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Tooru Magami Are Kage-nie

In traditional Japanese occult practices, a "kage-nie" 

(陰牲 lit. shadow sacrifice?) is actually a wooden or paper doll that acts as a representation of an actual person. The doll serves to protect this person from harm, especially harm of the magical nature (kind of like a reversal of the idea of the Voodoo Doll). When someone attempts to harm a person protected by a shadow sacrifice, the doll will suffer instead of the one it represents. In "X", the members of the family from which Kamui Shirō is descended, the Magami Clan, are able to act as shadow sacrifices to other people. The Magami clan is so renowned among occult circles for this power that (as Sorata tells Kamui), at least half of Japan's legislative body, the Diet, are suspected of having hired shadow sacrifices from the Magami Clan to protect them from such dangers as assassination. Such as this is, Toru Magami, Kamui's mother, is destroyed in a fire which results from her acting as the shadow sacrifice for (alternately) Kamui himself and for the Earth. Tokiko Magami, Tōru's younger sister and Kamui's maternal aunt, likely acts a shadow sacrifice to bring forth the second of the Sacred Swords. Similarly, Saya Monou (Fuma and Kotori mother) may have also possessed this power when she took the place of Tōru to bring forth the first Sacred Sword. It can be assumed that (being of Magami lineage), Kamui himself would have the power to act as shadow sacrifice to another person.

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Locations: TokyoCLAMP Academy13 Barriers of Tokyo
Terminology: Dream seersKekkaiSacred SwordShadow SacrificesKamui
Clans: Magami Clan
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