User blog:Neoexlucky/Let's talk about Chaos Emeralds

In an attempt to try and do something over my summer break, I've decided to do a little blog series. I might end up reviewing some really bad sonic characters, from off-the-site with lots of gifs and such, but I still haven't figured out some stuff about htat yet.

Anyways, so on today's blog post, I want to talk about the chaos emeralds. These little gusher-looking rocks are a staple in the sonic franchise all the way since the very first game. They've been known to track one another, provide super forms, power machines/weaponry, and even bring the dead (Mostly dead?) back to life. There's a lot to talk about, so let's get into it.

History
According to the canon universe, nobody knows where the chaos emeralds came from. They've apparently been around for over a several millenia and apparently also predate the Master Emerald. The power of the Chaos' emeralds has been passed down throughout histroy, ancient civilizations learned of it's power, blah blah blah,

According to history the ancient tribe of West Side Island used the Chaos Emeralds to greatly advance their society and civilization. Other tribes tried to grab it's power as well, including the babylonians and evne the Black Arms. They somehow have a connectiong to the Gaia temples, and even helped shape Mobius, creating places such as Cocoa Island and South Island.

If that wasn't cool enough, apparently the Chaos Emeralds also sparked a war over avarice, and helped create evil deeds. The Gods (The sonic universe has gods?) saw the misuse of the emeralds and sealed them away, then created the Master Emerald to balance out the power and be able to nulify the Chaos Emeralds. There's also the mantra that comes with it, that if you played Sonic Adventure 1, you know. Just for Reference the quote is; " The servers are the seven Chaos. Chaos is power, power is enriched by the heart. The heart is the controller. The controller serves to unify the Chaos. "

Over 4,000 years ago all the emeralds somehow ended up in the Alter of the Emeralds, where a colony of chao lived. There was one chao in particular who was exposed to the Chaos Emeralds which resulted in it being transformed into a water beast named Choas, and became the guardian of the emeralds.

A tribe of echidna's then began to settle around the emeralds. There were actually two tribes in particular, the Nocturnus Tribe and the Knuckles Tribe. The Nocturnus were known for experimenting on the Chaos Emeralds while the Knuckles Tribe saw them as Sacred. The events of the flashbacks seen in Sonic Adventure 1 then take place, and leads to the tribe nearly going extinct, with the only survivors named the Emeralds the Chaos Emeralds. However, after Tikal and Chaos were sealed in the Master Emerald, which caused a power surge and led to Angel Island being created. Since the island was airborne due to the master emeralds, what was left of the Knuckles Tribe dedicated themselves to protecting the stone.

The tribe's numbers declined until only one remained, that being Knuckles the Echidna, who somehow knew it was his job to protect the emeralds and lived a life alone up there until Sonic Heroes, when the Master Emerald was apparently forgotten throughout time. Don't ask me where it is, the history doesn't cover that part.

Powers and abilities
The Chaos emeralds are litteraly over powered as living hell. They can pretty much do anything that you can think of, which is quite surprising. In Canon, they have been known to do tons of things, and some things that I didn't even know!

The Chaos Emeralds are known primarily for being able to transform thoughts into power. Apparently they can sense the thoughts of the user and are able to generate the chaos energy to do as they please. This includes reviving the dead, showing visions, performing rituals, and pretty much anything your character can think of, literally. Because of this single fact, I think they have a ton of fanon potential to do all sorts of things, but we'll get to that later.

The powers of the chaos emeralds can be harvested by users and even by machinery. When used by people, they can use Chaos Powers ala Shadow the Hedghog, advance their own abilities, and can even cause transformations. These transformations don't last a long time however, so they need to be used with care. A user in a super state can even bestow that power to others. The energy of hte emeralds can also power machines that require a great amount of energy, making them extremely useful to mechanics and engineers.

The energy used is based on the thoughts of the users. Positive thoughts bring positive energy and negative thoughts bring negative energy. If the emeralds are out of both energies, they need to be restored by either Gaia temples, people's thoughts, or returning their energies.

