Characters

A gentle carriage driver and the father of Collette, this devout old man crosses paths with Guts during the Black Swordsman's long pursuit of apostles. His quiet wish for a simple life ends in horror when his own daughter, seized by the…

General of Tudor's Blue Whale Knights, Adon Coborlwitz is a boastful and cowardly commander who clashes with the Band of the Falcon during the war for Doldrey. Fixated on humiliating Casca, he leans on inherited trickery to survive far…

Adonis is the thirteen-year-old son of General Julius and a cousin of Princess Charlotte, groomed to one day command Midland's White Dragon Knights. A timid boy still grieving his mother, he dies by accident when Guts slips into his…

The aide is a loyal bodyguard serving the Minister of Koka, appearing only in the opening episode of the 1997 Berserk anime. Devoted to his master and the town, he meets his end when the Snake Lord raids the settlement.

Anna is the devoted attendant of Princess Charlotte, standing by her mistress from the Golden Age through the settling of Falconia. Warm and protective to the point of fussing like a mother, she is among the few people permitted into the…

Annette is a baroness and the beloved wife of Balzac, appearing in the game Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage. A cure drawn from the Mandragora Heart halts her illness but ruins her mind, leaving her a childlike shell whom her desperate…

A knight of the old school, Azan lives by rigid codes of honor and loyalty. He once held the rank of second-in-command within the Holy Iron Chain Knights before walking away from that order to ride beside Guts, lending his staff and…

Balzac is a town baron and the central villain of the game Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage. A once-caring ruler broken by his wife's illness, he twists a fragment of the Mandragora Heart into an instrument of tyranny before trading her…

Barbo is a Midland criminal and self-styled strongest of the convicts drafted into war. His challenge to Wyald for leadership of the conscripted prisoners ends almost at once, and fatally, atop a tower spire.

Bazuso, the dreaded Grey Knight, is a towering warrior said to have felled thirty men at once and slain a bear alone. Stationed to defend a besieged fortress, he becomes one of the earliest great tests of a young Guts, and one of his first…

The Beast of Darkness is the living embodiment of Guts' rage, bloodlust, and thirst for vengeance, born from the horrors of the Eclipse. A wolfish shadow lurking within his mind, it schemes endlessly to seize control of the Black Swordsman…

Benedikte is a blind priestess of Grant and a childhood friend of Grunbeld's, gifted with a sight that reaches past her eyes. Her prophecy and her death become the very forces that turn Grunbeld into a dragon apostle.

The Black Dog Knights are a Midland penal legion of murderers and rapists conscripted for the Hundred-Year War, notorious across the realm for atrocities that eventually earned them exile to remote frontiers. Commanded by the apostle…

The Black Ram Iron Lance Knights, also called the Black Ram Iron Lance Heavy Cavalry, are an armored Tudor mounted corps fielded against Midland during the Hundred-Year War. Their charge carries the day until the Band of the Falcon arrives…

The Blue Whale Knights, grandly titled the Blue Whale Ultra Heavy Armored Fierce Assault Annihilation Knight Corp, are a Tudor cavalry unit of the Hundred-Year War led by General Adon Coborlwitz. Their run of conquest ends when the Band of…

Bonebeard is a peg-legged pirate captain and former slaver who commands the vessel Captain Sharkrider. After crossing the Black Swordsman Party, he is swallowed by the Sea God during the great astral wave and reduced to a living limb of…

Borkoff is an apostle armored in a thick hide and armed with monstrous jaws, best remembered for biting off Guts' left forearm during the Eclipse. He later rides with the reborn Band of the Falcon in its demon lancer unit.

Boscogn is the general of Tudor's Purple Rhino Knights and reputed to be the single strongest warrior the empire fields. His pole-axe mastery makes him one of the deadliest foes Guts faces at Doldrey, until a thrown blade from Zodd turns…

Once a poor girl from a mountain village, Casca rises to command a unit of Griffith's mercenaries and becomes the estranged love of Guts. She holds the band together through its darkest year, endures the Eclipse that shatters her mind, and…

Charles is an apostle who turns up only inside a Berserk video game rather than the manga. A young noble in life, he loses his family to a house fire and, gripping a beherit, trades away something he never understood to become a demon,…

The last surviving heir of Midland's royal line, Charlotte Beatrix Marie Rhody Wyndham serves as the kingdom's princess. Reserved, gentle, and quietly strong-willed, she loves Griffith through his ruin and his rebirth, in time naming him…

Charlotte's Mother is the late first queen of Midland, wife of the king and mother of Princess Charlotte. She dies young, and though the king later remarries, she is remembered as the only woman he ever truly loved.

