Emuyii

"The suns will rise tomorrow morning and serenade you with its light. You may or may not exclaim, 'O great twin beasts of flaming gas, why do you scorch me so? Could you perhaps do this in shifts?' Later, the suns will set."

- Emuu's first prophecy

Emuu is a Ko-Matoran fortune teller and failed prophet native to Metru Nui.

Metru Nui
Emuu originally resided in Ko-Metru on the island of Metru Nui. Inspired by the accomplishments of Ihu, Ko-Metru's greatest scholar, Emuu aspired to become a prophet worthy of his legacy. Although he enrolled into Knowledge Tower as a student, Emuu proved to be a lazy student and had little to no understanding of how to study the stars and predict the future.

After a string of failures and poor choices that were mercifully overlooked by his tutor (one of which even resulted in minor damage being done to the Tower's best telescope), Emuu was finally cast out when Turaga Dume visited the Tower to inspect the work being done there. Having prepared nothing for the Tower's presentation, Emuu hastily fabricated a prophecy declaring that Turaga Dume would one day frown on a hot day and wish he were bathing in Ga-Metru instead. When this did not align with the actual star charts, Emuu was expelled by the Tower's humiliated seers. Nuju would later declare Emuu the worst seer ever admitted to the Knowledge Towers of Ko-Metru, a sentiment that became widespread.

No longer welcome in his native Metru, Emuu instead decided to hit the road and put his dubious prophetic knowledge to good use, becoming a travelling fortune teller instead. Though his business was met with a frosty reception in the more academically-inclined regions of Onu-Metru and Ga-Metru, the novelty of his act was warmly received in Ta-Metru and Po-Metru by gullible Matoran who did not know any better.

Almost all of Emuu's prophecies were on some level, inaccurate, dubious or based off obvious certainties, such as the sun rising and falling the next day. Understandably, many of his customers later complained that they had been ripped off. As he had essentially made a living out of fabricating a series of vague, trite and sorely overpriced prophecies, Emuu soon gained a shady reputation, with many perceiving him as little more than a conman. Emuu himself denied such accusations, claiming his customers had merely misinterpreted the underlying meaning of his prophecies. Emuu cemented his reputation when one year he predicted that the Le-Metru team would the annual major Akilini tournament at Coliseum, and his failure to accurately predict the winner put a number of Matoran gamblers who had taken his word at face value in debt.

Though this damaged his reputation, Emuu was able to regain some of his credibility following a run-in with Toa Naha, who was investigating the legitimacy of Emuu's business. Desperate to get out of trouble, Emuu hastily predicted one of the Ga-Matoran smuggling rings would be meeting at the Fountain of Wisdom to discuss ways of expanding their operations beyond Metru Nui. To everyone's surprise, this prediction turned out to be true, and Naha was able to arrest one of the largest smuggling rings thanks entirely to Emuu's prophecy. Even more surprising was when a prominent Ko-Matoran seer confirmed this prophecy to be true after consulting a star chart that they had documented around the same time of Emuu's prophecy, but had deemed unimportant.

Unsurprisingly, Emuu's work got him in trouble with the Vahki enforcers many times. Initially, the Vahki took issue with the nature of his business, as his work was not seen as productive or beneficial to the city at large. Emuu was able to smooth talk his way out of this confrontation, claiming his business spread the insights of Ko-Matoran knowledge to the rest of the Matoran population.

Although this was accepted at first, he again ran into trouble when Ko-Metru finally became aware of his activities. As a result, many high-ranking scholars publicly declared that Ko-Metru did not in any way endorse the distribution of what they saw as illegal, unauthorised and inaccurate prophecies. Though the Vahki threatened to put him out of business, Emuu was again able to wriggle his way out on a technicality, claiming he had never actively marketed himself as a seer, merely a fortune teller, whilst also arguing that he was entitled to use the skills he had learned in Ko-Metru however he liked. Emuu's case was reluctantly granted, and Ko-Metru withdrew its accusation.

Weeks before the Great Cataclysm struck, Emuu made what many considered his most outlandish prediction up to that point, where he declared a major catastrophe would strike the Matoran Universe and cause it to flood with water, resulting in the recently-emerged Toa Metru becoming seafaring pirates. Everyone declared the idea to be patently insane, poorly thought out, and his most obvious scam to date. His interpretation of the Toa Metru's future gained some traction a few weeks later when the Toa were actively branded as fugitives by Turaga Dume. One Ko-Matoran prophet snidely declared it Emuu's most accurate prophecy to date.

Shortly after, Emuu was escorted to a Matoran Sphere by the Vahki, and was placed in the Coliseum during the Visorak's takeover of the island. He was later rescued by the Toa Metru and brought to the island of Mata Nui.

Mata Nui
Emuu was awakened by the Toa Metru on the shores of Naho Bay on Mata Nui, his memory having been erased and his size and power diminished by his Matoran Sphere. After assisting in the construction of Ko-Koro, Emuu wished to take part in the Seeking. As a result, he sought to become an adept in the village's Sanctum, hoping to aid Turaga Nuju in ascertaining the meaning of the various inscriptions on the Wall of Prophecy. Unsure of Emuu's suitability for the role, based on his life in in Metru Nui, Nuju gave the position to Kylma, and instead made Emuu a scribe.

At one point, Emuu travelled to a bazaar in Po-Koro, where he purchased a Husi as a pet. Although many doubted that a Rahi traditionally suited to arid regions would settle in Ko-Wahi, Emuu surprised all when he took up residence in a cave deep in Mount Ihu, which he decorated with Heatstones just to keep the Husi warm. In the warmer seasons of the year, Emuu would often be seen carrying out his duties in Ko-Koro with his pet Husi.

One thousand years later, during the Rebuilding, Ehrye was rebuilt into a stronger form. Later several Rahkshi attacked Mata Nui, forcing the Ko-Matoran to evacuate Ko-Koro.

Return to Metru Nui
After Toa Takanuva succeeded in defeating Makuta, Emuu assisted in building Boats to facilitate his and the other Matoran's return trip to Metru Nui, where he briefly resided, undertaking work to repair the city. He temporarily stopped his work of reconstruction on order of Jaller, to force the Turaga to reveal where the Toa Nuva had gone, but he eventually got back to work until the usage of the Staff of Artakha.

Due to the critical damage dealt to the Matoran Universe robot, and the death of Makuta, the Matoran, including Emmu, were forced to migrate to the reformed plant of Spherus Magna.

Trivia

 * The premise of Emuu's character was originally stemmed from a joke his creator pitched in wiki's Discord chatroom.
 * Emuu's name was derived from the name of an Australian bird named the Emu. The bird has no correlation to the character in any meaningful sense, although it was referenced in-story with his adoption of a Husi, an ostrich-like Rahi which vaguely resembles the emu.
 * Emuu's prophecy