The power of the emeralds increases when more of them are around. They also act like magnets, apparently being able to attract one another. This makes it easier to track other emeralds if you have only one with you. However, once you use all seven together, they will float away and scatter, where they can lie anywhere.

It should also be noted that the Chaos emeralds are not invincible, they can break. As seen in Sonic Battle, the chaos emeralds can break into chaos shards and can be used to power machies, like robots.

Artifical Emeralds
As showcased in Sonic Adventure 2, it is possible to create a fake emerald "with the same wavelength and properties of the real ones, but with less power." They can also be used for sabatoge, some how, and can be used like the real emeralds when it comes to chaos powers, as demonstrated by Sonic in the same game. So how's it different from the real ones? Well, besides being synthetic, the emeralds apparently have less power, but given the chaos emeralds have infinite power, the synthetic ones are still really powerful. Plus they can track real emeralds, which comes in handy if you don't want to be a faker.

Number
So...there are normally only seven chaos emeralds and in canon, that is the case, but it hasn't always been the case. In the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, there were five. In the first game for the genesis, there were six, and in Sonic the Fighters, there was eight. Furthermore in the sound test of Sonic 3, the player can find an eighth special stage and gain a grey chaos emerald. In Sonic 3 & Knuckles you could do the same thing with two stages (Normal and super stage) and gain a golden emerald.

While there are only seven in canon, and most people in fanon will say seven, the gold and grey chaos emeralds sure are interesting. Personally, I have no idea what they are, but if you wanted to you might be able to give them a purpose in your own universe.

Oh and in Sonic Spinball, there were 16 chaos emeralds. Yikes, I'm not even going to touch that.

In Fanon
Oddly enough, I've been looking around on the site and haven't found a lot of Chaos Emerald users here. There are lots of "Insert word here" Emeralds/rings/gems/whatever and there are lots of chaos energy users, but not a lot of Chaos emeralds. So, let's talk about the possibilities here.

Transformations
A staple in the sonic fanchise and really popular here are the transformations. The Chaos Emeralds are known for givng Sonic a super state and oddly enough aren't really used here for transformations. Normally characters here use emotions or other things (Tension springs to mind) to give characters their super abilities. It'd actualyl be interesting to see more characters with transformations use the chaos emeralds in this sense. Personally, I prefer using them in other senses, as I've grown tired of super forms, but the idea is still on the table.

Powering
Maybe it powers a sort of power armor, maybe it powers a weapon? The Chaos emeralds can be used in a variety of ways to power all sorts of machines. Think about it, using a chaos emerald to power a machine to give a character who isn't good a fighting a chance is pretty cool. Using these gushers could change characters in other ways, like evolution, or giving them special abilities they didn't have before. It'd be interesting to see a normal mobian change due to contact with the chaos emeralds, giving them cool powers they didn't have before.

Fusion
I didn't actually know that fusions were a thing in the fanon until I got to this site. People like to use all kinds of things for fusions, mainly from Dragon Ball Z, but I'm sure there are others. Given that the Chaos Emeralds can turn thoughts into power, it makes sense that the emeralds could fuse people together, and create that awesome fused transformation that you've been looking for.

Healing
The Chaos Emeralds can be used to bring dead people back to life, right? So, in a sense, it could also heal people who have suffered injuries in the past. Maybe a character who lost their arm, or who is paralyzed from the waist down could wind up being healed by the chaos emeralds, now that would be cool! They could do other types of healing too, like giving sight to a blind person, as an example.

Almost anything else
Remeber that the Chaos Emeralds turn thought into power. That doesn't put a limit on what you can do with them. The possibilities are endless here. They could do anything from making you the most powerful being on the world to making sure there is a cup of coffee on the your bed side table every time you wake up. They could build empires, destroy civilizations, start wars, the power of the gushers in unbelieveable.