Deathless/Tirrel
Tirrel was originally a Matoran of a small island before his capture by the same Makuta responsible for the creation of Kelratz and Iksel.
He’d captured Tirrel under the plan to get his own Toa servant/warrior, forcing his change using one of the remaining Toa-stones he’d stolen during Iksel’s capture, and replaced his mask with his own ‘custom’ Kanohi, the Igsa, a mask designed bring a Toa back from even death itself, or at least the near brink, all while breaking down their mind to a more ‘passive’ state.
And to make sure Tirrel couldn’t damage it in an attempt for his death he somehow managed to bring it to a durability near that of protosteel, possibly even mixing ssaid metal in (if that would be a possible thing) or at least coating the mask in it when he near-melded it to Tirrel’s head to ensure it couldn’t be removed either.
Unfortunately the masks effect, as was with many of this Makuta’s experiments, a failure, instead driving Tirrel to such a state of mental-corrosion that he nearly killed the Makuta in animalistic rage before breaking out of the lab and vanishing. But not before near slaughtering his entire village after coming across it while in his animalistic state, the Makuta having set up a lab there a while before Tirrel’s capture.
Afterwards Tirrel only collapsed further into his insanity, killing and being killed as he slowly became obsessed with the concept of death, something he couldn’t have, before eventually catching The Shadowed Ones eye from his exploits, and the sheer amount of times it appeared he’d been confirmed dead only to reappear and slaughter those responsible for it.
After being extended a form of invitation to their base he joined immediately, being promised a retribution consisting of death once such a way was discovered by those working for The Shadowed One. This was most likely a lie to trick Tirrel into working for the Shadowed One even past his use.
Along with this he carried a massive sense of loyalty to The Shadowed One, and determination to complete all assigned tasks. Of course this was mostly composed of his fear of The Shadowed One killing him, his mask allowing for such immense punishments, and his own hatred of the ‘false deaths’ easily causing it.
Element: Fire
Gender: Male
Kanohi: Igsa, better known as the Mask of Life-Death, or Life Hunger.
The Kanohi Igsa is a mask built by the same Makuta responsible for Kelratz’s and Iksel’s creation, due to this it is, in terms of quantity/reproducibility, a legendary status Kanohi because of its unknown composition/build, and the loss of it with the Makuta’s disappearance. In appearance its fairly crude, uncaringly forged, and seemingly melted in appearance, the fact it appears to be welded, or at least shaped to Tirell’s head could support that.
The Igsa is in basic a mixture of the Kiril, and the mask of Undeath. It allows for the physical recovery, and regeneration of typically lethal wounds, fortunately the time of said regeneration can range in-between days, to decades.
A small wound, such as the loss of an arm or hand will take around a day to 2 weeks, whereas the loss of the entire lower torso/similar would take somewhere between 1-2 months. Along with this it is believed the user could regenerate from even decapitation, unfortunate the time-frame of said regeneration would take a few millennia at best, or require constant energy regeneration from an outside source, and that would still take a good number of years.
Unfortunately said effects require the bearers death to be activated.
Along with this the mask appears to have been forged with Protosteel, or at least modified to a point that it is of a nearly matching toughness.
A secondary, unknown effect (even to Tirrel) is a semi-artificial mental-decay that is increased per death. It triggers by forcing the user to recall, and remain in a state of consciousness in a form of outer-awareness. The effect, and mask itself was created by the Makuta in an experiment to attempt to forcibly enslave a Toa by breaking down their mental barriers until they became more passive, and controllable through punishment that could now lead to death.
Fortunately the effect did not go as planned, instead just driving the bearer to such a state of mental-breakage that they would eventually become a mindless beast given enough deaths.
Along with this the bearer will descend into a form of mindless/animalstic rage and behavior after a full regeneration, no matter the severity of the wounds before ‘death’, but only after they have experienced 5 previous ‘deaths’. They will remain in such a state for a random amount of time with a limit of 1 hour.
The removal of the mask may also bring a large decrease to the bearers current mental-decay.
Personality: Mentally unstable/deranged, twitchy, erratic, excitable, ‘friendly’, semi-fanatic, easily angered, and beyond easily distracted from everything but his current main goal.
Other attributes: Deathless’s elemental fire is at levels near that of plasma in its intensity. Fortunately this is mainly due to his ‘unique’ usage of it.
