Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki

In his final years Hagoromo appears as a tall elder with grey-beige skin inherited from Kaguya, his face deeply lined above a firm jaw. Pale brown hair spikes down to his shoulders, one braided strand trailing past his left ear, and a goatee that was short in youth grows long enough to reach his waist with age. A pair of horn-like growths rise from his brow, and in the anime his eyes are white and pupilless. Set between them is a red marking resembling a Rinnegan, called his Third Eye. He wears a floor-length white kimono ringed at the collar with six black magatama, a matching six-bead necklace beneath it, and across the back a large Rinnegan crest above nine magatama arranged in three rows.

Hagoromo pursues peace not through force but by spreading understanding, and his wisdom lets him reshape the world simply by teaching the nature of chakra. He shows deep tenderness toward the tailed beasts, naming each to mark it as an individual and promising that distance would never truly divide them; in return they revere him, with Kurama moved to tears at his passing. Even after grief over Kaguya's cruelty and the death of the girl he loved awakens his Sharingan, he refuses to surrender to hatred, choosing words over violence, and he never stops calling Kaguya Mother even while condemning what she became. Meeting Naruto ages later, he proves patient and unshaken by the boy's outbursts, quick to read the intentions of others, yet humble enough to own his failures as a father and to insist that no one should hold more power than anyone else. On one point he is firm: his ninshu was made to inspire hope, not the warfare that ninjutsu would become.

Hagoromo is remembered as the Sage of Six Paths and the forefather of every shinobi, the man whose creation of ninshu opened the way to the ninja world. He and his fraternal twin, Hamura, are born to Princess Kaguya after she eats the forbidden fruit of the God Tree, and the two become the first people ever to carry chakra. When Kaguya, enraged that her power has spread to others, merges with the God Tree into the rampaging Ten-Tails, the brothers bring the beast down together. Hagoromo seals it inside his own body, becoming the first jinchuriki in history and earning worship as a god, then frees the world from the Infinite Tsukuyomi. Taking up priesthood, he walks the land granting chakra to others and teaching ninshu, a doctrine meant to link all people through shared feeling, and his deeds earn him the name Saviour of this World.

The power he commands is reckoned second only to his mother's. Born with immense reserves and an innate grasp of chakra, he masters all five natures, wields the Yin-Yang Release, and awakens the Sharingan, Mangekyo Sharingan, and Rinnegan alongside Six Paths Senjutsu. Through his Creation of All Things he splits the Ten-Tails' chakra into nine separate beings, the tailed beasts, giving each a name, and later seals the hollow husk of the Ten-Tails away by drawing up the moon itself to imprison it.

Knowing peace could never be won in a single lifetime, Hagoromo passes ninshu to his two sons. The elder, Indra, is a natural prodigy who grows proud and solitary; the younger, Asura, has little talent but matures through hardship and companionship. When Hagoromo names Asura his successor, Indra, poisoned by envy and quietly steered by Black Zetsu, turns against his brother, igniting a feud that carries on through their reincarnations for generations. Foreseeing this, Hagoromo leaves behind a stone tablet recording his history, unaware that Black Zetsu alters its text to bend the Uchiha toward reviving Kaguya. Though his body finally fails, his chakra and consciousness endure through the centuries, and long after his death he appears to Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha, the incarnations of Asura and Indra, dividing his power evenly between them so that neither the dream nor the burden falls to one alone.