Board Thread:Speculation, Theories, and Rumors/@comment-679780-20150329215951

Something I thought about recently around the Sonic Adventure stage Lost World being a Gaia Temple.

The Gaia Manuscripts date back tens of thousands of years, prooving that the Chaos Emeralds are much more older than Knuckles Tribe who perhaps simply renamed them after the God of Destruction. The architecture of Pachacamac's city is also very different to the Altar of the Emeralds, the altar appear older and built with more rugged stones while the city is constructed with bricks and more aztec methods.

What sets Lost World different from the usual Gaia Temple is that it is bigger on the inside, however the interior architecture is almost as old as the Altar, using same stone based textures and design. But like the Gaia Temples at the very heart of them is a muriel.

Now while there are seven known Gaia Temple with small altars for each emerald, why would there be such an elaborate eigth temple? This is because if the seven Gaia temples were ment for the Chaos Emeralds, this particular temple was made to corrospond with the Master Emerald, thus why it's interiors are much more complicated than usual Gaia Temples and why it's main chamber does not have an altar.

Now as a Gaia Temple was located in towns throughout Sonic Unleashed, Lost World is located in the heart of Pachacamac's city so the echidnas take care of it. Whenever they are decendants of the Gaia Manuscript civilization or simply sucsessors, they have build the city around the Gaia Temple and mad eit their place of worship and perhaps have had parts of Lost World decorated in ancient Echidna art. Instead of a muriel depicting Dark Gaia, somewhen before or after the rise of Angel Island the muriel was changed to that of Perfect Chaos.

At least thats my theory. For all I know I could be wrong and Hidden Palace Zone could be the Gaia Temple for the Master Emerald. 