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Chao (pronounced , or "chow", plural form Chao) are creatures found in the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series, including Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, Sonic Advance, Sonic Advance 2, Sonic Pinball Party, Sonic Shuffle, and Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut. Earlier forms of the technology behind them, A-life, were also in NiGHTS Into Dreams with the Nightopians. The word chao is a pun of chaos, which is commonly used in the Sonic series.

Life cycle

Chao start life in an egg state. The eggs of a common Chao are white with a yellow splotch on the bottom and blue freckles. Eggs other than those acquired in visiting a Chao Garden for the first time or mating are colored differently and reflect how the Chao will look. For example, a Gold Egg is solid gold in color and will hatch a solid gold Chao. Ways of hatching them include softly rocking the egg to throwing it. When they hatch, they can be trained to be different attributes and emotional states. The Chao from Sonic Adventure 2 can also favour "dark" and "hero" sides which can lead to variations in visual evolution. Depending on the game, they take various times to evolve.

When evolving they go into a cocoon state (the cocoon is white in color) for a small amount of time. In Sonic Adventure 2, it will take about 10-15 hours spent in a Chao Garden before they either die or reincarnate (depending on how you treat them).

Small animals

Small animals are things you give your Chao to raise (or lower) their stats, and change what they look like. There are five types of animals in Sonic Adventure (7 in Sonic Adventure 2). They consist of Running (Green), Power (Red), Swimming (Yellow) and Flying (Purple). The fifth color, Blue, is a random class. The two additional types are Ghost (Black) and Imaginary (Orange).

Giving Chao a certain animal will increase the stats the animal's color was. For example, if you gave a Chao a rabbit, part of the running class, its stats in running will increase, with minor increases in the other stats. In Sonic Adventure 2, the four primary types will increase some stats but decrease others. The exceptions are the Ghost, Imaginary and Random classes, which just add stats.

Chaos Drives are items that pop out of enemies when they die and they also raise your Chao's stats (though small animals do pop out of some enemies, but it is less common). They also help them evolve (see Evolution). These are only in Sonic Adventure 2. and also poo

Chao Gardens

The Chao are inside small homes called "Chao Gardens". The gardens include:

Station Square - The first garden that's unlocked. It is the most simplest, with a small water pool. This is also where one accesses the Chao races.
Mystic Ruins - The second garden. This area is very complex, with stone relics and a small platform accessable by a wooden bridge.
Egg Carrier - The third garden. An island surrounded by water. This one tends to have problems of animals leaving the game's boundaries and getting stuck.

Sonic Adventure 2 had three different gardens:

Chao Garden - A peaceful looking Garden where the Chao Races and karate (Sonic Adventure 2: Battle only) take place in a cave called the Chao Stadium.
Hero Garden - Another peaceful Garden. To get this raise a Chao into a Hero Chao. It has a small castle your Chao can fly off of, a pool, and a few broken pillars. Sometimes described as "Chao Heaven"
Dark Garden - First of all it has some graves and a fence on some of the walls. A tree with a cage, a pool of blood and a little island on the other side of the blood. Sometimes described as "Chao Hell".

Every Sonic Advance game as well as Sonic Pinball Party also has a Chao Garden of its own, which is a simple garden with a small pool that's universal to every game. However, Sonic Advance 3's Chao garden is not for raising chao. There are also minigames, which are different from game to game. The Chao can be transferrable between these games and Sonic Adventure DX and Sonic Adventure 2: Battle.

Evolution

Chao have the ability to evolve into many different appearances. Eventually giving enough of a certain animal will turn it into a certain kind of chao, or may just make it a neutral chao with no distinct type. Giving a chao only animals in the Random class will randomly transform it into one of the four types.

There is a special chao called the "Light Chao". This can be done once the selected Chao has reincarnated two times. Then give it one of each animal in the game, and NO Chaos Drives. When it evolves, it will be immortal and never die or reincarcirate unless it has been abused. The same can be done in Sonic Adventure 2, except there's the "Hero Chaos Chao" and the "Dark Chaos Chao", which work the same way, except you give them one animal from either the Hero or Dark characters.

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Games - Chao

Life cycle

Small animals

Chao Gardens

Evolution

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