Blade Burrower

Blade Burrowers were powerful Rahi, created by Makuta Mutran, who lived in the Onu-Metru Archives sub-levels. They menaced Matoran for years, digging tunnels that resembled Matoran-made ones. Matoran often mistook their tunnels for parts of the Archives and wandered down them, never to be seen again. They had poor eyesight and thus hunted mostly by smell. When food was scarce, they would wander up into the more-visited parts of the Archives and cause Vahki lots of trouble as an enraged Blade Burrower would use its tail as a flail against its enemies. There were only a few, but Visorak had little success in capturing them. Rahaga Bomonga mapped their tunnels and found that the Blade Burrowers appeared to be building something. What they were building was described by Mutran as a map of somewhere, altough not any landmass he was familiar with. He once even captured a Toa wearing a Mask of Translation to talk to them, but the burrowers did not know what they were building, only that they must.

Behind the Sets
The Blade Burrower model was designed by Daniel Settle.