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Berserk Characters - Griffith
Griffith
Griffith was the leader of the original Band of the Hawk. Griffith's dream is to one day be King and everything he and the Hawks do is aimed towards achieving this goal. People are drawn towards Griffith's extreme charisma and good looks. He is also a brilliant strategist and because of this the Hawks become famed for being unbeatable, dubbed "the death on the battlefield". It also leads to Griffith winning the favour of the King of Midland and subsequently Griffith winning the hundred year war for Midland, after which he is appointed supreme commander of the entire army.
Griffith admires Guts more than anyone else and the Berserk anime is mostly about the relationship between the two. It is his despair at losing Guts from the Hawks which begins a chain reaction where the Hawks are made outlaws and Griffith is imprisoned and tortured until he can no longer walk or speak, and eventually leads to the supernatural eclipse when all the Hawks end up in hell.
During the events of the eclipse Griffith must sacrifice the lives of all of the Hawks in order to make his dream possible. He is then reborn as a winged demon called Femto, which is the fifth member of the God Hand. Two years later he becomes reincarnated as a human again and starts a new Band of the Hawk. He is served by supernatural monsters called apostles. His new goal is to defeat the Kushan, a huge army that is now invading Midland, and become King.
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