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[[Image:Nathaniel_Hawthorne_old.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Nathaniel Hawthorne in the 1860s]]
A '''Chaos Emerald''' is a mystic item that appears in the [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] [[video game]]s, allowing the holder of all seven of them to transform into a "super" form. Each emerald is composed of positive and negative charged materials which make them an everlasting source of energy and allow them to float. This energy also makes their possessors faster than normal.
'''Nathaniel Hawthorne''' ([[July 4]], [[1804]] – [[May 19]], [[1864]]) was a [[19th century]] [[United States|American]] [[the novel|novelist]] and [[short story]] writer. He is seen as a key figure in the development of [[American literature]].
Sonic and [[Knuckles the Echidna|Knuckles]] only use the positive charged part of the emerald to transform, which is demonstrated by Sonic at the end of ''[[Sonic Adventure]]''. Knuckles has only been able to transform in ''[[Sonic & Knuckles]]'' and ''[[Sonic 3 & Knuckles]]''. Tails was also able to attain a super form with the use of both the Chaos Emeralds and the Super Emeralds in ''[[Sonic 3 & Knuckles]]''.
==Biography==
The Chaos Emeralds can be anywhere, usually located in a Special Stage. Even alone, their power is unmatched by anything else in the universe; however, their power can be halted at any time by the Master Emerald.
He was born in [[Salem, Massachusetts]], where his [[Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace|birthplace]] is now a house museum, and died in [[Plymouth, New Hampshire]]. Hawthorne's father was a sea captain and descendant of [[John Hathorne]], one of the judges who oversaw the [[Salem Witch Trials]]. Hawthorne's father died at sea in 1808 of [[yellow fever]], when Hawthorne was only four years old, and Nathaniel was raised secluded from the world by his mother.
Hawthorne attended [[Bowdoin College]] in [[Maine]] from 1821–1824, befriending classmates [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] and future president [[Franklin Pierce]]. Until the publication of his [[Twice-Told Tales]] in 1837, Hawthorne wrote in the comparative obscurity of what he called his "owl's nest" in the family home. As he looked back on this period of his life, he wrote: "I have not lived, but only dreamed about living" [letter to Longfellow, June 4, 1837]. And yet it was this period of brooding and writing that had formed, as [[Malcolm Cowley]] was to describe it, "the central fact in Hawthorne's career," his "term of apprenticeship" that would eventually result in the "richly meditated fiction."
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Hawthorne was hired in 1839 as a weigher and gauger at the [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] Custom House. He had become engaged in the previous year to the [[illustrator]] and [[Transcendentalism|transcendentalist]] [[Sophia Peabody]]. Seeking a possible home for himself and Sophia, he joined the transcendentalist [[utopian]] community at [[Brook Farm]] in 1841; later that year, however, he left when he became dissatisfied with the experiment. (His Brook Farm adventure would prove an inspiration for his novel, [[The Blithedale Romance]].) He married Sophia in 1842; they moved to [[The Old Manse]] in [[Concord, Massachusetts]], where they lived for three years. Hawthorne and his wife then moved to [[The Wayside]], previously a home of the Alcotts. Their neighbors in Concord included [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] and [[Henry David Thoreau]].
==Game Appearances==
[[Image:Nathaniel Hawthorne - Project Gutenberg eText 15161.jpg|thumbnail|left|180px|Nathaniel Hawthorne illustrated in an 1870 publication]]
[[Image:Chaos_Emerald.PNG|thumb|A Chaos Emerald in the Sonic 3 special stage]]
In ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', there were only 6 Chaos Emeralds located in 2D rotating Special Stages, and Sonic could not become [[Super Sonic]]. Sonic had to collect them all to keep Eggman from using them to take over the world. ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Mega Drive)|Sonic 2]]'' was the first game to introduce all 7, in [[pseudo-3D]] Special Stages where Sonic and Tails continuously run forward down a half pipe. In ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 3|Sonic 3]]'' and ''[[Sonic & Knuckles]]'', the 7 emeralds are located in pseudo-3D special stages that rotate entirely when you turn. You must collect all the [[Blue Spheres]] located in the stage to earn the Emerald.
