Egg of the Perfect World

Character from Berserk by Kentaro Miura

An apostle born from absolute loneliness — a deformed outcast who became a living beherit and sacrificed himself to birth the world Griffith promised.

The Egg of the Perfect World is one of Berserk's most pitiful characters. He was born so deformed that society discarded him into a corpse pit beneath the Tower of Conviction. He lived there for years, alone with the dead, until his beherit activated and he sacrificed 'the world as it is' — not a person, but the entire existing order — to become an apostle whose purpose was to birth a perfect world. His sacrifice catalyzed Griffith's incarnation ceremony. He absorbed the Demon Child, cracked open, and Griffith emerged. The egg died fulfilled — he had created, in his mind, the beautiful world he was never allowed to live in. Whether Griffith's Falconia is actually that world or a sophisticated trap is a question the egg never lived to consider.

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A grotesque egg-shaped being with a single large eye and spindly limbs. His body is literally an egg — smooth, ovoid, wrong. Before his transformation he was a hideously deformed man living beneath the Tower of Conviction in a pit of corpses. After absorbing the Demon Child, his shell cracked to release the incarnated Griffith.

Also known as: The Nameless Apostle, The Egg

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