Chozo Artifact

The Chozo Artifacts are a set of twelve relics found in Metroid Prime and its spin-off, Metroid Prime Pinball.

Metroid Prime
The Artifact Temple can be accessed by Samus Aran after she collects the Missile Launcher. There, she finds the first Chozo Artifact, the Artifact of Truth, and learns of the other eleven.

Unlike many items in the game, the hint system never points out the location of any particular artifact. However, the statues in the Artifact Temple can be scanned to give clues as to the location of the artifacts. More clues become available as more artifacts are found.

Once all twelve artifacts have been collected, Samus can return to the Artifact Temple to begin opening the path to the Impact Crater. Meta Ridley attempts to stop her, and the ensuing battle destroys most of the statues. After Ridley recieves enough damage the once peaceful statues surrounding the artifact temple start to glow. The glow goes from blue to red and then the statues unleash powerful laser blasts on Ridley who then plunges into the depths of the crater. Once he is defeated several figures that appear to be non-violent Chozo Ghosts rise up in the positions of the origional statues and open the path to Metroid Prime itself.

List of Artifacts
Each individual artifact has a name. These names are absent in Metroid Prime Pinball.


 * 1) Artifact of Truth
 * 2) Artifact of Strength
 * 3) Artifact of Elder          [[Image:Artifact_spirit.jpg|thumb|Samus getting the [[Artifact of Spirit]]]]
 * 4) Artifact of Wild
 * 5) Artifact of Lifegiver
 * 6) Artifact of Warrior
 * 7) Artifact of Chozo
 * 8) Artifact of Nature
 * 9) Artifact of Sun
 * 10) Artifact of World
 * 11) Artifact of Spirit
 * 12) Artifact of Newborn

Metroid Prime Pinball
As in Metroid Prime, the twelve artifacts are needed in the Artifact Temple to access the Impact Crater. In Pinball, however, the artifacts are collected as rewards for completing tasks such as mini-games or boss battles. At least one artifact must come from Thardus and at least one must come from the Omega Pirate, but the other ten can come from one of many mini-games.

Once you have all twelve artifacts and access the Artifact Temple, you lose control of Samus and instead uses six 'artifact balls', or artifacts which have morphed into pinball form. There are twelve statues in the temple, and a ball must be hit into each one to complete the stage. Lost artifact balls can be restored by hitting certain bumpers in the temple. Meta Ridley appears in this game as well, attempting to destroy the artifacts; although he is never defeated, he will flee when the stage is complete. If all the artifact balls are destroyed or lost, then you lose a ball and have to try again. If the stage is completed, the Impact Crater stage becomes available. After all artifacts are collected, doing an action that would give you another would instead present the player with a Special.

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Several Chozo artifact symbols are seen on SkyTown, Elysia in this game. They are featured on the pieces of the Theronian Bomb, as well as several light sources in rooms on SkyTown. This would seem to imply that the chozo artifact is a sort of symbol for their species, perhaps a holy one.