Like Hawthorne, Sophia was a reclusive person. She was, in fact, bedridden with headaches until her sister introduced her to Hawthorne, after which her headaches seem to have abated. The Hawthornes enjoyed a long marriage, and Sophia was greatly enamored of her husband's work. In one of her journals, she writes: "I am always so dazzled and bewildered with the richness, the depth, the... jewels of beauty in his productions that I am always looking forward to a second reading where I can ponder and muse and fully take in the miraculous wealth of thoughts" [Jan 14th 1851, Journal of Sophia Hawthorne. Berg Collection NY Public Library].
The Chaos Emeralds appear as plot points in ''[[Sonic Adventure]]'' and ''[[Sonic Adventure 2]]''. In Sonic Adventure, the Chaos Emeralds were collected by [[Dr. Eggman]] in order to feed [[Chaos (Sonic the Hedgehog character) | Chaos]], a water beast that changed form every time it received a Chaos Emerald. With all 7 it became Perfect Chaos, and used all of the negative energy in the emeralds before dropping them onto the ground. Sonic then picked all 7 up and used the positive energy to become [[Super Sonic]] and defeat Perfect Chaos.
In 1846 Hawthorne was appointed surveyor (determining the quantity and value of imported goods) at the Salem Custom House. Like his earlier appointment to the custom house in Boston, this employment was vulnerable to the politics of the [[spoils system]]. When Hawthorne later wrote [[The Scarlet Letter]], he included a long introductory essay depicting his time at the Salem Custom House. He lost this job due to the change of administration in Washington after the presidential election of 1848. In 1852 he wrote the [[campaign biography]] of his old friend, Franklin Pierce. With Pierce's election as president, Hawthorne was rewarded in 1853 with the position of United States consul in [[Liverpool]]. In 1857 he resigned from this post and did some traveling in France and Italy. He and his family returned to The Wayside in 1860. Failing health began to prevent him from completing new writings. Hawthorne died in his sleep on [[May 19]], [[1864]] in Plymouth, N.H. while on a tour of the White Mountains with Pierce.
In ''[[Sonic Adventure 2]]'', Sonic and [[Shadow the Hedgehog|Shadow]] had the ability to use the Chaos Emeralds to "Chaos Control": alter time and space to teleport or freeze time. Interestingly, Sonic at one point uses the Chaos Control ability with a fake emerald, hinting at some untold power. Shadow collected the Emeralds for Dr. Eggman to power the ARK, at which point Biolizard took over the station. Biolizard became FinalHazard, and then Sonic and Shadow had to team up and use the Chaos Emeralds (it is believed Sonic used the positive energy and Shadow used the negative, but no proof has been given) to become Super and defeat FinalHazard. This is the only game where, in the character's "Super" form, picking up rings is not necessary - though they are depleted over time, the character not being currently played is allegedly picking up rings while the other fights.
Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne had three children: Una, Julian, and Rose. Una suffered from mental illness and died young. Julian moved out west and wrote a book about his father. Rose converted to Roman Catholicism and took her vows as a Dominican nun. She founded [http://www.hawthorne-dominicans.org/found.htm a religious order] to care for victims of cancer.
In [[Sonic Heroes]], the gameplay is more retro, so it goes back to a way of collecting the Chaos Emeralds reminescent of Sonic 2. Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails charge up Chaos energy, while the others bought them time by fighting [[Metal Sonic]] in the last story. Team Sonic became [[Super Sonic | Team Super Sonic]] and defeated Metal Sonic.
==Writings==
The Chaos Emeralds will also play a key point in ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog (video game) | Shadow the Hedgehog]]'', because Shadow needs them to recover his memories and gain Chaos Powers.
