God Hand
The God Hand are a group that features in Berserk.
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History
The God Hand (Japanese: ゴッドハンド, Hepburn: Goddo Hando) were five demons (they call themselves archangels) of immense power. Once they were all human, but fate had chosen them when they each came into contact with the red Behelit, and at a great demonic ceremony and with a huge sacrifise they were allowed to ascend and become the demon kings they are now.
Little is known about them and their goals. They can manipulate fate and have great forsight, but even they cannot see all ends.
Unlike other demons, the God Hand cannot yet take physical form on Earth without taking a host, as Slann recently appeared possessing a pile of troll entrails. One major loophole is that during an eclipse once every thousand years, a God Hand can undergo a Rebirth Ceremony and return to Earth as Femto did, possessing the child he perverted and using it to take shape under his old identity of Griffith to carry out their work personally. With this act as well as his very birth, the two worlds are merging and soon the rest of the God Hand will be able to permanently take bodies on Earth.
The God Hand do serve a mysterious higher power. The god created by man, little is known about it save that it is called the Idea of Evil.
Overview
In appearance, the God Hand were a quintumvirate of demon sovereigns who acted as executors of the Idea of Evil's will. Its core ruling assembly consisted entirely of adult humanoid astral entities and monstrous abstractions. They featured an incredibly irregular, drastically mismatched collective physical presence that completely rejected standard human clothing, uniform grooming standards, or symmetrical biological frames. The organization possessed no unified skin tone or natural hair structures, with individual lords presenting mutated, surreal architectures that reflected their separate psychological domains. They expanded their visual identity by fusing their biological bodies with their dark majestic vestments, completely rejecting standard armor plates or matching corporate garments. Individual configurations ranged from Void’s towering, exposed brain structure and stitched eyelids to Slan’s slender, winged dark goddess silhouette, Conrad’s bloated insectoid face, Ubik’s floating formless frame, and Femto’s sleek, predatory pitch-black hawk-like helmet armor that integrated seamlessly with his skin. They were also known as the Guardian Angels of Desire (欲望の守護天使), the Sovereigns of the Supreme Beings and as the Great Ones.
They naturally lacked any shared, uniform biological traits due to the extreme structural, genetic, and metaphysical differences between their five distinct archdemonic matrices. The God Hand utilized their collective paracausal connections to execute a highly destructive, world-shaping cosmic strategy that relied on manipulating a supreme universal algorithm known as Causality to guide human history toward disaster. They did not possess standard human limitations, relying instead on exceptionally high cosmic intellect and total mastery over extra-dimensional space-time forces. This specialized affinity allowed separate units to open spatial dimensional gateways, manipulate localized gravity fields to deflect physical weapon attacks, and generate devastating telepathic loops that drove mortal minds to madness. They did not possess independent, permanent material stability within the physical realm without continuous spiritual sacrifices, relying entirely on a rare crimson artifact known as the Crimson Behelit, or the Egg of the King, to bridge dimensions. Their primary capabilities allowed them to command endless legions of predatory Apostles, survive for centuries without aging, and maintain an unbroken, highly disciplined barrier of absolute cosmic influence capable of warping physical reality.
Members
Notes
- The God Hand were created by Kentaro Miura where they featured in the setting of the Berserk universe.
In other media
Television
Appearances
- Berserk:
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