Summary[]
The Chaos Emeralds are a set of seven mystical gemstones that possess infinite power, it is the pursuit of said power by forces which intend use it for both good or ill will which has landed them in the centre of many conflicts which even threaten the existence of Sonic's universe.
Tens of thousands of years ago, the remnants of a long-lost civilisation known as the Ancients used the power of the Chaos Emeralds to flee the destruction of their home world by the entity known as the End, whilst in space, the Chaos Emeralds energy resonated with that of the Master Emerald, overriding the navigation systems of the Ancients' sending them and the Ancients to Earth.
Powers and Stats[]
Tier: Varies. 4-A, 2-C to 2-A at their peak
Name: Chaos Emeralds
Origin: Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic 1)
Age: At least 20,000 years old (The Ancients arrived on Earth "tens of thousands of years ago", bringing with them the Chaos Emeralds)
Classification: Mystical Artefacts, Gems of Miracles, Native Artefacts of the Ancients' planet
Wielders: The Ancients, Classic Sonic, Modern Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, Silver, Mighty, Ray, Dr. Eggman
Powers and Abilities:
- Chaos Manipulation (In accordance of its namesake, the power which the Chaos Emeralds exert is chaotic in nature, bringing hinderance to order & allowing several destructive happenings to occur)
- Life Manipulation (The Chaos Emeralds are stated to be a "super-substance" that gives energy and vitality to all living things)
- Emotional Empowerment (The basis of the Emeralds nature is transforming one's emotions and thoughts into power. The more intense these emotions are, greater is the power the user will receive and the more enhanced their abilities with it become)
- Holy Manipulation (The Chaos Emeralds are described as wondrous and miracle gems that perform miracles once they are all gathered together. The energy which the Emeralds provide is stated to possess a holy nature with the gems possessing divine power which was created by the Gods themselves)
- Wish Granting & Subjective Reality (The Chaos Emeralds are described to be gems of fantasy as well as "miraculous supermaterials" which can grant wishes, allowing "anything you can think of" come to true)
- Dream Manipulation & Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1; The Chaos Emeralds are referred to as the super-substance of dreams, with the power of dreams being capable of awakening Super Sonic without the Chaos Emeralds present. The Chaos Emeralds allowed Mephiles and Iblis to fuse back into Solaris, who immediately became a threat that would swallow all timelines and destroy the very meaning of time that additionally includes Maginaryworld and all the dreams contained within Fourth Dimensional Space, a space which in itself is Illumina's dream)
- Empathic Manipulation, Nonduality (Type 2 - Dreams & Nightmares) & Enhanced Abstract Existence (Type 1 for their Energy; Due to their energy being the super-substances and giving vitality to all living things, their energy is both part of and more abstract than abstract beings such as The End, Void and Illumina)
- Mind Manipulation & Physics Manipulation (which can be direct manifestations of the mind as well as possessing altered physics)
- Text Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (Solaris would've destroyed Erazor Djinn's dream to control & remake the Arabian Nights, a world made up of texts & inscriptions with the words being the story itself with everyone residing within it are bound by the book following a set plot as their destiny)
- Enhanced Non-Physical Interaction (Abstract Existence (Type 1; Concept Type 1, Nonduality Type 2, Dreams & Nightmares, Feelings), Information Type 2, Data, Laws, Minds, Souls, Memories, Void, Plot, Text, Space-Time, Nonexistence Nature Type 2; All Aspects, Elemental Incorporeality (Energy, Water, Fire, Smoke, Light and Darkness); As the source of vitality to all living things, Chaos Energy would be able to interact with all living beings such as Mephiles (An immaterial being made of Darkness), Iblis (An immaterial being made of energy and fire), Solaris (the fusion of the last two, who is also made from several different dimensions and light), Void/Lumina/Illumina (Abstract beings made of Dream and the emotions needed for them to exist), Chaos (a being made of liquid) and Time Eater (A being made of smoke); As the super-substance of dreams, it naturally interacts with them and all aspects that are shaped by it, which includes the Storybook Worlds (Universes fundamentally made of Plot and Text) and the Cyberspaces (Realities fundamentally made of information, with the ancient cyberspace housing the Ancients' Souls, Memories, Hopes and the essences of who they were)
