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|manga debut= [[Chapter 1|Sword Wind]] |
|manga debut= [[Chapter 1|Sword Wind]] |
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|anime debut= [[Episode 4 (1997 Anime)]] |
|anime debut= [[Episode 4 (1997 Anime)]] |
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| − | |japanese voice= Tamio Oki ( |
+ | |japanese voice= Tamio Oki (1997 Anime)<br> Nobuyuki Katsube (2016 Anime, Films) |
|english voice= Jeff Swarthout (series)<br>Christopher Smith (movies) |
|english voice= Jeff Swarthout (series)<br>Christopher Smith (movies) |
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|gender= Male |
|gender= Male |
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|eyes= Brown |
|eyes= Brown |
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+ | |hair= Brown<br>White (''[[Conviction Arc]]'') |
|status= Deceased |
|status= Deceased |
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|affiliation=Midland |
|affiliation=Midland |
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Revision as of 03:32, 28 September 2016
The King of Midland (ミッドランド国王 Middorando kokuō?) is the previous ruler of Midland. His actual name is never mentioned.
Appearance
He was a tall man with long brown hair and facial features. He is always seen dressed in blue, the color of midland. For reasons unknown in manga, his hair whitened and body having became emaciated, the King severely aged a year after having Griffith imprisoned.
Personality
He was largely seen as a fair, wise, and generous man, allowing the Band of the Hawk into the ranks of the nobility, and rewarding them generously for their assistance against the Tudors. However, he was also a cruel and deranged man beneath the benevolent facade. After discovering Griffith's seduction of his daughter, he subjected the man to unbelievably horrendous torture. He also lusted after his own daughter, raising her to be weak and timid to draw her back to him.
History
Golden Age Arc
The King is first seen when he observes the Band of the Hawk decimating the Black Ram cavalry of Chuder. Taking a shining to Griffith, the King made the Hawks a part of his army and later named Griffith viscount while gradually having his group that the place of Julius and his White Dragon Knights. Once the Hundred Year War ended, the King announced Griffith's promotion to general within a couple months.
But when the King learned that Griffith had relations with his daughter Charlotte, ordering the capture and execution of his followers, he personally lashes the youth in the Tower of Rebirth. Griffith's remarks about the King's incestuous lust for his child and believing he won the war himself pushed the King to the brink of utter rage. After exhausting himself, the King gives the torturer instructions to keep Griffith alive to be endlessly tortured. When the King visits his resting daughter, he gives into weakness and ends up alienating his own child from him as a result.
A year later, the King learns of Griffith's escape and sends the group of Bākiraka he hired after them. But after the Bākiraka failed, lying to Charlotte that he will not continue his hunt for Griffith, the King secretly entrusts the task to Wyald.
Conviction Arc
The Hawk of Light in the Midland King's vision.
Two years after Griffith escaped from the Tower of Rebirth, the king has fallen to illness. On his deathbed, the king has a vision of the Hawk of Light like many in his kingdom have seen in their dream. In the king's delirious vision, he is sitting on his throne room with soldiers keeping him from his daughter as the Hawk of Light appears behind her while revealing itself to be Griffith. The sight makes the king consider if all he wanted was someone to free him from the burden of his rule in his dying breath.
Gallery
Trivia
- In the Berserk film trilogy, the King didn't become sick like in the manga.
- In the 2016 Berserk anime, the King's vision was cut from the story.