“The Might and Magic of the Fallen Angel”

​The Taniwha was the final transformation of the Watcher, when the gods waged their terrible war to end their rise to power. They had been driven from their spiritual home and, with  the advent of a mighty flood that changed the face of the world, these feathered serpents went in search of true power through the blackest magic in more remote and isolated territories.

​Their final bastion was the Pacific, and Aotearoa, where the unpopulated lands with its untapped source of mana allowed them to practice and develop their unnatural magic.

​As their lust for power grew, so did their appetite for perfection, and this led to severe mutations such as elemental transformations that allowed them to take on the permutations of rock, water, tree and flame. The desire to attain godly stature caused a widening rift between individual Taniwha, and the creatures lost all sense of unity and became at war with themselves. This dark conflict drove the Taniwha close to extinction.

​Eventually, the warriors charged with their extermination, the ‘children of Maui,’  discovered this tiny paradise deep in the Pacific Ocean, along with the Maori people, and the Taniwha soon found their supremacy greatly diminished.

​Over a long period of time their numbers gradually dwindled and their inability to reproduce (there were no more Taniwha Queens), saw their flame flicker and die – or so it is believed, as the Taniwha Hunters (the descendant line of Rewiti Hata) claim there are still survivors hidden amongst us.