Sundial: The Codrex Pointer of Onu-Wahi

The Sundial was a large, organic structure that lay buried in a seemingly impenetrable rock layer in an Onu-WahiThe Onu-Koro CouncilThe advisory council to Turaga Whenua in Onu-Koro, drawing together the Ussalry, the mining and ground-forces command, and the Trading Guild around the leader of the underground village. mine, and which served two purposes across the history of the island of Mata NuiMata NuiBuilt by the Great Beings to restore Spherus Magna, Mata Nui sustained an entire civilisation inside his body, was deposed by Teridax, and reclaimed his purpose as a mortal on Bara Magna.: first as a concealed entrance to the MangaiaMangaiaThe hidden stronghold of Teridax beneath the island of Mata Nui, containing Energized Protodermis and connected to the Bohrok Nest., the lair of the MakutaTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna., and later, after it had been shrunk, as a device that pointed the way to the CodrexThe CodrexA spherical vault built by the Great Beings beneath Karda Nui to house the Toa Mata in stasis and control the final phase of Mata Nui's reawakening.. It operated together with a separate gnomon, a pointer that fit into the dial and cast a shadow when light was directed at it.

Discovery and opening#

Around the time 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. were searching the island for their Kanohi, Onu-Matoran miners discovered the large sundial buried in a rock layer they could not break through in an Onu-WahiThe Onu-Koro CouncilThe advisory council to Turaga Whenua in Onu-Koro, drawing together the Ussalry, the mining and ground-forces command, and the Trading Guild around the leader of the underground village. mine. While the prospectors were puzzling over the find, the wanderer 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. joined them as they examined it. One of the miners asked him to carry a message to an astrologer she knew. The astrologer studied the matter and determined that something would happen when the shadow cast by the dial's gnomon reached the four o'clock position. She gave 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. a gnomon she had found some time before, which she suspected belonged with the dial.

The gnomon fit. When 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. shone a lightstone on it so that it indicated four o'clock, the Sundial opened, revealing a passage driven through the impenetrable rock layer, with a gold Kanohi HauTakuaAn 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. resting at the bottom.

Path to the Mangaia#

Later, after Takua's party had helped defend the Kini-Nui from hordes of 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., with aid from the Onu-KoroKoroThe Koros were the six elemental villages established by the Toa Metru on Mata Nui after the Great Rescue, each tied to one element and one Turaga. UssalryUssalryOnu-Koro's branch of the Mata Nui Military, made up of Onu-Matoran riders mounted on tamed Ussal crabs and led by High Commander Onepu., the Ta-Koro GuardTa-Koro GuardThe Ta-Koro Guard was the largest standing Matoran fighting force on Mata Nui, captained by Jaller and active from the early Rahi conflicts through the return to Metru Nui., and the Le-KoroKoroThe Koros were the six elemental villages established by the Toa Metru on Mata Nui after the Great Rescue, each tied to one element and one Turaga. GukkoGukkoA large, swift bird-like Rahi domesticated by the Le-Matoran as the mount of the Gukko Force, the second-largest Matoran military unit on Mata Nui. Force, Takua was asked by Onepu to travel to Onu-Koro and inspect the Sundial again. The gold Kanohi he had seen before had vanished, and a new passageway had opened beneath the dial. None of the Onu-Matoran miners would set foot in it, believing it to be another entrance to the MakutaTeridaxTeridax orchestrated a thousand-year scheme that ended with him occupying the Great Spirit Robot itself before his death on Bara Magna.'s lair. The miners were right. Takua used the passage to make his way into the MangaiaMangaiaThe hidden stronghold of Teridax beneath the island of Mata Nui, containing Energized Protodermis and connected to the Bohrok Nest. and there witnessed 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. defeat the Master of Shadows.

The Codrex pointer#

Much later still, after the Matoran had returned to MetruMetruIn the Matoran language a metru was a single district of Metru Nui; the city was divided into six such districts, one for each element, and the term covered both the place and the elemental community that lived in it. Nui and the Toa NuvaToa NuvaThe form the Toa Mata took after stepping into the Energized Protodermis beneath the Bahrag, with new masks, new tools, and the elemental scale to fight Karda Nui. were working through the list of tasks needed to restore the universe to working order, a strange voice told LewaLewaToa of Air, member of the Toa Mata and Toa Nuva, whose career was marked by repeated possession, body theft, and aerial campaigns from Le-Wahi to Karda Nui. to return to Mata NuiMata Nui: Great Spirit of the Matoran UniverseBuilt by the Great Beings as a biomechanical guardian, betrayed by Teridax, and returned in a smaller form to reshape Spherus Magna. and retrieve the Sundial. He did so. The Sundial was then inexplicably shrunk and given to TakanuvaTakanuvaHidden among the Ta-Matoran as Takua, the disguised Av-Matoran who became Takanuva was the sole Toa of Light produced in the Matoran Universe's full history. by Toa Krakua, who set him the task of finding the legendary CodrexThe CodrexA spherical vault built by the Great Beings beneath Karda Nui to house the Toa Mata in stasis and control the final phase of Mata Nui's reawakening.. The shrunken dial functioned as a guide: whenever TakanuvaTakanuva (The Kingdom): the Turaga who walled off the MakutaIn the alternate timeline of The Kingdom, Takanuva sealed the Matoran Universe behind a barrier of light, raised a new generation of Toa, and ruled as the head of his island kingdom's council. shone light on it, its shadow pointed toward the Codrex.

The dial bore eighteen sections, corresponding to the thirty-six hour day of Spherus Magna.