Mavrah
The Onu-Matoran Archivist Who Refused to Stop
A Metru Nui Archivist who fled his city rather than let Turaga Dume cull his pet sea Rahi, drowned in a feeding frenzy a thousand years before the Great Cataclysm, and was rediscovered alive aboard the Red Star.
Mavrah was an Onu-MatoranOnuaOnua 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. ArchivistThe Archives of Metru NuiThe Archives of Onu-Metru were the central repository of Matoran knowledge and Rahi specimens, maintained by the Archivist Corps beneath the city's surface. of Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive., best known for two events separated by more than a thousand years: his exile from the city with a group of ancient sea 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. TuragaTuragaFormer Toa who fulfilled their destiny and transformed into leaders. Turaga wield Noble Kanohi masks and weakened elemental powers, guiding their communities. DumeDumeDume is a Turaga of Fire and the former ruler of Metru Nui, distinguished by his red and black coloring and the Noble Kanohi Kiril, the Mask of Regeneration. As a member of the Turaga of Metru Nui, he wields a Staff of Office and commands a weakened mastery of Fire. He later resides on the reformed Spherus Magna. had ordered destroyed, and his rediscovery, alive, in a hidden room aboard the Red StarRed StarThe Red Star was an orbiting facility that revived the dead and enabled the Great Spirit Robot's cosmic travels. by Toa NuvaWho 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. KopakaKopakaKopaka was the Toa Nuva of Ice, deputy commander of the Toa Mata, and one of the six warriors crafted on Artakha to defend the Matoran Universe. and PohatuPohatuPohatu was the Toa Mata and Toa Nuva of Stone, guardian of Po-Wahi, whose speed and steady humour anchored the team through every era of the Matoran Universe.. Between those two appearances he had been believed drowned for a millennium. His on-record contribution to MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. science included an unfashionable theory about BohrokBohrokHive-minded mechanical creatures designed to reshape worlds, the Bohrok represent a threat the Toa Mata never expected. evolution and a strong personal attachment to specimens his colleagues considered unsalvageable. His reappearance aboard the Red StarRed StarThe Red Star was an orbiting facility that revived the dead and enabled the Great Spirit Robot's cosmic travels. in The Powers That BeThe Spherus Magna Murders: The Hunt for the Power KillerA string of killings on the reunified Spherus Magna struck at the most powerful beings in the universe, drawing Kopaka and Pohatu into an investigation that led them to the Red Star. was the first confirmation, from a witness who had lived there, that the orbital had been silently storing the universe's resurrected dead for over a thousand years.
Archivist of Onu-Metru#
Mavrah served in the ArchivesThe Archives of Metru NuiThe Archives of Onu-Metru were the central repository of Matoran knowledge and Rahi specimens, maintained by the Archivist Corps beneath the city's surface. of Onu-MetruOnu-MetruThe deep archive-city that made mining and historical records preservation the beating heart of Metru Nui., the subterranean cataloguing complex that filled the lower levels of Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive.'s earth-aligned district. He was an Onu-MatoranOnuaOnua 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. of his cohort, wore a powerless PakariPakariThe Mask of Strength amplifies physical power and never stops working, giving its wearer a constant edge., and held the inactive Earth elemental affinity native to his species. By disposition he was reckless in the way the ArchivesThe Archives of Metru NuiThe Archives of Onu-Metru were the central repository of Matoran knowledge and Rahi specimens, maintained by the Archivist Corps beneath the city's surface. tended to reward: incurious about the bureaucracy that surrounded his work, indifferent to personal safety where a rare specimen was in play, and unwilling to let what he considered procedural objections stand between him and a study he had committed to.
Mavrah's intellectual signature within the corps was an early theory about the BohrokBohrokHive-minded mechanical creatures designed to reshape worlds, the Bohrok represent a threat the Toa Mata never expected.. While the dormant swarms slept in their nests, he proposed that the BohrokBohrokHive-minded mechanical creatures designed to reshape worlds, the Bohrok represent a threat the Toa Mata never expected. had not been built in the form their archivists examined. He argued that they had once been biomechanical creatures and that, over a long evolutionary span, the organic component had been wholly displaced. What remained was a purely mechanical shell, animated and directed by the KranaKranaThe small organic symbiotes that controlled the Bohrok, produced in eight breeds plus a mutated variant, and the actual living component of every swarm-class chassis. it carried inside. The theory was not universally accepted in Onu-MetruOnu-MetruThe deep archive-city that made mining and historical records preservation the beating heart of Metru Nui.. The presence of KranaKranaThe small organic symbiotes that controlled the Bohrok, produced in eight breeds plus a mutated variant, and the actual living component of every swarm-class chassis. at the core of an apparently autonomous mechanical organism was difficult to explain by any other route, and Mavrah was prepared to argue the position against more senior archivists.
