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The Blood Beasts are creatures that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics. The creatures are summoned by Merlin Prower as he channelled thoughts into power using Chaos Energy.[2][3]
Description[]
Anatomy[]
Blood Beasts are fictional, storybook monsters. They are large, non-anthropomorphic, cat-like monsters with spade tail ends lined with spikes. They have a yellow coat with black spots. Their appearances resemble those of 'real world' cheetahs.
Further information about the creatures are left unknown.
History[]
Past[]
The Blood Beasts' past, and the stories they are told in, are unknown. According to Knuckles the Echidna, the fictional beings seem to have originated in folktales to entertain children.[1] The creatures are known to the young Echidna to be exclusive in Mobian storybooks.
Interestingly, the stories of the Blood Beasts seem to originate far, far back in the past predating the Floating Island, as Merlin Prower seemed to have grown up on their stories and Knuckles could have only been told of those tales by his parents, Locke and Lara-Le. The Brotherhood of Guardians were well known to keep outsiders away from the Floating Island's echidna population for generations for any folklore to pass through.
Knuckles' Quest, Part Two[]
After defeating the Devil Watcher on his quest to find the Sword of Acorns, Knuckles encountered a pair of Blood Beasts as he ventured into Merlin Prower's dwelling in order to heal the crystallizing King Acorn. The two creatures popped into existence and attacked him. Knuckles, remembering their fictional weakness, attacked the closest one. He was correct and they were easily defeated, fading back to non-existent.
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Blood Beasts fade back into fiction, from Sonic Live!.
Merlin Prower soon revealed that the Beasts had been summoned by him as one of the ways to protect himself as a charlatan.[1]
Trivia[]
- The creatures share resemblance with the Displacer Beasts from Dungeons & Dragons.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 (comic book) "Knuckles' Quest, Part Two". Archie Comics. February 1997. "Knuckles the Echidna: You kinda gave yourself away by attacking with children's bogey monsters! / Merlin Prower: Ha! A true charlatan uses both his powers of illusion and his imagination to protect himself!"
- ↑ (comic book) "Dark Vengeance Part Two of Three: The Gauntlet". Archie Comics. November 1997. "Dimitri: Observe! From the surface of Mobian Moon to the deepest, darkest depths of Mobian Oceans! This is what real absolute power is all about -- the ability to do anything with but a thought! I gather from your expression -- the reality of your situation is beginning to sink in!"
- ↑ (comic book) "Worlds Unite Part Twelve: Last Rights". Archie Comics. 19 August 2015. "Super Sonic: No sweat -- We'll just use a super-charged Chaos Control again! / Super Armor Mega Man: [memories were reseted] A what? / Sonic: A more direct version of that dreams-into-reality thing. Just... concentrate your energy on "fix everything!""