Cure Master

"As masters of curative magic, these phantoms go around healing their cohorts. For whatever reason, it isn't able to heal its own wounds, though."

- Description of the Cure Master in Sonic Unleashed (PS3/Xbox360)

The Cure Master (キュアマスター) is on of the types of Dark Gaia's minions that appear in Sonic Unleashed. These wizard-like ghosts appear exclusively on the PS3/Xbox360 version of the game and they specialize in curative spells that can heal their allies. They only appear during the game's nighttime stages.

Overview
The Cure Masters and the rest of Dark Gaia's minions were created when Dark Gaia broke into millions of fragments shortly after its awakening in the beginning of Sonic Unleashed. These fragments were then spread across Earth and gave birth to Dark Gaia's minions, the Cure Master included. They first appear in Dragon Road Night Act 1.

Like all the other members of the Master variant, the Cure Masters are born with exceptionally high intelligence amongst their species, which allows them to take on a near-perfect humanoid appearance and utilize Dark Gaia's power in a more refined way, similar to that of magical spells.

The Cure Masters can hover in the air and their spell casting focuses solely on curative spells that can heal their nearby allies and restore their health to their fullest, be it other of Dark Gaia's minions or Eggman's robots. Should some of their allies been wounded from battle and have lost some of their health, the Cure Masters forms a circular spell seal under them and send out purple orbs that will target all the surrounding allies and then fully restore their health upon contact. They can for unknown reasons however, not use their spells on themselves to heal their own wounds.

As they lack spells that can damage their enemies, they resort to using their staffs as weapons to attack their foes. They either swing them around to whack the opponents or enlarge it for greater range and attack power. While they always alongside other enemies, there are never more than one of them in one group.

Upon the rebirth of Dark Gaia, all of the Cure Masters were returned to the entity, which was later defeated by Sonic the Hedgehog and Light Gaia and sealed within the core of the planet.

Appearance
The Cure Masters bear a striking resemblance to the Dark Masters; they look like humanoid phantom-like wizards. They are dressed in dark purple clothes which have a pointy hat and cape decorated with yellow symbols, but unlike the Dark Masters they are colored with a purplish tint. The only parts on their body that are shown are their yellow eyes and some of their back faces. They are also always seen carrying a cyan colored, hook-shaped staff with several thin spikes.