His friendship with WhenuaWhenuaToa Metru of Earth and later Turaga of Onu-Koro, formerly an Onu-Metru archivist whose career in the Archives shaped his role across the rescue of Metru Nui and the long residency on Mata Nui., who would later be called as a 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., began during this period. The two were temperamental opposites in their attitude toward the rule book, but matched in their attachment to the work. OnepuOnepuOnepu is an Onu-Matoran and the High Commander of the Ussalry, bearing a Pakari and wearing the purple and black colors of his kind. Connected to the element of Earth, he resides on Spherus Magna., a third Onu-MatoranOnuaOnua 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. archivist, completed the small team that TuragaTuragaFormer Toa who fulfilled their destiny and transformed into leaders. Turaga wield Noble Kanohi masks and weakened elemental powers, guiding their communities. DumeDumeDume is a Turaga of Fire and the former ruler of Metru Nui, distinguished by his red and black coloring and the Noble Kanohi Kiril, the Mask of Regeneration. As a member of the Turaga of Metru Nui, he wields a Staff of Office and commands a weakened mastery of Fire. He later resides on the reformed Spherus Magna. would shortly assign to a project Mavrah considered the most important of his career.
The sea Rahi project#
A group of giant sea 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., unfamiliar to the standing taxonomy and aggressive in disposition, had been recovered near the coast of Onu-MetruOnu-MetruThe deep archive-city that made mining and historical records preservation the beating heart of Metru Nui. and routed into the ArchivesThe Archives of Metru NuiThe Archives of Onu-Metru were the central repository of Matoran knowledge and Rahi specimens, maintained by the Archivist Corps beneath the city's surface. for study. DumeDumeDume is a Turaga of Fire and the former ruler of Metru Nui, distinguished by his red and black coloring and the Noble Kanohi Kiril, the Mask of Regeneration. As a member of the Turaga of Metru Nui, he wields a Staff of Office and commands a weakened mastery of Fire. He later resides on the reformed Spherus Magna. assigned WhenuaWhenuaToa Metru of Earth and later Turaga of Onu-Koro, formerly an Onu-Metru archivist whose career in the Archives shaped his role across the rescue of Metru Nui and the long residency on Mata Nui., OnepuOnepuOnepu is an Onu-Matoran and the High Commander of the Ussalry, bearing a Pakari and wearing the purple and black colors of his kind. Connected to the element of Earth, he resides on Spherus Magna., and Mavrah to assess them. The animals proved more dangerous than the project had budgeted for. They damaged containment, killed handlers in the lower levels, and on at least one occasion broke into chambers their classifiers had not predicted they could reach. DumeDumeDume is a Turaga of Fire and the former ruler of Metru Nui, distinguished by his red and black coloring and the Noble Kanohi Kiril, the Mask of Regeneration. As a member of the Turaga of Metru Nui, he wields a Staff of Office and commands a weakened mastery of Fire. He later resides on the reformed Spherus Magna. lost patience and ordered the entire 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. population destroyed.
Mavrah refused to comply. He had been close to the project for too long, and considered the surviving specimens a window into Matoran universeThe Great Spirit Robot, explainedBionicle's whole universe lives inside a 40-million-foot robot built by the Great Beings. Here is what it is, why it was built, and how it ended. prehistory that no replacement catch would offer. Rather than allow the cull, he organised an exit. He left Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive. with the 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., recruited a group of prototype KralhiKralhiThe first attempt at automated law enforcement in Metru Nui, the Kralhi were decommissioned for draining their captives into uselessness and later re-emerged in the city's underground waterways. enforcers, whose response to lawbreakers had caused their decommissioning, and travelled into the subterranean waterways that fed out from the city. A small number of VahkiVahkiMetru Nui's mechanical law enforcement squads, designed to maintain rigid order but ultimately undermined by chaos beyond their programming. followed him out as well, evidently keyed to his command sequence rather than to the city's.
