The Unique And Horrifying Role Of The Tailed-Beasts In Naruto

Eons ago, back when the concept of ninjutsu and shinobi hadn’t been invented yet, the Sage of the Six Path, Hagoromo Otsutsuki, separated the calamity-bringer beast, the Ten-Tails, into nine Tailed-Beasts, each with a different number of tails. And just as the Sage of the Six Paths intended, these sentient intelligent beasts would freely roam the earth, away from the human population, or at least that is the case for most of them.