

Hades is one of the most powerful deities in the Saint Seiya Universe, being Zeus' brother.Īs the God of the Underwold, Hades can allow his specters to travel from the Underworld to the Living World, also, he can resurrect any living being at will (as he did with his deceased Specters, and Cerberus during The Lost Canvas series). She throws her weapon into Hades and kills the underworld god. Shun, Shiryu, Hyoga and Ikki concentrate their cosmos into Athena's Victory Staff. Seiya, trying to protect her, is mortally wounded by Hades' sword, and dies in front of Athena and his friends. When Seiya asks why Hades' eyes are so sad, Hades sees Tenma in Seiya.Īthena joins the battle and duels Hades. He fights the five Saints at once, receiving little damage to his Surplice.

However, after the twins are defeated, Hades wakes up in his own body. Seiya, Shun, Shiryu, Hyoga and Ikki reach Elysion. Enraged, Hades pulls Athena with him to Elysion. However, Athena's blood expels Hades from Shun's body. Later, Athena and Virgo Shaka arrived Athena asked him for a bargain: At the cost of her life, the Greatest Eclipse should stop. However, Ikki wasn't able to do it, and was thrown into Cocytus by Harpy Valentine. Shun takes a brief possession of his own body and tells Ikki to kill him in order to destroy Hades and stop the Greatest Eclipse. Pandora tells him that the "Yours Ever" pendant she gave Shun years ago was the chain that tied him to Hades. There, he fights against Pandora and remembers he had already seen her once. Hades senses his cosmo and orders Pandora to bring the individual.

Meanwhile, Ikki defeats Garuda Aiacos in the fifth prison. In possession of the body of Shun, Hades begins to create his Greatest Eclipse, which will eradicate all life on an Earth buried in an eternal darkness. In the 18th century, the avatar of Hades, Alone, was a close friend of the Pegasus Saint of that era (Tenma).Īfter the Spectres were ordered back to the Underworld and Pandora's Castle collapsed, Hades waited in Giuddecca, knowing that his new avatar Shun would come.Īfter Lyra Orphée was killed by Wyvern Rhadamanthys during a failed assassination of Hades, Shun became possessed and Seiya was thrown into Cocytus. During the previous Holy War in 1747 his avatar was a boy named Alone, and now more recently it was Andromeda Shun. To fight the sacred wars against Athena, Hades has to take control of the purest human being born at the time of his incarnation. He cares so much of it that he keeps it locked in a chamber in Elysion so it doesn't get damaged, only to start using it when he has taken control over the world. However it is said that Hades is too fond of his own body which was born by Cronus and Rhea. Every 243 years Hades can enter the world of humans, and fight against Athena for control over the world. In Saint Seiya, as in the Greek mythology, Hades is the Underworld god, and as such, incarnates into a human being.
