“There was this Fa-Matoran I met on a voyage once. He was the captain of an old cargo ship. Farda, I think his name was. He was the best navigator on the continent.” - Kapua
Farda was a well-known and well-respected Matoran, hailing from Fa-Koro, a Fa-Matoran village somewhere on the Northern Continent. Due to their acute internal compass, Fa-Matoran were often employed as navigators and guides - Farda was no exception, himself serving mostly as a boat captain. To those who served and/or traveled with him, he was known as highly competent, if a little eccentric. For example: Fa-Matoran from Fa-Koro spoke a Matoran dialect called “Fakornan” (the name itself is a corruption of Fa-Koronan - see below for an example of Fakornan). While not completely unintelligible, it could make communication between crew members difficult. While most navigators from Fa-Koro tried to speak normally, Farda did not, embracing the dialect. He was also known to ramble on about his adventures or try staring at visitors with his one broken optical sensor (the stories he told about how he lost it vary wildly).
Despite his eccentricities (or rather, because of them) and his indubitable skills as a sailor, he became something of a local legend among the Matoran. This legendary status was solidified when he mysteriously disappeared during a voyage. Some say he was caught in a storm and drowned. Others say he found the island of Artakha and chose to stay there. Others still say he continues to explore the waters of the Matoran Universe. Whatever happened to him, he is unlikely to be forgotten anytime soon.
Once a mere mention by Kapua in the short story Despair, Farda is now given flesh (or brick). I built him in the MahriToran style because 1.) I’ve headcanoned this to be the bodytype of Matoran from the lower northern region of the MU and 2.) because it’s a good build and I like it. I tried to make him more pudgy by given him shorter limbs and a fatter-looking mask, while keeping the (modified) MahriToran body. Unfortunately, I was unable to figure out how to dim one of his eyes without resorting to unconvincing MS Paint buggery, so just pretend one of those blue eyes is black, okay? Anyway, I like how he turned out, hope you like him too.
See them storm clouds, Kapua? Know why they be so dark-coloured and heavy? Makuta farted, that’s why.
Bonus lore: The residents of Fa-Koro practice their own sport called “Fakornan Akilini”. The name is a misnomer, since the sport more closely resembles disk surfing than actual Akilini - the misunderstanding likely stems from a Fa-Matoran visitor to Metru Nui witnessing an illegal disk surfing match and confusing it for the more popular sport. In any case, Fakornan Akilini involves two or more Matoran racing each other while riding Kanoka made of regular iron, fired from special cannons.
