Kanohi Kiril

The KanohiKanohiMasks that grant powers and sustain life, they're the most vital artifact in the Matoran Universe. Kiril, known as the Mask of Regeneration, lets its wearer repair damage to inorganic objects. On Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive. it was made from Regeneration Kanoka disks, and it exists in both Great and Noble forms. Its best-known wearer is TuragaTuragaFormer Toa who fulfilled their destiny and transformed into leaders. Turaga wield Noble Kanohi masks and weakened elemental powers, guiding their communities. DumeDumeDume is a Turaga of Fire and the former ruler of Metru Nui, distinguished by his red and black coloring and the Noble Kanohi Kiril, the Mask of Regeneration. As a member of the Turaga of Metru Nui, he wields a Staff of Office and commands a weakened mastery of Fire. He later resides on the reformed Spherus Magna., who used a Noble Kiril to begin rebuilding Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive. while the Matoran were away on Mata Nui. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

Forging#

On Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive., Kanohi were made from Kanoka disks, with each mask power matched to a disk power. The Kiril was made from Regeneration Kanoka, the disks whose power repairs objects. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

The Kiril is a specialist mask. Its value lies in repairing structures and objects rather than in combat or travel. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

Powers#

The Mask of Regeneration repairs damage to inorganic objects, so a wearer could mend stone, metal and ProtodermisProtodermisThe engineered substance building the Matoran Universe, protodermis exists in countless refined states from mundane metal to diamond-hard crystal to the destruction-or-transformation force of energized form. structures. How much damage it can fix depends on whether the mask is a Great or Noble version. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

The mask has one firm limit: it can't repair organic damage. Wounds and harm to living tissue are outside its reach, which makes the Kiril a tool for fixing armour, buildings and equipment rather than healing beings. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

Dume's Use#

TuragaTuragaFormer Toa who fulfilled their destiny and transformed into leaders. Turaga wield Noble Kanohi masks and weakened elemental powers, guiding their communities. DumeDumeDume is a Turaga of Fire and the former ruler of Metru Nui, distinguished by his red and black coloring and the Noble Kanohi Kiril, the Mask of Regeneration. As a member of the Turaga of Metru Nui, he wields a Staff of Office and commands a weakened mastery of Fire. He later resides on the reformed Spherus Magna. of Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive. is the best-known wearer of a Noble Kiril. While the Matoran were living on the island of Mata Nui after the Great CataclysmThe Great CataclysmThe day Makuta Teridax put the Great Spirit to sleep, the Great Spirit Robot fell from the sky, Metru Nui flooded, and Voya Nui tore loose from the Southern Continent., he used it to begin rebuilding the damaged city. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

Earlier, TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna. had taken Dume's place and impersonated the Turaga, wearing a Kiril as part of the disguise until the Toa Metru exposed him. (BIONICLE 2: Legends of Metru Nui)

Other Wearers#

The story names few other wearers. Beyond Dume and Teridax's disguise, the mask doesn't appear among the standard masks of the Toa MataWho are the Toa Mata?Six warriors built to order by Artakha, stored in canisters, dropped into the ocean. This is the origin story of Bionicle's heroes and why their first week of work was entirely amnesiac., Toa NuvaToa Mata and Toa NuvaSix biomechanical heroes created by the Great Beings to awaken Mata Nui and defeat the Brotherhood, transformed once and tested across an entire age., Toa MetruToa Metru and Toa HordikaSix Matoran elevated by Lhikan to save their city, mutated by Visorak venom, and restored in time to deliver the population to safety., or Toa InikaToa Inika and Toa MahriSix ordinary Matoran transformed by lightning from the Red Star into heroes who ultimately revived the Great Spirit itself.. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated; BIONICLE 2: Legends of Metru Nui)

Variants#

Like most Kanohi, the Kiril comes in two forms. The Great Kiril, worn by Toa, has the full strength of the power. The Noble Kiril, worn by Turaga and some Matoran, has the same function at reduced strength. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

Etymology#

The mask's name is pronounced "kih-RILL." Like other KanohiKanohiMasks that grant powers and sustain life, they're the most vital artifact in the Matoran Universe. names, it is both the mask's name and a label for its power within the mask-making tradition of Metru NuiMetru NuiThe city beneath Mata Nui functions as the Great Spirit's brain, housing the Matoran whose labor keeps the god alive.. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)