This ability is used as a means of branding the sacrificial offerings of desperate individuals who willingly offer as much to the God Hand in exchange for the fulfillment of a great desire. Berserk Wiki Explore. Useful Links. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Edit source History Talk 0. Cancel Save. Universal Conquest Wiki. And it could be Fricka from The Prototype. Ever since I saw Silat and Casca dish it out in volume 9, I always thought about the possibility that Silat wanted to go after the Hawks to especially kill Casca, perhaps because the reason why her folks emigrated from the Kushan Empire was because they were exiled, and maybe they were exiled from a branch of the Bakiraka clan.
Think: maybe Casca's She-Fu abilities - which are also apparent in Silat - weren't taught to her, but are innate. Basically, Casca's 'rents did something that the rest of the Bakiraka didn't like, so now there's a price on their heads, including all of their "issue", and they had to flee from the Kushan Empire to avoid possible death.
However, Casca grew up unaware of her lineage, so she has no idea what is going on. I bring this up also because a lot of fans wish for Casca to have her own story once she gets better, since they want her to be a truly independent woman who is not bound by the two dudes who essentially screwed her to begin with no pun intended. That said, some fans hypothesize that Silat could have role in her story: maybe they become comrades or rivals.
Or, it could be revealed that Casca is an heir to the Bakiraka by birthright or some other coincidence , which brings up the possiblity that she is suppose to marry Silat. Of course, if she keeps to The Chief's Daughter ideal which she sorta already has while with the Hawks , Guts has already won. But applying the above with the "At the end of the series Godhand still won't be defeated" theory stated previously, it just makes me wildly guess a bit more with Guts forms his own group of apostle hunters and eventually becomes king.
Casca is a long-lost Bakiraka princess. They both love each other a lot. Put two and two together, folks. Thus, the beginning of an awesome Heroic Lineage whose goal is to thwart Griffith's rule bonus points in that Guts himself could belong to a nation of people independent from Midland pointy ear theory , so this would effectively create an alliance between his group and the Bakiraka of Kushan.
Griffith's minions only said that they went to Spirit Mansion to take the head of a "very powerful witch. And they killed the wrong one. In fact, to speculate a bit more on Schierke's backstory, of which we know very little about, maybe Flora took in Schierke as a baby because she was destined to become a very power witch who would help Guts save the world, even surpassing Flora herself. We've come to learn that All Myths Are True in the Berserk universe, and thanks to its Layered World , we have some very reasonable explanations for how the story of Peekaf went down in reality.
Now that the layers have all merged, it's very likely that he's among the many mythical creatures that are now running around all over the place. And chances are, after growing up in isolation, surrounded by Elves who didn't accept him, that he may not be a sweet little kid anymore. Now won't that be ironic?? It wouldn't be entirely unfathomable, since the story is going into that fantastic , Heroic Fantasy route lately, and they are going to the land of fairies and everything whimsical.
Plus, it still has all of the dark undertones , since Casca is "asleep" like Snow White or Sleeping Beauty, but it's due to her insanity. Add the fact that Guts hasn't kissed Casca with love since before the Eclipse - well, why not? All of Guts' recent motives have been powered by love , why not just add another theory to the roster? Of course, no one's saying that this will all end in fairytale-ish way.
It is still Berserk. Actually this will certainly not happen but i still think the idea has potential for something ground breaking in the genre.
Gritty, down-to-earth Medieval European Fantasy? Set in one of the most horrific Crapsack Worlds imaginable? Gorn-tastic violence with disemboweling and dismemberment abound? Rampant prostitution and promiscuity? Rape as far as the eye can see? The reason that there's such a long wait between volumes is because it takes the players so long to roll ds every time they want to do something, so games last forever.
Of course, this just raises the question of why a writer as talented as Miura would think it was a good idea to play FATAL So far, we have heard little to nothing about Guts' parentage other than that he was born from a corpse in a hanging field. This little theory stems from the pointy ears, which everyone seemed to have in the early parts of the manga, but which only two characters seem to have now — Guts as a nod to his original design and Zodd who has them by dint of being a demon.
Guts can't go One-Winged Angel like a true Apostle since he has not made a sacrifice to become a demon , but he does have that Superpowered Evil Side that has quite literally hounded him throughout the post-Eclipse part of the manga and may account for his superhuman strength, speed and endurance. And Zodd certainly seems to have an odd kind of respect for the Black Swordsman despite the fact that he is his master's enemy.
Think about it for one second, other people have as much hatred as him or similar yet none of them are manifestating such a thing, my WMG is that the black beast is a spirit that is trying to gain posession of Gut's body, and it entered for the first time inside Gut's post eclipse before he developed awareness of the spirits, going a bit deeper it could be Femto just implanted the spirit to drive Guts even crazier.
