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1. #1selective

   Keys: Griffith's betrayal, betrayal

   Griffith's betrayal was an eclipse and an event where the God Hand members appeared to transform Griffith into his apostle form, Femto. This event involved Griffith, the leader of the Band of the Hawk, sacrificing his own comrades and raping Casca in front of Guts, as revenge for Guts leaving the Band of the Hawk. Both Guts and Casca were branded with the Brand of Sacrifice during the Eclipse, which attracted malevolent spirits and demons to them. This event marked the end of the Band of the Hawk.

2. #2selective

   Keys: God Hand, GodHand, the God Hand

   the God Hand are a group of five powerful and enigmatic beings. They are not typical gods, but rather transcendent entities. The God Hand's purpose is to shape the course of fate and causality in the world, often manipulating events for their own inscrutable goals. They are responsible for the creation of apostles and other supernatural occurrences. They reign over apostles as masters, and are responsible for facilitating the demonic reincarnation of behelit bearers during sacrificial ceremonies. Each member of the God Hand was once human and is a previous owner of the Behelit, which distinguished them as individuals destined to be reborn as the demon sovereigns they serve as. In 216 year increments, they each attained their proper forms during the festival known as the Eclipse. Each member of the God Hand possesses specific reality-altering abilities, including spatial, physical, and metaphysical manipulation. Though they are cognizant of causality's flow and have unparalleled foresight for most possibilities, they are not omniscient, and thus cannot anticipate everything.

3. #3selective

   Keys: Void

   Void is The leader of the God Hand, he possesses immense knowledge and is associated with fate and causality.

4. #4selective

   Keys: Slan

   Slan is the only female member of the God Hand and represents desire, lust, and hedonism.

5. #5selective

   Keys: Ubik

   Ubik is a member of the God Hand and a manipulative figure who represents illusion and deception.

6. #6selective

   Keys: Conrad

   Conrad is a member of the God Hand and he is associated with plague, pestilence, and decay.

7. #7selective

   Keys: Femto

   Femto is Griffith, the ex-leader of the Band of the Hawk, becomes a member of the God Hand after the Eclipse, taking on the name Femto. He embodies ambition and the desire for power.

8. #8selective

   Keys: band of the hawk, the band of the falcon, the Band of the Hawk, band of the falcon

   The Band of the Hawk was the most renowned mercenary group in Midland. founded and led by Griffith, Casca served as its commander, and Guts as its captain. The group met its end during the eclipse. In the eclipse, all the members, except for Guts, Casca, and Griffith (who betrayed them and transformed into Femto), managed to survive.

9. #9selective

   Keys: brand of the sacrifice, Brand of Sacrifice

   The Brand of Sacrifice is a mark that appears on those who are fated to be sacrificed to demonic forces in dark rituals. The brand looks like a series of intersecting lines in a circular pattern, often on the back of the person's neck or hand. This brand attracts evil creatures and puts the branded person's life in constant danger. It stings and bleeds when near evil creatures and apostles.

10. #10selective

    Keys: Apostles, Apostle, apostle

    Apostles are powerful and malevolent beings. They were once ordinary humans but made a dark pact with the God Hand. In exchange for sacrifices to the God Hand, apostles are granted immense power and are transformed into grotesque, monstrous forms. These forms vary widely and are often unique to each apostle. Conversely, the features of an apostle's true form are often reflected in their human form. They become servants of the God Hand and are tasked with carrying out acts of cruelty and destruction. All apostles have powerful regenerative abilities. When an apostle is killed, their spirit is dragged into the Abyss, and their physical body reverts back to its original human form with all injuries remaining on their bodies analogous to the injured parts of their previous apostle form.

11. #11selective

    Keys: Eclipse

    Eclipse is a ritual. During the Eclipse, those who have been chosen to become apostles are required to sacrifice someone dear to them, usually a loved one or close friend, as an offering. The sacrifice involves a nightmarish and gruesome process where the apostles and the sacrificed individuals are surrounded by hordes of demonic creatures. These demonic entities relentlessly chase their victims until either all the ones designated for sacrifice are killed or a certain number of them have been slain, at which point they withdraw to the abyss. This event is a dark pact that grants the apostles incredible power and immortality in exchange for their humanity.

