Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-30323490-20170824182356/@comment-734582-20171003143200

BlazeRelease wrote: I believe something like that, would be formerly declared in the manga.It was already a strech for Nagato to use The Rinngen, effectively as an Uzumaki.But now he makes his own jutsu out of the Rinnegen, isn't that a tad bit too much.Don't you think lol? No? The jutsu that Madara used were probably passed on to Nagato by Obito, but the idea of dividing them into paths and associating certain skills with them are purely Nagatos. Sasuke showed the ability to make up jutsu on the fly with the Rinnegan, so it makes sense that Nagato could invent his own.

Besides, according to the databooks, Asura path is simply the summoning of weapons, and it's fairly evident that Nagato's animal summons were just extensions of his paths. The databook also says that Human Path's ability is simply mind reading, as seeing your eyes flash before your eyes is only a natural progression to death (paraphrased).

So no, the rinnegan doesn't naturally come with the Paths, nagato just invented that to solve his mobility problem and play on the whole god imagery.