White Snake Sage

She is a colossal albino serpent, a Japanese rat snake swollen far past human scale, coiled thickly upon a hallowed throne. Yellow rings mark the loops of her body. Atop her head sits a twin-pointed turban crowned with a red sphere, paired with an orange headpiece, and a green orb hangs on a chain at her throat, echoing the pendant of the Great Toad Sage. Ages spent in the cavern have fused her flesh to the very rock beneath her, and she is fond of smoking from a long cigarette holder.

Orochimaru described her as eccentric and genuinely perilous to approach. She enforces a firm rule at Ryūchi Cave: her serpents may devour visitors only once those visitors have failed one of her trials. Beyond the concerns of her own domain she is relaxed and largely indifferent. She has little patience for Garaga, whose savage temperament torments the other snakes, yet she keeps him around, steering irritating humans toward the fool's task of claiming his reverse scale.

As a sage, she commands deep knowledge of senjutsu and can pass it to worthy pupils, driving natural energy into them through her fangs. Legend warns that a body unable to bear that infusion warps into a snake, whereupon she swallows the trainee without a second thought. Orochimaru traced the cave through his research into Jūgo's bloodline and studied under her, but never reached Sage Mode, instead engineering his cursed seals as a workaround. Kabuto later found the cavern after taking Orochimaru's remains into himself and, guided by her, mastered Sage Mode outright.

In the anime she also wields genjutsu, casting visions that relay the snakes' thoughts and cloaking her true shape, often appearing as an old woman. When Boruto cleared her trials she refused to examine the snake tied to Mitsuki's departure until he fetched Garaga's reverse scale, expecting him to die trying; he instead returned in a pact with Garaga, and she disclosed the hidden memories showing Mitsuki had only feigned killing a guard, remarking that a strange fate lay ahead of the boy.