" The bird soars through the sky. But if I were a colossus, and the sky was beneath my feet, could it truly be said the bird flew underground? "
— Velika, Power Play
The last member of the Voya Nui resistance to join the Toa Knights, Velika the Crafter.
Upon becoming Toa, his transformation drew attention, as unlike all Toa, his core was not in his chest, but exposed on his back. Everyone thought it was a side effect of a faulty Karzahni build.
Arthaka offered to fix him, but Velika refused. He accepted his new form. Always willing to help, especially in creating new ways to evolve the Kingdom. But he does not tolerate threats or risks, if something or someone represents a risk to his projects or the Kingdom in any way, he will not hesitate to exterminate the source with his evolved Power Cavers.
Everyone thinks he’s like that because he wants everyone’s safety, but we know the truth. He is The Disguised Great Being and still hasn’t given up on returning to Spherus, and that’s why he collaborates on projects for the construction of a new spaceship. His exposed core on his back is not Karzahni’s fault, but a side effect of the power toa dealing with the essence of a GB.
Origin: the origin of this one is almost the same as the other two, except for the fact that he is a Great Being disguised as a matoran. With that in mind, I thought of making a very different set from the other sets by Toas Balta and Dalu, but following the same principles. I kept a foot piece on the breastplate and an armor piece on the leg of the set.
But the main difference is the fact that he is still a Great Being inside a Matoran’s body. So I figured his transformation was more different or “traumatic”. I imagined the transformation trying to expel GB’s essence, as a result, Velika’s core is exposed on its back. As a result, I generated an “engine” back to keep Velika’s core functional in his body.
Note: I found out on a few days ago that, according to Greg, that Velika from the Kingdom AU is not a GB. This shook me up a bit because I built this whole set based on the fact that it would still be one GB. But I went after a little bit about this info and it gave me some doubts. For me, I think Greg said that but didn’t think about the consequences or plot holes because of that statement.
Note 2: I didn’t delve too deeply into the subject, I found some references and quotes from Greg but I believe there are more, so the position I’m going to put here is my opinion at first, but I’m totally open to discussion.
In the Kingdom AU, the only fact that has changed from the mainline is that Matoro has failed in his mission. So, until that moment, everything is the same as the main story. But, the matoran Velika has a fundamental role in the history of Voya Nui because he built the weapons of the Toa Inika. If what Greg said is true, then matoran Velika also has the same building capacity as a GB who is known to be an excellent engineer and inventor? And let’s assume that’s true, for Velika to have arrived on Voya Nui, he would have had to make the same decisions that the GB made throughout history to end up in the same place as the GB. So basically did Matoran and GB have the same history over a period of thousands of years? So basically there is no difference between Matoran and GB? Sorry, but I don’t buy that idea. For Velika to get where he did in the Kingdom, for me he would have to remain the same undercover GB that we followed in the main story. Not to mention that without considering that Velika of the Kingdom is a GB, in theory we don’t know anything about this matoran. Do you agree? Disagree? Let’s talk about!
