Leo Ilias (獅子座（レオ）のイリアス, Reo no Iriasu) is the former Saint Leo during the Holy War against Hades of the eighteenth century, told in Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas. Father to Leo Regulus, and the elder brother of Sagittarius Sisyphos. He is famous for his ability to speak to the earth. Leo Ilias could talk to the forest, the wind and the river with only one direction. Full of kindness, wisdom and courage, he was considered the most powerful Gold Saint of his generation. He died 10 years before the story at the hands of Wyvern Rhadamanthys.