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is the latest reincarnation of the goddess Athena, born with the aim of leading her Saints to defend the Earth in Holy Wars. Saori can use the element of Light.

First War Against Mars
After a period of peace, the newly christened God of War known as Mars appeared and attacked Athena. Sagittarius Seiya and his companions, Cygnus Hyoga, Dragon Shiryū, Andromeda Shun, and Phoenix Ikki, returned to protect her. In addition to the God of War, the Legendary Bronze Saints had to combat his generals, the Four Heavenly Kings: Bacchus, Romulus, Vulcan, and Diana. While they were in trouble, Saori, wearing her Cloth, intervened and pierced the Four Kings with shards of light, weakening them enough that they could be sealed. (This affliction would continue to affect them when they were invoked by Pisces Amor thirteen years later, to the point the new set of Bronze Saints accompanying Pegasus Kōga were able to overcome them after a long fight.)

While Mars seemed to be on the verge of losing, Medea invoked a Dark meteorite called Erebus and summoned it to the battlefield. Saori immediately intervened to stop the danger, singlehandedly keeping back the comet. When she felt her strength give up, she noticed the presence of two babies - a red-haired boy and a blue-haired girl - in ruins not far from the site. Inspired to protect them, she courageously burned her light Cosmo to the point of reaching the children and destroying the meteorite.

However, the shock of Light and Darkness released a power that changed the appearance of Cloths and housed them in Clostones, giving the Saints and Martians control over the elements. In addition, both Mars and the little boy would be struck by the darkness. Athena hastened to rescue the boy, but did not have time to do the same for the second child, who was rescued by the god of war instead as his final act before retreating. With this event's hostilities concluded, Saori then made the oath to raise the boy, feeling responsible for the contact with the Darkness.

Second War Againts Mars
However, as first seen in the very opening scene of the series, a second war followed only a few months at the most later when Mars went to attack Athena directly at the Sanctuary as she was caring for the boy. Despite Seiya once again arriving quickly on the scene to engage in battle against the god of war, Mars was able to wound her with a mark of darkness, which appears outwardly as a reflection of outer space and also threatens to rapidly overtake one's body in proportion to the burning of their Cosmo. Seiya and the other Legendary Saints, who also intervened on Athena's behalf in this battle, were also affected by Mars' dark marks while shielding her from damage with their own bodies. Mars would retreat once again after exhausting his own power, with this war ending as abruptly as the first.

Anticipation of a Third Conflict
The threat of Mars (temporarily) removed, Saori retired to her private island along with Shaina, her butler Tokumaru Tatsumi, and the boy, named Kōga. During the thirteen years that followed, she strove to raise the boy as a mother, all the while having Shaina train him in becoming a Saint. However, she did not tell Kōga about either his origins, nor her true identity, resulting in the boy struggling to understand and accept the future placed before him. Around this time, she also found a clothless, self-imprisoned Capricorn Ionia and asked him to once again take up his gold cloth and reopen the Palestra, a school established to train new generations of Saints. He would accept and become its Principal once more.

The Third War Against Mars
Feeling the approach of an enemy once again, Saori gave Kōga the Pegasus cloth stone while presenting it as a simple gift. Shortly after this, however, the fully recovered Mars would return once again to attack Athena. Despite Kōga and Shaina's best efforts to protect her, they were easily pushed back and could only watch in horror as Mars abducted Athena. It was this event that finally motivated Kōga to become a Saint, succeeding Seiya as the Bronze Saint of the Pegasus Constellation, out of his desire to rescue and protect her; from there, his journey would begin and lead him first to Palestra. Saori, meanwhile, would be trapped in the grasp of the withered branches of a tree anchored to the foundation of the world of Mars, with her Cosmo being slowly drained to sustain the red planet. Alive but unconscious, she can neither escape nor communicate normally.

Terror Of Abzu
Transported to Mars by Amor, Kōga finally ends up finding Saori. It is at this point that Medea operates in the shadows to make him believe that his adoptive mother was made ​​to kill. Kōga, unable to control the darkness in him, finds himself possessed by the god Abzu, who immediately decided to eliminate Athena. Kōga's friends—Sōma, Yuna, Ryuho, Haruto and Eden— all try their hardest to stop its sinister design; however Abzu effortlessly takes them all out.

With only Yuna left conscious, Saori comes in telepathic contact with the Bronze Saint to encourage him to fight off Abzu's possession. However, even with Saori and Yuna's, Koga is still not strong enough to stop the God of Darkness from approaching her. It is at this juncture that Seiya is back, released from the depths of the planet. Seiya and Yuna unite their efforts to finally expel Abzu from Kōga's body, causing the now-corporeal god to retreat; however, as he hastens away into the darkness, he takes Saori with him. Kōga pursues him, and the two engage in a violent struggle, where Koga manages to both destroy Abzu and release the goddess. Abzu defeated, Saori and her Saints return to Earth and the light irradiating the resurgent blue planet wiped their wounds of Darkness.

New War
Some time after the struggle against the god of darkness, Saori has a recurring dream announcing a confrontation between her saints and the army of the goddess Pallas. Eventually she sends Seiya on a mission to kill Pallas, while a curse takes hold because of Pallas's return, represented by a purple artifact around both goddesses' right arms serving as the conduit: as she grows, Pallas will gradually absorb the energy of Athena.

Later, Saori received the Gold Saint's return from his mission. The curse and overall conflict would continue to escalate because he failed: he did indeed not dare take the life of a goddess as a child. Saori comforts him and asks him to forgive her for having faced such an experience. After the two express their mutual concern with the situation, Seiya renews his oath and promises that he will protect Saori. Shortly after, she welcomes Kōga and informs him about the situation before handing him the mission of gathering the Saints scattered throughout the world.

Launch of Hostilities
In a later meeting with all the remaining Gold Saints, when they urge her to take action to stop the growing number of Pallasite attacks worldwide, Saori expressed her doubts, wondering if she should let Pallas kill her to avoid keep harm from coming to any more victims. This is then sharply reprimanded by Taurus Harbinger, causing her to regain her determination as she decides to call all Saints to officially start the war.

During the rally, she is caused discomfort by the curse binding her to Pallas. Seiya intervenes to prevent her from falling as she momentarily collapses, while Libra Genbu takes her place in talking to the Saints and rallying them for battle against the Pallasites.