Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24074103-20131122113452/@comment-24074103-20131123060217

I speculate that rings are made up of chaos energy. Both Chaos Spear and Sonic Wind were used by collecting 40 rings in their debut. Sonic also uses it to use the Sonic Boost( which is very similar to Shadow's chaos boost, both have an aura and an energy field in front of them to become invincible and both collect rings to keep on boosting) and they also need it to maintain their super forms and it makes sense that rings are made if chaos energy, so let's say it is not then the super forms will be getting some random energy rather than chaos energy, that won't make sense. I believe that rings contain chaos energy but not as much as the chaos emeralds and master emerald.

"Chaos Emeralds are, according to the Sonic mythos of the original instruction manuals, the controllers of life energy all throughout the world. Rings are coorelated in the case that they help retain the Chaos Emerald energy as you use it in super form. And on that note, rings give you the health you need to survive; hence the concept that they actually give you life. So taking all this into consideration, yes. The rings and Chaos Emeralds I believe run off the same energy (which I guess you could say means they run off of "chaos energy")." 'Quote