Amana Volo Sphere

Amana Volo Spheres are rare and powerful globes of energy that restore health and boost strength when a being absorbs them. They are discharged from certain RahiRahiThe Rahi were the biomechanical wildlife of the Matoran Universe, built largely by the Brotherhood of Makuta, ranging from background fauna to engineered war beasts. on Mata NuiMata Nui (Location)An island created by accident on the Great Spirit's face, home to the Matoran for a thousand years. when an Infected KanohiInfected KanohiCorrupted masks were Teridax's primary tool for enslaving Rahi across Mata Nui. is removed. Their main appearance is in the Game Boy Advance game Quest for the Toa, where TakuaTakuaAn Av-Matoran hidden on Mata Nui as a Ta-Matoran, who gathered the Toa Stones, served as Chronicler, and ultimately accepted the Avohkii to become Takanuva, the Toa of Light. collects them as he searches for the Toa Stones. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated; BIONICLE: Quest for the Toa)

What an Amana Volo Sphere was#

An Amana Volo Sphere is a globe of energy that comes out of certain Rahi when their Infected KanohiInfected KanohiCorrupted masks were Teridax's primary tool for enslaving Rahi across Mata Nui. are removed. The Infected Kanohi were the masks through which MakutaMakuta: species, title, and TeridaxMakuta means three things in the Matoran Universe: the Antidermis species Mata Nui created, the Brotherhood rank, and most often Teridax himself. controlled the Rahi of Mata Nui. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

Any being that absorbs a sphere has its health restored and its strength boosted. The spheres are rare, which made them valuable. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

Use during the Quest for the ToaTakua's Quest for the Toa StonesThe 2001 Game Boy Advance game in which Takua, banished from Ta-Koro, crosses Mata Nui to rescue the Turaga, recover the six Toa Stones and summon the Toa Mata.#

The spheres play their biggest part in Quest for the Toa, a 2001 Game Boy Advance game in which TakuaTakuaAn Av-Matoran hidden on Mata Nui as a Ta-Matoran, who gathered the Toa Stones, served as Chronicler, and ultimately accepted the Avohkii to become Takanuva, the Toa of Light. travels the regions of Mata Nui to find the six Toa StonesToa StonesSmall stones charged with a portion of a Toa's power, used to awaken the dormant Toa Power within a destined Matoran and elevate them into a Toa.. The game tells its own version of the island's story, in which the Turaga have been captured and Takua has to free them. (BIONICLE: Quest for the Toa)

Takua is a Matoran without a Toa's power, and the spheres keep him going. Some are left behind by beasts he defeats, such as the rock creature guarding Turaga Whenua, and others are buried among rocks along his route. (BIONICLE: Quest for the Toa)

Rewards from the villages#

Many of Takua's spheres are gifts. Each village needs crystals to heal its poisoned Vuata Maca tree, and when Takua brings them back, the village rewards him with an Amana Volo Sphere. The Turaga he rescues also give him spheres, alongside their own tools in some cases. (BIONICLE: Quest for the Toa)

Smaller favours earn them too. Passing through Po-Wahi on his way to Po-KoroPo-KoroPo-Koro was the Po-Matoran village in Po-Wahi, led by Turaga Onewa and guarded by Toa Pohatu, reached through a single statue-lined road called the Path of Prophecies., Takua learns that the Po-Matoran PoduPoduPodu was a Po-Matoran carver native to Metru Nui who helped build Po-Koro on Mata Nui, was rescued from a rockfall by Takua, and later evacuated to Spherus Magna. is trapped under rocks. He moves three small rocks and rolls a larger one off him, and the grateful Podu gives him a sphere. (BIONICLE: Quest for the Toa)

Place in the wider MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. record#

The spheres belong to the Mata Nui era and to the games set there. They appear again as a health pickup in BIONICLE: The Game, and the BIONICLE Encyclopedia gives them a short entry, but they don't feature in the main books, comics or films. (BIONICLE: The Game; BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

Significance#

Within Quest for the Toa, the Amana Volo Sphere ties together the game's main threads. It comes from the Infected Kanohi that Makuta used to turn the island's beasts against the Matoran, it's the reward for healing the villages' trees and freeing their Turaga, and it's how a lone Matoran stays alive long enough to gather the Toa Stones. (BIONICLE: Quest for the Toa; BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)