Hawthorne is best-known today for his many [[short story|short stories]] (he called them "tales") and his four major [[romance (genre)|romances]] of 1850–60: ''[[The Scarlet Letter]]'' (1850), ''[[The House of the Seven Gables]]'' (1851), ''[[The Blithedale Romance]]'' (1852), and ''[[The Marble Faun]]'' (1860). (Another book-length romance, ''[[Fanshawe (novel)|Fanshawe]]'', was published anonymously in 1828.)
Before publishing his first collection of tales in 1837, Hawthorne wrote scores of [[short story|short stories]] and sketches, publishing them anonymously or [[pseudonym|pseudonymously]] in periodicals such as ''The New-England Magazine'' and ''The United States Democratic Review''. Only after collecting a number of his short stories into the two-volume ''[[Twice-Told Tales]]'' in 1837 did Hawthorne begin to attach his name to his works.
==Super Emeralds==
Much of Hawthorne's work is set in colonial [[New England]], and many of his short stories have been read as moral [[allegory|allegories]] influenced by his [[Puritan]] background. "Ethan Brand" (1850) tells the story of a lime-burner who sets off to find the Unpardonable Sin, and in doing so, commits it. One of Hawthorne's most famous tales, "[[The Birth-Mark]]" (1843), concerns a young doctor who removes a birthmark from his wife's face, an operation which kills her. Other well-known tales include "[[Rappaccini's Daughter]]" (1844), "[[My Kinsman, Major Molineux]]" (1832), "[[The Minister's Black Veil]]" (1836), and "[[Young Goodman Brown]]" (1835). "The Maypole of [[Merrymount]]" recounts a most interesting encounter between the Puritans and the forces of anarchy and hedonism.
The Super Emeralds are a set of 7 emeralds which made their first and only appearance in ''Sonic 3 & Knuckles''. After beating the final boss of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 3]]'', the player goes on to the second game, which features an additional set of emeralds in Special Stages very similar to the ones in the previous game. Getting all 14 emeralds (from both games) enables Sonic to transform into [[Hyper Sonic]], Tails to transform into [[Super Tails]], and Knuckles to transform into [[Hyper Knuckles]] (Hyper Sonic and Knuckles have special attacks and are faster than Super Sonic or Knuckles). You can't transform into your super form while obtaining the Super Emeralds, even if you have all 7 Chaos Emeralds already (the Chaos Emeralds are powered down by the Master Emerald, the Super Emeralds fuse with the Chaos Emeralds when you get them).The Super Emeralds may be the same as the Chaos Emeralds but powered up by the Master Emerald or they may be power which can power up the Emeralds after they are neutralized by the Master Emerald or perhaps the Emeralds were split into two when the floting island fell and were fused back together when all 14 Emeralds were togeter and the energy of the Master Emerald somehow went into Sonic causing him to be Hyper.
Recent criticism has focused on Hawthorne's narrative voice, treating it as a self-conscious [[rhetoric|rhetorical]] construction, not to be conflated with Hawthorne's own voice. Such an approach complicates the long-dominant tradition of regarding Hawthorne as a gloomy, guilt-ridden [[moralist]].
==Master Emerald==
Hawthorne enjoyed a brief friendship with [[United States|American]] [[novelist]] [[Herman Melville]] beginning on [[August 5]] [[1850]], when the two authors met at a picnic hosted by a mutual friend. Melville had just read Hawthorne's short story collection ''[[Mosses from an Old Manse]]'', which Melville later praised in a famous review, "Hawthorne and His Mosses." Melville's letters to Hawthorne provide insight into the composition of ''[[Moby-Dick]],'' which Melville dedicated to Hawthorne, 'in appreciation for his genius.' Hawthorne's letters to Melville did not survive.
The '''Master Emerald''' is a large, green [[emerald]] depicted in the [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] [[video game]] series.
