa Mata never expected. attacked Le-KoroKoroThe Koros were the six elemental villages built on Mata Nui after the Great Rescue, on sites the Toa Metru had chosen, each tied to one element and one Turaga., Kumo had his mask taken and replaced with a KranaKranaThe small organic creatures that controlled the Bohrok, made in eight types plus a mutated variant, without which no Bohrok could serve the swarm., along with the rest of the village. After Boxor-riding Matoran beat the Bohrok, all the Le-Matoran got their masks back. Once the Bohrok-KalBohrok-KalSix elite Bohrok designed to free the imprisoned Bahrag, they nearly defeated the Toa Nuva before the Toa turned their own powers against them. had been defeated, Kumo was rebuilt into a stronger form with the other Matoran. (Mata Nui Online Animations)

Return to Metru Nui and beyond#

Kumo later helped build the boats that carried the Matoran back to Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive.. (BIONICLE Adventures 1: Mystery of Metru Nui)

In the city he joined the work of restoring it. When JallerJallerJaller served as Captain of the Ta-Koro Guard, led the Toa Inika to Voya Nui, and commanded the Toa Mahri through the recovery of the Mask of Life. ordered a halt to the rebuilding to force the Turaga to say where 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. had gone, Kumo downed tools for a time, then went back to work. (BIONICLE Legends 1: Island of Doom)