Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26889573-20151008053113/@comment-1872728-20151011053856

Thekillman wrote: There is. We've seen three different Sage Modes and none of them offer anything special. Kabuto heavily modified himself hence his Snake-look. Why would learning Sage Mode at all three places offer anything special (let alone on a rinnegan level) when the different sage modes themselves offer nothing special? No one has ever learned all 3 types of Sage Mode. Plus, Snake Sage Mode grants the user the ability to animate the environment, something the Toad Sage Mode can't. That doesn't rule out that he's actually a Sage, or that monkey Sages don't exist. Remember that Hiruzen had a speaking Ape, and so far we're 2/3 on talking animals offering sage mode, with a good chance that Katsuyu offers it too. I'm just saying, because there are 3 known sage regions (as of now), with the Toads at Mount Myoboku, the Snakes at Ryuchi Cave, and Slugs at Shikkotsu Forest. Since, the Toads and the Snakes have Sage Mode, it's safe to assume that the Slugs have one too. But talking animals does not mean they have the ability to turn into a Sage, because if that's the case, then dogs and cats can too. Plus, Son Goku is originated from the Ten Tails, and what we've seen so far, Sage Modes are taught by naturally grown animals on Earth, which makes sense since natural energy are naturally generated on Earth, and Ten Tails is a mutated animal that came from the combination of a unnatural/godly plant and an alien lifeform. Both Hamura and Hagoromo had Six paths chakra. Therefore it's already proven that Six Paths chakra has nothing to do with whether you have the Rinnegan. Where does it say that Hamura has the Six Paths Chakra? (I'm not being cocky or anything, I really don't know.) By the way, Six Paths Chakra is the diluted chakra of Kaguya, which is originated from the Shinju. So it's not farfetched to say that natural energy originated from Shinju, and that it has similar if not greater abilities to that of Six Paths Chakra. Maybe Gamamaru, White Snake Sage, and Katsuyu (all really old, as one of them have seen Hagoromo before his death, and it's safe to assume that they all have similar if not the same age, something other animals are not shown to be as of now) all achieved the power of sage before the Shinju was fused with Kaguya, but only 1/3 ability of the Shinju's full sage power since they are biologically structured differently, so they can only achieve certain abilities. So combining the three would have similar abilities to that of the Six Paths Chakra, hence the Chakra Mode and the Truth Seeking Balls.