Lightning: The Elemental Power of Electricity

Lightning was the elemental powerElementsThe full elemental system of the Matoran Universe, covering the six primary elements, the secondary group, the opposed pair of Light and Shadow, and the apex Element Lord tier 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-KalThe Bohrok SwarmsThe six-tribe Matoran Universe cleanup force awakened to strip the island of Mata Nui back to bare rock for the Great Spirit's reawakening. Tahnok-Kal.

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-KalThe Bohrok SwarmsThe six-tribe Matoran Universe cleanup force awakened to strip the island of Mata Nui back to bare rock for the Great Spirit's reawakening. 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 spiraled out of control.

Matoran, Toa, and other wielders#

The Matoran tied to the element were the Vo-Matoran, denoted by the prefix Vo-. They were resistant to electrical shocks, were all female, and were blue and white in color. 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 were among those who held the power. Beyond the Matoran line, the Bohrok-KalThe Bohrok SwarmsThe six-tribe Matoran Universe cleanup force awakened to strip the island of Mata Nui back to bare rock for the Great Spirit's reawakening. Tahnok-Kal carried the power of electricity as one of the six elemental abilities its swarm-elite possessed.