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Seto is one of the six high priests that guard the Millennium Items, and is the first cousin of Pharaoh Atem. Seto Kaiba is the modern counterpart of Priest Seto. Seto is named after the Egyptian God Set.

Biography

Before the Battle City tournament, a tablet showing Priest Seto fighting Pharaoh Atem, with Blue Eyes White Dragon and Dark Magician, respectively was on display at the museum.

Three thousand years before the present day events (5000 in the English dub), Priest Seto and Pharaoh Atem were friends and rivals who help each other by testing their mystical skills. Although technically Atem's cousin by blood, Seto is raised as a commoner; his identity as Priest Aknadin's son (who is the brother of Atem's deceased father, Pharaoh Aknamkanon) is hidden from him out of fear for his personal safety. He is eventually able to become a part of the Pharaoh's court not because of his lineage, but because of his test scores, which were the highest the court had ever seen. This high degree of intelligence has apparently carried over to his modern reincarnation. Another trait carried to his later reincarnation is his ruthlessness and belief in power, as he suggested brutal torture and death sentences for criminals and would sacrifice comrades in order to achieve what he perceives as the greater good.

When Bakura appears at the royal court with his powerful Ka Diabound, Seto decides that Bakura needs to be stopped and begins his search for Ka powerful enough to defeat Diabound. People could be tortured into revealing their Ka, so he decides to try rounding up and torturing criminals. This plan, he believes, would accomplish two things: both finding a Ka that could destroy Diabound and reducing the number of criminals that incite anarchy in the Pharaoh's kingdom.

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Priest Seto and Kisara.

During his search, he encounters Kisara, who is being stoned because of her unorthodox appearance (snow white hair, pale tan skin, and deep blue eyes). Shada senses the great power within her ("even surpassing that of the gods") and Seto takes her back with him to the palace. There he remembers the first time they met: as children, Seto had saved Kisara from slave traders, who had kidnapped her from her home country and were planning to sell her for a high price. She repaid him by unconsciously releasing her inner spirit--the Blue-Eyes White Dragon--after the traders set fire to his village and killed his mother.

Aknadin, after being possessed by Zorc and becoming the Great Shadow Magus, later attempts to test Kisara's immeasurable power by forcing her to fight in a battle against two other prisoners. Seto steps in and saves her, but the two fall into danger, causing Kisara to release her inner spirit dragon and save them both.

Aknadin then orders Seto to kill Kisara and extract her Ka, claiming that the tremendous energy and power of The White Dragon can surpass the enemy and even the Pharaoh's three gods. If Seto can obtain it, Seto can become the new king. Seto refuses, and Aknadin kidnaps him in an attempt to corrupt his mind with darkness. At this point Aknadin reveals that he is in fact Seto's father, and that his lifelong desire has been to see Seto ascend to the throne.

Before Seto can decide against this, Kisara runs to save him. He leaves Aknadin behind. Enraged, Aknadin questions how his son can abandon the chance to rule over Egypt. Seto answers that there will be no benefit from a world rules by Zorc, and that Kisara showed Seto a light, a light known as love.[1] At this point Aknadin fires off a beam of dark energy, and Kisara dies taking the blow meant for Seto.

After Kisara's death, Seto attempts to kill his father, but instead his mind is taken over by Aknadin and he is forced to Duel Pharaoh Atem. Kisara saves Seto once more by using her "pure light" to purge Aknadin from his mind, making Seto the new keeper of the Blue Eyes White Dragon. Seto sheds tears in front of the "Blue Eyes" tablet, with Kisara's dead body in his arms. Notably, this is the "vision" which appears to Kaiba during his Duel with Ishizu Ishtar in the Battle City arc (as well as his later Duel with Yami Bakura).

Subsequently, Seto fights bravely by Atem's side in the battle against Zorc Necrophades using the "Blue Eyes White Dragon." When Zorc is defeated, Atem tells the priest his reign is over, and passes the throne on to Seto. Seto then creates the famous stone carving of the two of them, as a tribute to his friendship with Pharaoh Atem.

Other appearances

Deck/Ka

Seto Summons the following Monster spirits:

References

  1. Yu-Gi-Oh! episode 214: "Name of the Game"
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