12. #12selective

    Keys: Behelit, Beherit

    Behelit is a small, egg-shaped object with a face on its surface. It is often referred to as the "Egg of the King" and is associated with the God Hand. The Behelit is a key element in the process of becoming an apostle, as it is used to activate the Eclipse. When someone who possesses a Behelit is in a moment of great despair, the Behelit can be activated, opening a gateway to the Abyss, where the God Hand resides. This usually involves a traumatic and dramatic transformation, turning the individual into an apostle, a servant of the God Hand.

13. #13selective

    Keys: Kushans

    Kushans are a group of people who belong to the Kushan Empire.

14. #14selective

    Keys: Kushan Empire

    Kushan Empire is an empire located in the eastern regions of the world. It is known for its expansionist ambitions and its use of powerful and dark magic.

15. #15selective

    Keys: Ganishka, Emperor Ganishka

    Emperor Ganishka was the ruler of the Kushan Empire and one of the most powerful known apostles. He employed supernatural and demonic forces, including the use of apostles and magical creatures, to advance his goals of expansion and conquest. Ganishka opposed the God Hand and aimed to transcend them, but he was killed by Femto, and the pent-up power inside his body was released, causing the Great Roar of the Astral World, resulting in the city of Falconia appearing a short distance from Wyndham's remains.

16. #16selective

    Keys: Holy See, The Holy See, holy see

    The Holy See is a powerful religious organization. It represents a dominant and influential force in the realm and wields significant political and spiritual authority. The Holy See often opposes supernatural and demonic forces, including apostles and the God Hand. They consider apostles and those marked with the Brand of Sacrifice as heretics and threats to the world.

17. #17selective

    Keys: The Holy See's Inquisition

    The Holy See's Inquisition is responsible for hunting down heretics and attempting to maintain order in the face of dark and supernatural threats.

18. #18selective

    Keys: Moonlight Child, the Moonlight Boy

    The Moonlight Boy is Guts and Casca's child that they conceived when they made love for the first time, but due to the rape she suffered, the child became corrupted by demonic forces and was miscarried. It always follows them, once sacrificing itself to protect Casca, expending its energy and being left for dead. The Egg Apostle found the child on its way to aid in Griffith's rebirth and decided to take the child with him to prevent it from dying alone. During nights of the full moon, when the power of spirits is at its peak, the boy takes control of the body and resumes following his parents, disappearing once it becomes daytime. The child is currently secretly a vessel for Griffith's human form.

19. #19selective

    Keys: Elfhelm, Elfheim

    Elfhelm is a a paradisaical kingdom located on the island of Skellig in the Western Sea that serves as a sanctuary for elves and other magical creatures and a place of refuge and safety, hidden from the outside world. Guts and his companions seek Elfhelm after Skull Knight reveals that the Queen of the Elves might have the ability to heal Casca's mind. The flow of time on the island is different outside of its shores, a night in the outside world equates to a few days in Elfhelm. Many enchantments have been placed around it to keep outsiders away.

20. #20selective

    Keys: Danan, Flower Storm Monarch, Elf queen, Queen of the Elves

    Danan is the Queen of the Elves, ruling over Elfhelm on the island of Skellig. She is a tall and slender woman with long, flowing pink hair. She has a graceful and otherworldly appearance and is overall a kind woman who has the ability to access the "Corridor of Dreams", which enables her to mend the fragmented minds of subjects by looking into the deepest recesses of their hearts.

21. #21selective

    Keys: Falcon of Light, Reborn Griffith

    Falcon of Light is Griffith's reborn form. The Egg Apostle offered Griffith the choice of rebirth, allowing him to return to a physical form. Griffith, still driven by his ambition and desire to fulfill his dream, accepts this offer. He sacrifices a part of his own essence to be reborn into a new physical body. Griffith was reborn as the "Falcon of Light." His new body possessed a stunning and ethereal appearance that starkly contrasted with his previous monstrous form as Femto.

