Berserk

by Kentaro Miura

Guts is a lone swordsman branded by a curse that draws demonic entities to him nightly. Wielding a sword too large for any normal human, he hunts the God Hand — demonic beings who were once the leaders of the Band of the Hawk, the mercenary company that was his family. Berserk is one of the most influential dark fantasy manga ever created, spanning themes of friendship, betrayal, and the will to survive against cosmic horror.

82 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Azan — A Holy Iron Chain Knight of unshakable principle — a broad-shouldered veteran who fights with a quarterstaff and believes in justice more stubbornly t
• Casca — The Band of the Hawk's fiercest commander — a woman who clawed her way from peasant girl to war leader, only to have her mind shattered by the man she
• Conrad — The silent plague-bringer of the God Hand — a bloated, larval presence who spreads pestilence and rot wherever the flow of causality requires decay.
• Corkus — The Band of the Hawk's most bitter voice — a failed thief who found purpose in Griffith's dream and resented anyone who didn't need it as badly as he
• Daiba — An ancient Kushan sorcerer who commanded demons for Emperor Ganishka — and survived the empire's fall to find unlikely refuge with the very people he
• Danan — The Flower Storm Monarch — ancient ruler of Elfhelm whose cherry blossom magic holds the last true sanctuary in a world overrun by darkness.
• Demon Child — The cursed offspring of Guts and Casca — tainted by Femto's violation, born deformed, existing between worlds, and somehow still reaching for its pare
• Egg of the Perfect World — An apostle born from absolute loneliness — a deformed outcast who became a living beherit and sacrificed himself to birth the world Griffith promised.
• Emperor Gaiseric — The legendary conqueror who unified Midland a thousand years ago — whose capital was destroyed by angels and whose fate became the longest-running mys
• Emperor Ganishka — The Kushan Emperor who became an apostle and defied the God Hand — a paranoid tyrant whose final transformation into a world-ending abomination accide
• Erica — Godot's cheerful adopted granddaughter — a bright spark of normalcy in a blacksmith's forge that sheltered branded survivors and forged demon-killing
• Farnese de Vandimion — A noblewoman who commanded heretic burnings to fill the void her family's neglect left — until a black swordsman shattered her faith and she rebuilt h
• Flora — An ancient witch who guarded the Berserker Armor in a spirit tree for centuries — Schierke's beloved teacher, Skull Knight's oldest ally, and the last
• Gambino — The mercenary who raised Guts — a broken man who taught his adopted son to fight, sold him to a predator, and tried to kill him when the guilt became
• Gaston — Guts' most loyal lieutenant in the Band of the Hawk — a common soldier who followed his captain into every battle and died at the Eclipse still believ
• General Owen — Midland's veteran general — a loyal soldier who served the old kingdom and now guards Falconia's castle, pragmatic enough to serve the new order when
• Godot — The cantankerous old blacksmith who forged the Dragon Slayer — a craftsman who gave Guts a sword, a place to rest, and the kind of gruff honesty only
• Griffith — The White Falcon — a beautiful, brilliant, merciless dreamer who sacrificed everyone who loved him to become a god, and built paradise on a foundation
• Grunbeld — A dragon-apostle knight who sacrificed the only people who believed in him — now serves Griffith with the rigid honor of a man who chose power over lo
• Guts — The Black Swordsman — a man born from a corpse, raised on battlefields, and branded for sacrifice, who answers the inevitability of fate by swinging a
• Hanarr — The dwarf blacksmith who forged the Berserker Armor — an ancient craftsman in Elfhelm whose creations have shaped the war between humans and demons fo
• Irvine — The silent archer of the reborn Band — a solitary apostle who plays the lute by firelight and shoots arrows that expand inside their targets like bloo
• Isidro — A street thief who ran away from home to become the greatest swordsman alive — and accidentally found himself in the company of the one man who might
• Ivalera — Schierke's tiny elf companion — a sharp-tongued pisky who serves as conscience, commentator, and perpetual source of exasperation for everyone around
• Jerome — A Holy Iron Chain Knight from noble blood who fell for a prostitute — proving that even in Berserk's bleak world, someone can choose love over station
