Lightning: The Elemental Power of Electricity

Lightning was the elemental powerElementsThe elemental powers of the Matoran Universe, covering the six elements of the first Toa, the rarer elements beyond them, the opposed pair of Light and Shadow, and the separate Element Lords of Spherus Magna. over electricity in the Matoran Universe, sometimes rendered as Electricity in earlier accounts. A being who held the power could create and control electrical energy, and it was carried by a range of beings, from the Vo-Matoran villagers and the Toa of LightningToa of LightningVo-Matoran elevated to Toa form wielded Elemental Lightning, an unstable and scarce power in the Matoran Universe, with few named figures on record. to 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. Tahnok-Kal. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated; Dreams of Destruction; The Yesterday Quest)

The power#

Lightning gave its wielders mastery over electricity. A Toa of LightningToa of LightningVo-Matoran elevated to Toa form wielded Elemental Lightning, an unstable and scarce power in the Matoran Universe, with few named figures on record. could create and control electrical energy, channeling it through a Toa Tool or releasing it directly. The ToaThe Toa: Heroes of the Matoran UniverseThe Toa were biomechanical guardians sworn to protect the Matoran, bound by a strict code and defined by sacrifice across every age of the universe. Chiara, for example, single-handedly infiltrated the camp of the VisorakThe Visorak HordeThe Brotherhood of Makuta's spider-Rahi army under King Sidorak and Viceroy Roodaka, summoned to Metru Nui after the Great Cataclysm to free Teridax and pacify whatever survived in the abandoned city. during their invasion and electrified the colony drones to keep the horde from feeding on captured energy. The power was strong enough to stun or imprison its targets: 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. Tahnok-Kal, which carried the same elemental power, shot streams of lightning at 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. and was in turn imprisoned by lightning when its own power spiralled out of control. (BIONICLE Chronicles 3: Makuta's Revenge; BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated; The Yesterday Quest)

Matoran, Toa, and other wielders#

The Matoran tied to the element were the Vo-Matoran. The stories themselves say little about them; the Vo- prefix, their blue and white colouring, their resistance to electrical shocks and the rule that they were all female come from writer Greg Farshtey's later comments rather than from a published story. When a Vo-Matoran was transformed into a Toa, she became a Toa of LightningToa of LightningVo-Matoran elevated to Toa form wielded Elemental Lightning, an unstable and scarce power in the Matoran Universe, with few named figures on record.. Chiara, who had a reputation as a loner unusual among Toa of LightningToa of LightningVo-Matoran elevated to Toa form wielded Elemental Lightning, an unstable and scarce power in the Matoran Universe, with few named figures on record., and Nikila, a member of Lesovikk's team, were among those who held the power. (Dreams of Destruction; The Yesterday Quest)

Beyond the Matoran line, 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. Tahnok-Kal carried the power of electricity, which it channelled through its shields to fire bolts of lightning or raise electric force fields. (BIONICLE Chronicles 3: Makuta's Revenge; BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)