Mask of Dead (Seiya Saint)

Mask of Dead , called Deathmask in VO (デスマスク, desumasuku ), is a character of the Manga and Anime Saint Seiya .

Gold knight of Cancer, guard of the fourth house of the Sanctuary, it is a violent and cruel being. Its true name and its past remain unknown, it is just revealed that it followed its drive in Italy. During many years, Masque of Death coldly killed men, women and children to achieve its missions. The faces of its innocent victims are encrusted in its house and the Knight of Gold regards them as a mark of his capacity.

He is the first to have sworn fidelity with the forgery Pope, Saga, because for him justice is essential by the force and the capacity.

At the time of the battle of the Sanctuary, Masque of Death meets Shiryû, the Bronze Knight of the Dragon. Sending the heart of its adversary to the border between the world of alive and that of dead ( Seki Shiki ) twice, it goes itself there to make sure that Shiryû will not return again. But it makes the error to want to kill Shunreï whose prayers aggravate it, and thus returns insane Shiryû of anger, multiplying by ten its cosmo-energy. Although Knight of Gold, and protected by his armor, it loses by his lack of compassion: its Gold armor, not recognizing more its value of Knight, withdraws itself, and Shiryû overcomes it in duel.

Ressuscity first once by Hadès to go to seek the head of Athéna, it is quickly eliminated by Mû. It however is revealed thereafter that it belonged to the cabal carried out by Shion, old Large Pope, intended to warn Athéna of the resurrection of Hadès and to reveal the site of its divine armor to him. It ressuscite, like others Knights of Gold, to link its forces with those of the other Gold Knights and to break the Wailing Wall giving on Elysion , being sacrificed for justice.

The novel Gigantomachia also teaches us that Masque of Death was the Master of Mei, one from the 100 dispatched orphans of share the world by Mitsumasa Kido to obtain an armor.

In the Episode G, Masque of Death is a cynical being, equal to itself, which does not hesitate with fourbement wounding Aiolia so that this last is handicapped at the time of a later combat. However he does not hesitate a second to defend his temple in front of the invasion of the Sanctuary by giants.

Techniques

Seki Shiki Meikai ha (Vague of Hadès or Circles of the spirit):

It concentrates its cosmo-energy at the end of its index to separate the heart from the body of its adversary and to aspire it to the kingdom deaths. The heart of the victim is led in a place called Yomotsu hirasaka , which one can translate by “slope of Yomi”. That resembles an obscure and sorry plain, where all the hearts of late forward towards the hells while being thrown in a well which seems bottomless. This pit is one of the entries leading to the kingdom of Hadès.

This attack is mortal if it is not countered in time or is not dodged.

psychic Capacities :

Masque of Death has psychic capacities above the average, as well as powerful capacities telekinesic, able to mobilize any thing thousands of away kilometers.

Shunreï, friend of Shiryû, will make the expenses of them: with more than 10.000 kilometers of distance, Masque of Dead will project it in the torrent of Rozan, with the Five peaks of China, since the world of died during the battle of the Sanctuary of Athéna, in Greece.

Temple

Deathmask keeps the Temple of Cancer ( Kyokaikyû in original version, that is to say literally " Temple of the Géant" Crab; , " House of Cancer" in the French version).

Voice

The very particular original voice of Deathmask is that of Ryôichi Tanaka.

In French version, it was Jacques Richard (episode 39), Henry Djanik (episodes 48 and 49), Serge Bourrier (episode 50 and in the film " Warriors of Abel ") , Sebastien Hebrant (left Hadès ) and Philippe Dumond (video game) which doubled Masque of Death.

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