Matoran Universe

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Parent Page: Locations

Matoran Universe Location Category: Universe
Location Info
Residents	Various
Population	Unknown
Position	Inside Mata Nui's body
Pronunciation	mat-OAR-an Universe

The Matoran Universe is where the majority of the BIONICLE storyline takes place. It encompasses a huge series of domes, not including the surface of the planet.

[carve] The Universe

[carve] History

The Great Beings created the Matoran Universe more than 100,000 years ago, inside the body of Mata Nui.

The Great Beings created Tren Krom to watch over the Universe while they gave life to its first inhabitants, the Matoran, and created the Universe's locations. Artakha and Karzahni were created, and they constructed their own realms in which they could live. The Great Beings then laid down the foundations of Metru Nui, and created Helryx, the first Toa, to guide the Matoran in the construction of the city. The Hand of Artakha was formed to protect the Matoran, and The Great Beings created the first Rahi. The Kanohi Ignika was forged and placed in a heavily guarded chamber due to its immense power. Eventually, the Hand of Artakha disbanded and the Order of Mata Nui, led by Helryx, formed to serve the Great Spirit Mata Nui's will when he awakened. Their main base was in Daxia. The Brotherhood of Makuta was also formed to create Rahi once the Makuta species was created, under the leadership of Makuta Miserix. Their main base was in Destral. Metru Nui was eventually completed.

The Toa Mata were given life and trained in combat on Karda Nui. Once Mata Nui awoke, an Energy Storm blasted through Karda Nui, so the Toa Mata resigned to their canisters in the Codrex, only being awakened a very long time later. Many other species were created, such as the Barraki, and Tren Krom was removed as guardian for Mata Nui to take his place. Mata Nui appointed the Barraki as rulers of the Universe, and they formed the League of Six Kingdoms. They eventually rebelled and were planning on overthrowing Mata Nui, only to be stopped mid-plan by the Brotherhood of Makuta and imprisoned in The Pit. However, this act gave the Brotherhood the idea of overthrowing Mata Nui, and the Brotherhood, too, became corrupt and lusted for power.

Meanwhile, Ancient and The Shadowed One met and formed the Dark Hunters, a merciless group of bounty hunters, who caused many traumas in the Universe.

Mata Nui began losing his health because a civil war broke out in Metru Nui, causing the Great Disruption. Jovan and his Toa team sought the Ignika, and eventually acquired it, with one member using it to heal Mata Nui at the cost of his life. Following the civil war, Miserix assigned Makuta to watch over the various regions of the Matoran Universe.

Eventually, Makuta Teridax overthrew Miserix and became leader of the Brotherhood of Makuta.

On Metru Nui, the Kanohi Dragon was released by the Dark Hunters, as a part of The Shadowed One's plan to take over Metru Nui. Lhikan and the rest of the Toa Mangai arrived to defeat the Rahi, and successfully managed to do so, taking it to Xia afterwards. The eleven Toa then chose to stay in Metru Nui. However, one of their number, Tuyet, was wanted by the Dark Hunters for her possession of the Nui Stone. She began murdering Matoran to make Lhikan and Nidhiki believe the Dark Hunters were responsible, but they learned the truth after defeating them. Tuyet was defeated, and secretly taken to The Pit by Botar.

Eventually, the Dark Hunters grew tired with trying to get into Metru Nui, and declared war on the city. After discovering Nidhiki had betrayed the Toa, Lhikan set up an ambush with the reinforcements that had arrived, unknown to Nidhiki, and forced the Dark Hunters out.

Just five hundred years later, Makuta Kojol led a raid on the island of Artakha to steal the Kanohi Avohkii. He succeeded, but then Artakha had the Order of Mata Nui destroy everything showing Artakha's location and kill all beings that knew where it was, including Kojol.

After roughly 1,200 years, Makuta Teridax infected Mata Nui with a virus that gradually weakened him.

Teridax then captured and disguised himself as Turaga Dume, leader of Metru Nui, and tricked the Matoran of the island-city into spheres that would erase their memories so that when he awakened them, he could be heralded as their leader. He also had all of the Toa in Metru Nui killed, except for Lhikan, who had begun to notice that Dume was acting differently. Lhikan gave Toa Stones to six Matoran, who became the Toa Metru while Lhikan became a Turaga. These six Toa, despite being branded as criminals, were able to expose Teridax and imprison him in a Toa Seal. However, the virus had taken it's toll, and Mata Nui was cast into a deep slumber.

As he was traveling between worlds when he fell asleep, Mata Nui began to fall, and crashed into an uninhabited planet. This caused massive damage to the universe, an event its inhabitants referred to as the Great Cataclysm.

Due to the Great Cataclysm, a huge part of the Southern Continent broke off and rose to the surface of the planet, becoming the island, Voya Nui. A giant waterfall was created in Karda Nui caused by Voya Nui rising to the surface, and water falling into the Southern Continent's dome through the holes that the land-chunk had made in the dome and on the Continent. Metru Nui was then invaded by the Visorak. The Toa Metru were transformed into the Toa Hordika and they had to defeat the Visorak. The Visorak were led by Roodaka, a Vortixx obsessed with conquest, who was sided with Teridax. Once the Toa defeated Roodaka and her Visorak, Teridax was freed from his prison thanks to a plan of Roodaka's. The Matoran of Metru Nui were then moved to an island on the planet surface called Mata Nui, named after the Great Spirit himself.

