Ami Fey

"Maya Fey"

- ...Mystic Ami. She's a Legendary Spirit Medium.

Ami Fey was the founder of the Fey clan and the inventor of the Kurain Channeling Technique, which uses spiritual powers to communicate with the dead.

The legend
According to legend, the Fey clan was originally known for its services to the gods. When Ami Fey was born, she was given a certain fate through her name since she was named after Amitābha, the principal buddha in Pure Land Buddhism. She went on to live up to this name by creating the Kurain Channeling Technique, a method of communicating with the dead whereby the spirit medium takes on the physical appearance of the spirit being channeled. She went on to use her spiritual powers to summon the spirits of the dead for the benefit of humans.

Upon her death, her soul was said to have been sealed in a Sacred Urn with "AMI" written on it. This urn came to be the most precious treasure of Kurain Village, the home of the Fey family, and usually sits in the Winding Way in Fey Manor. The Fey family believes that as long as Ami Fey's spirit is inside the urn, the spiritual power of the Fey family will continue. Female descendants of Ami Fey generally inherit the technique with varying degrees of strength.

The Sacred Urn

 * Main article: Sacred Urn





Unfortunately, the Sacred Urn of Ami Fey has had a less than uneventful life. It has been smashed to pieces and glued back together in at least three separate instances. The first occasion was by Mia Fey and Maya Fey as children. The second time was by Pearl Fey, whilst playing with her ball in the Winding Way, and the third incident was when Adrian Andrews accidentally dropped it when various items from Kurain Village were on display at Lordly Tailor.

The statue at Hazakura Temple
There is also a golden life-sized statue of Ami Fey in the Hazakura Temple courtyard that holds the seven-branched sword Shichishito. This statue was featured along with the Sacred Urn at Lordly Tailor. Later on, Iris used the Shichishito to impale the corpse of Elise Deauxnim in order to make the Hazakura Temple courtyard look like the crime scene of Deauxnim's murder, and to make Ami Fey's statue's sword look like the murder weapon.

In-game note
Having died long before any of the cases in the Ace Attorney series, Ami Fey does not actually appear in-game. She appears in the court record as a figure with her features hidden in shadow, much like Joe Darke, although this is likely to provide Fey with an air of mystery as opposed to the sinister Darke.

Name

 * The name "Ami" is an anagram of "Mia", as in Mia Fey, one of her descendants.


 * The name "Ami" may have been chosen so it could be rearranged into "I AM" when Pearl broke the Sacred Urn.


 * If the kanji for "Kyouko" are reversed, it spells "kodomo" which means "child".


 * She is the only known main family member with a name not beginning in "M".


 * She is the oldest character to appear in the court record.