He settled in a stretch of subterranean river where the KralhiKralhiThe first attempt at automated law enforcement in Metru Nui, the Kralhi were decommissioned for draining their captives into uselessness and later re-emerged in the city's underground waterways. and the 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. could coexist under his supervision. The arrangement held for years. The KralhiKralhiThe first attempt at automated law enforcement in Metru Nui, the Kralhi were decommissioned for draining their captives into uselessness and later re-emerged in the city's underground waterways., still bound by their original directive to serve and protect MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body., accepted him as the MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. within their jurisdiction. The 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. had food and territory. Mavrah had his project, and no TuragaTuragaFormer Toa who fulfilled their destiny and transformed into leaders. Turaga wield Noble Kanohi masks and weakened elemental powers, guiding their communities. standing over him with a timetable.
The Toa Metru and the feeding frenzy#
The arrangement broke when 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. passed through the waterway. The six new ToaWho 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. were running the post-Great CataclysmThe Great CataclysmThe day Makuta Teridax put the Great Spirit to sleep, the Great Spirit Robot fell from the sky, Metru Nui flooded, and Voya Nui tore loose from the Southern Continent. evacuation of Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive., ferrying MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. sealed in Matoran SpheresMatoran SphereRound containers that wiped memories and hid Makuta Teridax's manipulation of the Matoran. aboard a converted VahkiVahkiMetru Nui's mechanical law enforcement squads, designed to maintain rigid order but ultimately undermined by chaos beyond their programming. transport christened the LhikanLhikanToa of Fire, leader of the Toa Mangai, and the last Toa of Metru Nui, who surrendered his Toa Power to create the Toa Metru and died defending Vakama., on their first journey to the island that would become Mata NuiMata Nui (Location)An island created by accident on the Great Spirit's face, home to the Matoran for a thousand years.. They had no knowledge of Mavrah's exile and no information that the waterway was occupied.
Mavrah, isolated from any current intelligence out of Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive., had no way to know that TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna. had taken DumeDumeDume is a Turaga of Fire and the former ruler of Metru Nui, distinguished by his red and black coloring and the Noble Kanohi Kiril, the Mask of Regeneration. As a member of the Turaga of Metru Nui, he wields a Staff of Office and commands a weakened mastery of Fire. He later resides on the reformed Spherus Magna.'s shape and put the city to sleep. He saw a ToaWho 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. team coming down the river toward his territory and reached the only conclusion consistent with his last accurate information: that DumeDumeDume is a Turaga of Fire and the former ruler of Metru Nui, distinguished by his red and black coloring and the Noble Kanohi Kiril, the Mask of Regeneration. As a member of the Turaga of Metru Nui, he wields a Staff of Office and commands a weakened mastery of Fire. He later resides on the reformed Spherus Magna. had finally sent enforcement to drag him back. He ordered the KralhiKralhiThe first attempt at automated law enforcement in Metru Nui, the Kralhi were decommissioned for draining their captives into uselessness and later re-emerged in the city's underground waterways. to capture the intruders.
The resulting three-way battle, between 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., KralhiKralhiThe first attempt at automated law enforcement in Metru Nui, the Kralhi were decommissioned for draining their captives into uselessness and later re-emerged in the city's underground waterways., and the disturbed sea 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., pulled in WhenuaWhenuaToa Metru of Earth and later Turaga of Onu-Koro, formerly an Onu-Metru archivist whose career in the Archives shaped his role across the rescue of Metru Nui and the long residency on Mata Nui. directly. WhenuaWhenuaToa Metru of Earth and later Turaga of Onu-Koro, formerly an Onu-Metru archivist whose career in the Archives shaped his role across the rescue of Metru Nui and the long residency on Mata Nui. tried to talk Mavrah down, telling him an extended account of 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.'s recent days and the truth about what had happened to DumeDumeDume is a Turaga of Fire and the former ruler of Metru Nui, distinguished by his red and black coloring and the Noble Kanohi Kiril, the Mask of Regeneration. As a member of the Turaga of Metru Nui, he wields a Staff of Office and commands a weakened mastery of Fire. He later resides on the reformed Spherus Magna.. Mavrah laughed and refused to believe him. He threatened to destroy the remaining MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. spheres aboard the LhikanLhikanToa of Fire, leader of the Toa Mangai, and the last Toa of Metru Nui, who surrendered his Toa Power to create the Toa Metru and died defending Vakama. if the ToaWho 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. did not surrender. The negotiation collapsed.
