Kurain Channeling Technique

The Kurain Channeling Technique is the spirit channeling technique used by Kurain Village and the mediums within. The current Master of Kurain Village is the "keeper" of the technique, so to speak. Normally, the position of the Master is passed on by blood, but in rare instances, another medium may "usurp" the title of Master if their spriritual power exceeds that of the person positioned to become Master. Misty Fey doing this to her sister Morgan Fey is one example. If a would-be Master is robbed of the position, she and her family are demoted to the status of a branch family, who are forever indentured to the main family (in other words, the direct bloodline of the current Master). The Kurain Technique plays an important role in several of Phoenix Wright's cases as an attorney.

The attempted turnabout
   Main article: Turnabout Beginnings 

Mia Fey was one person who decided to abandon the path of a medium, choosing to become a defense attorney instead. Bravely, she took on the the case of an escaped death row convict against the debuting prosecutor Miles Edgeworth. While she came very close to proving her client's innocence and cornering the true culprit, her client took the stand and effectively commited suicide by drinking poison given to him by said real culprit. The case would leave Fey emotionally traumatized, and she would not take another one until one year later.

Confidence gained
Main article: Turnabout Memories 

Fey next took the case of university student Phoenix Wright, who had been accused of murdering fellow student Doug Swallow. This time, Fey was able to turn the case completely on its head without interruptions. In a fortunate twist of fate, it developed that the true culprit in the case she had taken one year ago and the true culprit in her current case were one and the same. This time, Fey cornered her on the stand and got her client an acquittal.

Death
Main article: Turnabout Sisters 

By 2016, Mia Fey had matured and started her own firm, Fey & Co. Law Offices. She employed Wright there, and acted as his co-counsel during his first case. For some time now, she had been gathering information in secret on Redd White and his firm, Bluecorp. She had reason to suspect, and was almost certain, that White and his company achieved their ends through blackmail and bribes, all under the guise of a slightly unconventional "detective agency of sorts". White learned of this by having his secretary, April May, tap Fey's phone and listen in on her using the tap. He consequently murdered Fey, stole most of the items concerning him or Bluecorp in her possesion, and framed Mia's own little sister Maya for the deed. Wright took the case as Maya's attorney, and indicted White on the stand. However, despite the victory, the case had left a blow that would never fade; Wright's mentor had died.

Channeled after death
It would very soon transpire that Mia was not, and would never be, gone. During the trial, Wright looked at the space beside him where the co-counsel would normally be, and, seeing his late mentor, fainted. He awoke in the defendant lobby, once again to the face of Mia. He fainted again, but not for long this time. As he observed, Mia changed from Mia into a slightly altered version of Maya. The Maya/Mia hybrid patiently explained the concept of spirit channeling, and provided Wright with the key evidence that he needed to discredit the testimony of White and win the trial.

Further channelings
Main articles: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice For All & Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations 

Mia would not be channeled very frequently for the remainder of Wright's early career, due to Maya's general ineptitude at spirit channeling. However, after meeting Maya's little cousin Pearl Fey, Mia began to be channeled much more frequently, thanks to Pearl's prodigious channeling ability, which was despite her being the youngest member of the Fey clan. Pearl is also notable for charging Wright's magatama with spiritual energy and teaching him how to break Psyche-Locks using said magatama.

An uncooperative witness
Main article: Recipe for Turnabout 

During his investigation into Glen Elg's murder, Wright clashed with Victor Kudo, who was an eye witness to the crime, and could offer testimony as such, but was not willing to. By breaking some Psyche-Locks, Wright was able to figure out that Kudo was the only regular at Trés Bien, the scene of the crime, but went only to look at the waitresses there. With this knowledge, Wright contacted Maya, who was in a short stint as a waitress at the time. He took her to Kudo, but the old man remarked that Maya was too young to be attractive. However, he became much more cooperative after Maya (having returned to Kurain Village and trained as a medium for some time) channeled her older sister, gladly giving lots of information.

Centerpiece for a murder
Main article: Reunion, and Turnabout 

Not so long after the concept had been introduced, the Technique would become the centerpiece for a murder. Maya was contacted by Dr. Turner Grey, director of Grey Surgical Clinic, to call the spirit of Mimi Miney, a nurse at the clinic who had recently died in a car crash. The reason he wanted to call the spirit was because, one year ago, Miney had been involved in a malpractice incident at the clinic. Miney had mixed up the medications of 14 patients and subsequently killed them, just a week before she died in the crash. Grey was intending to make her write a signed document taking full responsibility for both accidents, as he had been receiving lots of bad publicity due to them. However, all was not as it seemed. In reality, Mimi's sister Ini Miney, who had supposedly survived the crash, was actually Mimi. It was truly Ini that had died, but as Mimi's face was burned beyond recognition, she told the surgeons operating on her that she was Ini, and her face was reconstructed as such. She realized that her cover would be blown if Maya tried to channel her and failed, so she entered the Channeling Chamber, murdered Grey, and framed Maya for the deed by knocking her unconscious, stuffing her in a clothes trunk, and putting on her bloodstained acolyte clothes, making eye-witnesses including Wright believe she was indeed Maya. However, Wright once again took the case of Maya, and turned it on its head as usual, exposing "Ini" Miney on the stand, revealing her to really be Mimi and proving her guilt in one stroke. Maya was subsequently cleared.