Venom Eel

The Venom Eels of the Pit are apex predators built for lightless water and darkness. These solid-black 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. are covered in slime and equipped with fangs that deliver quick-acting venom to anything they bite. They hunt primarily by sight and secondarily by hearing, and they're drawn reflexively to any light or motion in the water. What makes them especially dangerous is their coordination. EhlekEhlekA Barraki warlord with electrical powers who led aquatic forces against the Brotherhood of Makuta. recognized their potential and brought many under his command as shock troops for his assault on Mahri NuiMahri NuiA matoran settlement that sank, survived, and was ultimately crushed beneath Voya Nui, leaving behind one of Bionicle's most poignant lost civilizations.. But their most consequential moment came when the Mask of Life transformed a single eel into a 300-foot colossus named GadunkaGadunka (Species)Finger-sized sea Rahi from the abyssal zones around the Pit, one of which was mutated to enormous size by exposure to the Mask of Life..

Hunters of the Pit#

Built for the lightless waters of the Pit, Venom Eels are pure predators. Their bodies are dark and slime-covered, designed to move through water without detection.

The fangs they use to deliver their quick-acting venom are their primary hunting tool, though the venom itself is what makes them genuinely dangerous. They hunt by sight, watching for movement and the tell-tale signs of prey, with hearing as a backup method of detection. What makes them especially vulnerable to manipulation is their near-reflexive attraction to light and motion.

EhlekEhlekA Barraki warlord with electrical powers who led aquatic forces against the Brotherhood of Makuta.'s Arsenal#

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. EhlekEhlekA Barraki warlord with electrical powers who led aquatic forces against the Brotherhood of Makuta. commanded many Venom Eels as part of his underwater army, recognizing their potential as disciplined shock troops. He assembled them for a massive assault on Mahri NuiMahri NuiA matoran settlement that sank, survived, and was ultimately crushed beneath Voya Nui, leaving behind one of Bionicle's most poignant lost civilizations., the submerged city that had been sealed away for ages. The eels served as both sentries and warriors, patrolling the waters and attacking at approach. In BIONICLEBIONICLE: Matoran AdventuresA 2002 GBA platformer where you play as one of six Matoran fighting Bohrok across Mata Nui's islands. Legends 7: Prisoners of the Pit, NuparuNuparuAn Onu-Matoran engineer from Metru Nui who built the Boxor and rose to become a Toa of Earth despite no warrior destiny. and HewkiiHewkiiHewkii rose from Po-Metru carver to Mata Nui's foremost kolhii player, then served as Toa Inika and Toa Mahri through the late wars of the universe. are trapped in a venom eel nest during infiltration, forced to fight their way free using their Cordak blasters against the snapping fangs and venom of the school.

The Guardian Becomes the Beast#

The Mask of Life, the Ignika, had its own idea for how to use a Venom Eel. When DekarDekarDekar is a former Po-Matoran who serves as an Aqua Hunter on Spherus Magna. Colored yellow, black, and silver, he once wore a powerless Kiril and retains an inactive Stone element; his tools are Electro-Blades and an Air Launcher. attempted to destroy the mask in a cave, the Ignika responded by transforming a single eel into a colossal 300-foot guardian. This monster, later identified as GadunkaGadunka (Species)Finger-sized sea Rahi from the abyssal zones around the Pit, one of which was mutated to enormous size by exposure to the Mask of Life., became one of the most direct physical obstacles the Toa Mahri faced in BIONICLEBIONICLE: Matoran AdventuresA 2002 GBA platformer where you play as one of six Matoran fighting Bohrok across Mata Nui's islands. Legends 6: City of the LostCity of the LostThe first appearance of Mahri Nui in the Quest for the Mask of Life, the airweed harvest that kept the underwater city alive, Defilak's submarine expedition into the Black Water, and the arrival of the Barraki on the doorstep of the Matoran settlement. and 7: Prisoners of the Pit. Its sheer size made it genuinely terrifying, and it damaged Mahri NuiMahri NuiA matoran settlement that sank, survived, and was ultimately crushed beneath Voya Nui, leaving behind one of Bionicle's most poignant lost civilizations.'s upward-pointing stone cord (the Cord that connected the city to the rest of the island). The ToaThe Toa: Heroes of the Matoran UniverseThe Toa were biomechanical guardians sworn to protect the Matoran, bound by a strict code and defined by sacrifice across every age of the universe. had to defeat this enlarged guardian to reach the Ignika, a confrontation that proved the eel's danger was directly proportional to its size.

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