Mystic Ruins

The Mystic Ruins are the remains of a temple south of the Great Rainforest near Station Square and the Mysterious Cat Country. It is a large area with ancient buildings and trees.

Home of the Knuckles Tribe
A long time ago, echidnas from the great Knuckles Tribe started a colony close by the Mystic Ruins after venturing from Albion. Desperate for the means to win a war the tribe was losing against the native cats, their chief Pachacamac, became greedy and tried to get the Chaos Emeralds from the Ruins' altar, hurting many small creatures known as Chao, (and his daughter, Tikal) in the process. This angered the Chao's guardian Chaos, and he destroyed the entire Echidna settlement, turning into part of the Mystic Ruins.

Several thousand years later Mobians discovered the ancient temple ruins. During the event of Chaos' reawakening, Angel Island crashed next to Mystic Ruins, startling the inhabitants, but it floated away again after the Master Emerald was restored.