Elemental Alliance

“Today, Ninjago is finally at peace. A great victory. And one we could not have achieved without each of you, the Elemental Masters. Smoke, Metal, Lightning, Shadow, Fire, Water, and Time!”

— Wu to the Elemental Alliance after the Serpentine War, "The Hatching"

The Elemental Alliance was a group of the Elemental Masters formed by Wu and led by him and Garmadon during the Serpentine War and Battle for All Time.

History

History[]

Strike of the Serpentine[]

Forty years before Acronix's return, during a time of unease between humans and Serpentine, Wu, initially along with Mystake, recruited the Elemental Masters following many alleged reports of Serpentine stealing weaponry from villages. After hearing that the Serpentine tribes were at Jamanakai Village, Wu sent Ray, Maya, Dusk and Levi to investigate. At the village, the Elemental Masters protected the villagers from the provoked Serpentine's attacks, which persuaded the Anacondrai to join the battle as well, the Elemental Masters were assisted by Ninjago soldiers, but were ultimately overpowered by the Serpentine, who were able to seize the village.

With both sides unaware that the conflict was orchestrated by Chen, the Elemental Alliance faced off against the Serpentine in numerous battles across Ninjago. Shortly before the battle at Birchwood Forest, the alliance was joined by Garmadon, who assisted his brother Wu into leading not just the alliance, but Ninjago soldiers and rice farmers. After gaining an advantage over the Anacondrai, the alliance was forced to retreat after Clouse magically took control of the Master of Earth, Benton. When it seemed the humans had lost the war, Garmadon realized the power of the Sacred Flutes, and along with the Anacondrai Strike, the alliance ambushed Chen's monastery to find and rebuilt the Sacred Flutes. The Elemental Masters used the Sacred Flutes' hypnotic abilities to drive the Serpentine underground into five separate tombs, while Arcturus and the rest of the Anacondrai generals were banished to the Cursed Realm.

Battle for All Time[]

After the members of the Alliance gathered at the Monastery of Spinjitzu and were congratulated by Wu, the Time Twins, Acronix and Krux, betrayed the Alliance, believing their element of Time to be superior. Over the course of a battle in a meadow, the Elemental Masters proved to be no match for the combined powers of the Masters of Time.^[1]

Using four blades forged by Ray and Maya from Chronosteel,^[2] Wu and Garmadon combated the twins back at the monastery, and the other Elemental Masters were able to restrain the traitorous brothers long enough for Wu and Garmadon to strip them of their powers with the blades. Wu and Garmadon sent the blades into a temporal vortex, but, unwilling to give up their control over time, the twins managed to break free of the Elemental Masters' grasps long enough to escape into the vortex.^[1]

Immediately after the Alliance's victory, Acronix and Krux's future selves appeared in a massive snake mech, intending to change history so that they would be victorious in the Battle for All Time. Kai and Nya, the future children of Ray and Maya and future Masters of Fire and Water, had sneaked on board the vehicle along with Wu's future self, and they impersonated their parents in order to aid the Elemental Masters in the battle against the twins.^[3]

The twins (in their mech and with their Vermillion army) were able to overpower the Alliance and force Wu to yield, but with the help of the Fusion Dragon and Reversal Time Blade, Kai and Nya were able to correct the timeline once again before chasing the twins' vehicle into the re-opened time vortex. Wu shouted to his past self to find Mystake and administer Obscuritea to the members of the Alliance so the timeline would not be further altered.^[3]

Known members

Known members[]

Wu (Master of Creation)
Garmadon (Master of Destruction)
Ray (Elemental Master of Fire)
Maya (Elemental Master of Water)
Hibernus (Elemental Master of Ice)
Libber (Elemental Master of Lightning)
Benton (Elemental Master of Earth)
Dusk (Elemental Master of Shadow)
Levi (Elemental Master of Gravity)
Sono (Elemental Master of Sound)
Leo (Elemental Master of Form)
Brook (Elemental Master of Nature)
Acronix (Elemental Master of Time; betrayed the Elemental Alliance)
Krux (Elemental Master of Time; betrayed the Elemental Alliance)

Allies

Allies[]

Misako
Mystake (deceased)
Ninjago soldiers (defenders of Ninjago villages)
Rice farmers
Strike (former Serpentine ally)

Appearances

Appearances[]

Set[]

Boxed Sets[]

Misc Sets[]

5004938 NINJAGO Minifigure Collection

Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu[]

Season 4: Tournament of Elements[]

40. "Spellbound" (flashback)

Season 7: The Hands of Time[]

65. "The Hands of Time" (painting)
66. "The Hatching" (flashback)
67. "A Time of Traitors" (painting)
72. "Pause and Effect" (flashback)
74. "Lost in Time"

Comics[]

Garmadon[]

4. "The Snake in the Garden" (flashback)

Trivia

Trivia[]

In the painting depicting the Battle for All Time, there are a number of samurai warriors seen alongside the Elemental Alliance, though from what has been shown, they were not present in the battle itself.
- There is a possibility that they have fought in other battles, such as the Elemental Masters presented in Season 7; such as Libber, or Krux and Acronix.
Apart from Wu and Garmadon, most members of the alliance were not trained in the ninja arts, but they were very talented warriors.^[4]
Almost all members of the alliance and their allies use existing designs from the Ninjago franchise and other LEGO themes. The most common are designs from The Lord of the Rings theme.
- Benton uses Aragorn's face and Gimli's torso.
- Levi uses the same face as Gandalf but in yellow, a multi-colored version of the Roman Soldier and Roman Commander's helmet from the Minifigures theme and some of Kai's ZX torso design.
  - His trading card erroneously depicts him with Master Garmadon's face instead of Gandalf's.
- Hibernus uses the same collar design as Garmadon's Rebooted outfit.
- Leo's face design is nearly identical to Ash, his torso is based on that of Coleman Trebor from Star Wars, and the design on his legs resembles that of Dareth's outfit.
  - Dareth and the unknown Elemental Master's leg decoration comes from the King in 7946 King's Castle, a LEGO Kingdoms set.
- Dusk uses several design elements of Stass Allie from Star Wars and the bird torso design of the Egyptian Queen from Minifigures Series 5.
- The design of the undershirt of Sono resembles Wu's 2012 minifigure design, which never appeared in the show.
- The outer part of Libber's torso also comes from Coleman Trebor's.
- Ray's original design draws from Kai's "Red Shogun" design from "The Invitation" for the sleeves and Boromir from The Lord of the Rings for the legs. He also has the same face design as Kai during the Serpentine War, but not in the present.
- Maya uses the same collar as Nya and Delara.
- Ninjago soldiers use a recolored version of Gandalf's torso.
- Mystake's torso design is the same as Ginny Weasley's from 4840 The Burrow and Hermione Granger's from 10217 Diagon Alley in LEGO's Harry Potter theme.