[[Edgar Allan Poe]] wrote important, though largely unflattering reviews of both ''Twice-Told Tales'' and ''Mosses from an Old Manse''.
===Origin===
==See also==
Little is known about the origin of the '''Master Emerald''' except that it resided in a shrine on [[Angel Island (Sonic)|Angel Island]] for an unspecified amount of time, guarded by [[Knuckles the Echidna]].
* ''[[The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales]]''
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*Eric Eldred's [http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/hawthorne.html excellent Hawthorne site] at Eldritch Press contains all of Hawthorne's works, notes on the writings, annotated editions,and lots of other information.
*The [http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org Hawthorne in Salem Website] was funded in May of 2000 by a three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and is a collaborative effort of North Shore Community College in Danvers, Massachusetts, and three Salem, Massachusetts museums with important Hawthorne collections.
*[[Herman Melville]]'s appreciation, [http://209.11.144.65/eldritchpress/nh/hahm.html "Hawthorne and His Mosses"] (1850)
*[[Henry James]]'s important book-length study, ''[http://209.11.144.65/eldritchpress/nh/nhhj1.html Hawthorne]'' (1879)
*WBUR's celebration of Nathaniel Hawthorne at 200, [http://www.wbur.org/arts/2005/48691_20050101.asp], with links to NPR's "The Connection" on Hawthorne's birthday, as well as an interview with author Phillip McFarland.
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The '''Master Emerald''' contains an immeasurable amount of power which is used to keep Angel Island afloat in the sky.
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The emerald also possesses the ability to negate the effects of the Chaos Emerald. Meaning it can stop the energy of the chaos emeralds. However it is still yet to be seen if Super Sonic would revert back to normal sonic if the emerald is used on him.
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Though it is possibly the negation works both ways, Angel Island fell when Knuckles brought 6 Chaos Emeralds to the Master Emerald shrine.
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===Role in the Story===
The '''Master Emerald''' first appeared in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 3]]'', where it was stolen by [[Doctor Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik]] in his bid to take over the world.
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It was brought back in [[Sonic & Knuckles]], an expansion pack for [[Sonic the Hedgehog 3]] that allowed you to play as Knuckles, and included several new levels.
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Its part in the game includes being stolen by [[Doctor Eggman]], being used to power the robotic [[Metal Sonic]], and eventually being restored to [[Angel Island]].
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The '''Master Emerald''' appeared again in ''[[Sonic Adventure]]'' for the [[Sega]] [[Dreamcast]], where it was again shown keeping [[Angel Island]] afloat. The emerald also held within it the ancient monster known as [[Chaos (Sonic the Hedgehog character)|Chaos]] and an echidna girl called [[Tikal the Echidna|Tikal]]. In the game, it was shattered by a mysterious force, causing [[Angel Island]] to fall.
====Sonic Adventure 2====
The '''Master Emerald''' was again a source of contention as [[Knuckes the Echidna|Knuckles]] fought with [[Rouge the Bat]] for possession of it. [[Doctor Eggman|Eggman]] tried to steal it again while they were distracted, but Knuckles voluntarily shattered the Emerald in order to keep it out of his hands. Knuckles and Rouge then set off separately to gather the shards of the emerald for their own reasons.
Once all the pieces had been collected they were reformed by Knuckles. When ARK started to be fall (due to an automatic system for when the seven Chaos Emeralds were gathered in the centeral control room), Knuckles used the Master Emerald to try (and fail to) stop the disaster in the Eclipse Cannon's Core, which resembled the Emerald Shrine on [[Angel Island]].
====Sonic Heroes====
The Master Emerald was mentioned by [[Rouge the Bat]] in the last movie of Team Dark's story. She says she "might as well go after that Master Emerald, since that annoying ECHIDNA is here!" [Shadow the Hedgehog | Shadow]] responds, saying, "Some things never change, do they?"
