Carapar
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Carapar was one of the six Barraki warlords, led by Pridak. These six powerful beings were created by Mata Nui himself; however, the Barraki were looked down upon in the eyes of the Order of Mata Nui when they rebelled against him in some way or another. Carapar and the other Barraki were active and formidable conquerers well over 80,000 years ago, each commanding a significant army. The Barraki made a noteworthy alliance with the island of Xia, which led to that island’s success. As a group, the Barraki also came to be bitter enemies of the Brotherhood of Makuta.
Carapar had always been the physical powerhouse of the Barraki; and his thick armor made him virtually invulnerable to everything except electrical attack, which is why he disliked Ehlek. Carapar was also known as the most ferocious of the Barraki – the slightest sign of disrespect from one villager would mean destruction and death for an entire village. He once ended a siege by withdrawing and leaving the enemy city a gift of foodstuffs, which turned out to be poisoned. Carapar’s appearance often led others to underestimate his intelligence; but, as Takadox noted, Carapar was not as stupid as he looked, as no one could be.
Eighty-thousand years ago, the Barraki apparently suffered a crushing defeat. With this defeat, the Order of Mata Nui was able to send Botar after them and exile them to a place of confinement called the Pit.
Carapar and the other Barraki remained in the Pit until the Great Cataclysm occurred a thousand years ago. During this event, the barriers of the Pit's subterranean pocket were destroyed, opening up to the ocean of the surface world above. The ocean waters completely flooded the Pit; and a mutagenic agent in the waters soon took effect on all of the prisoners of the Pit, changing the Barraki into forms resembling sea life. Carapar took on the appearance of a crab-like creature. The Barraki and all of the other prisoners of the Pit managed to survive this ordeal, adapting the ability to breath underwater. The barriers of the Pit were broken; however, all that the prisoners of the Pit could do was expand its area over the sea floor in its vicinity.
Over time, the Barraki came to form armies of Rahi sea life that dwelled in the extended Pit’s locale. Carapar commanded an army of Keras coral crabs and Pit War Tortoises. Carapar also took to using a weapon that could launch fully organic squid at an opponent which sucked life out of whatever they latched onto. Carapar became a ravager of the seas, using his powerful embrace and giant claw to chop up and cut down anything in his path. Takadox, however, continually hypnotized Carapar to have him do his bidding. Carapar’s intellect became somewhat dulled after centuries of being hypnotized, but it was still perilous to base his intelligence on his appearance.
Three-hundred years ago, a portion of the floating island of Voya Nui, which drifted directly above the Pit, broke off of the island and sank into the ocean. This chunk of land, known as Mahri Nui, sank and rested on top of great stone arches in the upper reaches of the Pit. The Matoran trapped on this chunk of land when it fell survived and were for the most part left alone by the Pit's inhabitants.
The eventful coming of the Kanohi Ignika to the Matoran of Mahri Nui three-hundred years later was the beginning of a new grab for power by the Barraki.
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