A minor astral oddity, the chimimoryo crosses paths with the Black Swordsman Party at the fringe of the Qliphoth. Gentle and faintly comical, its lone appearance in the manga blossomed into cult status among Berserk fans, who dubbed it…

Chitch is the gentle spirit of a small spring blossom growing beneath a prison window, encountered by a young Guts during his captivity. Selfless to a fault, she gives every leaf of her flower to heal and warm him, spending her own life in…

Collette is a young girl who crosses paths with Guts during his earliest travels as the Black Swordsman. Her exact role shifts between the manga and the two anime adaptations, yet every version leaves her doomed once nightfall stirs…

Conrad is one of the five God Hand, the ruling demons of Berserk's cosmology. Quiet and watchful where his peers are loud, he shapes events through transmutation and a near-omniscient grasp of causality, playing his part in Griffith's…

Corkus is one of the founding members of the Band of the Falcon, a former thief turned mercenary whose cynicism masks a deep envy of Guts and near-worship of Griffith. His story ends in the Eclipse, where he is sacrificed and devoured by…

Dahl is a minister serving the Count during Berserk's Black Swordsman Arc. He announces the Count's public executions while privately dreading his lord, and his cowardice ultimately gets him killed by the very master he feared.

Daiba is a powerful Kushan sorcerer and close adviser to Emperor Ganishka, commanding the empire's pishacha troops through his mastery of magic. Cunning and long-lived, he survives Ganishka's fall and reinvents himself in Falconia during…

Deg is a cowardly, rat-faced bandit from Berserk's Conviction Arc whose cruelty toward the girl Jill marks him as vermin even among his own crew. Rosine later reshapes him into one of the Misty Valley's insectile guardians, putting him on…

The Demon Child is the malformed offspring of Guts and Casca, corrupted in the womb by Femto's assault during the Eclipse. Though born tainted, it keeps a tender bond with its parents, guarding Casca until it is drawn into the ritual that…

Donovan is a mercenary under Gambino in Berserk's Golden Age Arc, remembered chiefly for the assault he inflicts on a nine-year-old Guts after buying him from Gambino. Guts eventually hunts him down and kills him in the field.

Dunteth is a rebel leader who appears only in the video game Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage. Standing against the tyrant Balzac, he strikes a short-lived alliance with Guts before a sudden Mandragora frenzy at a village cuts his life…

The Egg of the Perfect World is an apostle born from a despised outcast who once had no name at all. Aware of causality, he steers the events at Albion toward the Incarnation Ceremony, serving as the catalyst that returns Griffith to a…

Elize is the daughter of the Midland courtier Foss. Griffith uses her abduction as leverage against her father during the Golden Age Arc, and she later appears among the Wyndham children touched by a prophetic dream.

The Enoch Village priest is the local enforcer of Holy See doctrine during Berserk's Millennium Falcon Arc. A skeptic at first, he is transformed by witnessing Schierke's magic during the village's troll siege and quietly opens himself to…

A bright young girl raised by the smith Godot in his mountain home, Erica is swept across a collapsing world after the Astral surge, first drawn toward the shining capital and then away from it, staying close to Rickert and the broken…

A grieving nun turned tragic antagonist in the action game Guts' Rage, Eriza ties herself to the mandragora in a desperate attempt to shelter a village of the forgotten, certain that a monstrous peace beats a fair world that keeps…

A radiant, man-headed falcon that descends into the dreams of the suffering as a promised savior, the Falcon of Light is the vision the world attaches to Griffith, drawing whole peoples toward the destiny he embodies.

Once the zealous, fire-obsessed commander of the Holy See's Holy Iron Chain Knights, Farnese de Vandimion abandons her faith after Guts shatters her world, joining his band and remaking herself into one of the most gifted mages of her age.

The cold, controlling patriarch of the fabulously wealthy Vandimion family, Federico de Vandimion III prizes order and fortune above his own children, a rigidity that estranged him from his daughter Farnese and drove him to bury the secret…

A sorceress of almost legendary age and might, Flora kept the cursed Berserker Armor safe within her spirit-tree mansion and forged the young witch Schierke into a formidable mage, then spent her life in fire so that Guts and his…

Danan, the Flower Storm Monarch, is the serene and staggeringly powerful queen of Elfhelm's elves, keeper of the Corridor of Dreams by which she reaches into broken minds, and the one hope for healing Casca's shattered soul.

Foss, once the home minister of Wyndham and later a minister of Falconia, is a cunning court schemer whose dread of Griffith and fierce love for his daughter Elize repeatedly bend him to the ambitions of stronger men around him.

Fouquet is a cheerful apprentice serving at Luca's brothel, a black-haired young woman who lends a hand to Luca and her fellow girls and keeps a childlike lightness about her through the group's travels from the outskirts of Albion toward…

Frikka is a trusting young village girl from Berserk: The Prototype, whose faith in Guts and quiet courage lead her to offer herself up to a monstrous lord in order to spare the other girls of her home.

Gaiseric is the fabled conqueror who, crowned in a skull, hammered the ancient world's first vast empire into being before an angry heaven leveled his city in one night, a downfall whose shadow still falls across Griffith's own dreams of…

Gambino was the mercenary captain who pulled the infant Guts from a corpse and raised him as a fighter, a hard, embittered man whose resentment festered into a drunken attempt on his son's life and ended on the boy's own blade.

Ganishka reigns as emperor of the Kushan Empire and stands among the most fearsome apostles ever known. Obsessed with spreading his rule over every land, he defies the very God Hand that most apostles worship, setting his sights on…

Ganishka's son is the only child of the Kushan emperor, raised largely apart from a father consumed by conquest and quietly feared by his own family. Grown into a man, he turns against Ganishka, and his failed bid for power ends with his…