Zyglak

The Zyglak are a reptilian race sometimes called "the Great Beings' mistakes." Notoriously violent and destructive, they hated the Great Spirit Mata Nui and anything associated with him. The savage outcasts were known for being virtually invulnerable to the elemental powers of ToaToa (2001)Biomechanical heroes bonded to elemental powers and masks. Not born, but chosen and transformed.. They are amphibious, capable of swimming and surviving underwater, and fight with spears and knives. The Zyglak could construct their own boats, building rough vessels slapped together from remnants and wreckage and barely seaworthy, which they crewed in raiding bands.

A tribe of Zyglak set up residence in the Cord beneath Mahri Nui when its tunnel walls began to crack and water flooded the small space. There the Toa InikaToa InikaSix former Matoran who entered Karzahni broken and emerged as the next Toa team, transformed on the shore of Voya Nui by a lightning strike from the red star. battled them while searching for the Mask of Life, eventually deciding to take their chances in the open ocean rather than remain. When an energy wave from the Ignika changed the Toa Inika into the Toa MahriToa Mahri: The Toa Who Saved the UniverseThe Toa Mahri were the water breathing form of the sixth Toa team, transformed by the Mask of Life on the way down to the drowned city of Mahri Nui. They fought the Barraki for the mask and recovered it at the cost of one of their own., Zyglak were among the creatures present at the scene.

The Zyglak became the new residents of the PitThe PitThe Order of Mata Nui's maximum-security underwater prison where the Barraki warlords were held until catastrophe broke their chains. after it was sealed shut. When the prison was reopened, Kalmah and Takadox of 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. fled from Zyglak who had been hiding inside; Takadox tricked Nocturn into believing the Zyglak had insulted him, and Nocturn attacked the creatures. The Zyglak came hunting for the three re-imprisoned Barraki. They also surrounded the captured Vezon, who found them immune to his wit and charm before he was abruptly snatched away. A Zyglak was later among the beings rendered down by the Skakdi in the energized protodermis ritual that produced a new lifeform.