Primal: The Trophy-Hunting Dark Hunter

"Primal" was one of the most troublesome of the Dark HuntersThe Dark HuntersA mercenary organization founded on Odina by The Shadowed One and Ancient, contracted across the Matoran Universe for assassination and theft, and ultimately reduced to a battered remnant by the fall of the universe itself., a mercenary so independent and so bound by his own sense of justice that the Shadowed OneThe Dark HuntersA mercenary organization founded on Odina by The Shadowed One and Ancient, contracted across the Matoran Universe for assassination and theft, and ultimately reduced to a battered remnant by the fall of the universe itself. endured him only for his effectiveness. He had been a survivor of a homeland destroyed by 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., and he carried that history into a career as a relentless, trophy-driven hunter.

History#

"Primal" was once part of a tribe whose land was destroyed by 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.. Afterward he led a small team of survivors against the spider-like 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.. The Shadowed OneThe Dark HuntersA mercenary organization founded on Odina by The Shadowed One and Ancient, contracted across the Matoran Universe for assassination and theft, and ultimately reduced to a battered remnant by the fall of the universe itself. recruited the band, then betrayed the position of the rest of them to the VisorakVisorakSpider-like Rahi created by Makuta Chirox, conquered for the Brotherhood by Gorast, broken at Metru Nui, and ultimately destroyed in a volcanic eruption on Artidax., leaving Primal among the Dark HuntersThe Dark HuntersA mercenary organization founded on Odina by The Shadowed One and Ancient, contracted across the Matoran Universe for assassination and theft, and ultimately reduced to a battered remnant by the fall of the universe itself..

He proved a difficult recruit from the start. He refused all offers of biomechanical implants except a single paralysis device implanted beneath his skin. Like the Dark Hunter Gatherer, he loved to collect trophies from his hunts, and after a short time he began to refuse any mission that did not guarantee a good trophy. His sense of justice ran so strong that on occasion it drove him to hunt the Hunters and their clients rather than the assigned prey. The Shadowed OneThe Dark HuntersA mercenary organization founded on Odina by The Shadowed One and Ancient, contracted across the Matoran Universe for assassination and theft, and ultimately reduced to a battered remnant by the fall of the universe itself. tolerated him only because he was so effective. In time Primal left the Matoran Universe, and he went on to live on Spherus Magna.

Abilities and traits#

Primal relied chiefly on his speed, strength, knowledge, and his spear, using the implanted paralysis device only as a backup. He was active around the time of the Matoran's return to 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. Nui, and he was one of the few Dark HuntersThe Dark HuntersA mercenary organization founded on Odina by The Shadowed One and Ancient, contracted across the Matoran Universe for assassination and theft, and ultimately reduced to a battered remnant by the fall of the universe itself. who operated alone. He objected openly to the attitudes and behavior of many of the other Hunters and tended to express that displeasure with his spear.

In an alternate universe#

In the Toa Empire reality recorded as the Dark MirrorDark MirrorThe parallel timeline in which Tuyet kept the Nui Stone, the original Toa Mangai survived, and a Toa of Light from another reality fell through a cracked Olmak into the heart of a Toa empire., "Primal" was one of three Dark HuntersThe Dark HuntersA mercenary organization founded on Odina by The Shadowed One and Ancient, contracted across the Matoran Universe for assassination and theft, and ultimately reduced to a battered remnant by the fall of the universe itself. attached to a resistance group that sought to eliminate the Toa TuyetTuyet (Dark Mirror): the Toa empress of an alternate Matoran UniverseIn the alternate timeline of the Dark Mirror, Tuyet seized the Nui Stone, murdered Toa Lhikan, and built a tyrannical Toa Empire that crushed the Brotherhood of Makuta and the Dark Hunters alike. who ruled there. During the fighting he killed the Toa of Fire TahuTahu, Toa of FireTahu served as Toa Mata, Toa Nuva, and Toa Mistika of Fire, leading his team from the first landing on Mata Nui to the destruction of the Rahkshi army on Bara Magna., but was then drowned on dry land by the Water powers of the Toa 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..