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| Alternate Universe | |
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| Deviating Individuals |
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| Point of Divergence |
To be revealed
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| Afterverse contains spoilers.
This article contains spoilers for '777 and Rock Bottom: Remastered. Continue reading at your own risk. |
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The Afterverse is an divergent reality in the BIONICLE Multiverse.
History[]
Seen main article: Afterverse/Timeline
Mahri Nui[]
Around 21 AGC, the lava field upon which Mahri Nui was built sank into the Voya Nui Bay. Hundreds of Matoran were killed, or mutated into carnivorous beasts were either captured and put down or escaped into the open sea. The rest were left to rebuild their lives, hoping someone would eventually come to save them.
The city landed amidst the Fields of Airweed, disturbing the airweed and forming a series of huge air domes over the city, effectively saving all those that remained alive from death or a worse fate. The domesticated Gafna within the city and just outside were mutated into amphibious creatures adept at harvesting the airweed, which the Matoran utilized to gather more air every day to maintain the domes' integrity. For several decades the Matoran lived on the seafloor, their new way of life becoming the norm. The longer they remained without hope of rescue, the more the Matoran resigned themselves to living out the rest of their lives there.
Roughly 30 years after the Great Cataclysm, Kalmah, one of the Barraki warlords condemned to the Pit by the combined might of the Brotherhood of Makuta and the Order of Mata Nui, began to venture up from the Black Water. This caused sea life that had largely avoided the area around Mahri Nui due to the abundance of oxygen (which was toxic to many of them) to flee into the surrounding waters, attacking more and more Matoran as time went on.
No longer safe from the carnivorous creatures that roamed the ocean just outside of the Fields of Airweed, the Matoran of Mahri Nui were forced to investigate. Dekar, Commander of the Mahri Nui Sentinels, lead a team into the Black Water to investigate using a submersible vehicle by the Le-Matoran inventor Defilak. During the mission, they discovered and rescued a Toa of Ice floating in the Black Water, and the Ta-Matoran Sarda was devoured by Kalmah.
Meanwhile, the Fa-Matoran Lemiddus spotted the Kanohi Ignika floating down into the Black Water while on guard duty. He saved it and took it back into the city, unaware that the Mask had enlarged a microscopic crap-like creature into a temporary guardian for itself. while reporting his finding to Dekar's second in command, Idris, he began to act erratically and accidentally blasted the current leader of the city with raw energy from the mask, Kyros, killing him. Shocked and horrified by what he had done, Lemiddus ran off, determined to destroy the mask.
Unbeknownst to anyone, Kyros was not actually dead. The energy that had killed him had subsequently rebooted his scorched body and given him a wide array of energy-base powers. Armed with these new abilities, he set out to find Lemiddus and steal the mask for himself. Kyros tracked Lemiddus to Defilak's warehouse and confronted him. The two fought to a standoff, but when Dekar's team returned suddenly Kyros used the opportunity to blast Lemiddus. Kyros took the Ignika and fled as Lemiddus died in Dekar's arms.
At the same time, the creature created by the Ignika was approaching the other side of Mahri Nui, searching for the mask. Idris rallied the Sentinels and attempted to drive the creature away from Mahri Nui using zamor spheres filled with air. The creature proved too strong and killed one Matoran and significantly injured several others. The tide turned when Glace, the Toa from the Black Water engaged the creature and forced Idris into disintegrating its heart with a zamor sphere with a Kanohi Komau after she hesitated to take the shot.
Glace carried Idris back to the safety of the Air Domes, where she passed out before she could accuse him. Kaira took Idris back to her home to tend to her wounds, alongside the other injured Sentinels.
In the aftermath of these encounters, Dekar used his authority as Captain of the Sentinels to appoint Defilak as temporary leader of Mahri Nui. Sometime later, Defilak visited the edge of the Black Water and swore to find and kill Kalmah as revenge for killing Sarda and his best friend, the Onu-Matoran named Gar.
Inhabitants[]
See main article: Afterverse/Inhabitants
The general population of the Afterverse is very similar to the Prime Reality, including the Great Beings, all the species created by the Great Beings that inhabit the Matoran Universe, all of the species created by Mata Nui himself, and all of the native inhabitants of Spherus Magna.
There are many individuals who deviate from the Prime Reality, due to the ripple effects from the point of divergence. The significance of many of of these is negligible, though several individuals diverge immensely from their Prime counterparts.
Appearances[]
- Honor Among Thieves
- 777
- Rock Bottom (First Appearance)
Non-Canon[]
- Black Water
- Rock Bottom, Original version
- Hellbound
- Scraps, by Invader39