Tuma

Tuma is the last native Giant of Bara Magna. He was previously the ruler of a title he himself created called the Skrall Empire, being a strong and brutal leader with harsh sentences but did not practice the evil ways of the Jijanta from antiquity.

Tuma ruled the last of the skrall of Bara Magna until he was defeated by Mata Nui in a duel, which was fought to end the Skrall War and with it Tuma's plan to conquer and unite Neateir under his rule and together destroy the migrating Battera. Being defeated, Tuma was exiled into the wilds and his skrall fought each other in the War of the Warlords, which ended with Stronan becoming King of the Skrall. Durign this war, Stronan would sometimes go to visit Tuma and discuss how to rule and their respective experiences on various topics, but he would never allow Tuma to return because of the shame he brought to the Bara Magna Skrall; since the war's end and Stronan's centralization of power, he has not visited Tuma but has sent a couple of messengers over the decade.

Tuma currently lives in a cave to the east of Vulkanus and lives with a spikkit. Some survivors of the destruction of Atero and Tajun have sought revenge on Tuma and traveled to his cave with aims to bring back his head as a trophy, but none that have gone to do as such have been heard from again.

## Early Life

Born in the Great Mountains of Bara Magna a century after the rise of Kertavus Magnus in the lands of Neateir, Tuma is part of the ancient race of Giants, they being called Jijanta or Jirapa. The race has a dark history of enslaving others, raping women, devouring all that borne flesh, including other sentients, and worshiping the demonic matter of Krahagnu and the dark rites that go with them. Despite this, Tuma's family was secular in these traditions, Tuma looking down on them as being barbaric. He came to power as a young adult.

He watched his people in the mighty peaks of the north slowly decline in population as they fought wraiths in the winter's snow called Battera, these demons proving to be ancient shape-shifting automatons from the Core War thanks to the skrall warrior Branar. For years, Tuma was cut off from his fellow Giants and their skrall forces, until he had confirmation that he was the last of his race on Bara Magna and his fortress held the last of the skrall (save a handful of flightless bands of refugees). It was too late when he had learned that supplies brought into his fortress were battera in disguise, and so Tuma led the remaining of his warrior people out of the fortress while a band of skrall sacrificed themselves to buy time. The black armored soldiers marched south and continued on their course until the warped and cold peaks of the north gave way to open desert and arid waste. They continued until they reached the Black Spike mountains and the old city of Roxtus, where they stormed the ruined city and occupied it and enslaving the agori living there.

### Neateir and the Skrall War

News spread across Neateir that the Skrall had returned to the land, took over Roxtus, and was headed by a brutal Jijanta. The events reminded people of the mythic tales of old, what with epic battles of their lands back in its earliest days of civilization and a certain green skrall who led Atero against the advancing forces of darkness. Tuma sent diplomats to the members of Neateir's Glatorianate with a request to join the economic system, this peaceful action having calmed down the stirred masses.