• Jill — A village girl who watched her childhood friend become a monster and chose to stay human — one of the few people in Berserk who looked at escape and c
• Judeau — The Band of the Hawk's quiet heart — a jack-of-all-trades who could read everyone's feelings except his own, and died shielding the woman he never tol
• King of Midland — The king who imprisoned Griffith and doomed his kingdom — a father consumed by jealousy and grief who descended from ruler to predator in his final ye
• Locus — The Moonlight Knight — an apostle knight of legendary honor who never submitted to any master until Griffith, and whose centaur form is the most elega
• Luca — A prostitute with the strategic mind of a general and the moral backbone of a saint — the woman who named Casca 'Elaine' and kept her alive when no on
• Magnifico de Vandimion — Farnese's cowardly, scheming brother — a Vandimion noble who tags along with Guts' party because the alternative is facing the new world alone.
• Mozgus — The Holy See's most feared inquisitor — a man whose face was flattened by years of fanatical prostration and whose faith was so absolute it survived h
• Mule Wolflame — A young Holy See knight swept up in Griffith's gravity — earnest, idealistic, and increasingly entangled with the prophetess Sonia in ways that compli
• Nina — A terrified young prostitute who betrayed everyone around her out of cowardice — and survived because Luca refused to give up on her even when she des
• Nosferatu Zodd — The Immortal — a three-hundred-year-old apostle who has haunted battlefields for centuries, seeking the one fight that might finally kill him.
• Pippin — The Band of the Hawk's silent giant — a former miner who spoke in actions, shielded his friends with his body, and died making sure someone else would
• Princess Charlotte — Midland's sheltered princess — a gentle soul whose unwavering love for Griffith survived his imprisonment, his transformation, and truths that would h
• Puck — A tiny wind spirit elf with healing dust and an enormous heart — the first creature in years to look at the Black Swordsman and see a person instead o
• Rakshas — A shapeshifting assassin who serves Griffith while openly planning to decapitate him one day — an exiled Bakiraka clansman whose loyalty is a blade po
• Rickert — The youngest Hawk and the only one absent from the Eclipse — a gentle engineer who answered Griffith's godhood with the most human response possible:
• Roderick of Stauffen — A dashing naval captain and Farnese's arranged fiance — a man of genuine charm who sailed Guts' party across monster-infested seas to Elfhelm.
• Rosine — A child who dreamed of being an elf so desperately she became a monster — sacrificing her parents and kidnapping children to build a fairy kingdom tha
• Schierke — A young witch prodigy who left her forest sanctuary to follow a man consumed by darkness — and became the only person who can pull him back from it.
• Sea God — An ancient astral entity sleeping beneath the ocean — a living island of hunger whose heartbeat drew ships to their doom until the Black Swordsman wen
• Serpico — Farnese's shadow — a half-brother disguised as a servant, whose gentle smile conceals a fencer's precision and a willingness to kill anyone who threat
• Silat — The Bakiraka clan's heir — a proud Kushan warrior who has crossed blades with Guts three times, lost every time, and keeps showing up because honor de
• Skull Knight — An undead king entombed in ancient armor who has waged a thousand-year war against the God Hand — not because he believes he can win, but because the
• Slan — The Whore Princess of the Uterine Sea — a God Hand member who finds ecstasy in human suffering and has taken a dangerously personal interest in the Bl
• Sonia — A young prophetess whose psychic gifts drew her to Griffith like a moth to a falcon — cheerful, devoted, and utterly incapable of seeing the darkness
• The Count — A monstrous slug-apostle who rules his domain through fear — and chose to die rather than sacrifice his daughter when the God Hand offered him a secon
• Theresia — The Count's innocent daughter who watched her father choose death over sacrificing her — and swore revenge on the man who made it necessary.
• Ubik — The smallest of the God Hand — a floating imp who dissects human desire with the clinical glee of a torturer who genuinely believes he's helping.
• Void — The eldest of the God Hand — a flayed philosopher-demon who brands sacrifices with mathematical precision and speaks of fate as though reading from a
• Wyald — An apostle of pure savagery — the Black Dog Knights' commander who lived by the motto 'enjoyment and excitement' and turned every battle into a massac

