Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26844669-20171106001849/@comment-734582-20171107084011

AsianReaper wrote: He died with the Rinnegan, and therefore was revived with a fake Rinnegan (like how Itachi and Nagato were revived with fake eyes). He died without eyes though. Which is probably why Kabuto made his modifications in the first place, since the initial Edo likely was blind. Upon doing whatever he did to restore Madara to his prime, Madara got fake eyes.