Yin Garmadon

**Lord Garmadon** is the power-hungry Lord of Destruction, as well as the revived evil form of the ninja's former mentor, **Master Garmadon**. He is the First Spinjitzu Master's firstborn son, Wu's older brother, Misako's husband, and Akira's father. Garmadon grew up learning the art of the ninja alongside his brother. As a child, Garmadon was bitten by the Great Devourer and infected with evil, which led him down a darker path through which he would be continually tempted during his time as one of Ninjago's heroes.

## History

### Early life

Garmadon was born to the First Spinjitzu Master, along with his younger brother, Wu. Garmadon was born with the powers of Creation and Destruction, his dominant ability being Destruction, after his father's Oni heritage.

One day, when the brothers were very small, the First Spinjitzu Master explained to his sons that one day they would become bearers and teachers of the legacy of Spinjitzu.

Wu and Garmadon often trained their ninja abilities while their father watched them while he was drinking tea and admonishing them when they did something wrong. The brothers also often listened to stories about Ninjago and wanted to be like him. Despite their connection, they often fought, although their father told them that the brothers should not fight each other. Wu and Garmadon soon learned about the djinns from their father, who described them as a powerful enemy. Eventually, Garmadon had lessons with his father how to speak their language.

Wu and Garmadon trained every day to prepare for their first Spinjitzu. Before dawn, they always stretched their arms, legs, necks, shoulders, backs, eyes, and ears because their father told them it helped relax their minds. Then they always crossed the obstacle course their father had prepared for them. Their father always just drank tea and said "failed," when they didn't make it. Then he and his father practiced Spinjitzu movements. The First Spinjitzu Master told the brothers that Spinjitzu movements included rotation and spin. Therefore, he gave them the task of finding examples of rotation in everyday life. The brothers have found that rotation is used, for example, when mixing tea, rotating behind people to talk to them, or rotating clay when making vases on a potter's wheel.

## Age

Garmadon is thousands of years old. He and his younger brother's long lifespan is a result of them being the sons of the First Spinjitzu Master, who also lived for thousands of years before finally succumbing to his mortality. This is due to their Oni blood, in addition to their dragon heritage.

Garmadon and his brother have a peculiar aging pattern. Ages ago, they were children when he was bitten, and they grew to be young men by the time their father passed away. Their aging stagnated at some point, and a millennium later, they were still physically in their late teens during the events of the Serpentine War. Decades later, they were physically in their early thirties when he was banished. Only a mere decade later, by the beginning of the events of the series, they both appeared as old men, though Garmadon would only show his true age after he was purified of his evil.