Telluris

Telluris was one of the few members of the Iron Tribe who didn't lose his mind to the Dreaming Plague. That immunity came with a price. As his tribe crumbled around him, succumbing one by one to madness and death, Telluris found himself trapped in a world where his own people had become strangers and every other tribe on Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint. wanted him dead. He was a GlatorianGlatorianTribal warriors of Spherus Magna who settled disputes through arena combat, until the Skrall conquest enslaved most of them., a scavenger of the Iron Tribe, left with no choice but to survive alone.

A Tribe Condemned#

When the Dreaming Plague struck, Telluris and a handful of others discovered they were immune. As SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War. recounts in his tale, "Some of us seemed to be immune: myself, Telluris, a handful of others. Naturally our neighbors were curious about why we were still able to dream." That curiosity turned lethal. The Iron TribeThe Iron TribeAn entire civilization consumed by dream-hunger, leaving only scattered survivors who dared not reveal their origins. became pariahs. SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War. notes that being an Iron Tribe member "now carried a death sentence. If the plague didn't claim you, your one-time trading partners would."

Telluris responded to this isolation by proposing a desperate gambit. He suggested using minerals to change their armor and helmet colors, hoping the Iron Tribe could pass themselves off as members of some previously unknown tribe and find shelter. When it failed, as it had to, each survivor went their own way into exile.

The SkopioSkopioSkopio were biomechanical scorpion predators of Spherus Magna, modified ages past with integrated Thornax Launchers and surviving the Shattering as desert ambushers. and Revenge#

While SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War. built a wagon and hunted for answers, Telluris chose a different path. He constructed a war machine modeled on the SkopioSkopioSkopio were biomechanical scorpion predators of Spherus Magna, modified ages past with integrated Thornax Launchers and surviving the Shattering as desert ambushers. creature, a biomechanical tank he wielded against the desert itself. He used it to rob caravans, scavenging what he could and venting his rage on anyone in his path. In SahmadSahmadA slaver, a survivor, and the only living memory of a people the Dreaming Plague erased before the Core War.'s words, "Telluris took a different path. He started robbing the desert in a war machine based on the SkopioSkopioSkopio were biomechanical scorpion predators of Spherus Magna, modified ages past with integrated Thornax Launchers and surviving the Shattering as desert ambushers., acting like crushing a caravan or two would somehow make a difference."

That machine became his entire identity. When GlatorianGlatorianTribal warriors of Spherus Magna who settled disputes through arena combat, until the Skrall conquest enslaved most of them. warriors sabotaged it, stranding him in the sand with the Skopio XV-1Skopio XV-1Telluris's weaponized mechanical Skopio, a patchwork war machine built to dominate post-Shattering Bara Magna. sprawled out like a "carcass of a dead animal," Telluris mourned more than just the loss of a weapon. He'd lost his method of survival, his only voice in a world that wanted him silent. Without the parts to repair it, he was defenseless.

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