The Skull Knight: Everything Known So Far

one of the biggest mysteries and ongoing conversations about the manga berserk has to do with one particular character that's decked out and one of the most badass designs I've ever seen and that is the skull Knights or at least fans have been calling him skull Knight for years truth is the character has still not been yet given a proper name in the series and has only mentioned once as Knight of skeleton and that's in the English translation anyway but as of now I will just go with skull night as everyone else does a character that has shown to be insanely powerful as he is cryptic in his explanations and seems to really only turn up during important moments of the story lots of theories and ideas are out there about who or what this character is and his history and I'm going to give you all a full breakdown on everything we know so far about him and separate the fact from fiction as well share theories of my own about why the skull Knights is what he is and who he may be now let's start with what we know is true the facts and only the facts first he is confirmed to be the former owner of the Berserker armor before guts this is explicitly stated and we can see that the armors helmet was originally in the shape of a skull the armor reflects your inner demons in rage thus why it changed appearance when guts wore it skull Knight has talked about the dangers of the Berserker armor as well and Zod has even mentioned to the skull knight that he would be willing to allow guts to follow a similar path as the skull Knight did himself now I'm not going to go into all of the details of what the Berserker armor does right now but it's been suggested that wearing this for an extended period of time in battle will eventually kill the user which I will get back to in just a moment fact number two skull Knight is actively fighting against the godhand skull that makes his appearance and intentions known several times being at the Eclipse trying to break inside but first needed to battle Zod once he does he goes headfirst into the Eclipse ceremony and without pause strikes his sword towards the godhand member void we can see here that he had intent to kill he also mentioned to guts that he is an enemy of the Inhumans of the god hand and on several occasions makes note of the fact that or femto is dangerous and must be stopped on top of Ganesha skull Knight corners femto and attempts to strike him down as well this is also unsuccessful not just for him but for like the entire planet fact number three skull light is not an apostle given his appearance and incredible power we can safely assume skull Nye is obviously not human but similarly guts fell a reminiscent feeling around him during his first appearance that guts did around the apostles odd but this was guts his own fear sensing a greater power guts then received the brand of sacrifice which bleeds and pains him when apostles are near when skull Knight speaks to gods post branding the brand does not react thus we can confirm that he is not an apostle fact number 4 skull light is though an astral being and what's this mean exactly in berserk there are three worlds that overlap the physical the astral and the world of idea the astral world holds dead spirits magical beans creatures and monsters and deeper down the godhand themselves skull Knight similarly to guts is in an interstitial on physical worlds overlap thus he can exist in both but is primarily confined to the astral world this is confirmed by flora the witch who stated that a being in the astral world asked her to help Gus and company on their journey also the fact that skull Knight only appears either at night when astral beings have more power to enter the physical world especially on nights of the full moon and during important astral world rituals such as the Eclipse or the incarnation ceremony fact number 5 something puck picked up on skull night has an aura to him that's similar to an elf as puck has empathic abilities as well as being able to sense where other elves are or once were such as when he was in the misty Valley and could sense elves were once there so when puck senses something similar to elves when seeing Skull night for the first time it could lead us to believe that skull Knight has a relationship with elves himself and this is further shown by skull Knight when he and guts speak after the Eclipse as skull Knight knew but guts was unaware that he was staying in a place formerly inhabited by elves and skull Knight wonders if guts has a connection with the elves perhaps just as he does not only that but skull Knight knew about the king the elf island and the ability that she possessed to heal castas mind fact number six Scully has a history with the witch flora leading into the last fact that we know which is an elves inhabit similar areas so this seems to add up and make sense that he would have a connection with elves as well flora was willing to do a favor for him in helping Gutzon company and even calls him an old friend and says that she misses his smile so they must go back some ways and it shows that skull night was most likely human at one point fact number seven skull light has gone out of his way to protect humans obviously we have him saving guts and cos get the Eclipse but he also saves Richert just beforehand and later runs down the tower of conviction to save Luca from falling also inadvertently Woo's her and I kind of shipped the two of them but not as much as I shipped Luca in Jerome but anyway scone eye has shown this heroic side of himself however when saving Richert from the cow and Rosine he simply tells the two apostles to leave and doesn't kill them he's shown that he can kill apostles with relative ease so why didn't he take them down then well I'll get to my theory on this with the next point fact number eight skull Knight can at least to some degree see the flow of time he knew exactly one year prior that the Eclipse would take place and worn guts he also knew the incarnation ceremony was going to take place he is also able to show up at other important events like the giant Ganesh Kimmelman so to what degree he can see the flow of time we don't know but it is at least partially now my theory as to why he didn't kill the countin Rosine is well maybe he could see the guts would have confrontations with them and that would make guts stronger maybe he wanted guts to be an ally on equal level with himself and so he let this happen that's not a fact just a simple theory and finally fact number nine skull light has a history with Zod Zod mentions him being a foe for a millennia as well as Zod recognizes the Berserker armor upon seeing it and remembers it from when skull knight wore it and okay so now I'm going to get into theories both fan favorites as well as my own now you may have noticed something important I haven't mentioned yet isn't skull Knight the ancient king guys Erick well there's a lot of evidence port this yes but it has yet to be 100% confirmed but let's get into it now theory number one skull knight is king geyser ik okay this is a big one about 99% of fans are convinced that this is true so what do we know about King geyser ik very little actually it was stated in legend that he appeared from seemingly nowhere with a vast army and was able to unite all the warring nations together under one but soon after began to live in such extravagance and put higher and higher taxes on the people while forcing them into hard labor the legend then says that to punish the king God sent angels down to destroy the kingdom well the kingdom was destroyed this much we can't confirm but as far as the angels are concerned we could think that this