Three Wise Ones

The Three Wise Ones are beings from the Japanese cartoon portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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The Three Wise Ones (三賢人 San Kenjin) are a mysterious trio of animals that crashed onto Beast ten thousand years ago. Then, Beast was barren, hostile, and lifeless and so the Three Wise Ones retreated underground. There, they created the powerful Head Hunter weapons to create an underground empire and populated the empire with the newly-created Laser Beast race. The Beastformers, an offshoot of the Laser Beasts, recognize the Three Wise Ones as gods.

Each of the Three Wise Ones represent the elements that the Beastformers and Laser Beasts posses. The Wise One of Water (水の賢人 Mizu no Kenjin) is a fish, the Wise One of Fire (火の賢人 Hi no Kenjin) is a lion, and the Wise One of Wood (木の賢人 Ki no Kenjin) is a rhinoceros beetle. Alternatively, they are known as Deities (神 Kami) of their respective elements.

The Three Wise Ones' power is crystallized in six gemstones: two Water Gems, two Fire Gems and two Wood Gems, each pair made up of one Gem of Stillness and one Gem of Motion.

Fiction

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

A hundred million years ago, the Three Wise Ones crash-landed on Beast and quickly discovered that they could not survive due to the planet's incredible temperature. Immediately, they located a cave and chose to live underground where they could survive somehow. Using their incredible knowledge, they created three machines capable of unfathomable destruction which they dubbed "Head Hunters". They used the Hunters to build a vast subterranean empire, but fearing the destructive power of the Hunters, had all three units separated and hidden across the globe. Later, they developed a new kind of lifeform that would protect the planet once they were gone, the Laser Beast, Legend of the Three Wise Ones Laser Beasts catalog by merging machines with regular animals, a power that remained within their six gemstones—three Gems of Motion and three Gems of Stillness, one of each corresponding to an element. Bonus Edition Vol. 51 When a group of Laser Beasts loyal to the Three's teachings left from their civilization and became the Beastformers on the surface, Laser Beasts catalog they brought the gems with them. LG51 Doublecross Prologue On the surface, the six jewels brought harmony.

Due to the war between the Beastformers, the balance between the six gems was thrown into chaos and the weather across the planet became increasingly bizarre. Water Jewels Chapter A group of Beastformers went searching for the Water Gem of Stillness in Sunatoria. The Water Gem of Stillness

The Laser Beasts recovered them during the war, with their leader Tigerburn using one to merge himself and two of his soldiers with three Headmaster Teens, but they then lost them to White Leo's Beastformers. LG51 Doublecross Prologue

Being on the losing side of the war, White Leo brought the gems to the Legends World and used them to turn the locals into Beastformers to act as his new army. When the Tigerburn came for them, White Lune struck upon the idea of using the gems on themselves to further bond with machines, which caused Lune to merge with Tigerburn's Haywire Laser and Leo with Doublecross's head. Bonus Edition Vol. 51 Tigerburn lost the war but got his hands on the Water Gem of Motion, which he used to flood the Legends World in an attempt to conquer it. He was defeated and the gem was recovered by Seaspray and Alana, who needed it to end a drought on Tlalak. Bonus Edition Vol. 64

Ask Vector Prime

The Three Wise Ones hid the Ultra Matrix somewhere on Beast. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/30

Toys

Generations

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• Micronus (Prime Master, 2017)

• Japanese ID number: PP-01
• Japanese release date: May 25, 2018
• Accessories: Autobot Cloudburst decoy armor, gatling gun

The Micronus Prime Master was repurposed as the Wise One of Fire in Legends "The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 3."

Power of the Primes Micronus is a Titan Master-sized mold that transforms from a small robot modeled after Cloudburst's inner robot mode into a Prime Master that can store inside a decoy armor that modeled after Cloudburst's Pretender shell, or plug into any Prime Master shell's weapon form, or replace a Power of the Primes Leader's Matrix core. They could also ride Legends Class figures, and can attach to Deluxe Class figures' chest armor, Voyager Class figures' bucklers, or Voyager Class figures' combined mode.

A retool of Micronus's decoy armor, presumably intended for Waverider, would have been used to make Legends Grand Maximus's Pretender Suit if the figure had reached the 3000 preorder count. Sadly the preorders didn't reach that level.

In an unusual error, some units of Micronus / Cloudburst came with two Prime Masters.

Unlike every other Titan Master / Prime Master, he and his fellow first wave Prime Masters feature backpacks/symbols secured by pins instead of screws.

• Throne of the Primes (Leader Class, 2018)
  • Japanese ID number: PP-43
  • Japanese release date: January 26, 2019

The Prima Prime Master and the Nexus Prime Master were repurposed as the Wise One of Water and the Wise on of Wood, respectively, in Legends "The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 3."