

There is a distortion to his cloak and body, and he is able to open an interdimensional portal at will. But as soon as he got caught up in the Idea of Evils, his head featured an exposed brain, stitches to close the eyes, and lips peeled back. Void was once a man with more of a human appearance.

Upon summoning through the Behelit of a tortured soul, he personally marks the victims so that they may become Apostles. The oldest of the God Hand, he is the de facto leader of the group. The Astral World’s Great Roar, however, allows them to manifest proper forms in Fantasia. When they manifest rudimentary forms elsewhere, their powers appear diminished, despite being extremely powerful within the divine domain of the Astral World. Since the God Hand’s proper forms were shaped out of swells of collective human negativity, it can exist anywhere in essence, in swells of negative human thought. Although they are cognizant of causality’s flow and possess unprecedented foresight, they are not full-fledged gods, and cannot anticipate everything. Each one has specific abilities that alter reality, including spatial, that Void and Femto possess, physical, that Slan and Conrad possess, and metaphysical manipulation, that Ubik possesses. The God Hand consists of the five most powerful demons, so dominant that even the strongest of apostles are bound to obey them. Gus, the main character in the series, first encountered the God Hand when they offered Griffith the chance to join them in exchange for sacrificing each member of the Band of the Hawk.Įach member is equal, and they have their own purpose, but it appears that The Void is the “leader” since he’s the one who places the brands on people. Over the years, the God Hand has overseen mankind shaping many events of human history and gaining new members, as well as gaining servants within humans who have become apostles and are subjects of the God Hand. To achieve this, however, they must offer their loved ones in sacrifice with power in the Abyss where their souls will go to create a new form. They are then reborn as demonic angels and emissaries of the Idea of Evil once they do this. While the origins of the God Hand are unknown, members of the group used a crimson behelit at the time of the solar eclipse every 216 years. The number of crimson behelits is unknown, as is whether they came to each of them in turn or if there are five in all. To transcend their humanity, they each possessed and used crimson behelits known as the Egg of the King. Their original purpose was to serve the Idea of Evil’s purpose of giving humanity a reason to suffer. What Is God Hand?Ī powerful quintet of angels and demons that bend the laws of reality the God Hand are the antagonists in the manga and anime “Berserk”, directly below the Idea of Evil in power and authority. It is known as the Idea of Evil and serves as the series’ principal enemy. This God is similar to the dark being from the “Fullmetal Alchemist” series. These evildoers took on the role of God’s hand, carrying out his will by any means necessary.Įven in the setting of manga or anime, this God is not the typical one that most people envision. It is not for nothing that they are known as God Hand. This influence is likely to be shared by God Hand. The Cenobites in “Hellraiser” are heavily based on “The Hellbound Heart,” a novella. These designs, together with the fact that Kentaro Miura is a “Hellraiser” fan, suggest that God Hand and the Cenobites are both influenced by the same source. Each of them began life as a human, just like Griffith. The members of the God Hand were not always demonic and otherworldly, as we learn throughout the series. They are a limited group of angels and demons that are pure evil.Įven though they are the focus of Guts’ fury and the main force of destruction in the “Berserk” series, there are not many facts that are said explicitly about this team of evil. The ‘God Hand’ is a band of villains who plague Berserk. Berserk’s ‘God Hand,’ which is some of the world’s most powerful entities, has left fans with unanswered questions.
