Yin Garmadon

**Yin Garmadon** (also known as **Lord Garmadon**) is the current Elemental Master of Destruction and the Son of the First Spinjitzu Master. He is also Yang Wu's Brother, Koko Misako Garmadon's Husband, and Lyonna Yin Garmadon's father. He is also currently the Ruler of the Underworld and the Skulkin. He used to be a Swordsman having used Mumeiken Kyomu.

## History

### Start of Humanity & Serpentine

Yin Garmadon is born as the first son of the First Spinjitzu Master. He inherits the Oni's element of Destruction from his father. Yang Wu is born as the second son of the First Spinjitzu Master. He inherits the dragons' element of Creation from his father, in order for his children to represent balance. Yang Wu and Yin Garmadon would successfully perform Spinjitzu for the first time while fighting off bullies.

Yang Wu and Yin Garmadon discover the Scrolls of Forbidden Spinjitzu as their father writes them, but he would not allow them to use it. Yang Wu teaches Spinjitzu to Aspheera privately, after she helps him and Yin Garmadon get out of the cell when the two crossed the line between the humans and Serpentine. Aspheera would use her new ability to briefly overthrow King Mambo V. Yang Wu and Yin Garmadon steal the Scrolls and use Forbidden Spinjitzu to defeat Aspheera, restoring Mambo V to power. Mambo sentences Aspheera to magical entombment until her sins are forgotten. Aspheera declares vengeance on Yang Wu for not teaching her all his secrets and leaving her to her fate. The First Spinjitzu Master takes the scrolls back from Yang Wu and Yin Garmadon for disobeying him and hides them in separate unknown locations.

At some point after this, the three move into the Monastery of Spinjitzu. Yin Garmadon and Yang Wu spar one day, but Yang loses one of the katanas over the wall of the monastery. Afraid of their father's disapproval, Yang Wu chooses not to go after it, but Yin Garmadon does. In the process, he is bitten by the young Great Devourer, a snake corrupted by The Overlord’s Darkness,  and becomes ill as its evil venom starts to affect him, even causing him to tell his father that he hates him, and blaming Yang Wu for all that happened.

### Samukai’s Visit

Yang Wu and Yin Garmadon fought and defeated Samukai, Leader of the Skulkin of the Underworld, as at some point when he decides to come back to the realm after his death.

### Chen’s Start

Felonius Chen was originally Clouse Steiner and Yin Garmadon's master and encouraged them to win at any cost. When a duel broke out one day between his students, he decided to intensify it by declaring that the winner would become his right-hand man and be granted lordship. Yin Garmadon cheated and used Spinjitzu to win, which Felonius Chen had forbidden, though the master dismissed it, and even praised Yin for his deception while granting him the title of Lord.

### The Serpentine Wars

The Serpentine War begins, and Yin Garmadon defects from Chen. Yin Garmadon, Yang Wu, and the Elemental Alliance fight the Serpentine, who would in turn eventually split up after the war.

The Elemental Alliance protected humans from the Serpentine's various attacks across Ninjago after Master Felonius Chen sowed conflict between the humans and snakes. Various members of the Alliance, with the help of the Ninjago soldiers, fought a group of Serpentine led by the Anacondrai in Jamanakai Village but were ultimately overpowered by the Serpentine, who were able to seize the village.

Yin Garmadon realizes the potential of the Sacred Flutes, which the Elemental Masters construct, allowing humans to win the war. At the end of the war, the Elemental Masters rounded up the remaining Serpentines. The Serpentine are locked away in their tombs, the Anacondrai generals are banished to the Cursed Realm, and Felonius Chen and Clouse Steiner are banished to an island far from Ninjago due to their involvement with the Serpentine.

### The Betrayal of Time

The Twin Masters of Time at the time; each having two parts of Time, betray Yang Wu and Yin Garmadon and try to take over Ninjago with their power over the element of Time years after the Serpentine War. This was due to their ego of believing they are the strongest due to their elemental powers. They had been fine during the war, but how people acted after the war bothered them. Civilians thanked Yang and Yin the most, not the Twin Masters of Time. The Masters of Fire and Water of the time, would forge the Time Blades out of Chronosteel; Yang Wu and Yin Garmadon use them to battle the Twins and absorb their power. Yang Wu and Yin Garmadon dispose of the Time Blades through a temporal rift as The Masters of Time follow them and become lost in time.

### The Battle Between Brothers

The evil in Yin Garmadon completely overtakes him, and it mainly manifests itself in the form of overwhelming greed. He returns to the Monastery of Spinjitzu to steal the Golden Weapons in an attempt to recreate Ninjago in his own image. Yang Wu confronts him, and after a short battle, the combination of the four weapons and the protection spell on Yang Wu's kimono opens a gateway to the Underworld. Yin Garmadon is struck by lightning, blackening his skin and casting him down. Fully succumbed to the evil in his veins, Yin Garmadon battles Samukai for command over the Skulkin army and easily wins, taking his helmet and becoming the ruler of the Underworld.