Morbuzakh

The Morbuzakh is a weapon created by TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna. to choke the life 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.. This giant, reddish-brown plant emerges from the city's depths as a force of pure destruction, strangling buildings with its vines and driving the MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. population toward the city center through sheer terror and violence. The city's only hope lies in six mysterious Great Kanoka DisksKanoka DisksMetru Nui's most versatile artifact: flying disks equally at home in sport, combat, and crafting., and the six MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. who know where they're hidden become the targets of the creature's endless assault.

A Tool of Control#

The Morbuzakh's entire existence serves one purpose: territorial conquest. Created by TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna., this unique creature is an instrument of control, corralling MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. into the city center while systematically destroying outlying regions. It spares nothing. In BIONICLEBIONICLE: Matoran AdventuresA 2002 GBA platformer where you play as one of six Matoran fighting Bohrok across Mata Nui's islands. Adventures 1: Mystery of Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive., the creature reaches Ta-MetruTa-MetruThe fire district where Ta-Matoran perfected their craft and powered Metru Nui's industry for thousands of years.'s Great Furnace, where its vines tip vast vats of molten ProtodermisProtodermisThe engineered substance building the Matoran Universe, protodermis exists in countless refined states from mundane metal to diamond-hard crystal to the destruction-or-transformation force of energized form.. Controlled by a King Root, the plant thinks and moves as one organism. Whatever intelligence guides it is alien and unified, responding to commands from a single source.

The Disks Are Everything#

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. MetruMetruIn the Matoran language a metru was a single district of Metru Nui; the city was divided into six such districts, one for each element, and the term covered both the place and the elemental community that lived in it.'s mission hinges on one fact: the six Great Kanoka DisksKanoka DisksMetru Nui's most versatile artifact: flying disks equally at home in sport, combat, and crafting. can stop the Morbuzakh. Six MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. know where they're hidden. Each one, stationed across different districts of Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive., becomes a target in TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna.'s plan. VakamaVakamaA Ta-Metru maskmaker transformed into the Toa Metru of Fire, leader of his team through the Visorak war, and Turaga of Ta-Koro for a thousand years. learns something crucial through vision. The Morbuzakh dislikes cold, a weakness that might prove decisive. This vulnerability gives the Toa a fighting chance. The creature, speaking through its King Root with hissing malice, proclaims: "Othersss have hurt usssssss...ssstruck at ussssss...but they cannot ssstop usssssss! We will ssslip through the cracksss and then vanish like ghostssss. The MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. will be drive to the center of the city, as we have been commanded. Then Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive. will belong to the Morbuzakh!"

This arrogance makes the creature defeatable. 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. MetruMetruIn the Matoran language a metru was a single district of Metru Nui; the city was divided into six such districts, one for each element, and the term covered both the place and the elemental community that lived in it. know what they hunt for. They've discovered where the disks lie and understand the weapon needed to end the Morbuzakh once and for all. TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna.'s own design has inadvertently sealed its own fate.

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Compiled from primary sources by Lore Fortress editorial. Reviewed by Joe Garratt, Editor-in-Chief.