One thousand years later, the Matoran made a return to Metru Nui. The real Turaga Dume, who had been imprisoned in a faulty Matoran Sphere and awoken early, informed the Turaga of Mata Nui and Toa Nuva that the Great Spirit was not merely sleeping, but dying. The Toa Nuva then left on a mission to Voya Nui to acquire the Ignika to save Mata Nui's life. However, Jaller grew suspicious of the Toa Nuva's absence, and after learning from Nokama where they had gone, gathered together five other Matoran to go help them. While traveling to Voya Nui via Toa Canister, the six Matoran were transformed by the Red Star into the Toa Inika. Their Matoran allies freed the Toa Nuva from their imprisonment by the Piraka, while they acquired the Kanohi Ignika, only for it to dive into the sea.

The Toa Inika followed the Ignika, and were transformed into the Toa Mahri by it. Following many battles with the Barraki, with help from an unlikely ally in the form of a Maxilos, secretly Makuta Teridax, the Toa destroyed The Cord holding Voya Nui up. Matoro then took theh Ignika and followed the sinking island, narrowly slipping below it and arriving in Karda Nui, where he used the mask to revive Mata Nui after teleporting his teammates to Metru Nui.

Meanwhile, the Toa Nuva prepared the Matoran Universe for Mata Nui's awakening. In doing so, the Staff of Artakha was used to reverse most of the effects done by the Great Cataclysm. The Toa Nuva were then given Adaptive Armor by Artakha and teleported to Karda Nui to confront the Makuta that had invaded it.

Around the same time, an assembled group of corrupt beings lead by Brutaka traveled all around the Matoran Universe on a mission to free the imprisoned former leader of the Brotherhood of Makuta, Miserix, and eventually rescuing Miserix on an island called Artidax.

The Great Spirit, housing the Matoran Universe, rising for the first time after a thousand years of slumber.

The Toa Nuva succeeded in awakening Mata Nui, who rose after his thousand year slumber. However, Teridax had since possessed the body, and exiled Mata Nui's spirit (in the Ignika) from his body. Teridax, excercising his new powers, made an announcement to the universe of his victory and accomplishment.

[carve] Location Placements

• The island city of Metru Nui is contained within the most prominent portion of the domes. The city does not share its dome with any other islands. It acted as Mata Nui's "brain."
• Karzahni is contained within its own cavern, and is connected to the Metru Nui dome by a series of mountain ranges, a large stone gateway, and a short isthmus jutting into the Karzahni dome. This isthmus was used by the Matoran Jaller, Hahli, Kongu, Hewkii, Nuparu, and Matoro on their way to Voya Nui.
• Voya Nui was once connected to the Southern Continent located south of the Metru Nui and Karzahni domes. During the Great Cataclysm, it was violently torn from this Mainland and was somehow thrust upward through the roof of its dome (how this was accomplished and how any life survived is unknown), and floated upon the surface sea, south of the island of Mata Nui. It moved little from the point it emerged from since that time, and later returned to its former location when the Toa Mahri destroyed The Cord.
• Mahri Nui was once a part of Voya Nui which broke off and sank into the sea. As a result, the island crashed onto an area right outside the Pit and was linked to Voya Nui through The Cord. It has now been destroyed when Voya Nui returned to the Southern Continent.
• The Southern Continent is situated south of Metru Nui and is far larger than Mata Nui. There is a series of underground caverns underneath the continent, which are home to the Av-Matoran. These caverns are situated on top of the stalactites in Karda Nui.
• The Northern Continent is located south of Karzahni but north of the Southern Continent, and has a penninsula known as the Tren Krom Peninsula. The island of Zakaz is also off the coast of both Karzahni and the continent.
• Karda Nui is located beneath the Southern Continent, and is generally a universe of its own. It acted as Mata Nui's "heart."
• There is a chain of islands situated far in the south of the Matoran Universe which has a chain of active volcanoes that were capped by the Toa Nuva. The Order of Mata Nui has sent a team composed of Brutaka, Roodaka, Vezon, Spiriah, Takadox, Lariska, and Carapar to one of those islands, Artidax, to find the former leader of the Brotherhood of Makuta, Miserix. It was said to be "fit only for Stone Rats and Lohrak".
• Somewhere south of the Southern Continent, but north of Artidax, is an island chain. This is the home of Botar's race, which was once ruled by Pridak.

For other locations, see here.

[carve] Domes

Domes are massive underground caves with oceans and islands of their own that make up the Matoran Universe. The "suns" of the lands in the dome are usually from light sources similar to Lightstones, or in the case of Metru Nui, the suns' light comes from two holes which acted as Mata Nui's "eyes." The holes have a protective layer, not allowing anything to fall in. Anything outside the Domes is not part of the Matoran Universe. There are no other domed universes on the BIONICLE planet.