SAINT
Litterary it means "Saint", but it isn't the
meaning we use in the West. The Japaneses use this word as synonimous of
"Senshi", soldier, knight, warrior devoted to a god.
A real knight has an own Cosmo and a Cloth.
CONSTELLATION
All the knights have a constellation or a star,
from which they burn their Cosmo.
In some way, also their behavior is joined to
the legend of their constellation. For example, Shun has a strong spirit
of sacrifice, as the girl Andromeda who had died for sacrifice joined to
a sea rock.
COSMO
It's the energy from the stars and it's the main
power of the saints. For example, by concentrating the Cosmo, they can
do their secret moves.
The Microcosmo is the interior energy, that reflect
the constellation and the feelings of the soldier: infact, by the sixth
sense, he can also understand if an enemy is good or bad, or can communicate
telepathically with a companion.
The Macrocosmo is the energy in expansion: this
happens when the warrior is in a shining light. The more the Cosmo is big,
the more a saint is powerful.
Attention: by joining the cosmo to its own constellation,
a knight reaches the sky and finishes in the Heaven with the enemy.
SEVENTH SENSE
It's the hability of expanding the Cosmo till
the extreme limits of the Universe.
You can gain the seventh sense not by concentration,
but by looking in yourself and reacting to the difficulties.
EIGHTH SENSE
It's the hability of entering the Underworld
in life.
CLOTH
The saints are men, so they can be hurt: for
this there are the Cloths. Theese can be in various materials, like bronze,
silver, gold...
Further, Cloths aren't simples pieces of stones,
but they have a soul and a precise self will: they run to help their soldier
if he is in difficulty or they rebels against an other one who is too devil
to wear them; for example, Death Mask has been left by his Gold Cloth because
he was against Athena.
To mend the Cloth, a saint must wash it with
his blood and take it to Aries Mur. If the blood is Gold Saint's or Athena's,
the Cloth becomes more powerful.
TRAINING
All the Bronze Saints have to attend six years
of training to learn how to control the Cosmo. Lessons are individual or
with little groups and are in different parts of the World. At the end
of the training, the new soldier have a personalized test to show if he
is worthy of the Cloth; for example, a test is to break some chains or
to invert a fall.
BRONZE SAINTS
They are the main characters; here in Italy they
are called Zodiacal Knights.
They can move as fast as the sound and their
Cloths break themselves easily.
SILVER SAINTS
They are stronger than the Bronze Saints, because
they are faster than the sound and have worthier Cloths.
GOLD SAINTS
They are the twelve custods of Athena. They are
the most powerful in the World, because they are as fast as the light and
have the seven sense; their Gold Cloths are unbreakable and have a strong
will.
Every Gold Saint has a little temple representing
a zodiacal constellation.
FEMALE SOLDIERS
They serve Sanctuary, but, differently from the
other saints, must wear a mask to hide their sex: infact, the defence of
Athena is a duty only for males.
If a saint, for some reason, looks a female soldier
without the mask, she looses her dignity: to revenge, she must kill the
knight or love him.
GHOST SAINTS
They are the soldiers who serve Geist and live
in the Caribees with acts of piracy.
They aren't the Ghost Five, resuscited ghost
knights who serve Eris.
BLACK SAINTS
They have sold their soul to the dark forces
to gain the Cloths. They have the same constellations of the Athena Saints,
but their Cloths, called Surplice, is black and weaker.
GOD WARRIORS
They are the Knights of Asgard and they are chosen
by the Odin's Celebrant.
Their Cloths, of unknown material, have a sapphire
on the belts.
MARINA
They are the seven Sea Generals (Marine Shoguns)
who, differently from the other Saints, haven't had a training, but their
Cosmo has been awoken directly by Poseidon.
They defend the pillars of the seven oceans and
their Cloths have golden scales.
STEEL SAINTS
They aren't real Saints because they don't use
the Cosmo: their power is the Steel Cloths with various gadjets.
They have been invented by Mitsumasa Kido to
help the Bronze Saints.
GHOST FIVE
They are dead knights resuscitated by Goddess
Eris, to serve her. Their Cloths are the same of the previous ones during
the life.
PHOEBOS SAINTS
They are the three knights of Phoebos. Their
Cloths are very strong because they have been made by Phoebos.
SEIMA TENSHI
They are the four knights of Lucifer.
SPECTRES
They are the 108 knights of Hades, with a star,
a sky and a black Cloth called Surplice. Like the Marine Shoguns, they
haven't had a trainig, but they have been awoken from normal life only
at the right moment. They obey at the orders of the three Judges of Hades.
ANGELS
They are three half-gods that fight for Artemis.
POPE
He is the main priest of Athena and he commands
Sanctuary according to the goddess. The other Saints must obey him because
he is the only person who can enter the Athena's rooms.
ODIN CELEBRANT
Her duty is to reign over Asgard and to pray
Odin for the polar ices.
GODS
Every n. years their soul awakes and keeps control
of a human body: this can be a random body (for example, Eris uses Erii),
or a body chosen years ago (Poseidon and Julian, Hades and Shun), or they
are inside the right person (Atnena). Thier cosmo is very powerful, they
can control enemies's fists or cause natural disasters.
In exceptional cases, their soul appears in their
mythological body. So, they become more powerful, but, if they are defeated,
they die forever.
WALALLA
Asgard Sanctuary.
NIBELUNG RING
It's a ring which have an evil spirit inside,
that can control the person who wears it.
To break the ring we need Odin's Sword.
TITANS
Gods born from Gea and Uran that reigned on Earth
before Zeus. They are 6 males and 6 females; in mythology they are married
each other, but Kurumada hasn't developed it yet. They were imprisoned
in Tartarus and in Episode G they're trying to escape and rule the Earth
again with their minor brother Chronos.
Their clothes, Soma, are a gift of Gea and can
be used also as a weapon. Soma were sealed by Zeus in Tartarus, together
with the spirits of Titans. Only Megas Drepanon (Chrono's Soma) was sealed
under Athena's Statue.
GREEK TERMS
Chrysos Synagein = special reunion between Gold
Saints, established by the Pope.
Dunamis = divine strenght that can be transmitted
to a man if he succeeds in hurt a god.
Ichor = divine blood with miracolous powers.