air katana

The air katana were a pair of sword-like weapons that served as Lewa Nuva's Toa tools before he acquired his adaptive armor.^{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11} Lewa used them to channel and focus his elemental power of air.^CN These sharp blades were excellent at cutting through dense jungle vegetation^{5, 12, 6, 10} and other obstacles¹³. The air katana could be attached to Lewa's arms and legs to serve as glider wings.^{13, 5, 12, 6, 7, 14, 10, 11} Lewa could use them to fly high in the air over long distances⁵ by gliding on air currents^{13, 2, 4, 8}, with aid from his Miru Nuva^{1, 4}. Lewa could command the wind to keep himself flying.¹⁴

Lewa acquired the air katana when he was transformed by energized protodermis into a Toa Nuva. Presumably, Lewa's former axe was transformed by the energized protodermis into the air katana.^CN During a fight, Reidak snapped one of Lewa's air katana over his knee.^{15, 8} Lewa later received a new air katana courtesy of Velika.^{16, 8} Artakha later replaced Lewa's armor and air katana with adaptive armor and weaponry.¹⁷ It is unknown what became of the air katana after this; they were apparently left with Artakha.

Notes

• They have also been referred to as bush blades.¹⁰