#God hand berserk wiki movie#

Similarly, there are two stories that might have to do with them, those of the fall of the legendary warlord-turned-emperor named Gaiseric (who lost his entire kingdom to 'four or five angels' in a single night) and that of an imprisoned sage whose laments summoned an angel to punish Gaiseric for his sins.It is strongly implied that there's at least one cult devoted to Slan, whom the cultists know as the 'Goddess of Flame'. The God Hand appears, and while a brief encounter between Guts and Femto ensues, the Count insists on sacrificing Guts for the swordsmans killing of previous apostles.As the name implies they are servants of a god (also known as the Idea of Evil).It's also strongly indicated the Skull Knight may somehow possess the ability to kill the God Hand: It's implied that he is the one who slayed the 4 original members of the God Hand or at least had a part in it, and he is the only being thus far who actively threatens the God Hand and is confident that he can kill them and the fact that both Void and Feemto, when attacked by the Skull Knight, defend themselves from the Skull Knight's attack instead of just taking the attack head-on indicates he may have in fact been able to damage or perhaps even slay them. Guts's Dragonslayer was able to destroy Slan's physical form and it's confirmed that it's demonic blood is such any supernatural creature can be harmed by it, though whether or not it can actually kill them is unlikely. Slan herself has admitted ' are not God himself'. Despite their power, the God Hand cannot completely predict the flow of causality.

#God hand berserk wiki movie#

It is also worth noting that the design of the God Hand characters show similarity to Cenobites from Hellraiser movie series, based on Clive Barker's 'The Hellbound Heart' novella. Most of the God Hand's names seem to be inspired by science-fiction novels.Guts, the main protagonist of the series, first saw the God Hand when they allowed Griffith to join them and had him reborn as Femto in exchange for all of the Band of the Hawk members to be sacrificed for his rebirth. Since then, the God Hand has served as overseers of humanity and have shaped many events of human history while also recruiting new members into the organization and gaining servants in humans who become apostles, having an absolute ruling over them. In order to do this however, they must offer a sacrifice of their loved ones, with the power in the abyss where their souls will go to fashion a new form. Once they do this, they transcend their current status and are reborn as demonic angels and emissaries of the Idea of Evil. Apostles () are inhumans who, typically having acquired and activated a beherit in a moment of anguish, summoned the God Hand and joined the ranks of. The origins of the God Hand are mysterious and unknown, but its members are known to have once been human before using a crimson behelit during a solar eclipse that occurs once every 216 years.