Mask of Creation: the Legendary Kanohi of Artakha

The Mask of Creation was the Kanohi of ArtakhaArtakhaArtakha is the master craftsman of the Matoran Universe, ruler of a hidden island where the Toa Mata came into being and the Avohkii was forged., the master builder of the MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. Universe. Artakha and his brother KarzahniKarzahniBionicle used one cursed name three times, for a being, a realm and a plant, and every one of them earns it. This article untangles all three. fought over it soon after they were made, and Artakha won. Its power was to let its wearer imagine a finished object from its raw component materials and learn how to construct it. This is the original-continuity mask; the 2015 reboot's Mask of CreationThe Mask of CreationThe signature Kanohi of Ekimu the Mask Maker, the source of his creative craft. Stolen by Kulta the Skull Grinder, reclaimed at the Mask Makers' forge, and worn again in the final defence of Okoto. worn by Ekimu is a different object. (BIONICLE: World; Reign of Shadows)

Forging and the contest with Karzahni#

ArtakhaArtakhaArtakha is the master craftsman of the Matoran Universe, ruler of a hidden island where the Toa Mata came into being and the Avohkii was forged. and KarzahniKarzahniBionicle used one cursed name three times, for a being, a realm and a plant, and every one of them earns it. This article untangles all three. were made by the Great BeingsThe Great BeingsScholar-inventors of Spherus Magna whose creations shaped the Matoran Universe and whose absence defined the conflicts that followed. before the spirit of Mata Nui, and each was given a region to guard. (BIONICLE Legends 2: Dark Destiny)

Soon after they were made, the two brothers competed for the Mask of Creation, and Artakha won the fight. Having won it, he used the mask to help him design his creations, the tools, weapons and masks he made for anyone who asked. (BIONICLE: World)

Powers#

The Mask of Creation allowed its user to imagine a finished product from its raw component materials and to learn how to construct it. The guidebook that describes it adds that the mask could not bring those objects into being by itself; the wearer still had to build them. (BIONICLE: World)

It was also the most ornate mask anyone had seen, forged from metallic protodermis worked into intricate patterns that each reflected one of the many cultures of the universe, with angular, pointed eye slits. (Reign of Shadows)

Artakha's use and later history#

ArtakhaArtakhaArtakha is the master craftsman of the Matoran Universe, ruler of a hidden island where the Toa Mata came into being and the Avohkii was forged. wore the Mask of Creation throughout his long work as a master builder. During TeridaxTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna.'s reign over the Matoran Universe, he teleported himself to the core processorThe Core ProcessorThe vast machinery beneath the Coliseum of Metru Nui where Mata Nui's spirit was meant to reside, seized by Teridax in his takeover and destroyed in the Battle of Bara Magna. to break up a battle between Tuyet, Miserix, Brutaka, Axonn, Tren Krom and HelryxHelryx: the first Toa ever createdHelryx was the first Toa ever made, commissioned by the Great Beings on Artakha long before the Toa Mata. She founded and led the Order of Mata Nui., and swapped Tren KromTren KromTren Krom maintained the Matoran Universe before Mata Nui's activation and spent the following hundred millennia fused to a cave on a remote island.'s and Lewa's minds back into their own bodies. Teridax then teleported the whole group out of the universe into space. (Reign of Shadows)

Lewa saved them from suffocating with air bubbles, and Artakha's attempt to teleport them back was blocked by Teridax. Before he could try anything riskier, Vezon pulled the group through a dimensional window into a tower on Bota Magna, the prison of a Great Being cursed by the Ignika. (Reign of Shadows)