was the god hand but that doesn't quite add up because the Eclipse ceremony to make God hand members is said to happen every 216 years so 1000 years ago all five God hand members would not have yet existed but if you take 216 times four it equals 864 years remember the count would only start after the first God hand member was created so that's why you only multiply 4 times and 864 is pretty damn close to a thousand so the count could be off but perhaps the first God hand was created during the fall of guys uruk's empire or if we do add another 216 years we get 1080 which lines up a little better so it could be that there was no God hand at all at the beginning of the idea of the God's hands creation and it happened right after the fall of guys irks Kingdom so perhaps the god hand was not created in the fall of the kingdom but instead the idea was planted and the process of creating the god hand was then set into motion because the way the angels are described in the legend is by creating earthquakes and storms and that sounds a lot more like the four guardian angels of elements that exist in the astral world ones which Shura K has called upon a few times so maybe a witch or a magically connected person called the guardian angels to rebel against the king and of course we can't forget the scene of the branded corpses in the ruins of the city so some sack vice was made maybe a mass sacrifice in order to create the idea of the god hand anyway enough about how the city was destroyed let's continue with the idea that guy Zurich was skull nine well if it's assumed that guy Zurich died in the destruction then we also need to factor in when did he wear the Berserker armor and when was he in contact with the L so this to have happened then he must have survived the city's destruction perhaps then seeking out the one or ones that caused it which led him to the Berserker armor and facing off against apostles only to have been being killed in battle while wearing the armor maybe he was trying to actively stop the god hand from forming which means he must have failed five times in a row now poor guy other things that point to the Geiser connection are skull knight's helmet looking similar to a crown and slam calling him your majesty at one point theory number two skull a is a former god hand member and I had this theory as well at one point in time so this theory comes from the idea that skull knight is way more powerful than an average apostle and with his appearance as we can see with Griffith slash femto the god hand take on similar appearances of what they look like at their time of ascension since he also has such hatred of the god hand perhaps it has to do with his former position and stepping down as well as previously mentioned the sacrificed corpses that were under the city may have us think that guys Erick sacrificed his kingdom in order to become a god hand but with what's been shown with his relationship with flora and his connection with elves I now doubt that the skull knight could have ever been a god hand also again the timing doesn't quite match up the only way that could be is that he is a god hand from a previous five members of the god hand and not the ones that we know now so this would mean that the god hand is constantly really made over and over and this could be possible considering guys Erick has a similar history as Griffiths current one maybe guys Erick was the fifth God hand who was incarnated like Griffith was and created an empire again just like Griffith is doing now theory number three why he looks the way he does many beliefs call Knight is just a spirit or soul of guys Erick that is now inhabiting powerful armor similar to Al from Full Metal Alchemist that if you took off the skull Knights helmet nothing be inside only his soul so here's my theory I think the Berserker armor is what killed the skull Knight when he was a human and we know the Berserker armor enhances your inner beast of darkness and rage and tries to take over you completely so skull Knight Center beast is obviously a skeleton and my theory is that the armor took him over and he became lost in the bloodlust in rage and this is how he died and since he died with his armor taking him over and his own beast of darkness taking him over now his dead spirit resembles the armor more than the man that was inside essentially changing his soul from a man to a monster and this is the same path guts is currently going down how skull Knight is a dead soul that can physically interact with things well I'm not really sure and I'm currently shocking that up to some kind of elf magic to explain his elf like aura I don't really know but this is just a kind of a quick theory of mind to explain the way he looks why he does theory number four Scully and void have a history many people think that due to the fact that skill might struck at void first upon entering the Eclipse that he and void must have a history together also dealing with the story of the sage that was in prison in guy's Uruk City it was said that he called an angel to save him as well as it was mentioned that he was tortured and voids face clearly seems to indicate that he was tortured when he was once human but it's not clear as to what point in time this was this could have very well been after the destruction of the kingdom perhaps closer to the timeline that makes sense for the creation of the god hand so maybe the sage was void and he became the first God hand member and it's also mentioned that the imprisoned sage knew about the sins of the King and by all accounts it seems like guys Erick wasn't the greatest man around some have also suggested that skull Knight was actually the sage and guys Erick was void and I mean okay that's a fun theory but there's not really a shred of evidence to support this one and theory number five skull knight is using guts there could be arguments to be made that if we believe skull knight can see the flow of time he recognizes that guts will become an important ally of his he has also mentioned two cuts that he sees that guts is like a fish that can breach the water surface someone that can cause distortions and ripples in the flow of causality so skull Knight warning guts of the Eclipse saving him and then allowing him to dawn the Berserker armor all could be a plan to make guts well just like skull Knight himself to get guts up to skull Knights power and ability and then have an ally to fight against the god hand could skull Knights arrival on the elf island now be his chance to say okay you got what you wanted with Kostka being healed and safe so now it's time for what I want skull Knight being friends with flora again points to him being a good natured character but good and berserk is not black and white the characters in this story are far too complex for that and good intentions can still lead to heartbreaking and devastating results but anyways guys there you have it that is a breakdown of skull daddy's truths and his theories let me know if I missed anything and do you agree or not agree with some of these theories that are presented here and what are some of your own I'd love to hear your thoughts and thank you so much for watching I really do 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Channel: RealLifeRyan

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Keywords: berserk, manga, anime, skull knight, the skull knight, knight of skelleton, theory, facts, everything we know, kentaro miura, king geiseric, godhand, apostle, void, history, femto, casca, griffith, flora, elf, puck, witch, astral world, physical world, slan

Id: 9rM7FzeaCZc

Length: 14min 23sec (863 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 16 2019