Sword of Actuation – How Skull Knight's Behelit Sword Works, its Importance – Berserk Explained

Sword of Actuation – How Skull Knight's Behelit Sword Works, its Importance – Berserk Explained

[inthedeadhours]

Always love that "fuck you" stab he takes at void. He had to know it wouldn't work but still gave him the ol right there fred anyway.

[XenoWolf]

I loved it when Skull Knight said: "Heed my words, Struggler. And tickle my behelit pickle.", before he Skull Knighted all over the place.

[Wifgargfhaurh]

I'm pretty certain that Skull Knight was always intended to be Gaeseric. It only makes sense, Gaeseric isn't relevant otherwise.

[ewpezfk]

This guy has the best Berserk narration enthusiasm

[zollof]

Wow, I'll have to reread again. Never really noticed Skull Knight also only shows up around full moons. Makes alot of sense why he's gone most of the time. Also never put together that the Slug Count could have been the twice reincarnated Apostle. This series is fucking bananas and you learn new stuff no matter how many times you've read it. So cool. Im curious if the great roar of the astral world affects when skull knight can and can't appear.

[demiurgusgodofform]

Guts could fuse the Sword of Accuation with the Dragonslayer, but given the evil Od the Dragonslayer gives off from having slain so many astral beings and Apostles, I think the end result of such a fusion might be even more dangerous than opening a literal portal to hell.

[bursegsardaukar]

23:25 Guts had been given Skull Knight’s sword for him to use before and he also had to use Zodd’s sword once.

[iferutoznola]

A fusion between the sword of actuation and dragon slayer may be coming just as Gutz and SK may merge as well. The penultimate godslayer combo.When and if it happens, fans will bulge with many an opinion, but will it be enough to bridge the material and immaterial to finally stop the godhand or will it awaken the sleeper stopping the dream.

[andresochoamoro]

I know this is not confirmed, and is just inferred because we now have new God Hand members that are different from the ones we see in the Skull Knight flash back. But my undestanding was that the previous members of the God hand had been vanquished by the Skull knight in the past. I was kind of confused by the parts about the Skull Knight atempting to atack them for the first time.

[GrantTulsa]

Guts used Zad's sword against the captain of the heavy purple rhino nights. He'll kill Griffith by whatever means necessary.

[notsoberoveranalyzer]

Generally I’ve always thought giant hunks of metal to be the coolest weapons in fiction.
But this sword may be the coolest.
There are so many swords that host demons.
But having a weapon made up of the very thing that creates demons is just on another level.

[lewissalter]

just as a really far out there idea, there is a book called "revenge of the rose" by michael moorcock that is highly reminiscent of the story of skull knight and berzerk.if you dont know, it is an elric of melnibonea story, second to last in the series if you read chronologically. worth a read
elric is trapped in another version of his existence, where his is caught up in a plan to take out a long standing character he has been running into throughout his travels, called gaynor the damned, a disembodied soul caught in a suit of armor ( a character that runs, presumably, throughout moorcocks other works, definitely corum as you find out he is disembodied in corums encounters with him). elric himself doesnt do it, but he is pivotal to the end result. he helps a women called rose and her four "sisters" to capture gaynor in a trap of roses and finally kill him for originally killing the four "sisters". she does this through a method of temporal conjunctions, allowing them to step through to lend their power to her (another theme that runs in moorcocks work - his eternal champions binding together to become stronger then their singular self).
this isnt the first time i have thought about the parallels and similarities between berzerk and revenge. perhaps check it? as miura very well could have read it, as moorcock was a highly rated fantasy writer whilst miura was growing up and could have taken inspiration from it.

[demnchild]

If you think about it thorns are quite common in fantasy setting's either the weaponry or the armors are imbued with thorns most of them will cause bleed damage

[cuconatparfour]

Skull knight is probably the most metal manga character ever

[Drewgoza]

Was just re-reading Berserk to feel something

[sangun]

it's so sick, bro literally found a way to create a sword made of pure astral energy, essentially coated in the energy of "the idea of evil"

[jmc]

donno if anyone ever played megaman x. but skull knight as always struck me the same way as your first time meeting zero. he's like a glimpse at your characters future. maybe not "your" characters future.. but more like 2 people on the same path, one at the beginning the other at the end.

[baconlife]

It’s impossible not to love Skull-Knight🤧

[benparrish]

the weaponry in Berserk is so vast it has to have it's own list, when it comes to levels of uniqueness & destruction in Manga.

[margus]

What if somehow Guts's sword is turned into the actuation and, because by now it is confirmed to have some kind of pseudo anti-demon enchantment, this becomes the sure method of permanently destroying the God Hand members? Although I think that everything happening back at Falconia is all meant to either bring the other four members into physical bodies through poor Charlette birthing quadruplets and Caska as a cornerstone sacrifice, or even Charlette birthing and the sacrifice of Caska and every soul in Falconia to create a physical body for the Idea of Evil itself to inhabit.