#and at the same time that i need to be sacrificed to achieve Utopia. god. at least conservative whackjobs are upfront and honest about

[here-there-were-dragons]

i have to wonder what super hardcore militant vegans think should be done about obligate carnivore animals, because in all my painfully-rapidly-approaching-30-years i've literally never actually seen anyone give a clear consistent much less halfway feasible answer on that

[chaldealast]

PSEUDO-SINGULARITY: THE UNDERGROUND WORLD OF AGARTHA.

or, charri’s attempt to rewrite the singularity! / @savepnt​ requested to be @’ed 

Something I liked about this Singularity is the interplay between order and chaos, a perfect example of what happens when the good intentions of humans-- to protect their own, to live a happy life, to eradicate injustice-- are taken to their extremes, and become fetters which imprison humans in their own ideals. In contrast to the “Human Evils” of Shinjuku, Agartha displays the “Good Intentions” of humanity, and challenges the protagonist to consider their own ideals at the same time. The “Utopia” is an extremely important aspect, given the wish fulfilled by the Demon Pillar in this Singularity is “safety”. 

Where good, evil, and neutrality all lead to destruction and stagnation, what is the correct choice?

So, with that all in mind, I thought I’d outline what my own Ritsuka was experiencing this Singularity, as far as canon goes. Though I’m mainly just taking the parts I like, and deleting the rest. A lot of it, I’m writing down my own perspective for. (...So I thought, and then I got to chapter 10...) 

Other Master muses are free to take what they want from this, or even adopt it as their version of Agartha. I just had fun doing it ‘w’

AGARTHA: CONTINENT UNDER THE EARTH. 

Mission: Find the missing Servants, destroy the Demon God Pillar, and retrieve the Holy Grail. 

Factions:    Ys, City of Hedonism: A watertop city of pirates who plunder, drink, and kill as they like without thought to anyone else, under the leadership of the Pirate Princess who uses and casts out, taking joy only in the pursuit.    El Dorado, the Golden City: A territory along a riverbed, housing Amazons who perfect their bodies in combat, and reject the presence of men, led by a merciless General who will chase out threats with the vigor of a wild beast.     Bu Ye Cheng, the Nightless City: A golden city in the underground, gleaming with bright lights even at night; though perfectly orderly at first glance, corruption runs deeply through its roots. Its leader stays out of its people’s view, but their lackeys patrol the streets, crushing any sign of resistance.    Shangri-La, the Utopian Valley: A land of eternal springtime, serving as the headquarters of the Resistance. Led by a Servant who’s lost his memory, Rider, they slowly build their forces and take in fallen refugees, biding their time before the ultimate battle... 

What I’d do here is, of course, take out the gendered violence and have each city focused less on “abuse men because that’s our author’s kink >:(” and more on pressuring surrounding territories to accept their ideals / raiding them for treasure and profit / protecting their own people from harm. They each believe that their way of life will make their people happy. That is the ultimate goal of a leader, and thus the ultimate ideal behind each faction, even the Resistance (who bear a similarity to El Dorado). 

Columbus gets turned into mana prisms and a different sailing Servant takes his place; I personally nominate Topa Inca Yupanqui, legendary Incan ruler who scouted the Pacific on a ten-month voyage. It’s important that the Servant be a sailor, but I personally don’t care for Chris Combustion to be a Servant at all. Sure, it should be someone vaguely connected to the concepts of Agartha, but I think "emperor of a disappeared (read: obliterated and colonized) empire” fits the general setting, especially given the inclusion of El Dorado. 

Support: Astolfo (Caster, wielding the Book of Logistilla), Arturia Pendragon (Assassin, wielding Carnwennan)

I chose Support Servants out of their usual class, because this story is supposed to be fantastical and unusual, so even Servants summoned from Chaldea have a strange role to play. I also chose Servants with “Lawful Good” and “Chaotic Good” alignments to go with the theme of this Singularity.

I’d also change the Servant bonus to be those with “Lawful” or “Chaotic” attributes. 

Opposing Servants:     Assassin of the Nightless City, Wu Zetian; Caster of the Nightless City, Scheherazade; Berserker of El Dorado, Penthesilea; Pirate Princess, Dahut; Giant Berserker Herakles Megalos; and Chosen of the Mahatmas, Ascendant Blavatsky.     “There were those who only loved to plunder, those who sought safety in law, and those who sought safety in isolation and eradication. Then, of course, there was the woman who thought she was the next Messiah...”

...

Agartha, a Pseudo-Singularity existing under the earth, where nothing should live, yet magical energy disrupts the normal flow of time and space, as usual. 

“Also, it appears some Servants have disappeared from Chaldea, and the Singularity is likely to blame, so keep an eye out for them, would you? ☆”

As if they had a choice! 

Thrust suddenly into this mysterious, alien world, under attack by three factions, the Chaldea party escapes south to an idyllic garden, and meet the Rider in charge of those holding their ground in this dangerous place. 

...

All that said, the twist would have to be completely rewritten, huh... 

This much is obvious already, but spoilers ahoy!

Where in this Singularity, Columbus seeks to create a nation of women to serve his every need, I think it’s much more interesting for the ultimate goal to be the creation of a “civilization of eternal happiness”. That is, a place where all people are gathered, and sacrificed to the Root for the sake of the ideal utopia. 

That said, a person whose ideals don’t reflect either modern civilization or ancient cultures, but instead a person who, from the start, believes in a careful balance of both; and yet who has a strong, stirring belief in a utopic vision. The Servant who disappeared from Chaldea-- Madame Blavatsky, who hears and obeys the voices of Mahatma, clearer than ever with her closeness to the core of this world (the “untruth” bestowed by Scheherazade). She manipulates Rider using the “grail-like boxes” discovered in the Dragon Temple, while biding her time, waiting for the perfect opportunity to reveal herself. Meanwhile, the party recovers a weapon from Shangri-La, said to have been owned by King Solomon: the Singing Sword, a sword which would always grant victory if wielded for a good cause.

As expected, the battle against Helena, Rider, and Heracles is almost impossible, but somehow the Chaldea party manages to not only survive, but defeat the trio. Then there’s only Caster, Scheherazade, and her City in the Sky; I think this part is rather realistic, given the twisting of her personality with the “teaching” of the Demon Pillar, Phenex-- the one said to converse in rhymes, and who hopes to return to Heaven, but is deceived in this wish. 

One who cannot die, and one who wishes not to die. Those who reject order and chaos, searching for perfect equilibrium-- stasis-- unchanging. 

Scheherazade’s fear isn’t towards men, specifically, in this rewrite. It’s more towards brutality-- so she materializes those she sees as brutal: the torturers, the warriors, the scholar-kings, and the plunderers. Phenex, likewise, seeks to eliminate “ignorance” and “knowledge” to achieve equilibrium and stagnation, ultimately creating an unchanging utopia.

(”Ignorance”, the unknown and unthought (chaos); and “Knowledge”, the root of progress (order). Mystery is a ‘thought, but not confirmed’ spectrum between the two, and the realm of magic and magecraft.)

Bearing the Singing Sword, the party is able to counteract Phenex’s ability, and destroy him for good. Scheherazade, after talking with Ritsuka, makes the decision to choose her own ending: one where she, neither king nor servant, neither dead nor alive, can finally smile and laugh. 

As Laputa disappears-- it’s time for this “story” to end. 

[animatevibration-blog]

Mad Titan, Or Last Man

Please note that this is an incomplete assessment of motivations simply because comic book characters will never have an end to their story. I am also not informed on Thanos’ current exploits in the comics since I have not read Marvel, or any comics for a number of years. The focus will be on an older iteration of Thanos and his fascination with death that I believe derived from him growing up in a utopia of immortals essentially. Also, this is not an explanation of the Hollywood version of Thanos since his motivations make no sense and is clearly just political propaganda from writers that don’t know anything about population trends. This is not a super in-depth analysis either, I’ve merely looked at his motivations through the lens of the Nietzschean last man, as well as the underground man from Dostoevsky's works.

I had difficulty understanding it at first, mostly because I personalized concepts too much that I shouldn’t have, namely Lady Death. Which in turn, made Thanos’ motivations look like an outburst of an angsty teenage boy. You can’t fully personalize a concept in a story otherwise you miss the point, Lady Death is still death itself, the only real reason it was given form is because that’s seems to be the easiest way to relate to values expressed in stories; it makes it easier to embody them through secondary personalization, which is a term coined by the psychologist Eric Neumann. Secondary personalization is an act from which the more something is understood, the more it is refined in the consciousness until it’s anthropomorphised completely, creating almost a god image within the individual. It’s essentially the same as the image of Helen of Troy discovered by Faust when he travels to the realm of the mothers, she was the spirit of unbridled creative generation and freedom that he longed for. Lady Death is the anthropomorphised value of what Thanos desires most, and he expresses it as female because he is male, because it’s that which he lacks, the other part of his reality. That is partly a Jungian notion from which the male takes an inward journey to discover the Anima within, or his inner feminine that is tied to his highest value, making the attaining of that value an almost sexual act of union between being and image, something like that.

“But wait” you may say, “then why is Death a woman to all within the Marvel universe?” Good question, that is because the concept of death has always been a feminine one throughout history; it is the consumptive element of nature that consumes the life that came before so that successive generations may come into being. The easiest picture to express this in is the Ouroboros, the serpent that eats its tail. It is the sphere that contains existence from which death, or consumption is the precursor to new life. Other faces of death are the Babylonian Tiamat, the Malekusian Le-Hev-Hev which translates to “she who draws us in with a smile so she may consume us.” There is also Nut from Egyptian myth, the mother sky who embraces all in death, which you can see her image placed on sarcophagi, and Ta-Urt who is the bestial guardian of the underworld. Death is Feminine because it is part of nature, or the great mother earth, so it’s not surprising that we will portray it as a woman... Most of the time.

For this assessment though, I want to focus on Lady Death as a very singular expression of his “highest art” so to speak, which arised from the stagnancy of Utopianism. So, let’s begin.

What would a man(or eternal) strive for when perfection was already attained? I really needed to think about that for a second because when you think about utopia, the interesting bits are always the struggle to achieve it. That’s where the meat is in such a value system, that’s where all the action is, and that’s when I had an idea. So, what would a man(eternal) strive for when perfection was already attained? Perhaps he would strive for struggle itself. Perhaps when given eternity, what then would be more desirable than the finite? What could you desire more after you are given the universe through society, than to have it all taken away? It sounds crazy doesn’t it, who would ever destroy perfection merely to struggle? Well, a human would... Even in the face of eternal happiness and comfort, simply to achieve one semblance (if even for a moment) of the meaning that comes only from the finite and imperfect, a person would dash it all away.

That is the purpose of Thanos, he craves the one thing that was taken from him by his parents, and the society that believed it knew better, namely death. Honestly, what meaning could you ever possibly find in a world where people have already conquered the most meaningful aspect of it? Things have to die, things have to wear down, they need to decay because the universe isn’t a structured space of rules and laws. It bends, it curves, it’s constantly changing, it’s a flow of perpetual becoming. The speed of light itself is constantly changing, and that is the speed of causality itself, which is the frame from which events can even happen in reality. Laws, structures, immortality are all societal concepts born from consciousness, more precisely the consciousness of the left hemisphere; especially the concept of immortality. Things are always changing, we just cant perceive most of it, and you, are not really you. Everything you are now is the current complexity of a a cosmic lineage that dates back to the very beginning of existence. All the material that makes up your being came from the death of something before you. Whether it be the nutrients you ingest from animals and plants, or the elements of you refined in the cores of long dead stars. You are a process, not an end, and to extricate yourself from that process is to produce a fate far worse than death could ever be, an immortal Utopia.

I had to ask myself, is that really the goal of life, just to transcend it? If like the eternals that happens, what other outcome could you have but a utopia of eternal happiness and complacency? Why would you even want that when what is taken is so much? What other options could you ever have than sacrificing everything that made you human; to place it all at the alter of godhood, so that you could simply keep existing and going through the motions like a machine. There’s a reason why vampires are portrayed as impulsive nihilists most of the time, because what the hell else can you do with eternity once you have it. Of course there is a universe full of possibility within the universe, but it will never be achieved by the eternals because they are no longer part of that process and the only kind progress they can achieve is scientific analytical processes which is very indicative of western culture now, because that’s all they value. Which in turn will probably only lead to them becoming like Celestials, ethereal nothings that don’t exist in reality, that don’t understand the underlying complexity and importance of emotion, and merely act like computers.

That entire society and Thanos himself is a microcosm, most likely of the projected anxiety of a post-industrialized society that puts far too much (to an almost pathological degree) value in a singular system of linear analytical cognitive progress. My god ladies and gentlemen, if eternity was sitting in a lab continually making it easier for people to live for the eternity they have anyway, where all that’s left are mere intellectual and habitual procreative pursuits, I would also think death and destruction would be a far more preferable option, it could even become an ideal. Jesus, just try it for a hundred years and get back to me on how you feel about it. I don’t blame Thanos for pining after it, lusting after it, making it his muse, his companion, the Galatea to his Pygmalion, his reason for being. It’s meaning that matters, not more life, not happiness, not perfection, It’s the meaning in the struggle for more life, it’s the meaning you derive from struggling for happiness, it’s the meaning in life that you derive from struggling for perfection that gives depth to existence. It’s not the result, it’s the process. Death matters because it makes everything beautiful, everything meaningful, everything is something you will never see again, something that will never be again. Struggle matters because it makes you more than what you were, it allows you to change. Now let me talk about struggle more.