22. #22selective

    Keys: Falconia

    Falconia is the capital of Midland, situated near the foot of the World Spiral Tree atop the land where Wyndham once sat and is Griffith's kingdom and where he and most important confidants reside. After his rebirth, Griffith, now known as the Falcon of Light, established his own kingdom, Falconia, and rapidly rose to great political and military prominence.

23. #23selective

    Keys: World Spiral Tree, World Tree, Great Helix Tree, Twin Tree

    The World Tree is an enormous tree consisting of two immense, arching trunks intertwined in a helix-shape, with branches that scrape the sky. At the foot of the tree sits the city of Falconia.

24. #24selective

    Keys: Great Roar of the Astral World

    The Great Roar of the Astral World was an event that occurred on the day of Griffith's rebirth as the Falcon of Light, which led to the merging of the Physical World and the Astral World into one—the global Interstice of Fantasia. As a result, there was an influx of astral creatures entering the world of humanity, leaving Griffith's capital city of Falconia as the sole safe haven from malevolent astral beings.

25. #25selective

    Keys: Queen Charlotte, Charlotte

    Charlotte is the Queen of Falconia and Griffith's fiancée, residing in Falconia alongside her betrothed. She is a brunette with a petite build, a pale complexion and dark eyes with long, curly hair.

26. #26selective

    Keys: Midland, midland

    Midland is a monarchy under the influence of the Holy See. Midland regains preeminence following the Great Roar of the Astral World, after which Falconia surfaces atop the land where Wyndham once sat as its new capital, and as the sole safe haven in Fantasia for humanity; as such, Midland is thought to be one of the only domains in Fantasia to have retained some semblance of government, law, and order.

27. #27selective

    Keys: Wyndham

    Wyndham was the capital of the Kingdom of Midland. Upon the King of Midland's passing, the city was turned over to Emperor Ganishka, who occupied it during his invasion of Midland. Ganishka held the city until he ultimately and unintentionally destroyed it by trampling on it in his transformed Shiva state.

28. #28selective

    Keys: Egg of the Perfect World, Egg Apostle

    The Egg Apostle was an outcast of society who became an apostle, watching over the city of Albion. He appeared as a squat, flesh-colored beherit with orange eyes, standing upon two human legs and two tentacle-like extensions. This apostle bore a Brand of Sacrifice on his tongue

29. #29selective

    Keys: Albion

    Albion is a ruined city under the jurisdiction of the Holy See. It is notable for the monastery central to the city known as the Tower of Conviction, but the Tower, along with the city, were destroyed after they were engulfed by a massive, nightmarish vortex of souls and astral beings.

30. #30selective

    Keys: Causality

    Causality is the principle of cause and effect. On its own, causality is simply an abstraction and is divorced from destiny , also known as fate, which is an arbitrarily powerful enforcement of predetermined events in conjunction with the inevitable events predetermined by such an enforcement.

31. #31selective

    Keys: Hell, Abyss

    Abyss is the deepest level of the Astral World. It is called "Hell" by some. Those that make sacrifices to the God Hand, and others who are caught up with demonkind, which usually includes the victims of those same apostles, are taken there when they die.

32. #32selective

    Keys: Idea of Evil, evil

    The Idea of Evil is a primal entity residing in the Abyss. It is responsible for dictating the fate of humanity through its application of causality, acting on the species' collective unconscious will. It was created from the negative emotions in human hearts.

33. #33selective

    Keys: astral world, Astral World

    The Astral World is a fundamental realm of the universe, together with the Physical World. It is the plane in which ethereal beings reside – the World of Spirits. It is home to numerous creatures of legend on its surface layers, as well as profound forces of nature near its deeper strata.

34. #34selective

    Keys: Physical World, normal world

    The Physical World is a fundamental realm of the universe, together with the Astral World. This is the realm in which humanity has always predominantly resided.

35. #35selective

    Keys: Skull Knight, SkullKnight

    Skull Knight is an enigmatic and aloof figure and a self-proclaimed "foe of the inhumans", having waged war against demonkind for a millennium. Approximately 1000 years old, he has vast knowledge of events surrounding the world, as well as remarkable foresight regarding the flow of causality. It is the Skull Knight who breaks into the fifth Eclipse and saves Guts and Casca from their deaths. He serves as a mentor and ally to Guts. He provides Guts with guidance and valuable information regarding the supernatural elements of the world, such as the nature of apostles and the God Hand.