In the chaos of the escape, the 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. turned on one another. The feeding frenzy that followed swept across the entire chamber. A massive wave from one of the larger animals struck the LhikanLhikanToa of Fire, leader of the Toa Mangai, and the last Toa of Metru Nui, who surrendered his Toa Power to create the Toa Metru and died defending Vakama. and knocked one of the MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. spheres, the one containing AhkmouAhkmouA Po-Matoran carver of Metru Nui, one of the six Great Disk holders, who collaborated with Makuta Teridax and later imposed false Turaga rule during Teridax's reign., off the raft into the river. Mavrah, attempting to intervene in the frenzy himself rather than ride it out, was caught by the same wave. He was washed away. 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. did not see him surface. They concluded he had drowned with the 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.. WhenuaWhenuaToa Metru of Earth and later Turaga of Onu-Koro, formerly an Onu-Metru archivist whose career in the Archives shaped his role across the rescue of Metru Nui and the long residency on Mata Nui. carried the death of his friend out of the waterway with him and into his later life as a TuragaTuragaFormer Toa who fulfilled their destiny and transformed into leaders. Turaga wield Noble Kanohi masks and weakened elemental powers, guiding their communities..
On the Red Star#
Mavrah had not drowned. He had died, in the technical sense the Red StarRed StarThe Red Star was an orbiting facility that revived the dead and enabled the Great Spirit Robot's cosmic travels. was built to respond to, and the orbital had executed its standing protocol. His remains were teleported aboard. The KestoraKestoraThe Kestora are a species of purple and black beings associated with the Red Star and the City of Silver Pocket Dimension. repaired him. The resurrection cycle should have ended with him being teleported back into the Matoran universeThe Great Spirit Robot, explainedBionicle's whole universe lives inside a 40-million-foot robot built by the Great Beings. Here is what it is, why it was built, and how it ended.. The cycle did not complete. Mavrah came back to consciousness, intact, aboard a station he had never seen and could not leave, surrounded by other resurrected beings in the same condition.
He lived there for over a thousand years. Other dead arrived continuously. The KestoraKestoraThe Kestora are a species of purple and black beings associated with the Red Star and the City of Silver Pocket Dimension. tried, repeatedly, to restore the send-back function. None of the attempts produced anything more than fresh wreckage. By the period of The Powers That BeThe Spherus Magna Murders: The Hunt for the Power KillerA string of killings on the reunified Spherus Magna struck at the most powerful beings in the universe, drawing Kopaka and Pohatu into an investigation that led them to the Red Star., the orbital's resurrected population had grown into a substantial captive community, and Mavrah described its mood with characteristic plainness: a great many very unhappy people.
When KopakaKopakaKopaka was the Toa Nuva of Ice, deputy commander of the Toa Mata, and one of the six warriors crafted on Artakha to defend the Matoran Universe. and PohatuPohatuPohatu was the Toa Mata and Toa Nuva of Stone, guardian of Po-Wahi, whose speed and steady humour anchored the team through every era of the Matoran Universe. arrived aboard the Red StarRed StarThe Red Star was an orbiting facility that revived the dead and enabled the Great Spirit Robot's cosmic travels. by way of GaardusGaardusA Ta-Matoran turned living weapon by exiled Nynrah Ghosts, Gaardus survived his tormentors, the fall of the Matoran universe, and his own resurrection aboard the Red Star to become the most reluctant teleporter in the reformed world. and immediately ran into hostile KestoraKestoraThe Kestora are a species of purple and black beings associated with the Red Star and the City of Silver Pocket Dimension., Mavrah saw them on the move through one of the orbital's interior corridors. He saw what was about to happen if they did not get out of sight. He drew them into a hidden room he had been using as cover and only then introduced himself. The introduction came in a single line. He was Mavrah.
