The item featured in this article is sometimes referred to as a "Beherit".
Behelits (ベヘリット Beheritto?) are stone relics of unknown supernatural origin said to govern the fate of humanity.[citation needed] They are used primarily for summoning the angels of the God Hand, at which point their owners are granted a wish in exchange for a sacrifice. Most behelits are colored yellow, blue, grey or green, though the fabled Crimson Behelit (or Egg of the King) stands out among these, appearing only to individuals capable of being reborn as the God Hand's kinsman.[citation needed]
Overview
An inactive behelit.
A behelit resembles an egg, covered with human facial features arrayed across its surface, giving it a rather disconcerting appearance. While seemingly inanimate most times, behelits appear to be living things, possessing an aura of unspecified dread about them. On occasion, one of a behelit's eyes may open and stare at an examiner, though this is usually disregarded as an illusion. Notably, when Puck was carrying the Count's behelit by one of its nostrils, it teared up out of discomfort.[citation needed]
An active behelit.
The purpose of a behelit is to create an Interstice between the Physical World and part of the Astral World where the members of the God Hand reside, granting their owners an audience with the angels. A behelit belongs to a predestined owner and therefore, no matter the circumstances, will always find its way to them when said owner's desire is great enough.[citation needed] Upon activation, usually from the owner's blood touching it, a Behelit rearranges its facial features to form a distressed face which sheds tears of blood. The Behelit that emits a low scream that creates a temporal junction between the two realms of existence.[citation needed] According to Flora, the Behelits can also be manually activated by any of the God Hand.
Behelits are not rendered null after activation, and at any time can be used to escape death by summoning the God Hand and offering another sacrifice.[citation needed] This fact was exploited by the Skull Knight, ingesting any he could find and melting the Behelits in his stomach to create the blade of the Sword of Actuation.
Crimson Behelit
The Crimson Behelit activating
The Crimson Behelit, also known as the Egg of the King, is the most distinguished of the Behelits, said to grant one the world in exchange for the owner's flesh and blood.[citation needed] Appearing once every 216 years,[citation needed] when the time of the Eclipse draws near, owners of Crimson Behelits are destined to discard their humanity in exchange for becoming a God Hand angel.[citation needed] It is unknown whether there were five different Crimson Behelits or if the same behelit came to each of the God Hand members in turn.
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Trivia
- While "behelit" has no meaning beyond the context of Berserk, "beherit" is the Syriac word for "devil", commonly ascribed to the Syrian culture's concept of Hell.
- Additionally, "behelit" translates to [ベヘリット] in Japanese, or "beheritto".
- As evidenced by the Count, who couldn't bring himself to sacrifice his daughter Theresia, behelit activators who refuse to offer a sacrifice are in turn dragged into the Vortex of Souls.[citation needed]
- Guts currently possesses the behelit that belonged to the Count,[citation needed] which he took as a means of reaching the God Hand.
- The Skull Knight has ingested a number of behelits from slain apostles, melting them down to coat his Sword of Thorns to create the Sword of Actuation.[citation needed]
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