Board Thread:Speculation, Theories, and Rumors/@comment-25400375-20150325002108/@comment-679780-20150404042222

As I said I keep up with Sonic game lore than Archie comics. But I won't rule out Knuckles Tribe or Nocturnus Clan could have magic, though it is very difficult to say. They may have had an understanding of chaos energy though, such as Tikal understanding the meaning of her mothers prayer.

Heck perhaps it is the seven Chaos Emeralds that may have had something to do with Nocturnus being so advance, similar to how a lone chao became the God of Destruction due to the radiation from the emeralds.

I still believe it took more than shamanism and the Chaos Emeralds for Nocturnus echidnas to develop robots and laser weapons in the mesoamerican era of Sonic's world. Besides the Nocturnus didn't seem to have much use of the Chaos Emeralds during the war with Pachacamac who had the alter of the emeralds just on the doorstep of his city. After Angel Island rose, the Nocturnus nearly conquered the world.