Ekimu
"If there is shadow, there must be light!"
— Ekimu, The Dark Portal
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Mask Maker
Toa
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| Mask Maker | |
| Mask | Mask of Creation Golden mask (formerly) |
| Tools | Hammer of Power Saw Shield |
| Status | Alive |
| Location | City of the Mask Makers |
| Set number | 70795 |
Ekimu
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Mask Maker
Toa
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| Toa of Light | |
| Mask | Enhanced Mask of Creation |
| Powers | Light |
| Tools | Crystal Hammer Crystal Saw Shield |
| Status | Reverted |
| Set number | 71312 |
Ekimu the Wise Master,[1] also known as Ekimu the Great,[2] is a Mask Maker from Okoto and the brother of Makuta.
Biography
The Legend
Ekimu was a Mask Maker on the island of Okoto and created Masks of Power for the inhabitants alongside his brother Makuta.
In addition to crafting masks, the pair of brothers were also among the island's defenders, and led the battle against the fearsome Skull Raiders.
The Masks of Power Ekimu crafted eventually grew to be more favored than his brother's, making Makuta jealous of him.
During a Festival of Masks thousands of years ago, Ekimu presented a new set of masks to his friends, the Protectors, which he had empowered using Elemental Crystals obtained from the Elemental Creatures. Makuta planned to create a mask that combined multiple elements, which could violate a sacred law. He first attempted lesser combinations, such as imbuing a mask with two Elemental Powers and making it possible for ordinary villagers to use them. He unveiled these masks to Ekimu, the Protectors, and a groundskeeper. Makuta had the groundskeeper test the masks out on a tree. When the masks proved dangerous, Ekimu rebuked his brother for making the masks, which violated the sacred law.
Ekimu witnessed the Elemental Creatures appear to him. Taking their presence as an omen, and in company with the Protectors, he traveled to the Temple of Time using his Airship, where he used the Mask of Time to look into the future. Beholding the cataclysm that would someday come to pass, as well as the arrival of the Toa, he set to work crafting the Golden Masks of Power. To accomplish his task, he asked the Protectors to gather large Elemental Crystals from the Elemental Creatures.
When Ekimu returned to the City of the Mask Makers, Makuta apologized to Ekimu for creating the two-element masks and claimed that he destroyed them. Ekimu forgave Makuta, but when Ekimu was creating the Golden Masks, he discovered that his crystals were missing and a mold left by Makuta, leading Ekimu to deduce that Makuta secretly and actually melted down his masks and stealing Ekimu's crystals to create the Mask of Ultimate Power. Ekimu told the Protectors about his discoveries, and they followed Ekimu to Capital City in order to stop him.
When Makuta put on his new mask, it took control of him and caused the island to start falling apart. Ekimu, realizing what Makuta had done, attacked him while crying in tears of sadness about Makuta's action, and knocked off the mask, which unleashed a shockwave that sent both Mask Makers into a deep sleep. The impact also knocked off his own Mask of Creation and scattered it along with the Golden Masks of Power all over Okoto.
Ekimu's body was eventually discovered by the Protectors, who heard the Prophecy of Heroes whispered from it. They placed his body inside a sarcophagus and adorned his face with a new mask, until the Mask of Creation could be returned to him.
Gathering of the Toa
Thousands of years later, six Toa crash-landed on the island and were guided by the Protectors to find their Golden Masks of Power. When the Toa had donned their Golden Masks, Ekimu sent them a vision of the City of the Mask Makers. After the Toa defeated the Lord of Skull Spiders at the entrance to the city, Ekimu contacted them all in a vision, praising their efforts and imploring them to find and awaken him.
When the Toa finally arrived to his tomb on the graveyard, Ekimu's voice directed them to use their elemental powers to awake him from his slumber. The Toa combined their elemental powers and reawakened Ekimu's body.
Dismayed at all that had occurred during his slumber, Ekimu admonished the Toa for being late. Kopaka complained to Ekimu about summoning more professional warriors to get to Ekimu's tomb faster, but Ekimu told the Toa that power comes from unity rather than numbers. Ekimu told the Toa to hurry, but when he almost collapsed on the floor after jumping from his sarcophagus because of his coma, Onua helped him stand upright. When Ekimu saw his city damaged, he became sad and assumed that evil had caused the destruction while not knowing that Onua actually caused some of it. Ekimu informed the Toa that Kulta had already gotten possession of the Mask of Creation just before the Toa arrived at the city. He also told the Toa that Kulta will destroy the mask in the Mask Maker's forge. Ekimu guided the Toa to his forge.
On the way there, Ekimu warned the Toa about Skull Basher.[3] At the entrance to the forge, Ekimu noticed Kulta starting his forge's furnace. Ekimu and the Toa encountered Skull Basher, who quickly defeated Onua and took his Golden Mask of Earth. Ekimu scolded at the Toa for this and instructed them to work together, rather than separately. The Toa combined the five remaining Toa blew past Skull Basher, defeating him and recovering the Golden Mask of Earth.
