Midoriko Moss

Midoriko Moss was an extremely powerful Spiritual Priestess who created the Shikon no Tama in order to eliminate the wicked demon-of-demons.

Once in doing so, she had forced out not only the demon spirit, but her own spirit as well, which is the Shikon Jewel.

She represents the purity of the jewel called Naohi.

She is the predecessor of the Moss Family.

## Appearance

Midoriko's appearance differs in the manga and anime adaptation.

In the manga, Midoriko's face is always hidden in shadows, preventing the reader from seeing what she looked like in life.

Her corpse was mummified and in an advanced state of decay; her face shrunken and the right of her abdomen torn open by her opponent revealing her ribcage.

In the anime, Midoriko's full face is shown to the audience, revealing her to be a beautiful young woman with determined eyes, she is also shown speaking.

Her corpse in the anime appears to be a crystalized statue retaining the beauty she had in life.

## Personality

Unknown but is known that she was best at slaying demons.

## Powers, Skills & Abilities

* **Immense Spiritual Power:** Midoriko is probably the most powerful priestess shown in the entire series. She was said to be greater than any priest/priestess and generals in her time. As the representation of the purity in the Shikon no Tama, Midoriko possessed extremely high levels of spiritual power, strength and energy. Even a priestess like Kikyō had specifically sought to obtain Midoriko's spirit in order to completely destroy Naraku due to the strong powers she has over the Shikon Jewel.
	+ **Immense Purification:** Her purification abilities are said to be capable of purifying hundreds to thousands of demons all at once. This is shown when her powers were able to completely purify Naraku's miasma when Kikyō fused Midoriko's spirit unto her body to heal the miasma inflicted wounds that Naraku inflicted upon her body, even though Kagome's purification could only temporarily heal Kikyō's injuries.

* + **Shikon:** Midoriko's most fearsome and powerful ability was to excorsice Shikon. One's spirit is made up of four souls in Naohi (直霊): Aramitama (荒魂, *Courage*), Nigimitama (和魂, *Friendship*), Kushimitama (奇魂, *Wisdom*) and Sakimitama (幸魂, *Love*). She contained these four spirits at their maximum and balanced, giving her the ability to drive out the soul of anything and purify it. Midoriko mainly used it on demons which left them powerless. It was this ability that she used to defeat the Demon of the Shikon no Tama and create the Shikon no Tama.
		- **Shikon Jewel Influence:** As the good and purity of the Shikon Jewel, Midoriko has some influence and control over the jewel and its shards that can be exerted into the living world even if she has long died. Her influence over the jewel was so great that the collective power of the wolf tribe ancestors was only able to temporarily override her control of Kōga's jewel shards.
	+ **Barrier:** Midoriko has the ability to create very powerful barriers, even though she was within the Shikon No Tama. She could maintain the barrier on the entrance of the cave (anime only) where the Shikon no Tama was created, having enough strength to easily withstand the barrier-breaking Red Tessaiga (manga only). The barrier she has within the cave is capable of physically expelling anyone who displays a selfish desire for the jewel straight out of it, as seen when Inuyasha boasted about obtaining the jewel to become a full demon which cause him to be thrown out of the cave which Shippō likens to being Midoriko's version of the Beads of Subjugation.
* **Master Swordswoman:** Due to the endless battles and wars she had experienced, Midoriko was a skilled swordswoman, able to ward off a multitude of demons with a single blow. Her swordsmanship led her to have the strength equal to one hundred samurai according to lore.
* **Immense Endurance:** Midoriko had extremely high stamina, fighting many demons, who had all merged into one single demon, for seven days and seven nights without any rest. It was even shown that she had managed to defeat him after losing her left arm and being impaled by his tentacles with little reaction.

## Weapons

* **Sword:** Midoriko carries and uses a large two-edged sword as her main weapon. It doesn't seem to have any special abilities outside of being an excellent medium for her spiritual powers.
	+ **Purification Slash:** Midoriko can imbue her spiritual powers into the sword, purifying hundreds upon hundreds of demons in one sweep.
* **Samurai Armor:** Midoriko is shown to wearing samurai armor over her priestess attire when she fought, though she only seems to wear the chest plate, shoulder plates, and skirt portion of the chest plate.