Ancient Walkers

The Ancient Walkers are a trio of highly evolved, powerful beings who are said to have had the greatest connection to the Chaos Force of any creature to ever grace Mobius. Appearing around the same time as the first Chaos Emeralds, they learned to harness their energy and became a powerful alliance for good. In modern times, they aided Sonic the Hedgehog, Knuckles the Echidna, and Miles "Tails" Prower in discovering destinies that the Walkers had themselves foretold. However, the Walkers were later mortally wounded by the villain Mammoth Mogul, and a dimensional rift opened by the magical Sword of Acorns pushed them past their breaking point and killed them.

Prehistory and Before the War with Robotnik
Originally Mobian dinosaurs, the Ancient Walkers were alive in the time when Mobians first discovered and began tapping into the power of the Chaos Emeralds. At some point they reached a state of higher being through a connection to the Chaos Force, which led them to become the defenders of Mobius. During this period, they predicted the rise of three heroes-Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles, the latter two also known as the Chosen One and the Avatar-who would bring harmony to Mobius through a variety of means. They also violated their adopted principles of non-involvement with lesser Mobians by placing a curse upon Mammoth Mogul's Chaos Emerald so that each of his attempts to achieve world domination ended in failure and defeat. Some time during this era, they also may have begun training Aurora, a being of similar power-though less than the Walkers-who would later be named as one of their successors and become as revered as they.

The Walkers also became heavily involved with the affairs of the Brotherhood of Guardians, who revere them as the greatest ever masters of the Chaos Force, during their four most recent generations. The first was when they brought young Athair to Haven before his time, convincing his mother Janelle-Li that he had a role other than that of Guardian to fulfill. She then returned to Angel Island to act as Guardian while Athair became Mitre of the Lost Tribe of Echidnas as well as a student of the Walkers in the ways of the Chaos Force. Later, when Janelle-Li fell ill and near death, the Walkers came to inform Athair of it. Athair's son Sabre demanded that his father return to Angel Island, and when Athair did not, Sabre went in his place to take on the role of Guardian. Some decades afterwards, the Ancient Walkers gave Sabre's son Locke a dream that warned of a future peril his son Knuckles would have to face. Locke thus performed a number of experiments designed to enhanced Knuckles' abilities in order to make him the ultimate Guardian.