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parent: Theories
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key: The Echidnas
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# Theories about the Echidnas
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The Echidnas are one of Sonic's biggest lore element : the mysterious ancestors of Knuckles, inhabitant of Angel Island, full of secrets and mysteries ! They appeared after that in Sonic Adventure, and the Comics used the heck of them (to the point where the notion of Echidna is now less important because of the Penderpocalypse).
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In Sonic Chronicles, the Nocturnus Clan was also an Echidna clan, rival of the Knuckles Clan.
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## Shadow's appearence comes from the Angel Island mural
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This one is pretty common but isn't confirmed yet. Shadow's appearence would come from the mural we can see in Hidden Palace during the duel between Sonic and Knuckles, which prophetise the final battle between Sonic and Eggman in space. The idea with this theories is that Shadow would have been created as the hero prophetised in the prophecy by Gerald Robotnik, which would have discovered about the temple and its secrets. This theory explain a bit why Shadow looks like not only Sonic, but also Sonic's *super form*.
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This theories doesn't come from nothing and have already several elements that show that Gerald new about Angel Island's culture :
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- A replika of the Master Emerald altar is present inside the ARK, which show that Gerald new about the altar, and thus Angel Island
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- In Sonic Chronicles, the Gizoïd are noted as being the 4th Great Civilisation that created Gizoid/Emerl, which Gerald new a lot about (Not Canon)
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This theory is also interesting thematically, because it reinforce the link between Shadow and Sonic by making even more Shadow "Sonic's shadow". As the mural prophetise a big battle between Sonic and Eggman, it makes Shadow a copie of what was prophetised of Sonic.
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## The Echidnas didn't make the tech in Angel Island
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The Knuckles Clan we see in Sonic Adventure have a precomlombien level of technologie and knowledge. They simply couldn't have made the tech we see in Angel Island, who include stuff like floating palaces, transporters, etc. This is amplified by Sonic Generation, who add a technological look in some of the Sky Sanctuary elements, showing that its not just "Old Echidna Magic" that makes the place go.
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Two common theories for that have been made:
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- The survivors created the techs. I don't really believe this one, as the survivor were only few, and I don't see a large-scale civilisation existing after the Perfect Chaos Event.
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- The Angel Island ruins are more ancient than the Knuckles Clan.
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The second one have been already hinted in the Archie Sonic reboot, where the Angel Island technologies are described as "similar to the technologie of the Trolls" (who are the Second Great Civilisation in Archie). If Archie Sonic isn't canon to the game, the idea was already present at that time.
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**NOTE** : This theory have been nearly confirmed by Sonic Frontiers, who seems to indicate that the Ancient created the technologies found in Angel Island, or at least created stuff the Angel Island techs where derived from.
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## Knuckles got his name from the Knuckles Clan
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The "Knuckles Clan" being the official name of the old echidna clan we see in Sonic Adventure, it would be logical to think that Knuckles was named that way to honor is clan, especially if he is the last of his kind.
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