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- "You against me? The odds are against you... because I never fight one on one... and time is on my side."
- ―Makuta Bitil during a battle with an unknown Toa
| MOHTREK | |
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| MASK OF PAST SELVES | |
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Allowed its user to summon previously copied past selves
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| Pronunciation |
MOE-treck
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The Kanohi Mohtrek was the Mask of Past Selves. It allowed its wearer to copy their current self into the mask any number of times, then later summon those selves. Its erroneous title, the Mask of Time Duplication, was a result of the properties of Makuta Bitil's malfunctioning Great Mohtrek becoming more widely known than the mask's true powers.
History[]
The Mohtrek was first created by the Brotherhood of Makuta in their attempts to create the legendary Vahi, the Mask of Time. Recognizing its immense potential, they kept it a secret, delaying its discovery by other parties by several millennia. Craving its power and having little regard for its weaknesses, Makuta Bitil would choose the mask to be his primary Kanohi, going against the advice of other Makuta, which he'd dismissed as "projections of their cowardice". After he was given dominion over much of the western Southern Islands, Bitil found the mask useful outside of combat as it helped him multitask, a useful proficiency when overseeing so much land at once (even if it was mostly barren).
Outside of the Brotherhood, the mask remained theoretical for some time, with some Metru Nui maskmakers even considering it impossible. Even after its recipes were unlocked, the difficulty and danger of crafting it, combined with its potential to cause its wearer grave injury or death, made it a widely unpopular mask, even among Matoran. Over time, its increasing association with Makuta Bitil and the gradually falling reputation of the Brotherhood only made it more unpopular.
The course of the mask's history would forever be changed after Bitil's Mohtrek began to behave differently. According to him, during a routine scouting mission, he was suddenly attacked by a vicious creature of interdimensional origin. He'd used his Mohtrek to win the ensuing skirmish, successfully holding off the beast until it spontaneously warped back out of the Matoran Universe, but this maneuver caused a reaction which permanently affected his Kanohi. From then on, rather than him needing to copy himself into the mask, he could simply summon past selves directly via time travel, at the cost of randomly becoming injured by battles yet to come. While the properties of his affected Kanohi were plainly evident, his claim of how it came to be this way was regarded as dubious by most other Makuta.
Interested in the mask's new properties, fellow Makuta Venxx attempted to recreate the circumstances of the reaction with help from Makuta Tridax's Great Olmak. This experiment quickly spiraled out of control, resulting in Venxx, his Mohtrek, and a decent portion of Destral suddenly ceasing to exist. This incident steered the numerous other Makuta interested in tampering with the mask away from doing so. Even Teridax, hungrier for power than any other, was content to stay on track with his plan to obtain the Vahi. Bitil would claim that his Mohtrek had only changed in the way it did because he'd been deemed "worthy" of handling its power by some cosmic force, and that Venxx's apparent unworthiness had been the reason for his death. As time went on and his random injuries became more and more of an annoyance, however, he retracted this claim, admitting that the mask's anomalous power was just as much a curse as it was a blessing.
Bitil utilizing his anomalous Mohtrek against Toa Nuva Onua
Bitil would continue to wield his malfunctioning Mohtrek throughout the remainder of his life, proclaiming it to be the "Mask of Time Duplication" and developing a habit of conceitedly explaining its powers to those he fought mid-battle. This reputation began to fill in the drought of common knowledge about the mask, leading to a relatively widespread misconception that all instances of the Mohtrek worked as Bitil's did.
After the Restoration of Spherus Magna, a group of scavengers in the remains of Karda Nui discovered a strange dust which, when analyzed by a Mersion scientist, was estimated to be between several quintillion and several undecillion years old. This baffled the scientist for many weeks until she happened upon a record of Makuta Mutran's detailing Bitil's malfunctioning Mohtrek, from which she hypothesized that the energy storm that killed him must have reacted with his mask in some way in the process of obliterating it.
Powers[]
When activated, a wearer of a Great Mohtrek could either copy themself in their current state into the mask or summon copies they've already stored. Copying was a difficult task and often took a considerable amount of stillness of mind and body, and so was best done outside of combat. Each copy of a past self was one-time use, and wearers would have to refresh their Mohtrek with new copies after summoning past selves. The mask's main drawback was that any damage sustained by a summoned past self would be dealt to the summoner. Even though there was theoretically no limit to the number of past selves one could summon, this weakness made it inadvisable to summon too many, as the greater the number of copies, the greater the chance became that injuries to them would compound to the point of maiming or killing the wearer.
Bitil's Mohtrek[]
Due to alleged interactions with interdimensional forces, Bitil's Mohtrek operated differently: he had no need to copy himself into the mask and could summon any number of past selves at his pleasure. Rather than sustaining the damage his past selves sustained, his past selves would take their injuries with them when they returned to their proper place in time, alongside having their memories of their escapades in the future wiped. The result of this was that the Makuta would occasionally find himself suddenly injured from future battles, something that caused him to consider the mask to be a curse as much as it was a blessing. His Mohtrek was destroyed by energy storms during the reawakening of the Great Spirit Robot.
Example Usage[]
An eccentric Toa of Earth spent an alleged 90,000 years meditating inside a cave on an island, doing nothing but storing copies into his Great Mohtrek, with the intent to leave the cave and summon his copies only when the universe needed him most. This time finally came in the Reign of Shadows, during which he summoned such a great number of past selves that they covered the entire island, quickly decimating all of the invading Rahkshi.
Wearers[]
Great[]
- Makuta Bitil - Formerly; deceased
- Makuta Venxx - Formerly as a secondary mask; now nonexistent
- A Toa of Earth who fought during the Reign of Shadows
Matoran[]
- A "fixed" Matoran in Karzahni
Trivia[]
- Due to the grave nature of the mask's weakness, in addition to its association with the Makuta, many Toa considered the Mohtrek to be immoral.
- Chondrya created this page mostly to alleviate her mind of the mental anguish of the knowledge that, in canon, a mere Great-level Kanohi is capable of time travel, whereas the Legendary Mask of Time is not.
- Anyone is free to include this version of the Mohtrek in their pages and creative works, and add to this page's Wearers section.