Deathless quite literally drains his entire elemental store in one, short, near all consuming burst, and even despite the lack of control his mentally decayed state brings its unleashed in a massive wave that spreads from his form, spreading in a cone-esque shape that ends up covering an area around 6 times Tirrel’s arm width at its limit.
He does also have an alternate usage for it, his shoulder pauldrons. They may just appear to be fancy pieces of armor but they’re in truth a pair of elemental jets, similar in build and usage to Vakama’s own. Of course due to his standard usage of his power it’s exactly the same in this less-standard use, an immense, fully draining burst that can rocket him around at near uncontrollable speeds, and cover an immense distance before stopping and leaving him to smash into the ground at the same speed.
Along with this he’s shown to have an immensely increased elemental-regeneration, being able to recover his full-store in around 30 minutes or less dependent on location. In a dessert like area, such as a large portion of the wastes I’d assume, he can recharge in a time of 10-20 minutes.
Tirrel has currently died somewhere between 15-20 times.
If his mental-decay, and subsequent erraticness wasn’t enough of a weakness, his lack of control over limiting his power, even with its fast regeneration, can be the lethal difference in a fight while he is left fairly defenseless during the regeneration.
Weapons: Bladed buckler of sorts, an extendable spear-to-knife, semi-bladed, shoulder jets.
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Nelvetta
Nelvetta was another Matoran from Tirrel’s village, in fact being a very close friend of his. To say she was worried when he was missing is an understatement, but to say she was less worried for him after the insane Toa ravaged their village, and more certain he’d been killed just as everyone else had would be truthful.
She came out of the attack fairly undamaged, having only lost an arm to the flames that incinerated their village compared to everyone else’ loss of well… everything to them.
Afterwards she swore revenge on the Toa, promising vengeance for her village and Tirrel, and to say she was serious about it is putting it lightly. Lets just say the OOMN didn’t invite her, she invited herself, having discovered their location after intensive research inspired from the small amount of rumors she’d managed to gather on them.
By that point she’d gained her Toa form, having stolen a Toa-stone from one of the villages she’d come across in her travels and training, having taken to staff fighting long before her acceptance into the OOMN, and broken into their Suva. By then she’d long replaced her arm, if only with a crude imitiation which her change luckily fixed, albeit keeping it in its more robotic, and visibly artificial state.
Due to the fighting skill she’d gained by herself, managing to take down a few of the lower-level agents sent to her capture before her defeat, her discovery of their location, and the sheer level of determination and loyalty she carried despite the Toa code she was supposed to follow ‘impressed’ them enough to accept her. With her acceptance, and proving with a few test missions, she was gifted the choice of a new weapon. Surprisingly despite their collection, which included the staffs she was trained in, many of which had functions, she instead requested enough protosteel to forge her own staff, a request she was given upon the condition she would be forced to use whatever she made, failure or not.
She didn’t fail thought, managing to forge her current staff into an effective weapon even despite its crude, and simple design.
Upon her request her first ‘true’ mission was to hunt the same Toa that had ravaged her village. Unfortunately she has yet to defeat him, having encountered him multiple times, but each encounter ending with his escape.
She has yet to realize Tirrel and Deathless are the same entity, the information on him, and their encounters having been to short, and focused on battle to gather the information.
Element: Water
Gender: Female
Kanohi: Calix
Personality: Nelvetta usually comes off as very cold and focused, caring only for her mission and no others troubles. In truth she can be quite caring when it comes down to it, she’s just a bit obsessive in her tasks.
If she comes across trouble in her path she’s sure to take it down, and if its not in her path, she’ll make sure to try and find a way. The same goes for those she finds iin similar situations to her own. She understands the loss of friends, the hopelessness of death, and she’s sure to carry a word of comfort or two for those who have experienced such when she comes across them.
Weapons: Crudely forged protosteel staff, sturdy enough that even a protosteel blade would have trouble cutting through it.
Other attributes: Nelvetta is highly trained in the usage of her staff, having the skill to shatter an opponents blade if she catches it across the side, and the ability to even rip off limbs or decapitate an opponent with a hard enough swing.
She’s very narrow focused, caring only for her mission, and rarely the specifics. Sudden events can cause her to falter, and delay in adaption, while an unexpected occurrence can utterly break her focus.
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Pose & Quote: Battle of enemies unknowingly once friends
“Hehe! Oh what fun to meet you once again, my past foe!”
“Your reign of death ends now, Deathless!”
“Hehe! Oh, you know that won’t happen. Death may be the end for all, but I always do have such a… terrible tendency to come back from it.~”