Sarda

"Right now, I have friends back in that cave who need rescuing. If you’re any good with that sword, I could use your help."

- Sarda to Lesovikk, Dreams of Destruction

Sarda was a Ta-Matoran who originated on the homeland of Toa Lesovikk and was best friends with him; later, he wound up in the undersea city of Mahri Nui.

Home Island
On his home island, Sarda at some point befriended a member of the first Toa team defending that island, Lesovikk. Later, his Turaga went mad and sent him, Lesovikk's other friend Idris, and the entire population of the island, to Karzahni, much to Lesovikk's dismay.

Karzahni rebuilt Sarda into a worse form but presumably gave him weapons. He was then transported to the Southern Continent, into the village of Mahri Nui, which broke off along with the village of Voya Nui during the Great Cataclysm. He and the other Matoran there lived for a while on the newly-formed Voya Nui, but eventually Mahri Nui broke off and sunk beneath the sea.

Mahri Nui and the Pit
Changed again by the mutagen in the Pit, the Mahri Nui Matoran survived by disturbing the airweed in the Fields of Air and creating a bubble of air around the city.

Near one thousand years later, the Le-Matoran Defilak led an expedition in a submarine to the black waters of the Pit to examine what was picking off the Matoran there. Sarda, along with his old friend Idris, and another Onu-Matoran named Gar, volunteered to accompany him. They were intercepted by the Barraki Pridak.

To set an example, Pridak grabbed Sarda and threw him into a school of Takea sharks, saying "Will he live? Will he die? Do I care? Not at all." However, a masked figure created a waterspout and saved him. The being recognized him, but Sarda simply asked him to save his friends, still being interrogated by Pridak.

The figure said that "knowledge is a sharper weapon than a sword" and that he would want some more of it before rushing into battle. With that, Sarda recognized him as his old friend Lesovikk.

He battled Karzahni. During the fight, Sarda was exposed to the water of the Pit and it turned him into a water-breather. Later, he and Lesovikk found Idris who was also mutated, and let her join the group. As the three of them were about to attack Karzahni, the Toa got trapped in a vision sent by the evil tyrant. The two Matoran created a makeshift trap and lured Karzahni to it. Lesovikk, free from the vision, saved the Matoran, making Karzahni spring the trap. After Lesovikk repaired an air-breathing device to a water-breathing one, he told Idris to take it and tell the Matoran about Lesovikk. He later told the Toa he'd go with him, as he felt the Toa could need a friend. Lesovikk agreed, and both swam away from there into the ocean. Since then, the two of them have begun hunting escaped Pit prisoners.

Spherus Magna
Sarda later lost his mutation and became amphibious. After the Battle of Bara Magna and the death of Makuta Teridax at the hands of Mata Nui, Sarda evacuated the heavily damaged Great Spirit Robot along with Lesovikk and migrated to the newly-reformed planet of Spherus Magna.

Powers and Tools
As with all Ta-Matoran, Sarda possessed inaccessible Elemental Fire powers; this manifested in the form of a natural resistance to heat and fire.

Sarda wielded a claw and hooked Electro-Blades.

Set Information
Sarda was released in 2007 along with Karzahni, Idris, and a trap.

Appearances

 * BIONICLE Legends 6: City of the Lost - First appearance
 * Dreams of Destruction