But given what kind of series he's given to us, what the hell is Miura's definition of "happy"?! And she will use it to incinerate an apostle wile looking a tiny little bit too happy. The dominant theory of Gaiseric becoming the Skull Knight and the "wise man" becoming Void is a bit too obvious for a story taking decades to unfold, not to mention it relies on the existence of a previous Godhand that has otherwise not been referred to in the story.
With the information currently available a more likely origin for the Godhand and Skull Knight is this:The angels who punished Gaiseric were actually the Four Spirits, summoned by the Skull Knight to take revenge on Gaiseric for whatever reason. On the verge of death Gaiseric used an Egg of the Emperor to make a pact with the Idea of Evil, which had only recently became self aware due to the recent wars and plagues causing the world to become more miserable than it previously had been, using his subjects as the sacrifice needed to become a Godhand.
Griffith got the magnificent kingdom he always wanted, but when we get around to see him again if we all haven't become 10 years older by that time To briefly state, there are three types of common horror protagonists: the hero who overcomes, the hero who fails, and the hero who is the horror. The last two are especially popular in Japanese horror, and you see how all three of these apply to Guts. The last one is the one that I really want to look into. If we apply the "Guts isn't entirely human" theory to this, what if we were to say that the Beast was always with Guts and is an integral part of his pre-story by pre-story, I mean birth?
If Guts is part of some demonic lineage, then it would mean that the Beast is in his blood. In fact, what if there actually is a berserkr race and everyone in this group has some sort of anima that unleashes their fury or at least aides to unleash and reaches its "prime" when the individual experiences their Darkest Hour?
I guess the story is just named after Guts' extraordinary drive and endurance, or quite possibly the Berserker armor, but it would be interesting if there was a real clan of berserkers that Guts was genetically linked to. Of course, if this is true, then that would mean that Guts would be inherently evil since if any other individual's anima acts the way that Guts' does, well Going back to how Berserk is a good horror, there is another element when talking about monsters in horror stories: their symbolism and representation is most often more frightening than their actual physical appearance.
So I've always surmounted that behelits, apostles, and the whole sacrificial rite are suppose to represent the darkest recesses of the human heart So with this in mind, if we are to believe that Guts is part apostle, he merely inherited this potential for dark recourse, not necessarily an apostle's physical strength. To further add some moral complexity to it, this could be another Nature Versus Nurture thing, since if one never has to unleash their inner beast, they will never have to depend on it and have it eat away at them.
Surely not everyone born with this wants to become a fighter, and just because they might doesn't mean that they won't have a heart. Guts started his life as an innocent baby and sweet little kid but was forced into a life of violence, and although he retained a compassionate side, he still had a battle-thirsty side to him that almost went to straight up bloodlust after the Eclipse, Guts' darkest hour.
This is when the Beast actually starts to make a physical appearance, since Guts has reached his peak and is a true berserker. But now that Guts has resolved to fight more or less for love, he's trying to suppress that crazed berserker side of him, his anima. And since the Beast is just his anima anthropomorphized and not an independent entity, it's really is Guts clashing with himself. In conclusion, I guess an individual berserker's potential is dependant on how they are raised and how willing they are to embrace it, since I bet some individuals would have no problem with becoming vicious, heartless warriors if they're willing to go over the edge.
So, there's plenty of theories on how the way Puck dotes on the behelit being foreshadowing toward him becoming an apostle. OK, I can get behind this. Besides Isidro, it seems like it's the one thing he cares the most about. So, if it gets activated by Puck, we're going to find out what happens when someone sacrifices a behelit.
Probably would break the system, much like the above theory on if Guts is the one to activate the behelit and then giving a big fuck you to the God Hand. You may have noticed Farnese is gaining magical power rapidly ever since the worlds were merged, even tough she only started learning it fairly recently.
This is because magic is now a mundane fact of life that anyone can learn with relative ease, providing someone teaches them. Obviously, the god hand would have a bit of a problem if a lot of humans could use this power against them so they had Flora killed, not for her power but for her knowledge. The Idea of Evil came about because of humanity's need to believe that all the bad things that happen in the world are happening for a reason. Their collective consciousness feeds it, and it continually shapes fate and tilts things in the favour of the Godhand.
However, now that Griffith has set himself up as Messianic Archetype , people will start believing in a force of good that will protect them from the bad things that will happen.
That collective belief will create The Idea of Good, which will balance the scales and give Guts, The Skull Knight, and their allies a fighting chance. So it's time for some Casca appreciation. A lot of fans think of her as just this third-wheel character whose only real purpose in the story is to serve as a source of romantic strife. With that, fans simply surmise that when Griffith found out that Guts was going to leave a second time, that was what triggered his Despair Event Horizon.
But I think otherwise. Okay, to start, Griffith and Casca's relationship always perplexed me, mainly coming from Griffith's perspective because he's just so But I think that while Griffith never really saw her for romantic desires or as his soldier of fortune like Guts was , Casca was an important instrument to Griffith's success.
