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Ka and Ba

Ka (精霊 (カー) "Spirit" or 魔物 (カー) "Monster"), also known as Egyptian Spirit Monsters, is spirit able to manifest as supernatural beings; these spirits were used for battle in ancient Egypt. A spirit reflects the nature of the person it comes from; the Ka is given form by the energy of the soul: the Ba.[1]

Ka and Ba, spirit and soul, are complementary energies: As Ka are essentially living energy, the manifestation of spirits is strenuous and potentially dangerous to anyone connected with them, although usage of the Millennium Items allows for freer manipulation of Ka and Ba than would otherwise be possible. Also, Ba of either one's own soul or others' souls can be utilized to strengthen Ka and is also necessary to maintain them.

The strength of the Ba determines the strength of the Ka. Furthermore, a person with a good soul will have a good Ka spirit, but a person with an evil soul will have a monstrous or demonic Ka.[1] A Ba that has left the body may also fuse together with a Ka, such as when the Sacred Guardian Mahad fused his Ba with the Ka of Illusion Magician to create Dark Magician. Conversely, it is possible to extract Ka entities, by means of magic, from the bodies of people; although completely draining someone of Ka energy would be lethal, the extraction of a spirit being is nonetheless able to be done non-lethally (with exceptions, as in the case of the extraction of the Ka of Kisara, the blue-eyed woman who embodied a particularly powerful Ka: the Blue-Eyes White Dragon.)

With the Millennium Items, the Sacred Guardians were able to seal the extracted Ka of a person within a stone tablet and could summon and control such tablets from the Shrine of Wedju.[2] Maximillion Pegasus later would discover the ancient Shadow Game and the stone tablets, and then created the game of Duel Monsters in which the cards had similar effects to the tablets. Some of the spirits haven't been released as cards.

Ka List[]

The following are sorted from their card counterparts and those that don't have card counterparts. Additional info on them is also listed.

Ka with card counterparts[]

Ka without card counterparts[]

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