Locations

• Doldrey — The impregnable border fortress — held by Tudor for a hundred years until Griffith took it with a handful of Hawks and changed the course of history.
• Eclipse Grounds — The dimension where the God Hand conducts sacrificial ceremonies — a place outside time where the sky bleeds and the faces of demons stretch to infini
• Elfhelm — The last true sanctuary — an elven paradise on the island of Skellig where cherry blossoms never stop falling and time flows differently than in the b
• Enoch Village — A remote village near Flora's spirit tree — peaceful until trolls spilled from Qliphoth and the world's darkness reached even its quiet streets.
• Falconia — Griffith's utopia — a gleaming city built near the World Spiral Tree where humanity shelters from the monsters its savior unleashed, worshipping the g
• Flora's Spirit Tree Mansion — A witch's sanctuary built within an ancient spirit tree — where the Berserker Armor waited for centuries and healing talismans were crafted with love
• Godot's Forge — A remote mountain forge where the Dragon Slayer was born and branded survivors found shelter — the closest thing to home Guts had after the Eclipse.
• Kushan Empire — A vast eastern empire ruled by an apostle emperor — the military force that nearly conquered Midland before Griffith's return made both sides irreleva
• Midland — A medieval kingdom at the continent's center — founded on the ruins of an ancient empire, shaped by a hundred years of war, and transformed into the l
• Misty Valley — A fog-shrouded valley where a child-apostle built a fairy kingdom from stolen children — beautiful on the surface, nightmarish beneath.
• Pandemonium — The dome behind Falconia where apostles live and kill for sport — the dark engine behind the shining city, hidden from its grateful citizens.
• Qliphoth — A realm of darkness where trolls breed and God Hand members manifest — the Astral World's sewer, leaking into the physical world through cracks in rea
• Skellig — An unmapped island in the Western Sea where Elfhelm hides — the destination Guts' party fought monsters, storms, and despair to reach.
• Tower of Conviction — The Holy See's monument to fanaticism — a tower where heretics were tortured in God's name, and where Griffith was reborn in flesh through the blood o
• Tower of Rebirth — The dungeon where Griffith was tortured for a year — a place of such systematic cruelty that what emerged from it was no longer entirely human.
• Vritannis — The Holy See's port city where the alliance against Ganishka gathered — a maritime hub that became a war zone when the Kushan Emperor's fog rolled in.
• World Spiral Tree — The impossible tree that grew from Ganishka's corpse — a dimensional landmark connecting the merged physical and astral worlds, visible from every cor
• Wyndham — Midland's fallen capital — a city built on Gaiseric's ruins, destroyed by Ganishka's monstrous transformation, and replaced by Falconia rising from it

Items

• Beherit — Egg-shaped keys to damnation — small objects covered in scrambled human faces that summon the God Hand when their owners reach the absolute bottom of
• Berserker Armor — An ancient suit of cursed armor that devours its wearer's humanity in exchange for power beyond mortal limits — the Skull Knight wore it until it drai
• Brand of Sacrifice — The mark that condemns — a brand burned into sacrificial victims that draws evil spirits like blood draws sharks, ensuring the branded can never rest,
• Cannon Arm — Rickert's masterpiece — a prosthetic forearm with a built-in cannon that replaced what Guts lost at the Eclipse and gave him back the ability to fight
• Crimson Beherit — The Egg of the King — a blood-red artifact that appears once every 216 years to offer one person the world in exchange for everyone they love.
• Dragon Slayer — Too big to be called a sword — a slab of iron forged to kill dragons that found its purpose killing things far worse, tempered by the malice of every
• Salamander Dagger — A fire-enchanted blade given to a boy who needed every advantage he could get — small enough for Isidro's hand, hot enough to burn things that shouldn
• Sword of Beherits — Skull Knight's ultimate weapon — a blade coated with ingested beherits that can cut through the barriers between dimensions.
• Sylph Cloak — A wind-spirit garment that grants flight and shields its wearer in currents of air — turning a bodyguard into something the wind itself obeys.
• Sylph Sword — A wind-enchanted blade crafted from eagle feather and mistletoe — giving a fencer the power to cut with invisible currents and fight things no rapier

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