Twin Knives

The Twin Knives were a pair of weapons TakadoxTakadoxA Barraki warlord whose hypnotic vision and cunning made him dangerous even in defeat. salvaged from The PitThe PitThe Order of Mata Nui's maximum-security underwater prison where the Barraki warlords were held until catastrophe broke their chains.'s ruins. He carried them as a Barraki captain operating in the deep, using them well enough in his schemes. But the moment HydraxonHydraxonThe jailer of the Pit was killed once, then resurrected as the Matoran Dekar by the Mask of Life. captured him, they were gone. Confiscated. Like everything else the Barraki thought they owned down there, the knives meant nothing once they were trapped. It's a small detail in a larger story, but it's the story of The PitThe PitThe Order of Mata Nui's maximum-security underwater prison where the Barraki warlords were held until catastrophe broke their chains. in miniature: find something useful, hold it briefly, lose everything the moment you're caught.

What They Were#

The Twin Knives aren't documented with much detail in canon. What we know is simple: TakadoxTakadoxA Barraki warlord whose hypnotic vision and cunning made him dangerous even in defeat. found them in The PitThe PitThe Order of Mata Nui's maximum-security underwater prison where the Barraki warlords were held until catastrophe broke their chains. before the facility's destruction and kept them as part of his arsenal. For a warlord operating in darkness and depth, they were practical tools. The BarrakiThe BarrakiSix warlords who built an empire spanning most of the Matoran Universe, fell in a single Brotherhood ambush, and spent millennia mutated in the Pit. didn't fight like the Toa. They scavenged. They improvised. These knives fit that approach perfectly, and they served TakadoxTakadoxA Barraki warlord whose hypnotic vision and cunning made him dangerous even in defeat. until they didn't.

Loss#

When HydraxonHydraxonThe jailer of the Pit was killed once, then resurrected as the Matoran Dekar by the Mask of Life. caught him, confiscation came fast. The twin knives went into lockup along with TakadoxTakadoxA Barraki warlord whose hypnotic vision and cunning made him dangerous even in defeat. himself. It's not treated as a major plot point in the 2007 storyline, but it's consistent with the arc's entire theme. The BarrakiThe BarrakiSix warlords who built an empire spanning most of the Matoran Universe, fell in a single Brotherhood ambush, and spent millennia mutated in the Pit. rose from the depths with whatever they could grab, and they fell just as quickly when HydraxonHydraxonThe jailer of the Pit was killed once, then resurrected as the Matoran Dekar by the Mask of Life.'s power met theirs. The knives are a small symbol of that larger pattern. What you find in The PitThe PitThe Order of Mata Nui's maximum-security underwater prison where the Barraki warlords were held until catastrophe broke their chains. you lose the moment you're caught.

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