Deep Niobe

Deep Niobe (地暗星ディープのニオベ, Chiansei Dīpu no Niobe?) is a fictional character in the Manga series Saint Seiya, authored by Masami Kurumada and later adapted to anime. He is one of Hades 108 Specters, and his power lies in the Terrestrial Darkness Star 地暗星.

From the Deep Shadows
As Hades had yet again been reborn, and a new Holy War was coming. The Specter Wyvern Rhadamanthys dispatched 17 Specters to keep tabs on the revived Gold Saints, that were to take the head of Athena. As the first guardian Aries Mu was paralyzed for a moment, three of the revived Gold Saints could go further into Athena's Sanctuary with the Specters following them. As they reached the Temple of Taurus which Taurus Aldebaran guarded, Niobe stepped forward and defeated Aldebaran with his Deep Fragrance but not before Aldebaran had used his "Great Horn" technique on him. Since he had defeated the saint in such a manner he decided to stay awhile. Aries Mu had then made his way to the Taurus Temple and found Aldebaran just standing there in his "Great Horn" technique position.

The true reason behind Aldebaran's defeat is that he was taken by surprise, because he was unable to detect Niobe in time, because he was deaf, after destroying his own eardrums in his battle against Siren Sorrento, in the Poseidon arc, both in Kurumada's manga and the anime adaptation.

The Real Specters
Suddenly the Gold Cloth disembled and in its place stood Niobe, boasting that it was he who had killed him. He was now the first real Specter that had revealed himself, and he wanted to defeat another Saint. He utilised his "Deep Fragrance" yet again, this time on Mu. Who unprepared for it staggered some bit, but suddenly disappeared in the smoke of the attack. Niobe, thinking the Gold Saints were a joke approached the Saint's location. Suddenly he found a wall of what he called ice in the room, and as the Mu's appearance became noted, the wall exploded which made Niobe fall backwards. The Aries Saint then turned around and continued to run out of the temple, leaving the confused Niobe behind. He asked were he was going, to which Mu replied that there was no point in fighting a man that was already dead. The Specter was confused, but then Mu said that before Niobe had killed Aldebaran he had used Great Horn which had shattered his body to pieces. Niobe couldn't believe what he was hearing, but suddenly his body was split to pieces.

Surplice, Star & Name*Deep Surplice
The Deep surplice is based on an as-yet unidentified creature. The Darkness star originally comes from the character Yang Lin, from the Water Margin story. The name Niobe comes from the Greek myth about the mother Niobe who had 14 children. She boasted they were better then the children of Leto, so Apollo and Artemis shot the children down.
 * Terrestrial Darkness Star (地暗星)
 * Niobe