On the mythical island of Okoto, the Toa failed in their sacrifice. Makuta’s minion, Kulta, gathered the Mask of Ultimate Power in secret, and freed his master.
This is my entry to the Makuta moc contest. He’s big, hulking, and savage, yet he still gives the feeling of G2 Makuta. Personally he really seems like someone who was locked away in a nightmare-ish shadow realm for thousands of years.
At this point it’s more just symbolic of the time when he was normal, though the idea is that his original shield was corrupted during it’s time in the shadow realm.
The length of the arms was a purposeful design choice, to help get across the idea that the shadow realm significantly mutates people, which I also tried showing in the strange arm wings, and his tail.
As for messy and cluttered, personally I’d disagree, but I built him, so I might be biased.