When it comes to Bionicle, I'm a pretty simple guy. Give me some Toa, a few Matoran for them to protect, and maybe an unexpected mask power, and that'll usually get me pretty far. It's pretty telling that I stopped following the story closely around the time of 2004.

Which makes the fact I enjoyed Cederak's Cenotaphs pretty crazy in my eyes. It's a story from the outlaws' perspective, a story that rather than use the usual heroes and villains and settings opts to build a world out of the blank spots in canon. Cederak shows off any number of overlooked species, islands, and technologies through the eyes of a farmer-turned-mercenary living near the end of the Barraki's reign, and in doing so he gives a very real texture to the universe. We always had the view of a Toa - here's a view from the rest of the world.

Maybe this post is redundant, given Cenotaphs (very deservedly) hit the front page a few months back, but I wanted to make it anyways. If you've got some time, go start reading it, and join me in marveling at how much more you can build out of the backstory of a nearly-three-years-halted constraction line.