Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-26005711-20150730124954/@comment-5936871-20150731182843

Elveonora wrote: Thekillman wrote: Elveonora wrote: Nah, only one person can be an incarnate at a time. Is there a rule that prevents this? Essentially someone's an incarnate if their genetic makeup recreates their chakra, so technically you could have an army of incarnates. The very essence of the cycle is just so rare that it doesn't even happen once in a generation. It was said that Madara had no longer been an Indra incarnate, that's because Sasuke is now, so yes, only one at a time. That was only said in the Anime, not the manga, and Hagoromo said that he was able to manifest because of Asura, Indra, and Kurama's chakra right after Hashirama touched Madara's lower half and attempted to do whatever he was trying to do. I believe this happened because of the presence of those chakras in one place as soon as Hashirama grabbed onto Madara's bottom half. So even if they aren't the incarnates anymore, that doesn't mean that they lost all of Indra and Asura's chakra.