Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-3568954-20180914014316/@comment-31099706-20180914015125

I feel Orochimaru lost his interest in immortality. Being immortal was a way for him to live as long as he can, till he discovers everything about everything. It now seems like he had it with those stuff, he turned kinder and started helping the children of whom parent's swore to kill him, and once did... I feel his way of making new clones, is for him to pass his knowledge to the next generation, and let his descendants further research the truth. He's probably interested in Mitsuki because, Mitsuki's a clone of him, and observing what he does and becomes through a different life than Orochimaru himself might be interesting for him, just as he is interested in Sasuke's wind.

So, I feel he made children, so he can finally pass away, and let his new generation do the rest, it was kind of what happened during the whole fourth war, I guess he got all that idea from that event. This is just my own homest opinion.