Balron Lune

Balron Lune (天英星バルロンのルネ, Teneisei Baruron no Rune) is one of Hades' 108 Spectres. His power lies in the Celestial Wise Star (天英星).

The Judge's Replacement
As Gryphon Minos was busy with matters concerning the Holy War with Athena, he had selected Lune as a replacement. And Lune performed the duties smoothly in the Second Prison, until Pegasus Seiya and Andromeda Shun arrived. The Spectre demanded silence and looked up their names as he usually does with dead mortals. But to his surprise he found that their names were not in his book, he asked for their names yet again. The Pegasus replied in a harsh way, and Lune realised he had to do his duties as a Spectre as well. As the Saint rushed towards him, Lune unleashed his attack "Reincarnation". Seiya found himself seeing all the memories of when he had killed, hurt or destroyed a thing or person. And then he found himself transported to the sixth prison where he was to melt to death, but Shun's chains rescued him. The Spectre was fascinated by the chains but suddenly felt a familiar cosmos, he began wondering if the Saint wasn't Hades himself. Yet he neglected the thought and decided to finish the Andromeda Saint. He wrapped his whip around him and used the "Fire Whip" attack which decimated Shun into parts. But as he picked up the Saint's head and pondered if Shun could have been Hades, the Saint's head started to speak in a loud dark tone. It demanded to know why Lune had decimated his body, the Spectre realised it was Hades and began to panic. As he was to begin to put together the body he realised the limbs were not there anymore, and assumed they had been blown into the chasm after the Second Prison.

He refused to believe so and ran frantically outside searching for the body. On the way he encountered Wyvern Rhadamanthys, and asked him to help him search for the body of the head he was holding. The judge sneered at it and wondered what head he meant, Lune realised then that the head was his helmet and that he had been projected some sort of illusion. Wyvern realised who it was and Lune felt the presence of him, Balron unleashed his whip into the air until it wrapped itself around something. It was then Gemini Kanon revealed himself, while complaining that Lune was just about to show him the way to Hades. Lune became seriously agitated and unleashed the power of his whip, but it did not measure up to Kanon's power and he was disintegrated in an instant.

Surplice, Name and Star
The Balron Surplice represents the mythical being Balrog, created by J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings literary works, and is depicted in a sitting posture. It's anime appearance differs slightly from the original in details and color. Masami Kurumada gave him the name of one of the locations found in his The Lord of the Rings books, to create a connection with the Balrog motif he used for his Surplice.
 * Balron Surplice
 * Lune

The star originates from Hua Rong in the Water Margin story.
 * Celestial Wise Star 天英星