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The Sea God (海神 in Japanese) was a creature that lived by a small island that Guts' new party comes across as they travel to Skellig. It was sealed by the merrow long ago and worshipped by the island's inhabitants.
History[]
Background[]
Long ago, this being consumed all living being within its reach, making the sea it lived devoid of living. A race of beings known as merrows waged a fierce war against the Sea God. After suffering appalling losses, the merrows managed to seal the rampaging Sea God away in a deep cave of a remote island.
In spite of being sealed, it was still able to partially exercise its deadly power under the full moon, attacking any nearby sailing ships or stragglers from an island village where it was sealed. Fearing the Sea God, the island's fearful inhabitants considered it taboo to go in the cave.
Main Story[]
After the defeat of Ganishka and the subsequent Great Wave of the Astral World, the Sea God assimilated the island's inhabitants and turned them into parts of its body except for Isma, whose home was protected by the charms she had received from her mother as a gift when she was younger. These sentient baleen could mimic the people it had eaten, similar to apostles taking on the forms of their original humans. Coincidentally, Guts and his crew, after surviving their encounter against the Sharkrider Pirates (who had also been assimilated by the Sea God into more of their tentacles) arrive at the remote island where the Sea God was sealed in order to repair the damaged ship and resupply. They noticed that the inhabitants of the island were less than hospitable, raising suspicion from the newcomoers. Eventually, they found out that the day Guts and his gang arrived on the island was the day the Sea God was to be freed from its imprisonment. When the day gave way to night, all inhabitants of the island turned into Sea God's baleen and attempted to offer Guts and his crew as sacrifices. But thanks to Guts and his Berserker Armor's power, the island inhabitants' sinister intention never materialized, and the island inhabitants present were confronted instead.
After managing to regain his sanity with the help of both Schierke and the Moonlight Boy, Guts, deciding to kill Sea God on the ground they stand, re-donned his Berserker Armor with Schierke supporting his sanity and enters the Sea God's stomach through its mouth. There, the Sharkrider pirates described killing one of the tentacles as being akin to chopping off one of the Sea God's "beard hairs", a negligible loss by all means. The Sea God was revealed to be not only immensely large, and its defenses were not limited to its external body, as it contained several insects and predatory fish inside its body that defended its internal organs. Guts rode one of the several derelict ships up to a lining of the stomach and cut a hole in it, and subsequently proceeded to exit the stomach via the monster's stomach gases. He then went on to attack the heart, only to encounter giant insects and predatory fish. Guts ultimately dealt with all of the lesser enemies but was stopped by the Sea God's heart. The Sea God, aware that Guts is bent on killing it, emitted powerful sonic attacks repetitively that caused Guts to temporarily go blind and deaf, aside from making him bleed out.
As Guts was waging battle inside the body of the Sea God, the Sea God's baleen monsters attempted to defeat Guts' friends and ship crewmembers. They were protected by Farnese, now a competent witch under tutelage of Schierke capable of projecting an anti-astral barrier, managed to hold off Sea God's baleen monsters on their own. The boat crew launched cannon barrages, but the Sea God was simply too large to be affected. Just when the Sea God got fully freed from long imprisonment and destroying the little island in the process, the merrows -the same beings who sealed away the Sea God many years ago- returned to the place to do battle. The merrows then expressed their deepest gratitude for fighting alongside their sea tribe.
Helped by the merrows, who were attacking the monster from the outside with their magical singing, temporarily stunning the Sea God (and cancelling the heart beat) in the process, Guts took a chance to rupture its heart after getting directions from Schierke due to him being rendered blind from the sonic attack. The gushing blood from the heart following the God's death was powerful enough to break the bond between Guts and Schierke, and the two are separated. The Sea God, in death, regurgitated all the ships it ate over the years along with large amounts of blood. The witch abandoned her astral form and comes back to the ship. Meanwhile, Guts was trapped inside the Sea God's corpse, drowning in the beast's blood. Suddenly, he was guided by a child-like light figure until he is discovered by merrows, who deliver him out of the Sea God's corpse.
Sea God's bleeding corpse is to attract other sea dragons and is to be devoured by them. Guts and his friends leave the site to continue their journey to Elfhelm with the company of merrows. The battle left Guts severely debilitated. Inevitably, Puck and Ivalera were once again be forced to have their healing powers overdriven and overtaxed, with Farnese boosting his healing by circulating his flow of od with hers.
Trivia[]
- The Sea God has many similarities with Lovecraftian entities. The creature's use of villagers who worshiped it before becoming inhuman is similar to the story of The Shadow over Innsmouth.
- Its heart which possesses multiple eyes vaguely resembles the Idea of Evil.
External Links[]
- Sea God on the Berserk Wiki
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