
Once lit, the clock will take about 12 hours to extinguish all of its flames. Each flame represents a zodiac sig, and takes about an hour to extinguish. On each side of the clock, twelve blue-colored flames are lit. It is a colossal clock tower with four sides, so that it can be seen from anywhere in the sanctuary. The Fire Clock (火時計, Hidokei) is the most prominent structure of the sanctuary, along with Athena’s Colossus. The Fire Clock, as seen in the Hades OVAs. This place is located very near to the foot of the Gold Zodiac, as Kido Saori and the five main Bronze Saints are welcomed and introduced to the Gold Zodiac by Sagitta Ptolemy here. The colosseum is mainly used to hold fights between the trainees to decide the wearers of certain Cloths, and as a place for practice. Here we witness Seiya becoming the Pegasus Saint. The Colosseum (コロッセオ, Korosseo) is one of the deepest areas of the sanctuary, as well as one of the first locations (in the anime, the very first) shown in the original series. The spin-offs The Lost Canvas and Episode G are centered around the sanctuary, as well as the newest part of the original series, Saint Seiya: Next Dimension (sequel canonical).Ī fight in the Colosseum, as shown in The Lost Canvas. It is revealed that every 264 years or so, a fierce holy war between Hades and Athena takes place, and while the saints fight for peace, the specters seek the world's dominance, believing that only the strong should rule. The biggest threat is later revealed in the next arc of the manga, which was not animated in the anime (but later in OVAs), the Hades arc. In the arcs 7 (inexistent in the manga) and 8 of the series, the sanctuary faces threats from Poseidon, the god of the sea, who controls the troops of the God Warriors against the saints and, later, battles them in his own kingdom with his Marines, in order to cause a great flood that would "cleanse the world of evil."
SAINT SEIYA LEGEND OF SANCTUARY GOLD SAINTS SERIES
It is revealed later in the series that the saints are not the only humans to know about cosmo. In the first part of the series - composed by arcs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 - the five Bronze Saints fight the pope's troops in order to control the sanctuary, the only place from which Athena and her saints could effectively protect the world against the yet greater threats. In the beginning of the Saint Seiya series, battles are fought to win back the control of the Sanctuary from Gemini Saga, the impersonator of the former Pope (in the manga, Shion, in the anime, Arles). The sanctuary usually intervene in affairs that threaten the peace and/or lives of a great qnumberof people. Athena's love for mankind inspired the birth of the saints, and the making of their cloths during the holy wars against Ares. The main objective of the sanctuary's existence (and the reason that humans allied with Athena) is to protect humanity and the world from divine forces that want to destroy or conquer it. Some Silver Saints are given command over units of their own rank, Bronze Saints or soldiers, but they must prove to be good leaders. Under the Pope, there are the 12 Gold Saints, who act as generals to Athena's army, leading the soldiers and lower-ranked saints into battle. Therefore, a human representative, known as Pope, is chosen among the saints to lead them between the eras. The absolute commander of the sanctuary is the reincarnation of Athena, however, such incarnations only appear on Earth at every two centuries or so (whenever the god Hades and his evil stars awake). Aries Shion, a pope that survived a holy war.
