Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-679780-20131119173015

I can't help but think how much in common the Time of Awakening and the Harmonic Convergence.

Both events are about two deities, one based on darkness, chaos and evil and it's twin based on light, harmony and holy and once every tens of thousands of years they fight for the fate of the planet. Eventually a mortal is involved imbued with one of the dieties powers (Avatar, Sonic) to assist the weaker Light deity to defeat the Dark Deity.

Of course, obvious differences other than series is that the Raava, the light deity imbued her powers with the first avatar, while a slither of Dark Gaia's power found it's way to Sonic, but Sonic still assisted the Chip was the the light counterpart of where he got his powers from. Also the exact time of awakening isn't specified other than "tens of thousands of years", the convergence happens every "ten thousand years".

It makes me even more curious if while Sonic's Earth is a like our Earth, what the worlds ancient history must have been like previous era millennia a go, were Sonic's kind and humans once separated much like the humans and spirits of Avatar's world until something brought them together? Knuckles aztac/mayan like civilisation lived 4,000 years ago while the culture responsible for the Gaia Temples lived 10,000 years ago, who were they?

We all learn a bit more on Sonic and his life every new major game, but also is contributes a piece to an even bigger mystery, Sega Sonic's own world. 