Solaris (Archie)


 * This article is about the character who appeared in the Archie Comics. For the character who appeared in the game Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), see Solaris.

Solaris is the god of time, light, and fire who was worshipped by the residents of Soleanna. No one knows where this being came from; some believed Solaris is one of the Seven Ixis Master Works, while others believe this deity has always existed.

Experimentation in Soleanna
Ten years prior to the present storyline, Solaris was a small white flame in the research labs of Soleanna. The people of Soleanna worshipped Solaris as their patron deity and held an annual ceremony to ask for its loving light and not its destructive fire. The Duke of Soleanna and his researchers, however, were experimenting with Solaris in an attempt to harness its time-warping powers. In the process, however, they ended up splitting the creature into two halves - Mephiles, a spirit that consisted of Solaris' power and intelligence and was trapped within a device called the Scepter of Darkness by Shadow the Hedgehog, and Iblis, a spirit that consisted of Solaris's fiery power and destructive nature and was sealed within the Duke's daugher, Princess Elise, through the use of a Chaos Emerald, which killed the Duke in the process.

Rebirth and End of a God
Solaris remained afterwards a split being for the next ten years, until Mephiles was released from the Scepter of Darkness. With the power of the Chaos Emeralds, Mephiles rejoined Iblis and Solaris was reborn. Solaris began to devour time. Its eyes opened across time and space and began to consume all as localized black holes. An alliance between heroes and villains managed to recover the Chaos Emeralds, revive Sonic the Hedgehog, who was killed by Mephiles, and see to Solaris' defeat. Sonic and Elise were sent back to the days before Solaris was experimented on. Elise took the tiny white flame and snuffed it out, thus ensuring the disastrous split never occurred.

Trivia

 * Solaris was first hinted to have existed within the Sonic the Hedgehog comic book universe when Ian Flynn confirmed that the events of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) had occured in the comics on the Ask Ian discussion board. It was first later in the Archie Comics' The Complete Sonic Comic Encyclopedia that Solaris was officially revealed to have existed, along with details about its history.