Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-25139119-20140915033602/@comment-28861328-20140917202436

WindStar7125 wrote: In the end, Kishi really needs to fully explain what the hell the Six Paths Power/Chakra is. Why? I don't blame him for not explaining it. It should be painfully obvious from context alone where "Six Paths" comes from. Its literally a no brainer. How many people in this series get famous for abilties they use? Kisame, Shisui, Hagoromo, Nagato, etc, etc, on and on. Several, like Shisui, Kakashi, and Hagoromo, got nicknames based on their notoriety for using those powers.

The difference is people only knew who Hagoromo was through the legend of the Sage of the Six Paths, so they just called things associated with him "Six Paths". Like I said, even now, Naruto calls Hagoromo "Six Paths super gramps". Its just become part of who Hagoromo is. Kishi, like any other author in existence, expects his audience to have enough brain cells to put A together with B and understand the story.

I don't get why people are so opposed to linking some neurons together and just coming to a reasonable conclusion. That's part of what reading is, after all. /rant

Seelentau wrote: I don't know... I'd like to believe that there's more to it than simply being the six paths of the Rinnegan...

And that's why I said you were making something out of nothing. I didn't mean it as an insult or anything, but there is absolutely nothing to suggest that it is anything other than people using a blanket term, which they are familiar with, to refer to attributes of someone who's real name they never knew. It's not like its an alien concept. It happens.