Character from Berserk by Kentaro Miura
The Kushan Emperor who became an apostle and defied the God Hand — a paranoid tyrant whose final transformation into a world-ending abomination accidentally birthed a new age.
Ganishka learned young that power was the only defense in a world of vipers. His mother poisoned him. He killed his brother, his father, and eventually his own son (sacrificing the boy to become an apostle when assassins came for him). He conquered the largest empire in the world through fear and military genius. Unlike other apostles, Ganishka refused to submit to the God Hand. He considered himself superior — a king who answered to no one, not even gods. When Griffith incarnated and humiliated him, Ganishka's ego couldn't survive it. He descended into the Man-Made Beherit for a second reincarnation, becoming a thing beyond apostle or human — and in doing so, became the catalyst for the Great Wave of the Astral World when Skull Knight's redirected attack split his body into a dimensional rift. The World Spiral Tree grew where he fell.
In human form: a dark-haired, scarred man of imposing build with a scar projecting between his eyes where Guts pierced his astral body. In fog form: a towering manifestation of his own face made from gathered wind and water elementals. In his Shiva form: a skyscraper-sized eldritch abomination with multiple fire-breathing mouths — a thing so large it could trample cities by existing.
Also known as: Emperor of the Kushan Empire, Shiva