===Size Despute in Sonic Adventure Series===
The Master Emerald's size and shape seems to change over time. It's most definately bigger than Knuckles in Sonic Adventure, but about the same size in Sonic Adventure 2 (some even suggest the Emerald stretches at the end of Sonic Adventure). Then, after Knuckles restores it at the end of Sonic Adventure 2, he pulls it out of his person to explain how to use it to stop the ARK from pumelling to Earth. It's about the size of his hand now. The two games also have a slight color difference - Sonic Adventure features a more opaque, darker green, while Sonic Adventure 2 features a clearer, lighter green.
===The Master Emerald in the [[Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie)|Archie Comic]]===
The Brotherhood are a series of echidnas handed the task of protecting the island. Knuckles is a descendant from these male echidnas, and is now guardian of the island, doing what his ancestors have done for quite a bit of time.
The island was originally kept afloat by Chaos Emeralds (though when Knuckles became guardian, there was only 1 left) Eventually, the Master Emerald was created by the fusion of 14 Chaos Emeralds.
Eventually, a being called [[Mammoth Mogul]], while trying to take the Master Emerald for himself, becomes trapped inside of the emerald as a spirit (Issue #56, January 1998, “Immortality Is Forever - Life Is Finite”). He is later set free when [[Eggman]] and [[Chaos (Sonic the Hedgehog character)|Chaos 0]] shatter the Master Emerald for energy (Issue #80, December 1999, "Land Fall").
==Guardians==
Contrary to popular belief, the emeralds weren't protected by [[echidna]]s originally, but by Chaos, a water like being that protected both these emeralds and the [[Chao (video game)|Chao]] that lived there.
[[Tikal the Echidna|Tikal]] found Chaos and the chao in her ancient echidna family. She loved them and cared for them, but her [[father]] found out about them and wanted the power of the chaos emeralds for himself. He attacked the emeralds and tried to steal them for himself, but Chaos absorbed the power of the Emeralds and became Perfect Chaos, before Tikal appealed to the [[Master Emerald]] to seal Chaos away inside it, sealing herself in the process. We know this because [[Tikal]]'s spirit is of the age when she was sealed, which is the age at which her father attacked the emerald. The Chao lived on and bred, however.
This is the point at which the echidnas took over in protecting the emeralds. [[Knuckles the Echidna|Knuckles]] is the echidna that protects them in the time of the current [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] timeline, and probably the only echidna left (In the Sonic Team storyline, other official Sega continuities like the American Sonic comics have more echidnas in existence).
It is not known if the island was afloat in the time of [[Tikal the Echidna|Tikal]]. The geography of the island in the past and present seems to indicate that it wasn't afloat in the time of [[Tikal the Echidna|Tikal]], as the Emerald shrine was directly connected to the Echidna city in the past, but now they're separate. It's possible the floating island was created when Perfect Chaos arose before Tikal sealed him. If this is true, the reason it does float high in the sky is most likely in order to protect the emerald from invaders who might try to steal it (like Dr. Eggman eventually did).
In the Archie Comics storyline, Knuckles is the latest in a long line of Master Emerald protectors, known as the Brotherhood of Guardians.
==Emerald Colours==
In the original ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', the emeralds were blue, yellow, red, green, pink and grey. A seventh, purple emerald then materialised in [[Sonic the Hedgehog 2]] with no explanation (the UK fiction, see below, attempted to explain this by saying that Dr. Kintobor had not discovered the seventh emerald prior to the first game, but in said fiction, the seventh emerald was the grey emerald). In [[Sonic the Hedgehog 3]], the pink emerald was replaced with a light blue one, and the yellow emerald became distinctly more orange. In the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' comic series by Archie Comics, white and silver are standard colours for emeralds from pocket zones, although this may have more to do with the nature of the zone than the emerald itself.
==Chaos Emeralds in the Comics==
In Fleetway's ''[[Sonic the Comic]]'', the history of the Emeralds is expanded considerably, though some points contradict the storyline of the games. These events were not related chronologically, but this document shall list them as such.
