The Time Before TimeAround 100,000 Years Before the Great Cataclysm
Great Spirit Mata Nui sent by
Great Beings to protect universe.
Makuta species created, organizing themselves as a
Brotherhood.
First team of
Toa assembled, and the
Bohrok are created.
Metru Nui built and populated.
Great Beings depart for other universes.
94,000 Years Before the Great Cataclysm
Mata Nui creates six
Barraki warlords. Barraki conquer most of the world.
93,000 Years Before the Great Cataclysm
Barraki form military alliance called League of Six Kingdoms.
89,000 Years Before the Great Cataclysm
Toa Mata created by this time.
86,000 Years Before the Great Cataclysm
Metru Nui forges trade pact with League of Six Kingdoms.
Sometime over 79,000 Years Before the Great Cataclysm
Kanohi Dragon defeated by Toa and imprisoned in ice under unknown circumstances.
79,000 Years Before the Great Cataclysm
League of Six Kingdoms plots to usurp Mata Nui. Brotherhood of Makuta learns of their plans, allies with the Toa to launch preemptive strike. Barraki are captured; Order of Mata Nui intervenes and banishes them to
the Pit. League's trade pacts are made void and trade is disrupted.
78,500 - 78,100 Years Before the Great Cataclysm
Great Disruption. Metru Nui enters civil war, halting normal work. Brotherhood of Makuta steps in and ends fighting. Order of Mata Nui banishes war leaders to the Pit; places an agent in Metru Nui.
Toa Jovan leads his team to Mount Valmai and the Mask of Life. Jovan later becomes a
Turaga and leads the region's Matoran.
[1]74,000 Years Before the Great Cataclysm
A Brotherhood member arrives on
Zakaz and begins tampering with the native Skakdi.
59,000 Years Before the Great Cataclysm
Time Slip. Six-month period of which no memories or records exist outside of Order of Mata Nui. Order scatters several disguised Matoran of light among many lands, including
Takua in Metru Nui.
[2]15,000 Years Before the Great Cataclysm
Mask of Light stolen from
Artakha by Brotherhood of Makuta.
[3] Artakha enters period of isolation.
14,000 Years Before the Great Cataclysm
Turaga Dume appointed as leader of Metru Nui.
6,005 Years Before the Great Cataclysm
Lhikan becomes a Toa of Fire.
6,000 Years Before the Great Cataclysm
Two Skakdi,
Vezok and Hakann, steal the
Makoki stone from a Toa fortress. They are caught and recruited into the
Dark Hunters. (The other four Skakdi who would become
Piraka were recruited prior to this time.) The day after the theft, the Toa fortress is overrun by
Frostelus, leaving Lhikan as the only survivor.
Even at this point, the Brotherhood has begun to be corrupted, as the Toa are suspicious and gathering information on them.
Sidorak is rejected by the Dark Hunters; he eventually gains a position with the Brotherhood of Makuta.
4,000 Years Before the Great Cataclysm
Zaktan leads rebellion against
the Shadowed One, but fails. Shadowed One tries to execute him, but Zaktan survives as a mass of
protodites.
Sometime over 3,000 Years Before the Great Cataclysm
Nuparu invents machines to enforce order in Metru Nui. The
Kralhi is a failure, but the
Vahki design is successful and is quickly put to use.
3,000 Years Before the Great Cataclysm
Dark Hunters release Kanohi Dragon to attack Metru Nui. Eleven Toa, including Lhikan and
Nidhiki, come to Metru Nui to fight it.
After a month of fighting, the Toa win and deport the Kanohi Dragon to
Xia. They stay as the city's resident Toa afterwards.
2,000 Years Before the Great Cataclysm
The Shadowed One declares war on Metru Nui. Hundreds of Toa come to the city's defense.
War ends months later when Nidhiki betrays Toa and helps set a trap, but Lhikan finds out and sets his own that snares the Hunters. Makoki stone given to Toa in exchange for Hunters' freedom. Dark Hunters and Nidhiki banished from Metru Nui.
Nidhiki joins the Dark Hunters and trains them. He eventually is paired with
Krekka and sent on missions himself.
Six months after the end of the war,
Roodaka comes to the Dark Hunters for training; "buys" it by horribly mutating the traitorous Nidhiki.
The Shadowed One has the Makoki stone stolen back, split into six, and auctioned off to the Brotherhood of Makuta.
1,900 Years Before the Great Cataclysm
Roodaka employed by the Brotherhood of Makuta.
[4]Sometime over 300 Years Before the Great Cataclysm
Makuta gains
Toa Hagah as bodyguards.
300 Years Before the Great Cataclysm
Toa Hagah learn of the Brotherhood's corruption and rebel, stealing the Mask of Light from them.
Makuta attacks
Mata Nui, leaving him badly injured.
Toa Hagah captured and mutated into
Rahaga by Roodaka. Sidorak claims credit for Rahaga; Brotherhood gives control of
Visorak hordes to him with Roodaka as second-in-command.
Visorak begin to conquer every land they can find. Rahaga begin working to undermine Visorak's conquests.
50 Years Before the Great Cataclysm:
Rahaga arrive in Metru Nui and hide the Mask of Light.
Unknown Times Before the Great Cataclysm:
Sidorak betrays his clan leader to the Brotherhood; the leader is mutated into
Voporak.
Order of Mata Nui sends
Axonn and
Brutaka to guard the Mask of Life, in addition to Umbra.
To be continued.....