Inside the forge, the team discovered Kulta preparing to destroy the Mask of Creation. Ekimu tried to convince Kulta to stand down, but Kulta wore the mask and used its power to try to buy himself some time, worrying Ekimu. Ekimu told the Toa to occupy Kulta while he worked to recreate his Hammer of Power. Kulta defeated the Toa effortlessly, but the weakened Toa were able to halt Kulta's approach long enough for Ekimu to finish his weapon, which fully revitalized him. Using the Hammer of Power, Ekimu knocked the Mask of Creation from Kulta's face, and claimed it for himself, defeating Kulta in the process.
After the battle, Ekimu started reforging the Golden Masks of Power to help revitalize the Toa, as theirs had been destroyed in the fight with Kulta.
During the time, the present-day Protectors arrived and bowed before Ekimu. Ekimu greeted them warmly, briefly taking them for his friends of long ago before being corrected. After Ekimu reforged the Golden Masks of Power, he met Harvali from the Region of Jungle, unintentionally making her faint in excitement. After Vizuna, Protector of Jungle, told Ekimu who she is, Ekimu became interested in talking with her when she wakes up.[4]
Once the Toa awoke, Ekimu told them that he was impressed with their heroic actions.
He called upon them and the Protectors to help him prepare the city for the arrival of their villagers, desiring to make the city their new home. Ekimu brought fireworks, which he created thousands of years ago, to start the task. He had Tahu and Narmoto, Protector of Fire, to ignite the fireworks. As the islanders entered the city and began to celebrate, however, Ekimu felt a dark presence, and renewed his resolve to be prepared for Makuta's coming attack.[4]
Ekimu and the Toa were soon prevailed upon by Vizuna and a group of villagers from the Region of Stone to search for two missing children who had been abducted by a Skull Spider-controlled giant hawk in a ravine in Okoto's mountain range. Ekimu and the Toa went to the ravine to find the hawk. This led them into the lair of the Skull Raiders, whom he learned held him responsible for the cataclysm Makuta had triggered which had left them trapped beneath the island's surface for thousands of years. The heroes tried to rescue the children from the Skull Raiders, but Kulta got in the way and made the Skull Raiders to fight the heroes. Ekimu challenged Kulta to a duel where none of them will use their weapons, and the Toa will not help Ekimu. Ekimu managed to defeat his old adversary a third time by borrowing Onua's Earthquake Hammer, bending the rules. His blow triggered the collapse of the Raiders' city, which he and Onua then sealed the entrance to with their hammers. The heroes and the children returned to the City of the Mask Makers. When Vizuna warned Ekimu about Kulta escaping the city, Ekimu told him that he and the Toa knew this.[5]
BIONICLE: The Journey to One
To help them, Ekimu crafted new armor and weapons for the Toa, which they soon used against a leftover group of Skull Warriors and Skull Spiders who attacked the city. Afterwards, Ekimu instructed the Toa to seek out the Elemental Creatures in order to gain their help in finding the Mask of Control so that Ekimu could destroy it and prevent Makuta from obtaining it once again, while he resumed the crafting of masks. The heroes soon succeeded, but after learning of Lewa's encounter with Umarak, Ekimu encouraged them to rest a night before they set out to find the Labyrinth of Control.
Through his friend Agil, the Elemental Creature of Light, Ekimu observed what transpired as the Toa confronted Umarak, and greeted them upon their return to the city. He revealed that his forge had been built atop the ancient Temple of Light, which he remained at while the Toa and their Elemental Creatures defended the city from the Shadow Horde. After an initial clash, Onua approached Ekimu, who informed him that the time had come for the Toa to leave the city's defense to others in order to stop Makuta's rise. As Onua left to join his comrades, Ekimu summoned Agil and then entered a chamber in the temple, emerging in a taller form with new armor and weapons as the Toa of Light[2], though he disclaimed this title.
Ekimu joined the Toa then left six of the Elemental Creatures with the Okotans to defend the City of the Mask Makers while they set out after Umarak with Agil, the seventh Elemental Creature. As they entered the Region of Stone, Ekimu recounted the story of his brother's banishment and the loss of Capital City to the Shadow Realm, to which a portal had been opened when Makuta's Mask of Ultimate Power was torn apart by it's own Elemental enemies. Through Agil, they learned that Umarak had collected several of the scattered fragments of the Mask, with which he intended to reopen the portal so that Makuta could return. They came upon the monstrous Destroyer but were then challenged by members of his Shadow Horde, a battle in which Ekimu fared poorly. Luckily, he was aided by Kopaka, and the Toa were able to reach the summit of a dark mountain that Umarak had raised from the crater left by Makuta's defeat.
Cut off from the Elements of Okoto, the Toa briefly fell victim to Umarak's shadow power until Ekimu and Agil combined their might to unleash a powerful blast of light that reverted Ekimu to his original form and made Agil disappear. The attack weakened Umarak enough to free the Toa. Gali attempted to recover the forbidden mask's fragments, but her spirit was pulled into the Shadow Realm through the portal. As the other Toa carried on a grueling battle against Umarak, the Destroyer taunted Ekimu that his Light attack had given Umarak the power he needed to complete the ritual to free Makuta, only for Ekimu to express knowledge of this fact. Makuta used Umarak's energies to complete the portal, but this allowed Gali to escape and tell the Toa what Ekimu, due to his own code, could not: that they would have to unite their inherent powers to banish Makuta again. Ekimu watched as the Toa fulfilled their destiny and banished Makuta before returning to the stars from whence they had come.
