Okoto
Okoto is a world whose known inhabitants include the Toa, the Mask makers, and the Protectors.
Okoto is an island whose elements gave rise to its guardians and whose legends foretold the coming of the ToaToa (2001)Biomechanical heroes bonded to elemental powers and masks. Not born, but chosen and transformed.. When the island was first created, its Elemental Creatures were formed from Okoto's Elements to protect the golden masks of unity and to aid the Toa on their quest. The island was divided into regions, among them the Region of Stone and the Region of Jungle, each home to villages of Okotans.
The island was once home to the brothers EkimuEkimu the Mask MakerEkimu was the legendary Mask Maker of Okoto, brother of Makuta, and bearer of the Mask of Creation who struck down his brother's tyranny at the cost of his own consciousness. and MakutaMakutaA glossary entry distinguishing the three referents of the word Makuta: the species, the individual Teridax, and the title held by every Brotherhood member., the legendary Mask Makers, who lived in the City of the Mask Makers. This city, also known as the Ancient City, lay in the heart of Okoto and once served as the island's capital. The Capital City stood in the Region of Stone and was known for a museum that, at the time of the Battle of the Mask Makers, hosted an exhibition of ancient Masks of Power.
That battle reshaped the island. When Makuta donned his Mask of Ultimate Power, Ekimu used his Hammer of Power to knock the mask from his brother's face, drawing the Capital City into the Shadow Realm and leaving behind a vast crater on which the Black Volcano later stood. Ekimu was left in a coma, and the Mask of Creation, the Mask of Control, the Golden Masks of the Toa, and the fragments of the Forbidden Mask were scattered across Okoto.
The island was watched over by the ProtectorsProtectorsThe six elders of Okoto's villages, each wielding elemental powers and guarding their regions before the Toa arrived., guardians of its regions who carried their titles down through their descendants and who fought to obtain Elemental Crystals to power the Golden Masks the Toa would later wear. Okoto was also troubled by the Skull Raiders, a band of pirates who plagued the island before being stopped by the Mask Makers and Protectors. After the Toa arrived on Okoto, Ekimu guided them in gathering their Golden Masks and uniting them against the threats that had fallen upon the island.
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Makuta
A glossary entry distinguishing the three referents of the word Makuta: the species, the individual Teridax, and the title held by every Brotherhood member.
Ekimu the Mask Maker
Ekimu was the legendary Mask Maker of Okoto, brother of Makuta, and bearer of the Mask of Creation who struck down his brother's tyranny at the cost of his own consciousness.
Protectors
The six elders of Okoto's villages, each wielding elemental powers and guarding their regions before the Toa arrived.
Toa (2001)
Biomechanical heroes bonded to elemental powers and masks. Not born, but chosen and transformed.
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Agarak, Ancient Protector of Jungle of Okoto
Agarak was the Protector of Jungle of Okoto at the time of the Battle of the Mask Makers, ally of Ekimu, husband and father, and the only ancient Protector whose gender is recorded; founder of the lineage that descended to Vizuna.
Agil, Creature of Light
Agil was the seventh Elemental Creature of Okoto, the Creature of Light bonded to Ekimu, who scouted Umarak for the Mask Maker and combined with him at the Black Volcano to free the Toa from the Destroyer's shadow.
Ako
Ako was a young villager from the Region of Stone on Okoto who, separated from his elders during the great relocation, was abducted by the Skull Raiders alongside Oda and rescued from the buried city by Ekimu and the Toa.
Bingzak
Bingzak was a young villager from the Region of Jungle on Okoto, sole apparent survivor of a Skull Spider raid that destroyed his village, rescued by Nilkuu in the forest and the guide who led the Protector of Stone to the Temple of Time.
Black Crater
The vast depression in Okoto's Region of Stone, left when the Mask of Ultimate Power drew Capital City into the Shadow Realm, and the site from which Umarak later raised the Black Volcano.
Black Volcano
The volcano that Umarak raised from the Black Crater on the former site of Capital City, atop which the second portal to the Shadow Realm formed and the Okoto campaign was decided.
Capital City
The former main city of Okoto, drawn into the Shadow Realm by the destruction of the Mask of Ultimate Power, leaving the Black Crater on the surface and a ruined court for Makuta in the dark below.
City of the Mask Makers: Home of Ekimu and Makuta
The City of the Mask Makers was a city on the island of Okoto, named for the brothers Ekimu and Makuta who dwelt there before the Battle of the Mask Makers. It fell to ruin and became the lair of the Lord of Skull Spiders before the Toa reclaimed it.
Earth Villagers
The villager tribe of the Region of Earth on Okoto, the underground population of the obsidian fields and cavern country under the Protector Korgot, the descendants of Etoku who endured the Skull Spider menace and guided Onua to the Golden Mask of Earth.
Ekimu the Mask Maker
Ekimu was the legendary Mask Maker of Okoto, brother of Makuta, and bearer of the Mask of Creation who struck down his brother's tyranny at the cost of his own consciousness.
Elemental Beasts
The Lava, Storm, and Quake armies summoned by Umarak the Destroyer from Shadow Traps and the environment of Okoto, raised to distract the Toa while he gathered the fragments of Makuta's Mask of Ultimate Power.
Elemental Beasts
Three variants of humanoid beast, each grown from a single mutated Shadow Trap by Umarak the Destroyer to occupy the Toa of Okoto.
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