Neither KopakaKopakaKopaka was the Toa Nuva of Ice, deputy commander of the Toa Mata, and one of the six warriors crafted on Artakha to defend the Matoran Universe. nor PohatuPohatuPohatu was the Toa Mata and Toa Nuva of Stone, guardian of Po-Wahi, whose speed and steady humour anchored the team through every era of the Matoran Universe. had known him personally. The name was WhenuaWhenuaToa Metru of Earth and later Turaga of Onu-Koro, formerly an Onu-Metru archivist whose career in the Archives shaped his role across the rescue of Metru Nui and the long residency on Mata Nui.'s loss, not theirs. But the implications of his existence were immediate. A MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. believed drowned a thousand years earlier in the seas beneath Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive. was alive, evidently a long-term resident of an orbital that should not have had long-term residents, and prepared to explain what had been happening to the dead of the Matoran universeThe Great Spirit Robot, explainedBionicle's whole universe lives inside a 40-million-foot robot built by the Great Beings. Here is what it is, why it was built, and how it ended. ever since the system had broken. The chamber he sheltered them in marked the first full account of the Red StarRed StarThe Red Star was an orbiting facility that revived the dead and enabled the Great Spirit Robot's cosmic travels.'s function and failure given by anyone who had lived through the failure from the inside.
Significance#
Mavrah's career sits at two of the load-bearing junctions in late-period MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. lore. The first is the prehistory of Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive.'s decline. His exile and the subsequent feeding frenzy in the subterranean waterway were one of the earliest demonstrations, well before TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna.'s coup, that the ArchivesThe Archives of Metru NuiThe Archives of Onu-Metru were the central repository of Matoran knowledge and Rahi specimens, maintained by the Archivist Corps beneath the city's surface. had been working at the edge of containable risk and that the corps would lose competent specialists to the consequences. His BohrokBohrokHive-minded mechanical creatures designed to reshape worlds, the Bohrok represent a threat the Toa Mata never expected. evolution theory, treated as a curiosity in its day, mapped to what later research would confirm about the swarms more closely than the standing models of his peers.
The second is the Red StarRed StarThe Red Star was an orbiting facility that revived the dead and enabled the Great Spirit Robot's cosmic travels. revelation itself. The orbital's status as a sealed resurrection warehouse was the central exposed secret of The Powers That BeThe Spherus Magna Murders: The Hunt for the Power KillerA string of killings on the reunified Spherus Magna struck at the most powerful beings in the universe, drawing Kopaka and Pohatu into an investigation that led them to the Red Star., and Mavrah was the human-scale witness who made the exposure intelligible. The KestoraKestoraThe Kestora are a species of purple and black beings associated with the Red Star and the City of Silver Pocket Dimension. could describe the failure in caretaker language. Only Mavrah could describe what it was like to live there for a thousand years. The fact that he had been written off as drowned by WhenuaWhenuaToa Metru of Earth and later Turaga of Onu-Koro, formerly an Onu-Metru archivist whose career in the Archives shaped his role across the rescue of Metru Nui and the long residency on Mata Nui. and the other 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., and the fact that he had effectively been alive the whole time, also opened the question that the unfinished serial never closed: how many other apparent dead, mourned by surviving TuragaTuragaFormer Toa who fulfilled their destiny and transformed into leaders. Turaga wield Noble Kanohi masks and weakened elemental powers, guiding their communities. and friends across the universe's history, were also up there, intact, waiting for a send-back that the orbital could no longer perform.
Mavrah did not get to walk out. The serial ended before any rescue, and the surviving record places him still aboard the orbital with KopakaKopakaKopaka was the Toa Nuva of Ice, deputy commander of the Toa Mata, and one of the six warriors crafted on Artakha to defend the Matoran Universe., PohatuPohatuPohatu was the Toa Mata and Toa Nuva of Stone, guardian of Po-Wahi, whose speed and steady humour anchored the team through every era of the Matoran Universe., and the unhappy thousand. He had at least been heard. The ArchivesThe Archives of Metru NuiThe Archives of Onu-Metru were the central repository of Matoran knowledge and Rahi specimens, maintained by the Archivist Corps beneath the city's surface. had lost him, his closest colleague had buried him, and an orbital none of them had understood had kept him alive long enough to deliver the news.
Frequently asked questions
- Who was Mavrah?
- Mavrah was an Onu-Matoran Archivist of Metru Nui who specialised in Rahi study. He is best known for fleeing the city with a group of ancient sea Rahi rather than let Turaga Dume destroy them, and for being rediscovered alive aboard the Red Star more than a thousand years after he was believed drowned.
- Why did Mavrah leave Metru Nui?
- Mavrah, Whenua, and Onepu had been assigned by Dume to study a group of dangerous giant sea Rahi recovered near Onu-Metru. When the Rahi killed handlers and damaged containment, Dume ordered the entire population destroyed, and Mavrah refused to comply, fleeing the city with the Rahi instead.
