The High Priestess

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“	You are seven, but now you wear the face of one. One purpose for which you were born... To kill the Samurai!!	„
	~ The High Priestess to the Seven Sisters

Background

The High Priestess (real name unknown) was the birth mother of the Daughters of Aku, as well as the leader of the all-female Cult of Aku. She served as the secondary antagonist of Season 5. She was eventually killed by Ashi, one of her daughters while attempting to kill Samurai Jack herself.

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The High Priestess first appears in the first episode of season five, at the center of a ceremony being conducted by the Cult of Aku, an all-female cult of devout worshipers of Aku. There, she gave birth to seven girls and put them through years of hard and intense training to mold them into deadly, ninja-like assassins who would be able to track down and kill Samurai Jack, Aku's long-time nemesis. After training them, she gives them white female masks and weapons and sends them out into the world to kill Jack. In Episode XCV, Ashi has a dream about her mother while unconscious, once again commanding her to kill Jack. Later, before she can finish off an exhausted Jack, Ashi remembers the time her mother squished a ladybug for "distracting" her from a sparring session. In Episode XCVI, the High Priestess somehow makes contact with her (presumably) sole surviving daughter, Ashi, by transforming the Moon into her face. She orders Ashi to kill Jack in his sleep, but she refuses, informing her mother that Jack saved her life and she only wants to know the truth. Shocked, the High Priestess promptly tells Ashi that she has failed her. In Episode XCVIII, after Ashi joins Samurai Jack, the High Priestess confronts the Samurai herself along with an army of orcs while he's distracted with meditating on a mountaintop in order to recover his lost sword. Ashi singlehandedly defeats all the soldiers, but the High Priestess manages to sneak to the top and fire arrows at the Samurai, only to be thwarted by Ashi. Enraged, the High Priestess battles her final child, accusing her of betraying her deceased sisters by letting the Samurai live. Ashi calls her out on this, claiming that she's the one ultimately responsible for what happened to her and the other six daughters by feeding them hateful lies about Samurai Jack, never giving them any other fate/choice, and then sending the seven of them out on what ultimately amounted to a suicide mission. After a fierce fight, the High Priestess eventually overpowered Ashi by dazing her with crumbling debris, and then made one final attempt to kill the Samurai; Ashi throws one of her arrows at her at the last second, impaling her through the back and out her stomach, causing her to plummet to her death. In Episode C, it's revealed that she was somehow capable of conceiving Ashi and her sisters without the aid of a male partner when she consumed a portion of Aku's essence that he left when he personally visited the cult. This apparent action shocked even Aku himself, indicating that he never considered the effects that his essence would have on a human (or just the fact that a human would even consume his essence in the first place). After Aku's destruction in the past at the hand of Jack in Episode CI, it can be assumed that the Cult of Aku never came into existence - it's unknown how Aku's destruction affected the existence of the members of the cult, including the High Priestess herself.

General Information

Name: The High Priestess

Origin: Samurai Jack

Sex: Female

Age: Unknown, likely 30's

Classification: The leader of the Cult of Aku

Status: Deceased

Alignment: Chaotic Evil (She tortured and trained her kids for the sole purpose of killing Jack)

Codex Statistics

Tier: 6-B

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Country level (Can fight on par with Ashi)

Durability: Country level (Can tank hits from Ashi)

Striking Strength: Country Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown

Travel Speed: Superhuman

Attack Speed: Faster Than Light (Comparable to Ashi)

Reaction Speed: Faster Than Light

Stamina: High

Range: Standard Melee physically, Extended Melee with a knife and claws, Hundreds of Meters with a bow

Intelligence: At least Genius Intelligence (Comparable to Ashi in combat)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Usage (Uses a knife and a bow), Acrobatics (Can do flips backwards), Martial Arts (Could fight Ashi in hand to hand combat), Resistance to Disease Manipulation (Earth has polluted air and yet they aren't affected by it)

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Equipment

A knife and bow

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Notable Techniques

• Enhanced Endurance: The High Priestess gave birth to septuplets with little difficulty. After doing so, she was able to get back on her feet immediately without any signs of fatigue. There is some suspicion that part of it may have been due to drinking Aku's essence.

• Enhanced Agility: The High Priestess is able to jump on the top of a rock formation with such nimbleness without losing her balance.

• Skilled Assassin: She proved that she could train her daughters to be top-notched assassins. She also did a good job in erasing any compassion or distractions they have that keeps them from their mission. She is shown to be skilled enough to fight against Ashi, managing to overwhelm her daughter multiple times.

• Leadership Skills: She did lead the other cult members in overseeing the training of her daughters which turned them into Anti-Samurai Jack assassins.

• Enhanced Archery: She is skilled enough to create a hail of arrows similar to the Three Blind Archers with only one bow.

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Other

Standard Tactics: The High Priestess leads with either shooting with their bow or fighting in close combat

Weaknesses: Is loyal to Aku and refuses to believe that Aku is evil. Otherwise, normal human weaknesses

Battle Records

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