- Law Manipulation, Causality Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Data Manipulation & Information Manipulation (Type 2; The Chaos Emeralds act as the very basis of the Ancients' technology, with the gems powering all their systems including Cyber Space. Cyberspace is a referred to as a separate digital world by The End as well as a digital dimension by Dr. Eggman which can obtain external information/data from the universe and materialize it within itself. Tails surmised that Cyber Space stores information down to the very essence of the Ancients' beings including their hopes, dreams & memories and even their souls. When a being enters Cyber Space, their memories physically alter and change the realm depending upon their memories. The barrier surrounding the Starfall Islands was stated to defy the laws of the world, manifesting logical disparities down to the bottom of causality. When it used the Chaos Emeralds to fuse, Solaris was stated to be capable of destroying all of reality in all time periods. That would include Cyber Space by extension[1])
- Healing, Resurrection, Regeneration (Up to High-Godly - Concept, Type 2 Information, Plot/Text, Space-Time & History) & Purification (Types 1 & 2; Channeling Chaos Energy allows users to heal wounds. All of the Ancients' technology was based on the Chaos Emeralds, including the robots guarding the Starfall Islands which can reform themselves using the gravitational pull of meteors, allowing them to continue their duties forever. The Chaos Emeralds can be used to revive those who've died. Chaos 0 used the Emeralds to keep clear water around the Master Emerald altar. Super Sonic used the true power of the Chaos Emeralds to pacify Perfect Chaos from the fury and resentment it used to transform. Super Sonic purified Mother Wisp, returning her to normal after she was corrupted into a Nega-Wisp by having her energy drained. At their full power, the Super Sonics can use the Emeralds to undo the Time Eater's erasure of the cosmology)
- Power/Energy Absorption (The Chaos Emeralds protected Sonic from Eggman's Mind-Control Ray by absorbing the laser's energy)
- Light Manipulation (Chaos Emeralds can produce blinding flashes of light)
- Plant Manipulation (The Chaos Emeralds can create plant life)
- Weather Manipulation (The Emeralds cancelled out a storm created by Doctor Eggman. Mephiles created a storm using the Chaos Emeralds)
- Limited Magnetism Manipulation (The Chaos Emeralds attract one another in a manner similar to magnetism)
- Radiation Manipulation (Chaos Energy is implied to be radioactive, as it can be used to power up nuclear weapons)
- Space-Time Manipulation (2 Layers), Subjective Reality, Dream Manipulation (2 Layers), Law Manipulation (2 Layers), Causality Manipulation (2 Layers), Memory Manipulation, & Perception Manipulation (5-D; The Chaos Emeralds still retained their properties even after they were altered by an anomaly which warped the world, its history and everyone's memories)
- Mind Manipulation, Disease Manipulation, Biological Manipulation, and Transmutation (The Chaos Emeralds prevented Zavok's infection and cured Sonic of the Metal Virus the moment he transformed into Super Sonic.[2] The Metal Virus in question transforms organic tissue into a metallic substance through physical contact to create a mindless Zombot)[3]
- Unconventional Resistance to:
- BFR (Just touching a Chaos Emerald allowed Sonic to warp out of the Special Stage, which resides in a different universe as a trap)
- Existence Erasure, Conceptual Erasure (Type 1), Plot Erasure & Type 2 Information Erasure (Chaos Energy still emanated and projected from a Chaos Emerald despite being erased by the Time Eater)
