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 planet Beast a long time ago.^[1] 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 possess. 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. The Gems of Stillness can hamper rainfall, heat and plant growth, respectively, while the Gems of Motion accelerate them.

Fiction

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The Three Wise Ones were Beast People, inhabitants of the Blue Planet in the universe that preceded the G1 World. They attended to Primacron as he monologued about attaining the Zodiac to become god of the next universe. Super Megatron comic 2 They were still with Primacron when he confronted Primus about him bringing forth Angolmois Energy from the future to their time. God Neptune comic 1 They were caught by surprise as the Blue Planet rumbled in preparation for transforming into Primacron's Neo Primus. Finale Prelude

"You just had to ignore that 'service engine soon' light, didn't you?"

Somehow surviving into the next universe, 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 in which they could survive and chose to live underground. Using their incredible knowledge, they created three machines capable of unfathomable destruction, which they dubbed "Head Hunters". They used the Hunters as terraforming machines 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. They eventually vanished and were presumed to have died, having left their power behind within six gemstones—three Gems of Motion and three Gems of Stillness, one of each corresponding to an element. Bonus Edition Vol. 51 The truth, however, was that the Three Wise Ones had turned themselves into the Gems. The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 3

In 2038 when the Monsterbots sacrificed themselves for the Beastformers in Galvatron II's invasion of Beast, the Three Wise Ones were so impressed that they revealed their true forms as the gems and praised the Monsterbots. To aid in the salvation of Beast, they transformed into robotic forms that could combine with the Monsterbots, The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 3 reviving them and granting them Getmaster powers. Galvatron defeated Doublecross and the Wise One of Fire was reverted to his gem state. Bonus Edition Vol. EX In the end, Galvatron was defeated, so the Wise Ones reverted to the gems and were reclaimed by the Beastformers. Bonus Edition Vol. EX

Ask Vector Prime

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

Toys

Power of the Primes

• Micronus (Prime Master, 2017)

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

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.^[2]

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

 

Left: Wise One of Water (Prima)
Right: Wise One of Wood (Nexus Prime)

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

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Notes

• There is a bit of discrepancy in the visual depictions of the Three Wise Ones... within the same source material. The first image of them in Hero Special 12 is the elaborate line-art shown at the top of this article. These designs were obviously a bit much for the people making the photo comics, thus the much simpler and vaguer modded toys shown in those: a kind-of fox-thing, a kind-of badger-thing, and a hooded being that's impossible to tell what critter it's supposed to be, all draped in body-obscuring robes. This visual clash would later be retconned away in the Legends manga, depicting the robed "toy" designs as their original bodies, and the art designs being their ascended, god-like forms.

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