Po-Wahi

Po-WahiWahiThe Matoran word for region. The six Wahi of Mata Nui were the six elemental territories that made up the island before the Bohrok cleared its surface. is the desert and canyon region of the island of Mata Nui, home to the Po-MatoranPo-MatoranThe Stone-element Matoran of Po-Metru and Po-Koro, carvers and quarry workers, the most athletic of the Matoran types and the population behind the Kohlii and Akilini circuits. and to many 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.. Its village, Po-KoroPo-KoroPo-Koro was the Po-Matoran village in Po-Wahi, led by Turaga Onewa and guarded by Toa Pohatu, reached through a single statue-lined road called the Path of Prophecies., stands within the territory, and the land is known for the canyons that 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. climbed using his Climbing Claws to focus his control over Stone. Po-Wahi is also a place of statues and sculptures; bricklayers such as Bour laid the foundations on which those works were raised.

During the events recorded in the Mata Nui Online Game, an epidemic spread through Po-Wahi by way of infected koli balls. The seller of the balls had obtained them from a quarry, and traveling to that quarry led to a confrontation with a Nui-Jaga nest. Once it was discovered that 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. was selling infected comet balls on behalf of MakutaMakutaA glossary entry distinguishing the three referents of the word Makuta: the species, the individual Teridax, and the title held by every Brotherhood member., Turaga OnewaOnewaOnewa served as Toa Metru of Stone, led Po-Koro through the Dark Time, and constructed the Metru Nui statue honoring the fallen Toa Mahri Matoro. sent for Pohatu, who traveled to the Po-Wahi Quarry and faced a Nui-Jaga nest filled with the infected balls. A path through Po-Wahi, once blocked by a sandstorm, later opened the route to Onu-KoroOnu-KoroOnu-Koro was the earth engineers' city, where underground isolation created one of Mata Nui's most self-sufficient settlements, until the Bohrok came..

When 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. lost their elemental powers, GaliGali, Toa of WaterThe Toa Nuva of Water and conscience of the Toa Mata, whose attunement to her element anchored the team across every campaign from Mata Nui to Karda Nui. reported that two of the thieves responsible had been seen in Po-Wahi. The Toa gave chase and there met 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., six beings resembling Bohrok who had stripped them of their powers. During the pursuit through Po-Wahi, the Bohrok-Kal demanded to know where the BahragBahragCahdok and Gahdok were the twin queens of the Bohrok, sealed in a Protodermis cage by the Toa Mata and later released to finish their cleansing of Mata Nui. were and magnetized the Toa's feet to the ground.

Po-Wahi later figured in the rise of the RahkshiRahkshiArmor suits powered by parasitic Kraata, Rahkshi were Teridax's most effective soldiers and among Bionicle's most visually iconic early enemies.. Turaga 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. revealed a cave in Po-Wahi where the Turaga had secretly kept thousands of Kraata in suspended animation. When the Rahkshi arrived and caused a cave-in, the blast cracked the Kraata storage open. TakanuvaTakanuvaHidden among the Ta-Matoran as Takua, the disguised Av-Matoran who became Takanuva was the sole Toa of Light produced in the Matoran Universe's full history. arrived in Po-Wahi intending to meet the other Toa Nuva and instead found six Rahkshi, freezing Lerahk through his Ice Blade as the creature moved to strike Kopaka. The region formerly fell under the influence of TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna..