Teridax (OU)

"You see, my father taught me all the ins and outs of war. A true war monger he was. Real bastard, too."

- Sasuken recalls Teridax

Teridax was a powerful and ambitious Makuta who preceded Blackout as the Grand Master of the Brotherhood of Makuta.

Early Life
In 627 CMT, Teridax would often bully a novice Makuta named Starok, so Starok left to create the Reformed Second Brotherhood of Makuta. Teridax was enraged by this, so he sent an army of Makuta to kill Starok, but Starok convinced these Makuta to join the Reformed Second Brotherhood of Makuta instead.

In 20,980 CMT, Miserix ordered Teridax, his trusted lieutenant, to end the Matoran Civil War, so Teridax abducted a large number of Matoran combatants and released dangerous predatory Rahi on them. The resulting massacre scared the rest of the Matoran into laying down their weapons and successfully brought an end to the war. To prevent another such occurrence in the future, Miserix assigned senior members of the Brotherhood of Makuta a region of the Matoran Universe for each of them to watch over: Teridax was assigned to the prominent location of Metru Nui as a reward for stopping the war.

At around the same time, Teridax discovered the truth about Mata Nui and began to work on a plan to overthrow and replace him as the controller of the Great Spirit Robot and the ruler of the Matoran Universe. The first stage in his plan was to overthrow Miserix and become the new ruler of the Brotherhood of Makuta, which he achieved with the help of several other Makuta.

Ruler of the Brotherhood
As the ruler of the Brotherhood of Makuta, Teridax donned the Kanohi Kraahkan, the Mask of Shadows, a symbol of Makuta leadership.

At some point, Teridax fathered a son, Sasuken (but it is unknown how this was achieved because Makuta are not capable of biological reproduction). Teridax trained his son in the art of war, but at the same time neglected him and beat him if the Rahi he created had minute flaws or if he ever lost a battle. As Teridax worked towards his goal, he discovered Ynot, a low-ranking Makuta in the Brotherhood who thought little of himself but had incredible potential. Teridax realized that even if he failed in his plan, Ynot could succeed where he could not, so he tasked Sasuken with monitoring Ynot's movements and aiding him whenever necessary.

In 50,080 CMT, the Brotherhood of Makuta discovered a new island on the surface of Aqua Magna named Shinobi-Nui. Teridax issued Tablets of Release to Sasuken, Ynot, Hokagetsu, Asumaru, Trixitin, and Kurenitsu, and ordered them to scout the island in return for higher ranks. Teridax chose Ynot for this mission in the hope that it would help solve his confidence issues, and Sasuken because he was too cocky and needed an "attitude adjustment". Teridax also decided to give Sasuken another scare before he left Destral by using his Kraata power of Illusion to make it seem like a Rahi Nui was outside Sasuken's chamber window. When Sasuken jumped out of the window at the Rahi Nui, Teridax dispelled the illusion, then did the same trick four additional times to torment him. Once Teridax had had enough fun, he ordered Sasuken and the other five Makuta he had gathered to embark on their mission to Shinobi-Nui.

In 90,080 CMT, Teridax replaced his second-in-command, Icarax, with Blackout. Despite this, Icarax continued to be a member of the Brotherhood of Makuta.

In 99,080 CMT, Teridax infected the core processor of Mata Nui with a virus that sent him into a deep sleep. This caused Mata Nui's health to deteriorate and would lead to his eventual death a thousand years later.

In 100,080 CMT, Malygos banished Teridax to another dimension so that Blackout could rule the Brotherhood of Makuta in his place, but not before Blackout took Teridax's Kanohi Kraahkan and kept it to prove his leadership.

Later that year, Ynot used a ruby that was given to him by Artrix to summon Teridax. Blackout fought the former Makuta leader and defeated him.

Death & Resurrection
Teridax died at some point in the 50,000 years that followed and was mourned by Sasuken.

In 150,080 CMT, Teridax was resurrected when the operators of the UG pushed it into the Original Universe and used a resurrection matrix to draw in the lost souls of many of the OU's deceased characters and resurrect them in new, identical bodies. A booming voice told the resurrected beings that they had been trapped in a "tournament of the dead" of sorts, and that their only chance to escape from the UG was by making pacts with other characters and completing challenges. The voice also told them that their powers and strength had been taken from them and trapped in badges attached to their chests. Teridax found himself next to Helryx, Xintun, and SM Ynot as he heard the announcement. Helryx suggested that they work together, but Teridax lunged at her badge, so she used Teridax's momentum against him to flip him over. Helryx then took Teridax's badge, which banished his soul and returned him to the grave.

Legacy
Also in 150,080 CMT, Sasuken revealed to Blackout that Teridax had ordered him to monitor and assist Ynot, because Teridax had first noticed Ynot's incredible potential thousands of years ago. Blackout responded by saying that Teridax was a fool who had "wasted thousands of years trying to take over a robot's body", and that while Teridax "busied himself harassing Matoran", Blackout had gained more control over the Brotherhood with each day that passed, but Teridax failed to notice or realize Blackout's intentions until it was too late.

In the Battle of Mordor, Sasuken telepathically trapped Uterio di Armechio inside his own mind and told him about Teridax. Sasuken admitted that he had "daddy issues" due to Teridax's treatment of him, but declared that he would fight for his life because Teridax had given him a mission to fulfil (to help and monitor Ynot). Ynot eventually found out about Sasuken's mission and told him that "Teridax put you here to be the check to my mate. Don't you forget that. I ever get out of hand, it's you that needs to put me down."

In 150,083 CMT, F-Blackout brought the version of Teridax's mask, the Kraahkan, from the far future to the present and gave it to Ynot. F-Blackout explained that he had no need of the Kraahkan because nobody questioned his leadership of the Brotherhood in the far future and added that Sasuken would appreciate having a memento of his father. Ynot accepted the mask and later gave it to Sasuken.

In 253,074 CMT, Icarax told F-Klak about his relationship with Teridax. Icarax recalled that Teridax knew of his ambition and potential treachery but still kept him around for some reason - at least until he was exiled to another dimension by Malygos. Later in 253,074 CMT, Malygos entered Ynot's mind and stumbled upon a memory of Ynot working on Destral. Teridax approached him and asked if he had seen Krika, so Ynot replied that he was in the training hall with Chirox and Mutran. Teridax then sighed and left, and the memory ended.

Abilities & Powers

 * Moral Insight: Teridax's Kanohi Kraahkan, the Mask of Shadows, enabled him to see the moral darkness of others.
 * Absorption: Teridax, like most other Makuta, could absorb other biomechanical beings to increase his size and strength.
 * Shadow Energy: Teridax could create elemental shadow blasts as a means of attack, as well as shadow constructs such as Shadow Hands.
 * Kraata Creation: Teridax, like most other Makuta, could create Kraata slugs of varying types, which could then be turned into Rahkshi through the use of Energized Protodermis.
 * Kraata Powers: Teridax had access to the full range of Kraata powers, which granted him the abilities of increased accuracy, instant environmental adaptation, anger induction, chain lightning, camouflage, confusion induction, cyclone creation, darkness creation, density control, matter disintegration, attack dodging, elasticity, electrical field creation, fear induction, increased resistance to fire and ice, gravity manipulation, eyebeam generation, energy draining, illusion casting, insect control, temporary invulnerability, magnetism manipulation, mind reading, molecular disruption, plantlife control, plasma generation, poison generation, power scream generation, rapid healing, Rahi control, shapeshifting, object shattering, sound dampening, sleep induction, slowness induction, sonic wave generation, stasis field generation, teleportation, vacuum creation, and weather control.