Skullknight

Skullknight is a character of the Manga Berserk; it does not appear at all in the animated series.

The knight skeleton , as his name indicates it, is a warrior in armor, whose face is hidden by a Casque in form of human Crâne. It always overlaps a powerful black destrier and seems to have supernatural capacities, it is indeed enough powerful to defy without problem Zodd, most powerful Apotre.

Its role and its goal are very vague at the beginning, then it proves that it has an account to regulate with the group of the God Hand, which seem to govern the destiny of this world.

It will come to assistance several times of Guts or its friends, but its true motivations are not very clear. It is posed like their ally, but prefers to act as solo.

A time, one will apercevera it to eat of Béhélit. In addition to destroying them, it could manufacture a new capable sword to tear dimensions, and which is thus to constitute of a chain of Béhélit.

He is a former friend (see lover) of Flora, the mistress of one of the forest of Midland. He entrusted the Armor of Berserker to him, which he carried formerly, so that it seals this cursed object. However, at the time of died of his/her friend, they are reflected agreement to entrust the Armor to Guts.

The legend and identity of Skullknight

Certain readers think that Skullknight could be the King Gaiseric or its reincarnation, but nothing is sure. Gaiseric was that which links the old kingdoms there is more than thousand years; it was known for its cruelty and its helmet in the human cranium shape. It seems also indicated that ostentation kingdom of Gaiseric was destroyed by a cataclysm with its apogee, cataclysm generated by five demons. When Guts releases Griffith jails of Midland, one can see all at the bottom of the puit, in the ruins of this empire, of the corpses covered with the mark of the sacrifice. All these elements leave think that God Hand would be responsible for the destruction of the kingdom. Skullknight knows some long on what awaits Guts, so much so that it seems that this last follows its traces, as Zodd mentions it. That Skullknight is Gaiseric, which would have escaped - such Guts - with the ceremony of the eclipse 1000 years ago - precisely the time which passes between two great eclipses - is an assumption which makes it possible to explain all these coincidences…

Moreover, the Charlotte princess tells the history of the king with Griffith right after an appearance of Skullknight with Rickert, which cannot be pain-killer on behalf of the author.

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