Essence of theMakuta

Drinking this swirling lime-green Essence transforms you into a member of the Makuta species.

• Your true self is a swirling green cloud, sometimes described as “energy” and other times as “gaseous”, encased within an immensely durable shell of protosteel armor. You are 2.5 meters tall. You may choose the colors and pattern of your body.

• You may choose whether your armored body possesses wings. If it does, you can fly quickly using them.

• As a being of energy, you are free from biological needs to eat and sleep that other lifeforms in the Matoran Universe must attend to. You are also immortal. The original Makuta were created 100'000 years before the conclusion of the Bionicle saga, and none has ever perished from old age.

• You have also been prepared mentally for the vast expanse of time. Your mind could store an eon’s worth of memories before becoming full. Your focus and patience have also been increased, allowing you to work on tasks across very long time scales without becoming bored.

• You have an affinity for the element of Shadow, though the level of control over this power varies between Makuta. At minimum you know how to generate the Shadow Hand, a hand and arm made of elastic, inky darkness that reaches out and snares a target before reeling it in towards you. However, you are no more or less forced to be evil than any other being. The Makuta were created as overseers and guardians of the Matoran Universe, but later consciously chose to reject that duty.

• Including your ability to create and control darkness, you have 42 inherent powers or “Kraata powers” that you can use instinctively.* Your finesse and stamina when using these powers can be improved over time.

• You may choose any one of the canonical Great Kanohi masks to possess, giving you its power, save for the three Legendary Masks of Time, Life, and Creation. You are free to choose the Avohkii, the Mask of Light, but it’s power may have… unpleasant interactions with your shadowy nature.

• You have the ability to absorb other beings into yourself via contact, growing larger and adding particular body parts they possessed such as wings or claws to yourself. Powerful targets can and will resist this.

• Conversely, you have the ability to split off parts of your essence to create Kraata, small sluglike creatures who follow your will to the best of their ability. Each Kraata possesses a copy of one of your 42 inherent powers. A Kraata can also become the guiding intelligence for a mindless creature known as a Rahkshi, allowing them to use their abilities through a more intimidating body.

• You gain the knowledge of how to synthesize Protodermis, a material which almost everything in the Matoran Universe is made from. You can design industrial processes to convert Protodermis between any of its many forms, including the mutagenic Energized Protodermis.

• On the subject of mutations - as a Makuta, you are exceptionally talented in the biological and techno-biological sciences. Designing entirely new species of plants and animals, including those with bizarre or supernatural abilities, is well within your capability. Novel creatures that you create will initially have a favorable impression of you, but unlike Kraata they can be driven to turn on you by mistreatment or apathy.

• As mentioned before your Protosteel armor is durable even in a world where everyone has a metal exoskeleton. However, should it be breached and not repaired, your (small-e) essence will begin to leak out. If your body is destroyed entirely, the process will of course happen immediately. When existing in your cloud form, you can use only purely mental powers. If you remain without a vessel for too long, your essence will eventually dissipate, and you will die. Any body that is “unoccupied” (i.e. does not have a thinking being currently occupying it) can serve as a vessel for you. Even a million-foot tall robot, if one were to happen to be around and its original spirit was not present.