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| “ | Enjoyment and excitement! | „ |
| ~ Wyald's oft-repeated motto. |
Wyald is a major antagonist in the Golden Age Arc of the Berserk series.
He was once a little old man that made a deal with the God Hand for unknown reasons and turned into an ape-like Apostle, he is the leader of a army of convicted murderers and rapists known the Black Dog Knights. He was hired by King of Midland to kill Griffith and Band of Hawk.
In Japanese, he was voiced by Shigeru Chiba (who also voiced Buggy in One Piece, Dolf in Alfred J. Kwak and Yoshihiro Kira in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) in the the pachinko adaptation Berserk - Kaishingeki! Dotō no Yōhei-dan and by Kunihiro Kawamoto in Berserk Musou.
Biography[]
Wyald is an apostle, a human turned demon after making a pact with God Hand, that has lived for, at least over a hundred years. At an unknown amount of years after becoming an Apostle, Wyald intentionally let himself be captured and imprisoned, presumably for his own amusement and plans.
Not much later, the King of Midland ordered all prisoners to be assembled and drafted into the Hundred-Year War due to a shortage of men Wyald volunteered as leader of the new convict army claiming to be the strongest of them all. However, an enormous inmate named Barbo approached Wyald and challenge him to a fight to the death. The King allowed the two prisoners to battle it out and Barbo chose a large mace for the duel.
In order to earn the fear and respect of the other convicts, Wyald, unarmed and with both his hands still locked in a stock, killed Barbo by knocking him into the air and impaling him on the spike of a tower as a morbid effigy and tribute to the King. Wyald and his new army of convicts then named themselves the "Black Dog Knights" which was known for being the cruelest army in all of Midland due to their horrific crimes which consist of burning and plundering villages while raping women and butchering the old and children on battlefields.
When the band of the Hawk rescued Griffith and escaped the Midland forces, the King ordered the Black Dog Knights to hunt them down and kill them, much to the distaste of his men whom considered the Black Dogs a disgrace to the Knighthood. When Wyald heard from his messenger that the King wanted him for his job, he appeared disinterested as he was finishing up an an orgy with his harem of concubines, however when his underling mentioned Griffith, Wyald suddenly changed his mind and without warning, strangled his sexual partner to death, than ordered his men to move out.
In pursuit of the Hawks, Wyald's group comes across a farm that previously aided the Hawks. At first, Wyald inquired one of them about whether the Hawks had passed by before deciding to "get the juices flowing a bit." The Black Dogs then violently killed the residents, even burning the children alive, and raped the women before dismembering them and skewering their body parts on their weapons. When Wyald and his army confronted the Hawks, they were attacked by many of the Hawks' traps, with only Wyald and several of his men continued to pursue which eventually causes Wyald to battle against Guts.
After realizing his men were outmatched, and killing them when wanting to abandon the battle, Wyald decided to assume his true form. After a long and brutal fight against Guts, Wyald is critically wounded and was presumably dead with the scouts guarding the corpse. However, Wyald regains consciousness and kills the scouts before taking Griffith hostage, wanting to start the Eclipse early in order to save his own life. After stripping Griffith from his bandages down to reveal the full extent of the torture inflicted upon him, Wyald worries on where Griffith's Beherit is. He is then ambushed by Nosferatu Zodd who then impaled him from the back with his horns, wanting to make sure that Griffith arrives at the destined time and place of the Eclipse. Wyald then begs for mercy, saying that he was simply following the God Hand's one law of "Do as thou wilt". Zodd however dismisses the claim and rips his stomach open. Now dead, Wyald's spiritual essence is dragged into the Abyss by his many victims while his body is reduced to that of the old man he used to be.
Personality[]
Wyald was an aggressive and violent brute who was defined by his motto of "Enjoyment and Excitement", which translated to causing as much harm to others as he pleased. He possessed an unrelenting bloodlust that led him to torture and kill those who crossed his path with an almost child-like glee. His men fared little better, as Wyald was quick to kill them for the slightest of offenses, or even for simple amusement, invoking a deep fear in them. In addition to all of this, Wyald was also misogynistic and sexually sadistic, having raped countless women from the many villages he raided.
Despite his complete disregard for the wellbeing of others, Wyald proved to be very cowardly when faced with the prospect of his mortality, proven when he pathetically begged for Zodd to spare his life, moments before being killed by him.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Wyald does not appear in either the animated series or The Golden Age Trilogy due to the very explicit content of his storyline. However, the silhouette of an apostle that looks nearly identical to Wyald can be seen among the apostles gathered at the Eclipse before the Sacrifice begins in the 1997 anime.
- Eventually, Wyald finally appeared in the pachinko adaptation Berserk - Kaishingeki! Dotō no Yōhei-dan and later in Berserk Musou as a boss and a playable character.
- Wyald's pre-Apostle life is never fully explained, however, there are some things that indicate what his past may have been like:
- Wyald tells one of his underlings if you spend your life worrying about consequences, you end up wasting your life anyway.
- Guts notes that Wyald's attacks lack technique and that he relies primarily on reflexes alone.
- Wyald mentioned when injured that he hasn't felt this kind of pain in a hundred years. His form being that of an old man implying that he was on the verge of death and sacrificed a loved one so that he would not be afraid of death anymore.
External Links[]
- Wyald on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Wyald on the Berserk Wiki
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