- What was Mavrah's theory about the Bohrok?
- Mavrah proposed that the Bohrok had not been built in the mechanical form archivists examined, but had once been biomechanical creatures whose organic component was displaced over a long evolutionary span. What remained was a purely mechanical shell animated and directed by the Krana it carried inside.
- How did Mavrah supposedly die?
- When the Toa Metru passed through his subterranean waterway during the post-Cataclysm evacuation, Mavrah, believing Dume had sent them to retrieve him, ordered the Kralhi to capture them. The fighting sparked a Rahi feeding frenzy, and a massive wave washed Mavrah away. The Toa Metru did not see him surface and concluded he had drowned.
- What happened to Mavrah on the Red Star?
- Mavrah had died in the technical sense the Red Star responds to, so his remains were teleported aboard and the Kestora repaired him, but the orbital's send-back function failed and he could not be returned. He lived there for over a thousand years and later sheltered Kopaka and Pohatu when they arrived, confirming the Red Star had been silently storing the universe's resurrected dead.
Sources
- BookBIONICLE Adventures 5: Voyage of Fear โ Greg Farshtey, 2004. Mavrah's first appearance and the account of his exile, paranoid relapse, and presumed death by tidal wave.
- BookBIONICLE Legends 4: Legacy of Evil โ Greg Farshtey, 2007. Mavrah is named in the Onu-Metru archivist roster and tied to the earlier Bohrok-evolution theory.
- SerialThe Powers That Be โ Greg Farshtey, BIONICLEstory.com online serial. Mavrah's reappearance on the Red Star and his explanation of the orbital's resurrection failure.
- WikiBS01 Mavrah entry โ Character entry covering archival career, exile, death, and revival.
- WikiBS01 Red Star entry โ Entry covering the orbital that received Mavrah after his death.
- WikiBS01 Kralhi entry โ Entry covering the prototype enforcers Mavrah recruited as wardens.
- WikiBS01 Archivist entry โ Entry framing the Onu-Metru archival corps Mavrah belonged to.
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The first attempt at automated law enforcement in Metru Nui, the Kralhi were decommissioned for draining their captives into uselessness and later re-emerged in the city's underground waterways.
Krana
The small organic symbiotes that controlled the Bohrok, produced in eight breeds plus a mutated variant, and the actual living component of every swarm-class chassis.
Razor Whale's Teeth
A circular formation of jagged stone in the Pit, used by the Barraki as a meeting ground and avoided by Takea sharks due to the Proto Drake that hunted there.
Sea Rahi
A class of massive ancient sea Rahi recovered by the Onu-Metru Archives, shut down by Turaga Dume for being too dangerous, and led into the silver sea by the Onu-Matoran Mavrah to an abandoned outpost beyond the Great Barrier.
The Great Barrier
The enormous underground dome of rock and solid Protodermis that enclosed Metru Nui and the Silver Sea, sealed Teridax into a cliff face, and was finally cracked open during the Great Cataclysm.
The Lhikan: Vahki Transport of the Toa Metru
The first of the two Vahki Transports the Toa Metru christened in honor of the fallen Toa Lhikan, the vessel that carried six Matoran in spheres across the Silver Sea to Mata Nui after the Great Cataclysm.
The Spherus Magna Murders: The Hunt for the Power Killer
A string of killings on the reunified Spherus Magna struck at the most powerful beings in the universe, drawing Kopaka and Pohatu into an investigation that led them to the Red Star.
Toa Metru: Heroes of Metru Nui
The Toa Metru were the six Toa transformed from Matoran of Metru Nui by Toa Lhikan's Toa stones, who defeated the Morbuzakh, sealed Teridax after the Great Cataclysm, survived mutation into Toa Hordika, and carried the city's Matoran to the island of Mata Nui before becoming Turaga.
Underwater Rahi Study
An Onu-Metru Archives project to study a group of ancient sea Rahi recovered off the coast, ended on Turaga Dume's cull order, and revived as a fugitive expedition in the subterranean waterways beneath Metru Nui.
Voyage of Fear
The Toa Metru's first voyage from a broken Metru Nui to the island of Mata Nui aboard the Vahki Transport Lhikan, the ambush by surviving Nuurakh, and the standoff with the exiled Archivist Mavrah and his prehistoric sea Rahi.
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