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The Shrine of Knuckles’s race (ナックルズ族の神殿, Nakkuruzu-zoku no Shinden?, lit. “Temple of the Knuckles Clan”), also called the Mystic Temple, is a landmark that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. It is a large shrine deep within the jungle of the Mystic Ruins and one of the few remnants left of the once-great Knuckles Clan empire after Perfect Chaos laid it to waste. In the past, it was part of a region known as the Holy Land of the Knuckles Clan (ナックルズ族の聖地, Nakkuruzu-zoku no Seichi?). Now an abandoned relic in the Mystic Ruins, its site has since been named the Ancient ruins.

The shrine was present at the pinnacle of the Knuckles Clan’s civilization where the clan engaged in territorial wars to expand their empire under the leadership of Chief Pachacamac. Parentally a place of worship among the Knuckles Clan, Tikal, the daughter of Pachacamac, could often be found near the shrine, contemplating the prayer of the seven chaos given to her by her grandmother. When the Knuckles Clan civilization was nearly wiped out by Perfect Chaos, the shrine was one of the few structures that survived the rampage and got remodeled in remembrance of the incident, though it was abandoned as the Knuckles Clan entered terminal decline on Angel Island.

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