So plants and dirt? are you dropping quakes? Because it doesn’t really relate to the new power set you’re suggesting, he’s onua: toa of topsoil and trees.
The context of earth being surface dirt? So does stone control the underground now? Or just big surface rocks?
And given this definition his colors make even less sense, soil is brown, plants are generally brown and/or green. Wouldn’t it make more sense visually for pohatu and onua to be swapped?
It makes sense to me, both because of their personalities and color schemes, to combine earth and stone for onua and give pohatu plants and animals(there’s more nuance to it than that but this is getting long-winded).
To elaborate on this, @Jon, because the elements are derived from the regions of the world and not material and phenomena that exist in nature, you don’t NEED to differentiate Onua and Pohatu’s powersets in this way. Onua gets things like earthquakes and lil’ mountains, and perhaps crystals. Pohatu gets sand and boulders. Those are different enough in terms of practicality.
Plants aren’t necessary to distinguish Onua’s element at this point. Combining Earth and Plantlife is only as valid as combining Air and plantlife, which is what JtO apparently did. Plantlife belongs as its own element if it’s going to be added at all, not a subset of a totally different element. Also, bear in mind that Onua’s region is located in underground caves, which aren’t really known for their foliage. Perhaps if he was on the surface, it’d make more sense; but he’s not. He’s down below, where plants don’t grow a whole lot.
If you wanna add another G1 element to Onua’s powerset, add Iron. Metallic ore can be found in the ground, so that gives Onua an excuse to control metal. He doesn’t get to control the metal in a Matoran’s body because it’s not from the ground in any capacity.
Does the brotherhood of Makuta cult have to be it’s own separate tribe or could it be a collection of Matoran from across the villages secretly dedicated to the revival of Makuta who refer to themselves as the Brotherhood of Makuta?
Yeah, and the first half of Year one could be more of a mystery “Who are the brotherhood of Makuta?” thing, before they reveal themselves by transforming into the Rahkshi, which has the second half be a more traditional Toa vs. Rahkshi idea.
My only problem with that is the island hopping between year one and two. I think it’s important to establish the world the Toa come from before moving on to other places. Like G1 I would have the three year plan all take place on one island, before moving on to others in subsequent years.
Additionally, the concept novel I wrote Bionicle Beginnings features the Rahkshi alongside the Rahi in year one, because the Rahkshi would go on to play a very important role in my three year plan that needed to be set up right away.
The biggest advantage yours has over mine is that my year one is basically a combination of all three of your years,(minus the Bohrok) which would greatly hinder the amount of detail I could go into for each section. But the core idea of the Brotherhood of Makuta is shared between our two visions.
I feel the same, however, I remember the idea being put forth of weekly worldbuilding columns, I felt that a year of weekly columns would be enough to establish the setting.
I don’t like this. I feel like having the village of earth on the surface in a forest would make it feel too much like Le-Koro. I would much rather see it built underground amongst the root system of the forest, I feel it would help really solidify the connection between the earth and the plant life having the village built around the place where plants draw from the earth.
I mean, that’s similar to what I was talking about… not really ideal in my opinion, but definitely better than just on the surface.
EDIT: Nevermind, farther inspection of the image shows that it’s exactly what I was talking about just on a smaller scale. I would have this same idea applies to multiple smaller trees rather than one gigundus one.
Oh, in that case I’m down. It seems like a great way to blend the different flavors of earth as it were, and still holds true to Onu-Koro’s original location.
I think being built underground but with the roots of the trees is pretty much ideal, as it allows for all sides of this new earth to show, while still remaining faithful to Onu-Koros origins, but adding something new.