- Duplication (With Avatar, which can create a swarm of duplicates to rush in when utilizing the Blue Emerald; be it to block attacks from reaching the real one, destroying environments, or overwhelming an opponent with sheer numbers)[4]
- Extrasensory Perception (With Vision, which allows the user to see hidden platforms and objects that would otherwise be invisible)[4]
- Underwater Breathing (Type 3, Breathing with Equipment), Elemental Intangibility, & Elemental Shapeshifting (Full conversion; with Water, which changes one's entire physiological makeup to liquify themselves and move within bodies of water)[4]
- Plant Manipulation & Platform Creation (With Ivy, which makes a large vine which grows out of the ground that the user grips to ascend to higher places when utilizing the Green Emerald)[4]
- Vector Manipulation, Magma Manipulation, & Elemental Shapeshifting (Full conversion. With Bullet, which allows one to shapeshift into a ball of magma and change quickly change their direction in midair)[4]
- Time Manipulation (With Slow, which slows down time for everything around the user except their allies)[4]
- Transformation and Statistics Amplification (An elite few can tap into the power of the Chaos Emeralds, granting a Super Form and greatly enhancing the abilities of the user)
- Aura (Explosive; A Super Form comes with a golden aura for the user that blows away and damages those who make contact with it)
- Self-Sustenance (Type 3; The Chaos Emeralds grant infinite & unlimited energy)
- Flight (True Flight; The most common ability displayed by Super States being able to fly freely through space & other dimensions to fight beings such as Finalhazard, Egg Salamander, Time Eater, Solaris, Ultimate Gemerl and The End)
- Acausality (Type 4 - Time, Fate, Law & Causality; Sage noted Sonic was attempting to transcend causality by refusing to succumb to the cyber corruption which plagued him.[5] Despite its attunement being the ruling of everything in the universe that exists that has gone unchallenged since time immemorial, The End referred to its own defeat as something that transcends law and time. Super Forms can move and function within the Egg Reverie Zone, a place where space and time are continuously shifting, even to points that shouldn't exist, whilst base forms can only float aimlessly)
- Invulnerability (Super Forms are often stated by multiple different sources to be invincible, indestructible and invulnerable, with the user oftentimes being unaffected by conventional attacks from a variety of enemies including the Time Eater, Egg Wizard, Perfect Chaos, Great Eggman Robo and Ultimate Gemerl)
- Invulnerability Negation (Those that can harm Super Forms are near-exclusively powered by the Chaos Emeralds themselves, including the likes of Devil Doom, the Egg Salamander, and Solaris)
- Power Bestowal (Can pass Chaos Energy onto others, allowing them to achieve Super transformations of their own)
- Enhanced Chaos Energy Manipulation
- Aura (Overwhelming & Explosive; Chaos Energy wielder can manifest aura around their bodies. Super States are enveloped in a golden aura which blows away anything which comes into contact with it)
- Enhanced Heat Generation (When Sonic and Silver entered their Super Forms, it immediately burned away the Metal Virus so badly that it did not regenerate back, even though before it could regenerate from Base Sonic burning it off)
- Electricity Generation (Super State auras can generate electricity)
- Boost (Super Sonic Boost)
- Power Nullification (Eggman deduced that Super Sonic neutralized the "Otherworldification" as well as the creations which were manifested from the Phantom Ruby, including the alternate worlds Super Eggman created, evaporating them like a mist with the worlds being described as "infinite" and "super-other dimensional")
- Empathic Manipulation & Purification (Type 2; A Super State's aura can cleanses negative energies, varying from evil beings to anger and negative emotions. Neutralize the negative energies of Perfect Chaos and made it benevolent once again, rendering its will to fight inert)
- Statistics Amplification (Chaos Energy can be used to amplify their user's power to greater extents, such as when Sonic harmed Metal Overlord with his supercharged attacks despite Metal Overlord being immune to any damage from his regular attacks. Chaos Energy can be harnessed to increase strength, speed, defenses or stamina, with the more of them enhancing this effect)
