Elemental Crystals

Elemental Crystals
Object
Users	Ekimu Makuta (formerly)
Function	To infuse the Masks of Power
Status	In use
Location	Okoto

Elemental Crystals are stones imbued with Elemental Power found on the island of Okoto.

History

The Mask Makers Ekimu and Makuta used Elemental Crystals to infuse the Masks of Power they created with Elemental Power. The crystals are not dangerous by themselves, but the potential power of multiple elements in a single mask prompts the ancients of Okoto to forbid the use of more than one crystal at a time. Makuta later broke this law in an effort to produce more desirable masks, eventually creating the Mask of Ultimate Power after stealing a set of crystals used by his brother in creating new masks for the ancient Protectors. Ekimu, having received a vision of the resulting cataclysm from the Mask of Time, used larger crystals provided by the Elemental Creatures from their respective temples to create the Golden Masks of Power for the Toa.

Properties

The Elemental Crystals are crystals that have the six main elemental powers, Fire, Ice, Earth, Jungle, Stone, and Water. Each of the six types of crystals has its own color and is found in one of the regions of Okoto. The Elemental Crystals of Ice are white, the ones of Water blue, the ones of Jungle green, the ones of Fire red, the ones of Earth purple, and the ones of Stone yellow. The Mask Makers use the Crystals to make Masks of Powers with elemental powers by putting the crystals into the masks.

The power level of the mask depends on how large the Elemental Crystal was. Small crystals can make weak elemental masks. Larger crystals can make stronger masks, and even larger crystals were used to make the Golden Masks of Power.

The crystals are not dangerous by themselves, but when one puts more than one crystal of a different type into the mask, this can create a dangerous mask. This mask uses the elemental powers and combines them, and the mask is stronger than a mask with one element. Makuta created masks that had more than one element, with the most dangerous of them all being the Mask of Ultimate Power, which was made of six different crystals and the other masks combined together. However, the mask could not contain the six elements after getting hit by Ekimu's Hammer of Power, and the mask broke into six pieces as a result.

Appearances

Books
Graphic Novels Battle of the Mask Makers (FA)