<p>Hey, haven't posted here in a while, so I don't know how much discussion is still going on, but just had a thought I wanted to share.
</p><p>So, Kekkei Mora, like the precise nature of Six Paths powers, is one of those lingering mysteries from the final chapters of <i>Naruto</i> that has never been sufficiently explained, and which the fourth databook really only raises more questions about: Why is the term exclusively used for Kaguya, Hagoromo, and Madara in the databook? Why are their versions of dojutsu classified as Kekkei Mora when the same dojutsu used by others are classified as Kekkei Genkai? What does Mora (網羅) even really mean?
</p><p>Anyway, I was having a conversation earlier in which I was trying to succinctly summarize the nature of the Otsutsuki as described in <i>Boruto</i> #45, when it dawned on me.
</p><p>Amado describes the Otsutsuki as a parasitic species that evolves by harvesting and eating chakra fruits, masses of energy and genetic information that gets collected from conquered worlds using the Divine Tree. Each time the Otsutsuki eats a chakra fruit, their body "updates," or rather mutates.
</p><p>As soon as I typed that, I realized that kekkei genkai are also mutations, but those are limited by bloodline inheritance. Meanwhile the name kekkei tota implies that these are mutations that have been artificially selected by combining bloodlines.
</p><p>So, what does Mora mean? We have it listed as "encompassing," and "comprising," "including," etc. show up as definitions. Up until now I just assumed it was meant to be a step beyond the combining of bloodlines represented by kekkei tota, as it was initially used to describe the Expansive Truthseeker Orb which simultaneously combined all chakra natures. That never quite made sense to me, since regular Truthseeker Orbs are ninjutsu/senjutsu, and other biological mutations unrelated to nature transformation are also classified as Kekkei Mora, but I just rolled with it anyway.
</p><p>Well, Mora can also mean to collect everything, and its Chinese root literally refers to nets and traps that were used to harvest fish or capture birds; mo (net) + ra (covering).
</p><p>Obviously, the original source material gives no indication that this is the case, and <i>Boruto</i> hasn't drawn a clear connection either, but I'm now inclined to believe that Kekkei Mora should be translated, conservatively, as something like Bloodline Collection, and that it refers to the unique mutations that Otsutsuki develop upon eating a chakra fruit or, perhaps in certain circumstances, upon completely fusing with a Ten Tails / Divine Tree.
</p><p>Assuming that to be the case, as Amado states that they "continually upgrade" themselves by eating chakra fruit, it could be assumed that some or all of Kaguya's Kekkei Mora were derived from different chakra fruits collected from multiple worlds. It's also likely that the unique dojutsu possessed by Momoshiki, Kinshiki, Urashiki, and Isshiki are also Kekkei Mora, as they have never been formally categorized.
</p><p>Hagoromo's Rinnegan falls into this category in the databook, perhaps because he inherited it directly from Kaguya, in which case Hamura's Byakugan and Tenseigan, also never formally categorized, should likely also be considered Kekkei Mora.
</p><p>Madara and Obito both underwent a visible biological transformation as Ten Tails' Jinchurikis, developing the physical traits of the Otsutsuki, but only Madara developed a Kekkei Mora, the Rinne Sharingan, after he fully absorbed the Divine Tree and effectively became Kaguya's vessel.
</p><p>The exact nuance of where the exact distinction should be made isn't clear to me, but I think this is the best explanation for what a Kekkei Mora is that we currently have available. Pardon the overly wordy hypothesis!
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Semi-related, we also have the recent classification of Sukunahikona and Daikokuten as "hijutsu" (secret jutsu), an uncommonly used term, sometimes to describe hiden (secret tradition). I was curious about this, and found one other instance of Otsutsuki abilities being called hijutsu: in <i>Boruto</i> episode 15 / novel 3, Sasuke describes Gozu Tennō as Danzo "closing in on Kaguya's hijutsu."
</p><p>I'm not sure what the significance of the term is, except that it might be an attempt to clearly distinguish Otsutsuki abilities from shinobi abilities, despite them occasionally being referred to as ninjutsu anyway. Just kind of interesting.
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<p>Kekkei Mōra / Bloodline Encompassing probably means having all the chakras from Earth. A genome unique to Kaguya and, afterwards, Hagoromo, which became Jinchuriki Ten-tails. A single chakra that later split into many parts after Hagoromo gave away the chakra to humans.
</p><p>That is, in fact, this genome is only Kaguya, and only because she is the ancestor of the chakra on Earth.
</p><p>What you describe is like a simple Kekkei Genkai / Bloodline Limit.
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(Edited by ReweR 1331)
I think Kekkei Mora is like a more powerful kekkei genkai. Since Kaguya and Hagoromo have it I think powerful Otsutsukis or Otsutsuki hybrids have Kekkei Mora. It is basically Kekkei Genkai to the limit for extremely powerful Otsutsuki.
(Edited by FinalTitanSoul)
<p>I agree with FF-Suzaku and I've been saying that for years. Kekkei Genkai are basically mutations of Kekkei Mora and Kekkei Mora are the original mutations caused by chakra fruits and/or from one Otsutsuki absorbing another (Momoshiki > Kinshiki)
</p><p>Simply put: a chakra fruit resulted in a Kekkei Mora Rinne Sharingan, but it's not simply inheritable by means of reproduction in its pure form and it instead mutated into the Sharingan and Rinnegan respectively, while the Sharingan a Kekkei Genkai is inheritable, Rinnegan a Kekkei Mora is not.
I know it was called/classified a Kekkei Genkai before, but it's most likely a simple retcon, as Kishimoto hadn't thought it through by that point.
Kaguya's Ash Bones Kekkei Mora didn't get inherited by her descendants, but it instead mutated into Shikotsumyaku, which is inheritable, even though rare.
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(Edited by Elveonora)