Orfeu de Lira, also known as Orphée or Orpheus, serves as a Silver Saint of Athena. His exceptional combat skill and musical talent reportedly eclipse even Gold Saints. His Silver Cloth represents the Lyra constellation. His past centers on profound tragedy involving his beloved Eurydice. Following her death from a venomous snake bite, Orfeu descended into the Underworld to implore Hades for her return. Acting for Hades, Pandora permitted this under one condition: Orfeu must not look back at Eurydice during their ascent. Nearing the surface, a deceptive light—later exposed as a trick by Pandora and the Specter Sphinx Pharaoh—caused Orfeu to glance backward, resulting in Eurydice's permanent petrification. Heartbroken, Orfeu remained in the Underworld, vowing eternal lyre songs for her and ultimately joining Hades' forces out of perceived obligation. During the Holy War against Hades, Orfeu confronted Pegasus Seiya and Andromeda Shun in the Underworld's Second Prison. Initially appearing loyal, he overpowered them with his Stringer Nocturne technique. Yet, after Eurydice's petrified form in a garden urged the Bronze Saints to save Orfeu, he spared them in warrior's respect. When Pharaoh seized Athena's Cloth and revealed his role in Eurydice's fate—using a mirror to create the deceptive light—Orfeu turned on him. He shattered the mirror and defeated Pharaoh by reversing the Hell's Requiem attack with his lyre strings, then allied with Seiya and Shun. Orfeu devised a plan to assassinate Hades, smuggling Seiya and Shun inside a flower coffer presented to Pandora in Giudecca. While performing on his lyre for Hades and the Three Judges (Minos, Aiacos, and Radamanthys), he wove the Death Trip Serenade into the music, putting Pandora, Minos, and Aiacos to sleep. He struck at Hades with Final Chord, only to discover he had attacked an illusion—Hades' true form resembled Shun. Radamanthys intervened, inflicting mortal wounds. In his final act, Orfeu restrained Radamanthys and urged Seiya to strike them both with Pegasus Ryūsei Ken, sacrificing himself to ensure the Specter's defeat. Dying, he entrusted Athena's protection to Seiya. In the separate continuity of the film *Saint Seiya: The Movie*, the goddess Eris resurrected Orfeu alongside other Silver Saints to conquer Earth. He battled Andromeda Shun and Phoenix Ikki, demonstrating immunity to Ikki's illusions due to his Underworld experience. Shun defeated him with Stringer Requiem; though Ikki intervened, Orfeu ultimately returned to the afterlife. **Abilities and Techniques** Orfeu wielded his lyre as both instrument and weapon. His primary technique, Stringer Nocturne, emitted melodies capable of incapacitation or pulverization. The lyre's strings could entangle foes, as seen in Stringer Requiem. He mastered the Seventh Sense (Miraculosity), enabling atomic-level destruction and light-speed movement. His Silver Cloth endured temperatures as low as -200°C. **Mythological Basis** Orfeu directly embodies the Greek myth of Orpheus: a virtuoso musician who journeyed to the Underworld for Eurydice, faced a prohibitive condition during their return, and lost her due to a backward glance. Both share associations with the Argonauts, divine patrons (Apollo/Athena), and tragic ends involving dismemberment (by Maenads in myth, Radamanthys in *Saint Seiya*).