Great Devourer

> "*It was I who possessed the serpent who bit your hand! It was I who corrupted the Great Devourer and sent him against you! All that has happened was by my design! The Devourer was merely a pawn, set in motion by me to provide a worthy vessel for my return.*"
> ― The Overlord revealing the truth of the Great Devourer to Garmadon.
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The **Great Devourer** was a snake corrupted by the Overlord into an evil, destructive serpent. It was worshipped by the Serpentine as a goddess, and believed to consume all of creation if left unchecked. According to legend, it could only be unleashed if the five Serpentine tribes united and found the four silver Fangblades. It was responsible for Lord Garmadon's transformation to evil, biting him when he was a child and corrupting him with her venom under orders from the Overlord as part of his long-term plan to return to Ninjago. The Serpentine then tried using the Devourer to scare the people of Ninjago underground to protect them from the Golden Master. However, this only fueled the people's disgust for the Serpentine. Around this point, the Devourer was sealed underground in an unnatural slumber.

When Lloyd freed Pythor, he schemed to awaken the Devourer by uniting the Serpentine and finding the Fangblades. Pythor successfully did so at the Lost City of Ouroboros, where the Devourer consumed him and Wu before heading to wreak havoc in Ninjago City. The ninja battled the Devourer until Garmadon seized the Golden Weapons and vaporized the beast.

Long after her demise, the Devourer would impact future conflicts, as the Overlord foresaw. Its venom revived the Stone Army, its eggs were used by Krux to breed an army of Vermillion, and the destruction she caused during her rampage led Harumi to become the Quiet One, after the beast caused her parents' deaths. Its influence even carried onto the climactic final battle, as Harumi turned against the Overlord upon learning he corrupted the Devourer, which led to the loss of her parents.

## Biography

### Early Life

In its early days thousands of years ago, the Devourer was just a small green viper. It was made a pawn by the Overlord as part of his plan to corrupt the eldest child of the First Spinjitzu Master, mutating the young serpent with darkness to which it gained an ominous poison that could turn the purest of hearts evil.

#### Corrupting Garmadon

With the Overlord possessing its body, the Devourer was sent upon near the Monastery of Spinjitzu, where it saw Wu's fight with the Time Twins, who traveled in time. Menwhille, the sons of the First Spinjitzu Master, Wu and Garmadon were sparring, Garmadon accidently flung Wu's katana out of the monastery walls. Garmadon then went to retrive it, but just as he reached for the weapon, the Devourer appeared from the bushes and quickly bit him. Garmadon was able to take a quick glance of the snake, before passing out.

Over the years, the Devourer would grow bigger while its desire to consume would also grow stronger. The Serpentine began to worship the Great Devourer, to the point of unleashing it on Ninjago, presumably during the time of the Serpentine War, as an attempt to scare the humans. However, the humans managed to defeat it and it was imprisoned under the Lost City of Ouroboros. At some point four of its teeth were discarded through unknown means and were converted into the Fang Blades. The Devourer also laid serveral eggs during its imprisonment, creating the Vermillion.

### Released by Pythor

In 2012, the Serpentine were united by the last surviving member of the Anacondrai Tribe, Pythor P. Chumsworth. After many fights with the Ninja, Pythor eventually managed to collect all of the four Fang Blades and sucessfully released the Great Devourer. However, the Devourer didn't obey Pythor's orders as he had expected and it consumed him along with Master Wu. the Devourer then chased down the Ninja and destroyed the Destiny's Bounty before heading to Ninjago City and going on a massive rampage. While the Ninja attempted to stop the Devourer, it crashed aganist a building, killing a family in the process, with only a young girl named Harumi managing to escape.

Eventually, Lord Garmadon arrived in the city and demanded that the Ninja give him the Golden Weapons. Althrough suspicous of Garmadon, the Ninja agreed. Garmadon then climbed to a rooftop as the Ninja lured the Devourer into a postion where it would bite its own tail. Garmadon then jumped from the building and used the Golden Weapons to deliver the finishing blow, destroying the Devourer once and for all.

## Legacy

Even through it was destroyed, the Great Devourer would still leave a great impact on Ninjago's history. Its eggs were used by Krux to create an army of snake-like soldiers called Vermillion.

The Great Devourer's venom would leak into the Ninjago Museum of History and awaken the Giant Stone Warrior, which was eventually stopped by the Ninja. However, the venom would also leak into the sewers and awaken more Stone Warriors.

When Pythor was revealed to have survived, his skin was turned white due to the Great Devourer's venom.

During its rampage on Ninjago City, the Great Devourer would cause the death of Harumi's parents. This event would cause Harumi to develop a strong hatred for the Ninja and idolize Lord Garmadon, who was responsible for killing the Devourer.

## Relationships

### Family

* Vermillion - Spawn
	+ Machia - Daughter
	+ Blunck - Son
	+ Raggmunk - Son
	+ Slackjaw - Son
	+ Tannin - Son
	+ Vermin - Son
	+ Rivett - Daughter
	+ Buffmillion - Son

### Allies

* Overlord - Former Manipulator and Corruptor

### Enemies

* First Spinjitzu Master †
* Garmadon - Attempted Victim and Killer
* Wu - Attempted Victim
* Serpentine - Former Worshippers
	+ Anacondrai
		- Pythor - Attempted Victim
	+ Hypnobrai
		- Skales
		- Slithraa
		- Mezmo
		- Rattla
	+ Fangpyre
		- Fangtom
		- Fangdam
		- Snappa
		- Fang-Suei
	+ Venomari
		- Acidicus
		- Lizaru
		- Spitta
		- Lasha
	+ Constrictai
		- Skalidor
		- Bytar
		- Chokun
		- Snike
* Ninja
	+ Lloyd Garmadon - Attempted Victim
	+ Kai - Attempted Victim
	+ Jay Walker - Attempted Victim
	+ Cole - Attempted Victim
	+ Zane - Attempted Victim
	+ Nya - Attempted Victim
* Harumi - Attempted Victim
* Harumi's parents † - Victims
* People of Ninjago

## Appearances

### Sets

* 9450 Epic Dragon Battle
* 70670 Monastery of Spinjitzu (painting)
* 71741 Ninjago City Gardens (picture)

### TV Series

In chronological order:

* Ninjago: Reimagined
	+ Golden Hour (alternate timeline)
* Ninjago: Season 1 - Rise of the Snakes
	+ Tick Tock (flashback)
	+ Rise of the Great Devourer
	+ Day of the Great Devourer
		- Season 8 - Sons of Garmadon
			* Game of Masks (flashback; concurrent events)

## Gallery

The Great Devourer depicted on the "Rise of the Snakes" mural.
## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Day of the Great Devourer"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Game of Masks"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Rise of the Great Devourer" Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; name "Rise of the Great Devourer" defined multiple times with different content
4. ↑ Dragon Form
5. ↑ Golden Hour
6. ↑ Tick Tock
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "The Curse of the Golden Master"
8. ↑ Secrets Discovered
9. ↑ "Pause and Effect"
10. ↑ "The Stone Army"
11. ↑ "The Day Ninjago Stood Still"