Seeds of Madness Alternate Universe

Seeds of Madness Alternate Universe is an alternate universe where Toa Jovam and his team failed to recover the Mask of Life, and where Mata Nui died as a result.

== History ==

=== Early Differences ===

The early history of Seeds of Madness Alternate Universe was deceptively similar to that of the Core Universe. The first only difference in the first 20,000 years was that Velika was known to have granted the denizens of the Matoran Universe the ability to feel romantic attachment towards one another.

However, when Mata Nui mind began to collapse, during the Shattering, when Jovan and his team where sent to retrieve the Mask of Life, they were unable to succeed, and Mata Nui died. As the Matoran Universe began to collapse, a Great Being known as Hara Vel, who had been studying the universe and its inhabitants, decided to intervene, replacing Mata Nui in the Mata Nui Robot. She also brought with her three Toa, Nahrma, a Toa of Lightning, Cadun , a Toa of Air, and Noctus , a Toa of Fire, that she had created from Energized Protodermis.

== The Fall ==

Hara Vel governed the Matoran Universe for about 1,000 years, with the vast majority of its denizens unaware of the change, with the exeption of Makuta Teridax, the Order of Mata Nui, and a few others. During this time, Teridax began [edit]. In addition, Noctus began to gather a small group of elite warriors called the Blackfire Knights. Then, suddenly, Noctus, after more than 3,000 years of serving Vel, lured Cadun to his death, before killing Nahrma and obliterated the Mata Nui Robot's head, killing Hara Vel and thousands of other beings. The Robot collapsed into Spherus Magna 's sea and its population evacuated the Robot.

While this was going on, Karda Nui detonated, killing all but nine of the matoran inhabiting the core, and flooding those nine with huge amounts of power. They became living ideals, as the Avatars. They fled the wrecked Robot, and began to shepherd the surviving Matoran onto the Robot's chest, where they began to build settlements and recover from the devastation wrought by Noctus. The Toa continued to guard the matoran, and the Avatars governed the Matoran and stabilized their society.

== The First Abyssal Invasion ==

But beneath the Matoran villages, in the depths of the Mata Nui Robot's shattered frame, a new threat gathered. After his rebellion, Noctus retreated deep into the Robot's depths and began to build an army out of the remains of the Blackfire Knights and the creatures created by the mutagen seawater that leaked into the caverns and tunnels of what became known as the Abyss. After 500 years of preparation, the Demonic armies errupted onto the surface, with Noctus, who had dubbed himself Nocturnus, at their head. Nocturnus's forces tore their way through-TBA