- Light Manipulation (Super States can absorb light to strengthen themselves. Super Sonic can absorb light to allow himself to use the Arrow of Light, cracking Solaris' armour which remain unaffected by Super Sonic's regular attacks)
- Attack Reflection, Sealing and Forcefield Creation (With the Shield of Light, Super Silver creates a light barrier which catches projectiles and launches them back at the attacker. The Shield of Light can also trap opponents)
- Spatial Manipulation, Light Manipulation & Homing Attack (Can absorb light to enhance himself and use the Spear of Light techniquewhich can close dimensional portals. The Spear of Light used by Shadow fires off numerous projectiles which are stated to home in on Solaris)
- Light Manipulation (Super States can absorb light to strengthen themselves. Super Sonic can absorb light to allow himself to use the Arrow of Light, cracking Solaris' armour which remain unaffected by Super Sonic's regular attacks)
- Forcefield Creation (Chaos Energy can be channeled into strong barriers. Super Sonic can create a forcefield to protect himself)
- Energy Projection and Shockwave Creation (Chaos Energy can be harnessed through the use of destructive energy beams and volleys of energy bullets. Chaos Energy can also be emitted through shockwaves)
- Homing Attack (Super Sonic can fire a "powerful homing laser", shooting off multiple of them at once)
- Attack Reflection (with Deflect, enabling Super Sonic to reflect projectiles back at the enemy)
- Weapon Creation (Created sword-like constructs to both hold Knight in place and stab into it using one. Can create golden constructs of punches and kicks as well as golden chains to restrain Wyvern)
- Space-Time Manipulation (Users of the Chaos Emeralds can manipulate the fabric of space-time, being able to create space-time distortions and create entire realities which surpass all dimensions)
- BFR and Sealing (Chaos Control can be used to seal others in different dimensions and even into one's self as a vessel)
- Durability Negation (Several of Shadow's move utilize distorted space-time, which are all powered by Chaos Control. Chaos Magic spawns distortions at the snap of the user's fingers. Roaming Chaos launches space-time distortions as projectiles which home in on the target, and ??? (Shadow) triplicates the user before trapping the enemy between 3 distortions)
- Damage Boost (Chaos Nightmare & Chaos Upper cloak Shadow's fist in space-time distortions for more devastating punches.)
- Dimensional Travel (Chaos Control can be used to travel between dimensions)
- Intangibility (Spatial; With Chaos Burst, in which the user hides in distorted space using Chaos Control)
- Pocket Reality Manipulation (Eggman used Chaos Control to split the world into 7 pocket dimensions)
- Portal Creation and Time Travel (Chaos Emeralds can be used to create rifts in time, allowing the user to travel through time)
- Summoning (Chaos Control can be used to summon others at will)
- Teleportation (Black Doom used the Chaos Emeralds to teleport the Black Comet to the Earth's surface and Super Shadow teleports it back in orbit, Super Sonic and Super Shadow were able to warp away the Space Colony ARK with Chaos Control)
- Time Manipulation (Chaos Control can be used to slow down time)
- Vector Manipulation and Aura (With Chaos Shift, where the user slows down time using an Emerald before dashing forward with a green aura)
- Time Stop (By using a Chaos Emerald, Chaos Control can be invoked which allows a user to stop time itself, this can also be used to affect specific opponents)
- Chaos Spear
- Power Nullification and Stamina Reduction (Nullified Neo Metal Sonic's Super State and leaving him drained of energy, despite having limitless stamina as a robot and the infinite energy of a Super State)
- Paralysis Inducement (Shadow's Chaos Spears emit a paralytic effect through the projectile)
- Barrier Negation (Chaos Spear can now bypass barrier techniques)
- Homing Attack (Chaos Spears can now be given tracking capabilities)
- Healing (Chaos Emeralds can heal users as well as restore consciousness)