The story of the Chaos Emeralds begins in Mobius's distant past, during the war between the Echidna race, and the [[Drakon Empire]]. Seeking vessels for their unstable, newly developed energy source, dubbed "chaos," the Drakons raided the Echidna's emerald mines, and infused eight of the emeralds with the chaos. Exposure to the emeralds mutated a Drakon into the creature known as Chaos, who was sealed away by the Echidnas. The Echidnas then appointed Knuckles to guard the emeralds.
What follows is undocumented. The Echidna race mysteriously vanished, Knuckles was apparently put into some form of stasis, and the power of six of the emeralds was divided, creating another set of six. These six emeralds came to be littered across Mobius.
When the kindly scientist, Doctor Ovi Kintobor, began his plan to rid Mobius of all negative energy, he sought out a vessel that could contain such power. He located the six emeralds, which were, of course, highly suited to containing such energy, and planned to transfer into them the negative energy he had collected using his Retro-Orbital Chaos Compressor (ROCC), a machine comprised of golden rings. Requiring a seventh emerald to stabilise the transfer, Kintobor and his friend, Sonic the Hedgehog, searched for one to no avail. Eventually, Kintobor believed that he had developed a way to transfer the energy without the seventh emerald - but just before he was about to do so, he became distracted by a rotten egg, and tripped on a cable, slamming the ROCC's control panel with his hand and causing an explosion that bathed him in chaos energy, transforming him into Doctor Ivo Robotnik.
Robotnik gathered up the six emeralds, and put them in sub-orbital space warps to keep their power out of Sonic's hands. But, of course, when Sonic successfully thwarted Robotnik's first attempt to take over Mobius, he also reclaimed the emeralds. Bringing them together in his underground base, another facet of their power was revealed - unstable, if brought together, the emeralds would radiate chaos energy, and create a spatial warp that thrust them into the alternate dimension called the [[Special Zone]]. This first warp turned Sonic into Super Sonic for the first time, and discoloured the emeralds, each one taking on a different colour - red, yellow, green, pink, blue and purple (the comic often portrays the pink emerald as orange).
During Robotnik's second attempt to conquer Mobius, Sonic used [[Star Posts]] to enter the Special Zone and reclaim the emeralds. Subsequently, he kept them in the Frozen Zone, where the sub-zero temperatures rendered them inactive, preventing the spatial warp. When they were stolen by Captain Plunder and his Sky Pirates, the emeralds absorbed the pirates' evil, so Sonic had no trouble in reclaiming them, keeping them in a refrigerated box at his headquarters.
When Doctor Robotnik encountered Knuckles the Echidna, he claimed Sonic had stolen the emeralds, and Knuckles was able to reclaim them, reintegrating them with the other six on the Floating Island. Robotnik had developed a control device that would take the place of the seventh emerald - the grey emerald - and allow him to control the chaos energy, but Knuckles had the grey emerald in his possession, using it to stop Robotnik.
The seven emeralds were returned to the Hidden Palace Zone on the Floating Island, where, along with the largest emerald, the Master Emerald, they regained their full power and returned to their original, large size. Doctor Robotnik sought to use the Master Emerald as the power core for his new [[Death Egg]], but his plans were thwarted by Sonic and Knuckles.
The emeralds were able to subsequently remain safe on the Floating Island, bar some attempts by Doctor Robotnik to steal them. When Robotnik's assistant [[Grimer]] unleashed the Chaos creature, which headed straight for the Floating Island, and absorbed the blue emerald into itself. Knuckles was forced to jettison the remaining emeralds, and without their power, the Floating Island crashed to Mobius and sank into the ocean. Doctor Robotnik - by this point suicidally insane - gathered the emeralds to draw Chaos and Sonic to his lab, where they would all die together, but Chaos was stopped and the emeralds were saved.
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