Cardinal Spears

## Overview

The Cardinal Pillars, also known as the Cardinal Spears, are five powerful polearms crafted from mythril and orichalcum, with an adamant blade. While four of them are named after the cardinal directions, the fifth was used by Kronos, the King of the Titans, and was not a spear like its brothers, but a scythe. The Titans of myth were the first to wield the relics, but after their lieutenants overthrew them, they were claimed by the Olympians and ended up with various users in the centuries following the war.

### Pillar of the North

It is believed that the founder of the Jotnar, Ymir, was originally the Titan Polus, the bearer of the Pillar of the North. Polus was originally assumed to be slain during the Olympians' overthrow of the Titans; however, Boreas was sent to the north to investigate rumors of Polus having fled to the North. To help him retrieve the Pillar of the North, Boreas deputized the daimon brothers Odin, Vili and Vé and together the four of them slew Ymir, allowing Boreas to return to the Olympians with the prized relic. After he became Santa Claus he gave it to Sandan to be its keeper. It acts as the Ascension Key to Nóatún. By piercing the ground with its blade, Nóatún is anchored to that location until the spear is moved, and a new location is chosen. This spear has a silver color.

### Pillar of the West

In the beginning this spear was given to Titan Iapetus to aid him with protection of the lands west of Mount Othrys. During the final battle with the Olympians Zeus took the spear and plunged the blade into Iapetus. Iapetus, after centuries of imprisonment and recovery, still wields the spear, now as Captain Planet. The spear has a red color.

### Pillar of the South

This spear belonged to Titan Krios. He didn't fight in the Titan-Olympian war from the beginning, but took part in the final battle. He died from mysterious circumstances and the spear has been missing ever since.

### Pillar of the East

Originally wielded by Titan Hyperion, the Pillar of the East was given to Heraphon, the commander of the Olympian throneguard, upon her appointment by Zeus under her mother's insistence. When she was rejected by the Council of Twelve an endowment of Titanic essence and purview as a goddess, Heraphon eventually used the spear to challenge Zeus during a heated argument, and her resulting defeat led to the alliance between the Olympians and the Heavenly Host to become voided.

After centuries of service to the Olympians, Heraphon was allowed to enter Heaven and was tasked with killing the Planetary Shaman Yeshua, and though he decided against it, a mob overrode their wishes and tortured the shaman until they condemned him to execution by the Roman custom of crucifixion. When most had grown tired of his suffering, Heraphon came forward and ended his kin's suffering by plunging his spear into his side. Disgusted by the sight of blood on its blade, Heraphon removed the spearhead and left it behind at Golgotha. The spearhead was recovered by Magdalene and eventually became known as the Spear of Destiny, the weapon of the Magdalena. The Pillar of the East has a dark blue color.

### Scythe of Saturn

As the King of the Titans, Kronos was bestowed the Scythe of Saturn by the progenitors Ouranos and Gaia. This fierce adamant relic is said to be capable of killing any and all beings, most notably having been used to violently castrate and murder Ouranos, a Primordial Daimon. The staff is gold with red stones and the blade is black.

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* Once a month, Sandan travels with the Wardens to find a suitable place to relocate Nóatún, keeping the sanctuary private. Though they generally prefer the Arctic Circle, they have begun to experiment with other remote places on Earth such as Antarctica, the Amazon, and Congo. Recently, Sandan had heard rumors of a street which regularly relocates and has begun investigating that.

## Links and References

* Gallery of the Cardinal Spears

1. ↑ VOX Box: Hellboy Saves Christmas 1
2. ↑ Dinkley Files: Gods of the Norse
3. ↑ Network Files: Iapetus
4. ↑ NFX: Heraphon
5. ↑ Network Files: Maggie Carpenter
6. ↑ RepCap: Kronos
7. ↑ Network Files: Sandan