Abilities and Traits
Ekimu is as short as the Okotans. He is wise and strong.[6] Ekimu is a skilled Mask Maker, so much that his masks were favored by the island's inhabitants more than his brother's. Ekimu not only can make masks, but he can also make armor and weapons, as he created the ancient Protectors their armor[4] and the Toa their Uniter armor and weapons.
Ekimu is a mentor to the Toa, as he taught them about unity, though he would scold at them when he sees the Toa make mistakes. However, he can see that the Toa are trying to save their friends, so he would apologize.[5]
Among the Toa, Ekimu is known to interact with Onua the most. Many instances include when right after Ekimu was awakened, he jumped out of his sacophagus and almost hit the floor because of his long coma, but Onua helped him to stand upright.[7] When Ekimu and the Toa were finding the Skull-Spider-possessed hawk, he talked about missing using his Airship while it was destroyed, and Onua advised Ekimu to build a new one. Ekimu scolded Pohatu for trying to save Lewa from the Skull-Spider-possessed hawk rather than following the hawk, Onua told Ekimu that he would have tried to do the same thing as Pohatu, so Ekimu apologized to Pohatu. When Ekimu was fighting Kulta in the Skull Raiders' underground city without any of them using their own weapons, he told Onua to give him his hammer to defeat Kulta, bending the rules of the fight, and Onua immediately knew Ekimu's plan and did it without hesitating.[5] When Ekimu, Onua, and Terak observed Tahu and Ikir flying in the City of the Mask Makers for fun, Ekimu talked to Onua about Tahu having too much fun, and then told Onua and Terak to stop Tahu and Ikir.[8] During the Toa's battle against the Elemental Beasts in the city, Onua alone went to talk to Ekimu about the reason why the Elemental Beasts were attacking the city.[9]
Ekimu usually follows the rules of a challenge when he is challenged by villains, but he can bend the rules a little bit. He never cheats.[5]
Since Makuta's Betrayal, Ekimu felt sad about his brother turning evil.[10][11]
After he was reawakened, Ekimu misses traveling around Okoto with his Airship and was surprised to see Okoto changed because of Makuta's Betrayal.[5]
Ekimu can understand and speak the language of the Skull Raiders, including their writings.[5]
Ekimu is able to contact the bearers of the Golden Masks of Power through visions, even when asleep.
When Ekimu became a "Toa of Light", he became as tall as the Toa, and he gained the power of Light. He can sacrfice his power to combine it with Agil's to greatly weaken Umarak, the Destroyer, which can cause Ekimu to change back to his normal form.
Masks and Tools
Ekimu wears the Mask of Creation, which was being sought after by multiple factions. After his defeat and its loss, his body was given a golden mask by the Protectors, though he discarded this centuries later when he regained his original mask. The mask aids him in his endeavors and can be combined with the power of the Elemental Masks to bring things into being that Ekimu could not fashion by himself.[4]
His tool is the Hammer of Power, which he can use for mask making and for combat. He also carries a Saw Shield.[6] When Ekimu was enhanced by the element of Light, his tools transformed into the Crystal Hammer and Crystal Saw Shield. His tools later regained their original forms after he sacrificed his power with Agil's to strike at Umarak.
Set Information
70795 Mask Maker vs. Skull Grinder was released as one of the sets in the August 2015 product wave, containing Ekimu as the titular Mask Maker.
71312 Ekimu the Mask Maker was released in the summer of 2016.
Quotes
"Your power comes not from numbers. Your power comes from unity. But duty awaits. We must hurry."
— Ekimu to the Toa, Island of Lost Masks
"So you are the Toa of Light!"
"No... just an old Mask Maker who'd like to help."
— Gali and Ekimu, Destroyer's Game
Trivia
- In the 2015 Online Animations, Ekimu's eyes were blue before Makuta's Betrayal, and after he was revived his eyes' color became yellow.
- Ekimu was voiced by William Jordan in The Journey to One.
- In the 2015 Online Animations, a sword lies inside Ekimu's tomb and is depicted alongside the Mask Maker in some carvings.[12]
Appearances
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Animations Club Pages |
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Television Video Games Advertisements |
References
See also
- Gallery:Mask Makers § Ekimu
- Artakha - A revered craftsman from the Generation 1 story, who similarly wore a Mask of Creation.
- Mata Nui - The Great Spirit of the Matoran Universe, who spent much of the Generation 1 story in an unending sleep.
- Takua/Takanuva - An ally of the Generation 1 Toa who later became the Toa of Light.
External links
- 70795 Mask Maker vs. Skull Grinder Building Instructions on BS01 (Ekimu Building Instructions begin on Page 26)
- 71312 Ekimu the Mask Maker Building Instructions on BS01
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