NPC's

Name| Kaede

Age| Around 65 now (Around 57 in the series gee I thought she was waaay older)
Sex| Female

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Personality| As seen, Kaede is a kind priestess who tends to people all over the village. Although a patient person, Kaede can sometimes be very serious and aggressive. Being the sister of a priestess, Kaede adopts many similar personalities and characteristics from her sister, often calling Kikyō her idol.

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Background Info| As Kikyō's younger sister, Kaede would assist her with various tasks such as gathering herbs or holding her arrows. Kaede also travels with Kikyō to a priest's shrine to learn to be a priestess, and there she and Kikyō met the dark priestess Tsubaki for the first time.

Kaede eye injury

Kaede loses her right eye after an attack on Kaede's Village. Kaede had tried to shoot a demon that was about to attack Kikyō, but missed. The demon then went to attack Kaede, but Kikyō shot it in time. The arrow that killed the demon also hit Kaede ultimately blinding her. In the manga, her eye appears to be freshly bandaged and bleeding shortly before Kikyō's death, suggesting that the wound occurs when Inuyasha attacks the village to steal the Shikon Jewel; supplementary information states that she "lost her elder sister and her eye in an incident fifty years ago." The anime shows the incident occurring when Kikyō shot an arrow at a demon near Kaede - the attack wounded Kaede's right eye and left it blind. Her parents died when she was very young and Kikyō was her only family.

During the Story

After Kikyō's death, Kaede becomes a strong priestess in her own right and defends the village against demons. When Kagome arrives, Kaede recognizes her as the reincarnation of her sister. When Kagome frees Inuyasha, Kaede places the "Beads of Subjugation" onto him to give Kagome the power to control him with a spoken word. Kaede is well-respected and held in high regards by the villagers and the members of Inuyasha's group, whom she often advises about demons and other spiritual anomalies. Though Inuyasha is easily annoyed with her, he listens to her when necessary and doesn't hesitate to protect her from a threat. Later on in the series, Kaede took on a running gag where people would usually mistake her as a demon and not a priestess, due to her old age.

The Final Act

In The Final Act during Kikyō's final death, Kaede sees soul collectors flying around her village as she sees the spirit of Kikyō who came to bid her a farewell; using the last of her strength, Kikyō finally bids her sister a farewell saying sorry for causing her pain. In The Final Act ending set three years later, Rin lives with her in the village to become accustomed to living alongside other humans, and, when the time comes, Rin can decide to either continue living in the village or rejoin Sesshōmaru; Kaede is also training Kagome to become a full priestess.

In the past several years however, Kaede has weakened in her old age she still helps out sometimes but for the most Kagome has taken her duties as Priestess. She still however is considered the village elder by the entire village and is in charge of many things. She has grown attached to Rin and treats her as she were her own granddaughter. Because of this she worries because Rin has turned down every offer of marriage that has come to her, she thinks Rin is a good girl but not really meant to be a Priestess. She fears that she will try to go off after Sesshomaru since his absence the past couple of years.