The Great Mask of Psychometry was most likely made around the time the Mask of Life was, and the 2001 aesthetic is alive and well in the MOC, so I tried to work in a little bit of both. I’m happy that the mask ended up falling into 2006-2007 vibes.
Mask changes
Changed symbol to the spherus magnan crest
Outer braces changed to pistons
Polishing background and typography
EDIT: I wanted to put ancient symbols on the mask that would be unknown to MU inhabitants, similar to how the Ignika sports the symbol of the GSR.Glatorian symbolism immediately came to mind, which there are very few examples of, and no separate alphabet. The symbol of water on Spherus Magna is just a water drop… which would just look like a cartoony sweat drop on her mask if I used it, so I opted to use the three pronged symbol used in all the bara magnan tribes.
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The symbols on the mask include a symbol used often on Spherus Magna by the Glatorian and Great Beings (it’s never really said what it means), the glatorian symbol for spherus magna translated into a nuva-cube like design, and the letter 1, her build number
The matoran alphabet is equivalent to english in G1, it’s hardly an ancient and unknown glyph, which is what I was going for. Symbolism that would be unknown to MU inhabitants would likely involve glatorian symbols, which there are very few examples of. The symbol of water on Spherus Magna is just a water drop… which would just look like a cartoony sweat drop on her mask if I used it, so I opted to use okotan.