Beherit

Item from Berserk by Kentaro Miura

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 despair.

Beherits are created in the Abyss and belong to specific individuals, finding their way to their destined owners through causality's design. When the owner reaches their moment of absolute despair, the beherit activates — its facial features rearrange into a single anguished expression and it tears open a gateway for the God Hand to appear. The God Hand then offers a bargain: sacrifice what you love most (family, friends, comrades) and receive power as an apostle. Accept, and your loved ones are branded and devoured. Refuse, and you die. Every apostle in Berserk — Zodd, Rosine, the Count, Ganishka, Grunbeld — was once a human who activated a beherit. Every one of them sacrificed someone. That is the economy of the Berserk universe: power is purchased with betrayal, and the currency is always someone who trusted you.

Appearance

Small egg-shaped objects covered with human facial features — eyes, nose, mouth — scattered randomly across the surface. They look profoundly wrong, like faces melted and reassembled by something that understood the components but not the arrangement. They occasionally display expressions of discomfort when handled roughly. Colors vary — most are grey or dull, unlike the unique blood-red Crimson Beherit.

Also known as: Behelit, Egg of the Conqueror

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