Kanohi Mask of Sensory Aptitude

The KanohiKanohiMasks that grant powers and sustain life, they're the most vital artifact in the Matoran Universe. Mask of Sensory Aptitude strongly enhances all five of its wearer's senses, along with their sense of balance, though its boost to sight falls short of what the RuruKanohi RuruThe Mask of Night Vision granted clear sight in darkness, with the Great version providing limited x-ray vision and a blinding light beam used by Whenua to navigate the Archives and locate the Great Disks. or the AkakuAkakuKopaka's mask of x-ray vision was Bionicle's most practical power, granting sight through stone and snow where others saw only obstacles. can do. It began in a fan project that writer Greg Farshtey approved. Its only appearance in official media is on an unnamed MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. on Voya NuiVoya NuiAn island born from catastrophe and hiding the universe's most powerful artifact, Voya Nui was everything Bionicle 2006 promised: danger, mystery, and a race against time. during the PirakaBionicle Piraka: the Six Skakdi Thieves Who Hunted the Mask of LifeThe Piraka were six Skakdi who quit the Dark Hunters, took over Voya Nui by posing as Toa and went after the Mask of Life in 2006. Here's who they were, how the Voya Nui story played out and what happened to them afterwards. occupation. (BIONICLE Ignition 1: If a Universe Ends...)

Function#

Under the rules Farshtey approved, the Mask of Sensory Aptitude raises all five of the wearer's senses to a high degree and sharpens their balance too. Sight is boosted along with everything else, but not as far as the RuruKanohi RuruThe Mask of Night Vision granted clear sight in darkness, with the Great version providing limited x-ray vision and a blinding light beam used by Whenua to navigate the Archives and locate the Great Disks. or the AkakuAkakuKopaka's mask of x-ray vision was Bionicle's most practical power, granting sight through stone and snow where others saw only obstacles. would take it. None of this is shown in a story. (Writer's later comment, not a published story)

The unnamed Voya NuiVoya NuiAn island born from catastrophe and hiding the universe's most powerful artifact, Voya Nui was everything Bionicle 2006 promised: danger, mystery, and a race against time. MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body.#

The only wearer seen is an unnamed MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. on Voya NuiVoya NuiAn island born from catastrophe and hiding the universe's most powerful artifact, Voya Nui was everything Bionicle 2006 promised: danger, mystery, and a race against time., one of the island's villagers enslaved by the PirakaBionicle Piraka: the Six Skakdi Thieves Who Hunted the Mask of LifeThe Piraka were six Skakdi who quit the Dark Hunters, took over Voya Nui by posing as Toa and went after the Mask of Life in 2006. Here's who they were, how the Voya Nui story played out and what happened to them afterwards., who appears wearing the mask in the comic If a Universe Ends... The comic never shows the mask's power. (BIONICLE Ignition 1: If a Universe Ends...)

The Matoran of Voya Nui had been sent long before to 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. to be repaired, and came back smaller and weaker than before. When the Piraka, among them VezokVezokThe Beast was a Piraka thief split in two by the Spear of Fusion, then imprisoned by the Order of Mata Nui., HakannHakannThe Skakdi bully known for pure aggression, from Dark Hunter mercenary to Piraka thief driven by violence and power., AvakAvakA Skakdi thief whose perfect prisons made him invaluable to the Piraka's Mask of Life heist., ThokThok (the Drifter)The Piraka's cowardly thief learned that ice guns and dirty tactics can't save you from Toa with elemental fury., ReidakReidakA sadistic Skakdi thug who traded the Dark Hunters for the Piraka and paid the price. and ZaktanZaktanMutated Skakdi leader of the Piraka, formerly a Dark Hunter whose body was dissolved into a colony of Protodites by the Shadowed One and reformed with its consciousness intact., arrived on the island, they forced the villagers to work for them. (BIONICLE Legends 1: Island of Doom; BIONICLE Legends 2: Dark Destiny)

A past hero's mask#

The shape turns up once more. KualusKualusKualus is a Toa of Ice and member of the Toa Hagah, formerly serving as one of the elite bodyguards of Makuta Teridax before dedicating himself to the protection of the Matoran. White and metallic blue in color, he wields a Sub-Zero Spear and a Rhotuka Launching Shield, and wears the Great Mask of Rahi Control, granting him the power to direct the minds of animal life. He resides on Spherus Magna. of the Toa HagahToa HagahElite Toa teams appointed by the Brotherhood of Makuta to serve as personal guardians, later rebelling against their creators. wears a Mask of Rahi ControlKanohi Mask of Rahi ControlA Great Kanohi worn by the Toa Hagah Kualus, granting mental command of one or more Rahi at once. forged from precious metal in the shape of a mask worn by a past hero. Farshtey later identified that shape as a Mask of Sensory Aptitude. (Dwellers In Darkness)

Position among perception KanohiKanohiMasks that grant powers and sustain life, they're the most vital artifact in the Matoran Universe.#

Most perception masks in the Matoran UniverseMatoran UniverseA civilization of biomechanical beings living inside a colossal robot, destroyed when Teridax seized control. are about sight: the AkakuAkakuKopaka's mask of x-ray vision was Bionicle's most practical power, granting sight through stone and snow where others saw only obstacles. gives X-ray vision and the RuruKanohi RuruThe Mask of Night Vision granted clear sight in darkness, with the Great version providing limited x-ray vision and a blinding light beam used by Whenua to navigate the Archives and locate the Great Disks. gives night vision. The Mask of Sensory Aptitude would sit beside them as an all-round option, trading the top end of vision for gains across every other sense. It would suit places where seeing is hard anyway, though no story ever puts it to that test. (Writer's later comment, not a published story)

No Toa or Matoran is shown using an active Mask of Sensory Aptitude anywhere in the story. (BIONICLE Ignition 1: If a Universe Ends...)