Chaos Emeralds
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The Chaos Emeralds (カオス エメラルド, Kaosu Emerarudo) are seven fictional gemstones from the Sonic the Hedgehog video games. The Chaos Emeralds have mystical properties and abilities, and the holder of them all can use them for a variety of purposes, including transforming into a powerful "super form". Each emerald is an everlasting source of energy and is capable of floating in the air on its own power. The emeralds are commonly and traditionally collected within a Special Stage. While they were more like "bonus" items in the early games of the series, the Chaos Emeralds became necessary plot devices in Sonic Adventure, and that trend has continued throughout the later 3D games.
Game Background
In the original Sega release of Sonic The Hedgehog there were only six Chaos Emeralds and when they were all collected they gave the player no special abilities, disappearing at the games end. When sega released Sonic the Hedgehog 2 they became the The Seven Chaos Emeralds and if the player collected them all as sonic he could achieve a super form. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 changed the color sceme of the emeralds slightly and altered their shape. During Sonic & Knuckles the players could collect a set of 14 emeralds transforming the original seven into super emeralds ganting Sonic the ability to transform into Hyper Sonic while Tails and Knuckles could only achieve a standard super form.
Other Sonic games have also had many different character oriented abilities and also many varying shapes and colors usually going with a common theme.
The Chaos Emeralds serve as the primary aspect of the story line in the sonic the hedgehog series.
Role in the games
They serve only a basic role in the games such as collecting them all in order to see a special ending or to achieve a super form during game play. Collecting them on a game is also nessacery to unlock more levels of the game.
Appearance
Amount
The amount of emeralds was six in the original game but has since then been changed to seven.
Colors
The colors of the Chaos Emeralds are red, blue, yellow, green, white/grey, cyan, and purple.
Guardians
The Chaos Emeralds are guarded by Knuckles The Echidna.
References
In addition to information taken from the Sonic the Hedgehog games themselves, content from the instruction booklets of the U.S. and Japanese versions of the games were also used as references for this article.