Sacred Gear

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The Longinus Sacred Gear, Canis Lykaon

**Sacred Gears** (神器セイクリッド・ギア, *Seikuriddo Gia*), also known as **God's Artifacts** (神器, *Jingi*), are items that have powerful abilities bestowed upon humans by the God of the Bible.

## Summary

The God of the Bible created the Sacred Gears as a part of his system in order to enact miracles on Earth. Sacred Gears appeared in other factions around the Human World including the Shinto Faction where all the Japanese Gods reside instead of them being limited to those within the Christian Faction. It is also described that certain individuals with Sacred Gears are said to grow influential and powerful around the Human World, with even their names forever etched into history.

There are various kinds of Sacred Gears, most of them being among the same kind ranging from common Sacred Gears to rarer ones, as well as those that are more unique such as the Longinus like Canis Lykaon.

Those who are born with Sacred Gears are limited to humans or half-humans like Vali Lucifer who is a half-devil. Whenever a Sacred Gear possessor dies, their Sacred Gear is later reborn into another possessor.

## Abilities

Sacred Gears can have various effects and abilities, such as Canis Lykaon, which can manifest a small black dog that can summon blades from itself. Sacred Gears are able to also adapt and evolve based around their wielder's thoughts, needs, and feelings, gaining abilities or qualities as time passes, first seen by Jin who had become able to grow distorted blades from shadows.

### Balance Breaker

Sacred Gears have an ultimate state of activation, referred to as the **Balance Breaker** and **Forbidden Move**, which is the most powerful manifestation of the Sacred Gear.

Once reached, the Balance Breaker can be entered again far more easily than the first time. A rare case among them being Tobio Ikuse who awakened his Balance Breaker from the moment he was born. An incomplete version of the Balance Breaker has shown to be possible as seen in Volume 2, when Hyousuke Koga was experimented on by Satanael and used a gauntlet created based on the Heavenly Dragons to activate his incomplete Balance Breaker.

## Types

### Longinus

Aside from the normal Sacred Gears, there are the Longinus. The Longinus are unique top-tier Sacred Gears, each having multiple abilities compared to a normal Sacred Gear which only has one, and has the power to slay Gods. There are 13 Longinus in total.

### Independent Avatar Type

The Independent Avatar Sacred Gears are Sacred Gears that create an avatar, in the form of an animal most of the time, and can act independently while protecting their possessor or team up with them in combat. Among the Independent Avatars, there are four Sacred Gears, which has special beings sealed in them known as the **Four Fiends** has top-class abilities compared to other Independent Avatar Sacred Gears and are the main target of the Utsusemi Agency.

Known Sacred Gears of this type are:

* Canis Lykaon
* Absolute Demise

### Sealed Evil Spirit Type

The Sealed Evil Spirit Sacred Gears are Sacred Gears that contain certain creatures sealed within them, allowing the user to manifest the power of those creatures and use their abilities.

Known Sacred Gears of this type are:

* Divine Dividing

Other Sacred Gear types include the ‘State Alteration’, ‘Boundary Seal’, ‘Attribute’, ‘Defense’, ‘Counter’, and ‘Create’, among others.

## Trivia

* The main focus of both the original SLASHDØG and the reboot The Fallen Dog God -SLASHDØG- has been the Independent Avatar Sacred Gears.
* There are many Sacred Gears that are unable to be categorized into certain types.
* Sacred Gears such as the Divine Dividing can be categorized into both the 'Sealed Evil Spirit' and 'State Alteration' types.