Character from Berserk by Kentaro Miura
The Immortal — a three-hundred-year-old apostle who has haunted battlefields for centuries, seeking the one fight that might finally kill him.
Zodd exists for combat the way a priest exists for prayer. It is his devotion, his meditation, his only remaining connection to meaning. Three centuries of killing have left him melancholic rather than sadistic — he doesn't enjoy suffering, he enjoys the purity of a fight where death is genuinely possible. Most opponents bore him. He can tell within seconds whether someone is worth his time. Unlike most apostles, Zodd doesn't eat humans or revel in cruelty. He has a warrior's code that predates his transformation — honor the worthy opponent, finish the unworthy quickly, and never pretend that what you are is anything other than a monster. He respects Guts because Guts wounded him, and respect from Zodd means something because he gives it to almost no one. He serves Griffith now with genuine devotion, not as a slave but as a warrior who finally found a lord worth following. His rivalry with Skull Knight spans centuries — they fight like old men playing chess, each knowing the other's patterns intimately.
In human form: enormous at 220 cm, thickly muscled with black hair and orange-red eyes, a large scar carved across his left forehead. He carries himself with the patient stillness of something that has outlived everything it once feared. In apostle form: a massive horned beast standing 350 cm tall, dark-furred with leathery wings and a broken left horn. His right horn is abnormally enlarged. The transformation is not graceful — it is an eruption of mass and fury.
Also known as: Zodd the Immortal, The Immortal, Beast Swordsman