Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2221250-20140822020300/@comment-3292996-20140828172625

I might add that no one really seems to use the fake Emeralds that both Tails and the Meterex created in Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic X, respectively. Despite the fact that these Emeralds are weaker than the genuine Emeralds, they still are a great source of power. I feel these fake Emeralds are even more underused the the genuine ones.

As for the origins of the Chaos Emeralds, well, I suppose some sorcerer in the Sonic universe created the seven Emeralds for multiple purposes that I haven't really thought of yet. Then there might've came a time when the Emeralds were (somehow) scattered across the land, and as time went on some primitive Echidnas happened to stumble upon a minority of the Emeralds while searching for food and resources. Realizing their sheer power, the primitive Echidnas sought out more of these Emeralds, and other Mobian species rapidly learned of these Emeralds as well, resulting in an "Emerald Rush" (pfft) reminiscent of the California Gold Rush. The Echidnas came to obtain all seven Chaos Emeralds over the years, and as more milleneums passed, the more the Echidnas forgot about their true origins. Yeah, this theory needs a lot of cleaning up, I know, and there's some plotholes too. Plus I can't really leave it at here either.