36. #36selective

    Keys: Skull Knight's Sword, Sword of Behelits

    Skull Knight's Sword is a thorned sword wielded by the Skull Knight against inhumans, namely apostles and God Hand members. The Skull Knight is capable of coating the sword in a molten mass of ingested beherits stored within him, forming the Sword of Beherits. By virtue of being comprised of numerous molten beherits, the Sword of Beherits is capable of reaching into the deepest depths of the Astral World, due to the ability of beherits to cut through dimensions. The sword can also be used to cut open astral portals leading to other locations in the Physical World, allowing for nigh-instant travel.

37. #37selective

    Keys: Reborn Band of the Hawk, New Band of the Hawk

    The Reborn Band of the Hawk is the reformed Band of the Hawk, named after its original namesake, it is led by Griffith after his rebirth. The new Band of the Hawk is composed of apostles and other supernatural beings and is dedicated to serving Griffith's ambitions and helping him establish his own kingdom, Falconia.

38. #38selective

    Keys: Zodd

    Zodd is a legendary swordsman and powerful apostle and a High-ranking member of the reborn Band of the Hawk. After being defeated by Griffith, Zodd recognizes him as his new master and obediently follows his commands. In his apostle form, Zodd's appearance is monstrous. He transforms into a gigantic humanoid beast with bull-like features such as horns, a hulking body, a monstrous face, and giant dark wings on his back.

39. #39selective

    Keys: Locus

    Locus is a stoic apostle who serves in the reborn Band of the Hawk as captain of the army's lancers. Off the battlefield, he is Griffith's immediate auxiliary in political affairs. Locus' weapon of choice is a large lance, which he is masterful at wielding in combat. In his normal form, he can generate enough force behind his lance to fell several enemies in a single strike. In his apostle form, his lance transforms into a thicker, sharper version of its original state, and his already masterful lancemanship becomes even more destructive and efficient

40. #40selective

    Keys: Grunbeld

    Grunbeld is an apostle who serves together with Zodd, Locus, Irvine and Rakshas under the reborn Griffith in his reborn Band of the Hawk. Grunbeld is the leader of the Band of the Hawk giants. Grunbeld's human form is inhumanly tall, and he is most often seen wearing an elaborate set of silver armor fashioned in the shape of a dragon, the jaws of which reveal his face. Even in his human form his appearance is beastly, with sharp pointed teeth, red hair and reptilian eyes. In his apostle form, Grunbeld is a great four-legged fire dragon covered with stalactites made of corundum, his face being shielded by a layer of the crystal. His hide is depicted as being dark grey in color, and the corundum stalactites are colored a dark magenta at their base.

41. #41selective

    Keys: Rakshas

    Rakshas is a mysterious figure exiled from the Kushan Empire prior to becoming an apostle, and presently the commander of the demon search and destroy squad of Griffith's reborn Band of the Hawk. His powers appear to be amorphous shape shifting, enhanced agility, and exceptional stealth. He is completely black, resembling a cloak that can alter its shape. Rakshas is also faceless with the only features being three eyes and a slight protrusion of his nose. He originally wore a mask with the spikes on the bottom resembling teeth, replacing it with one with feather-like carvings around the eye holes after Silat destroyed it. In apostle form, he becomes larger and more monstrous, his tentacles gaining more dexterity, but otherwise looks similar to his 'human' self. When flying, the many amorphous protrusions appear to resemble hundreds of bat wings.

42. #42selective

    Keys: Irvine

    Irvine is an apostle who serves together with Zodd, Locus, Grunbeld and Rakshas under the reborn Griffith in his reborn Band of the Hawk. He serves as captain of the archers. In his human form, Irvine looks like a slender human. Irvine's most noticeable feature is his eyes; they are completely white, lacking corneas and irises. Unlike his peers, Irvine excels in the art of ranged combat. As a result, Irvine is not dressed in armor. In his apostle form, his slender figure is jointed to a wolf-like creature that appears to be a metamorphosis of his bow. The animal body possesses long horns and thick fur along its neck. At the back of the creature, Irvine's lower torso and arms become covered in dark fur, and two antennae-like horns protrude from the center of his forehead.