- Aura (Overwhelming & Explosive; Chaos Energy wielder can manifest aura around their bodies. Super States are enveloped in a golden aura which blows away anything which comes into contact with it)
- Immortality Negation (Type 3) and Regeneration Negation (Up to Low-Godly, The full power of the Chaos Emeralds allows a Super State to bypass Solaris' regeneration, decapitating the light god, even after Solaris reformed itself, the damage is still maintained)
- Causality Manipulation (At the Emeralds' peak. Allowed Sonic, Shadow, and Silver to harm Solaris through all points in its time and damage it)
- Fusionism (Mephiles used the power of the Chaos Emeralds to fuse with Iblis, becoming Solaris in the process)
- Clairvoyance (Chaos Emeralds can project images of an individual into one's mind)
- Enhanced Death Manipulation (4-D - 1 Layer; Super forms can withstand the Eyes of Solaris, which instantly kill whoever touches them)
- Greater Existence Erasure (4-D - 2 Layers; Despite barely dodging Perfect Chaos' attack, it was stated that Sonic would've "vanished" had he not been in a Super State in spite of the fact that he had previously been unaffected by the Time Eater's erasure)
- Mind Manipulation, Disease Manipulation, Biological Manipulation, and Transmutation (The Chaos Emeralds prevented Zavok's infection and cured Sonic of the Metal Virus the moment he transformed into Super Sonic.[6] The Metal Virus in question transforms organic tissue into a metallic substance through physical contact to create a mindless Zombot)[7]
- Dream Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation, Physics Manipulation & Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1; Super States can take attacks from Solaris and other Chaos Energy users, which have these effects)
- Space-Time Manipulation (3 Layers), Subjective Reality, Dream Manipulation (3 Layers), Law Manipulation (3 Layers), Causality Manipulation (3 Layers), Memory Manipulation, & Perception Manipulation (5-D; Super Sonic was completely unaffected by Lightman Eggman's continuous spamming of Otherworlds using the modified Phantom Ruby despite the Egg Field, which used the same power source, being capable of affecting Sonic, Tails & Knuckles despite them holding Chaos Emeralds)
- Cyber Corruption (Afflictions - 3 Layers; When Sonic transformed into his Super State, his Cyber Corruption, which was able to affect him despite resisting similar abilities previously, was halted, though it did not cure him outright)
Attack Potency: Varies (The extent of the Chaos Emeralds' power is largely dependent on the user's aptitude. Emotions can intensify the strength of the Chaos Emeralds, as they convert their bearers' thoughts and will into power. Their power is stated to fluctuate/change depending on the situation), Multi-Solar System level (A single Emerald is capable of splitting the Earth into several pocket realities containing a starry sky), At least Low Multiverse level (Superior to the Paradox Prism and World Rings. The Chaos Emeralds in conjunction with the Sol Emeralds were causing both Sonic's and Blaze's universes to merge which would have lead to their destruction. Empowered the Sonic Mania cast to defeat the Phantom King) to Multiverse level+ at their peak (Brought forth Solaris and allowed Super Sonic, Super Shadow and Super Silver to defeat the Sun God. Allowed Super Sonic to defeat the Egg Wizard alongside Burning Blaze. Empowered Sonic and Classic Sonic to defeat the Time Eater and were used to reverse the damage dealt across all space-time, which contains infinite realities)
Speed: Subsonic by themselves (The Chaos Emeralds usually disperse at this speed), Users are boosted from Infinite (Superior to the World Rings and Shatter Sonic) to Immeasurable at their peak (Empowered the Super hedgehog trio to beat Solaris and Classic Sonic to beat the Phantom King)
Durability: Unknown
Stamina: Infinite (Has been referred to several times to contain infinite energy throughout the series)
Range: Varies from Planetary to beyond baseline Multiversal+ (The Chaos Emeralds alongside the Sol Emeralds were affecting both Sonic and Blaze's universes, and empowered Solaris to nearly destroy the entire cosmology)
Weaknesses: The Master Emerald is capable of nullifying the powers of the Chaos Emeralds. They lose their power if drained of negative energy.