Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-27082825-20150116155842/@comment-26023629-20150122233207

Hawkeye2701 wrote: It seems likely that Iwa took a Kekkei Genkai like Lava style and attempted to breed ninja with greater powers or to produce a selective mutation in the ability itself, thus resulting in Mu and later Onoki, the two need not have been related by blood, but if they were 'engineered' for lack of a better term, to possess the same potential, Mu could have taught Onoki how to wield that power. Then later, after said program was dissolved or whatever, the thinning of the bloodline could result in a couple of generations down the line, Kurotsuchi simply possessing Lava Style.

Okay, now I see the difference from my earlier theory. You're saying that other advanced nature bloodlines may not have been involved at all, and it was just a mutation of Lava release alone?

I suppose it's possible, though to my mind it feels like breeding multiple different nature users together makes more sense, simply because you can't really have an advanced nature that's not exactly 1:1 or 1:1:1, etc. Scorch release is scorch release because the two elements are perfectly blended.

I guess what I'm saying is that breeding for more powerful lava release would promote genes that make lava release, not genes that make dust release. There has to be a goal in mind for eugenics to really work.

Edit: sorry, the following post immediately got me confused again.