43. #43selective

    Keys: forehead bitch, Sonia

    Sonia is a member of Griffith's reborn Band of the Hawk, serving as their medium. She is a happy-go-lucky human girl with fairly long, blond hair. She has a rather large forehead and wide, bright blue eyes. She is a mind-reader, as well as a prophetess. She uses her abilities to aid in the reborn Band of the Hawk's campaigns by sharing her mental images with other people.

44. #44selective

    Keys: hill of the swords, Hill of Swords

    Hill of Swords is a large hilled mountain covered in snow. In the ground there are a number of swords created by Rickert, each representing a member of the fallen Band of the Hawk from the Eclipse

45. #45selective

    Keys: Godot

    Godot was a blacksmith who lived in a remote mountainous area near Midland. He became famous because of his versatility, crafting anything asked of him, including the Dragon Slayer. Godot also crafted the basis for Guts' mechanical prosthetic arm before Rickert assembled it from pieces he found in Godot's storehouse. He died soon from natural causes.

46. #46selective

    Keys: Rickert

    Rickert is a former member of the original Band of the Hawk, and a prodigious engineer and blacksmith. He was one of the only survivors of the original Band of the Hawk because he happened to be outside the Eclipse when it occurred. He lived with Erica, Godot's adoptive daughter, in the mountains, honing his engineering and blacksmithing skills. However, after the events of the Great Roar of the Astral World, their mountain cottage was overrun, and they sought refuge within Falconia. Their stay there was short-lived, though, as Rickert brazenly displayed his detachment from Griffith's dream by slapping his former leader, and he was subsequently forced to flee the city."

47. #47selective

    Keys: Berserker Armor, Berserk Armor

    The Berserker Armor is a suit of highly durable body armor currently worn by Guts. Wearers of the armor are aptly named "berserkers", due to the superhuman strength and inhuman ferocity they are bestowed. The armor suppresses its wearer's pain and fear, which would normally prevent a person from exerting enough force to injure themselves. The result is a significant augmentation of the wearer's physicality, increasing strength and speed to previously unimaginable levels. The armor does this by eliminating the distress caused by pain; the wearer can still feel pain as a sensation, but the mind does not interpret the pain as being a problem, allowing for it to simply be ignored. It also invokes a tremendous bloodlust in the wearer, amplifying negative emotions like hate, fear, and anger that enable the wearer to fight harder. The armor also temporarily repairs debilitating injuries in the heat of battle. For instance, a broken arm will be pieced together by the armor injecting thin spines from itself into the broken bones, returning them to their proper places and restoring the limb's functionality, but leaving its wearer severely injured after battle. The main drawback is that if the wearer does not actively manage or control their negative emotions, the Od can consume the wearer's psyche, transforming them into a feral, bloodthirsty monster that can no longer differentiate between friend and foe.

48. #48selective

    Keys: od, Od

    Od is the life force which pervades all things in the universe. Manipulation of Od is a pillar of magic, underpinning many powerful techniques employed by mages.

49. #49selective

    Keys: Magic

    Magic is cast, generally, by witches and wizards. Besides these, elves can also cast magic. Magic is used through manipulation of the spiritual realm through od, which lays inside spirits and souls.

50. #50selective

    Keys: Beast of Darkness

    The Beast of Darkness is the manifestation of Guts' wrath and bloodlust, born from the trauma of his experiences during the Eclipse and his intense vindictiveness toward demonkind. As an amalgamation of the swordsman's malice, it relentlessly attempts to overtake his mind. The Beast of Darkness's influence on Guts intensifies with his negative emotions, especially when he activates the Berserker Armor. In this state, Guts fights without restraint and can overwhelm powerful foes. The Beast can temporarily overtake Guts' rational mind when using the Berserker Armor, and its presence is fueled by repeated use. Schierke's magic, Guts' willpower, and the Moonlight Boy can hinder the Beast's control, but it's never permanently expelled, only temporarily subdued. The constraints on its influence won't last forever.

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