While Griffith was their leader and Guts was their champion, Casca was the embodiment of all of the their combined effort and goals and is the center of their morale: she was the Heart of the Band of the Hawk. Casca had done a great deal for the Band of the Hawk, not just for Griffith's sake, but because she saw them as her family, and loved them so. And since the Band of the Hawk was Griffith's most cherished and precious thing, it's natural that his love for Casca would have come from that, since she was the heart of all of that.
Basically, Griffith's love for Casca is loosely akin to Joseph Campbell's interpretation of the goddess figure , much like how Guts views present-day Casca in the story. As the emotional centerfold of the Hawks, Casca served as Griffith's lifeline in many ways.
While you can argue that Guts' presence distracted Griffith away from his dream and, it's a pretty damning case against Guts since Griffith even said it himself as his Wham Line , you can also argue that Casca's presence gave him focus, one example being when Griffith nearly had a breakdown after having to spend the night with General Gennon, but Casca was right there to cool him down. I think that might have actually have been the point when Griffith started viewing Casca from this standpoint, since Griffith had probably never shown that sort of vulnerability to anyway before.
To another extent, Casca also indicates the relative "health" of the Hawks. Remember that she was the only one who managed to keep the Hawks together and alive during Guts' and Griffith's absence, and Griffith was probably surprised to find out that the Hawks were still hanging by the threads, all due to Casca. However, being tortured and isolated for a year took its toll on Griffith's psychological well-being, and I think this is where Griffith's feelings toward Casca began to manifest into something else Remember that I said that Guts served as a distraction for Griffith.
I think that Griffith did love Guts, but for entirely different reasons that were pretty damn destructive, considering what Griffith went and did after Guts left. After being rescued, Griffith probably subconsciously knew that his dream was screwed, but he didn't have to believe it if he only had the Band of the Hawk with him, and most importantly, Casca.
Only problem is, Casca was being "distracted" by Guts as well I believe that's where Griffith got very desperate, so much so that he contorted his original depiction of Casca. She wasn't just his mascot anymore, but a woman, a desirable woman.
And alas, in order to cement his feelings toward her, he'd have to physically consummate that relationship. Of course you can make this 10x more creepy by saying that by having sex with Casca, Griffith would be having sex with the Band of the Hawk, the thing he loved the most. It's kinda like how priests of some religions would have sex with the temple maidens of a certain goddess in order to have symbolic sex with that goddess.
Enter the wagon scene, where it's heavily implied that Griffith was trying to rape Casca in vain. She knew that Griffith would pose no threat to her in his state, but the gesture disturbed her regardless and she reacted with fear and defiance. To be honest, whether Griffith was even a bit physically capable or if if he was trying to seduce her under consensual circumstances, I think Casca would have still rejected his advances. And that's the key to this scenario under any circumstance: Casca rejected Griffith , cementing her fidelity toward Guts.
This was a big blow to Griffith, since she would never have denied him in the past. But the biggest and final blow came when Griffith overheard Casca telling Guts that she was going to stay with Griffith and the Hawks after all No matter how much she loved them, Casca saw a life outside of Griffith and the Band of the Hawk; soon, they would no longer be her top priority.
Even if she was still physically with Griffith and the Hawks, her heart was somewhere else: with Guts. His dream was over. So while Guts' betrayal marked Griffith's first step toward his Despair Event Horizon , Casca's betrayal made him cross the finish line of that marathon.
In the end, I think this has to do with Casca's character development greatly. She obviously had some self-worth issues and was never really aware of how important she was to the success of the Hawks. Maybe Griffith wasn't even aware, and that's what leads some fans to kind of overlook Casca's role in all of this, but then I remember one really important scene that is also overlooked. Remember when Judeau was telling Casca about how he tried to organize a rescue party to search for she and Guts but how the nobles didn't agree because they were just cannon fodder to them?
So in conclusion, this makes what Griffith did to Casca during the Eclipse a zillion times worse. The God Hand has been steeped in mystery outside of their insane levels of power that we've seen them exude so far, but the fact that there was an entirely different corps of members that made up this demonic ruling class has us interested to learn more about the demons that assisted Griffith in becoming the demon known as Femto.
What do you think of this new roster for the God Hand? Do you think we're nearing the end of Berserk's story? In fact, most of the group's names have been inspired by various science-fiction novels. Slan's name comes from the novel of the same name by A. Ubik's comes from the novel of the same name by writer, Phillip K. As one could guess, the other two members' names share similar origins from older writers.
For those curious about what is under Void's cloak, look no further than the figure released of this grotesque devil. It was shown by the official Figma action figure of Void that under his cloak was simply two long arms and his vertebrae. This design may not be finalized and could completely change when it is revealed in the manga but it is an awesomely horrific one. The actual goal of the God Hand actually has yet to be revealed besides bringing eternal suffering to all of humanity.
However, series creator, Kentaro Miura, was asked about the goal behind the actions of this band. While Miura didn't go into details he did give fans a hint.
He said that it was much too early to reveal their true goal but said, "The keyword is Void. Conrad has one of the oddest appearances of all the God Hand.
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