To struggle is to be human, to suffer is to truly live. Humans are the only beings that can say life is suffering and have a smile on their face. And humans are the only beings in the known universe that will willfully suffer in full understanding of it. Each person has a vast ocean of dormant potential in them just waiting to be realized. I don’t say that in a metaphorical way, though that’s the best way to describe it. You have a plethora of dormant genes in you that wait for the right environmental factors to be activated and embodied as new modes of being, because humans are action oriented, not cognitive oriented. It’s the notion of wishing upon the stars, each one represents a potentiality of what you could be, and you have a choice, you can pick a star and struggle for it. But if you don’t have to struggle anymore, if you have forever and everything provided for you, you won’t do it, you won’t experience it, because you don’t have to. I say this because Thanos is human, strikingly human, perhaps even the greatest of what humanity could be, essentially he is the underground man in a world of last men.

“I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. Alas! There comes a time when man will no longer give birth to a star. Alas! There comes a time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself. Behold! I show you the last man, ‘What is love? What is longing? What is a star?’ So asks the last man and he blinks. The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man who makes everything small.”

“His species is ineradicable like that of a flea; the last man lives the longest. ‘We have invented happiness’ says the last man, and blink. They have left the regions where it was hard to live for one needs warmth. Becoming sick and being suspicious are sinful to them: One proceeds carefully. He is a fool who still stumbles over stones or human beings!”-Thus Spoke Zarathustra p.13

Of course, it would be very rational to want such an existence, and everyone on his world is very rational, but rational isn’t reasonable, and reasonable isn’t meaningful. People are contradictions unto themselves. They almost never want what they need, or need what they want, or even want what they want. The easy paradisaical life is a beautiful dream full of splendor and joy... Only so long as it stays a dream. If man were to make his dream a reality I believe, well, I know that the moment after he would spit on the very ground he toiled so arduously to build and content himself with its absolute destruction,  just so something interesting could happen in his utopia. That is the folly of it, and that’s what I believe Thanos saw, even if he didn’t understand it himself. That is essentially Dostoevsky's notion of utopia and the values of enlightenment which is basically the society the eternals had made. 

“There are continually turning up in life moral and rational persons, sages and lovers of humanity to make it their object to live all their lives as morally and rationally as possible, to be, so to speak, a light to their neighbors simply in order to show them that it is possible to live morally and rationally in this world. And yet we all know that sooner or later those people have been false to themselves, playing some queer trick, often a most unseemly one. Now I ask you? What can be expected of man since he is being endowed with such strange qualities? Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bubbles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperity, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of his species, and then out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man will play you some nasty trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all of this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element. It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself(as though it were so necessary) that men are still men and not keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar. And that is not all: even if man were nothing but a piano key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even then he would not become reasonable, but would purposely do something perverse out of simple ingratitude, simply to gain his point. And if he does not find means he will contrive destruction and chaos, will contrive suffering of all sorts, only to gain his point! He will launch a curse upon the world, and as only man can curse (it is his privilege, the primary distinction between him and other animals), may be by this curse alone he will attain his object- that is, convince himself he is a man and not a piano key! If you say that all this, too, can be calculated and tabulated chaos darkness and curses, so that the mere possibility of calculating it all beforehand would stop it all, and reason would reassert itself, then man would purposely go mad in order to be rid of reason and gain his point!” -Notes From Underground p.230-231

The point I’m expressing is that people are inherently chaotic, and that they love it too, it’s the source of our greatest freedom, the dancing star. We would also destroy all that was good for us merely to keep it. That chaos is lethal to utopianism and eternity. Thanos killed his people and worshiped death because perfection had a flaw, it was meaningless. They sacrificed everything for it, and in turn missed the sole notion powerful enough even to propel one to remake the whole universe and succeed... death. But, that’s just some guys opinion. 

[odilekuronuma]

What is Griffith’s plan?

I've been meaning to make a post about Griffith and his plan for ages now, even before I got a request to make a post about Berserk. 

I do not presume to know exactly how things will go, this is just my analysis based on facts that are known to us, especially with the latest reveal, and we might still need more information to come to a more accurate prediction. And I feel like Berserk is one of those works that aren’t easy to predict. Also I’ll try to be as unbiased as possible, since as it turns out I’m not typically a fan of Griffith, but I still view him as one of the most interesting characters in the series, and he’s at the center of the changes that are happening in the world. 

This post will be divided in two parts, the first one will cover what is known to us, and the second will be more about speculation about what his ultimate plan is.

I-Griffith's immediate plan:

First let’s have a quick reminder of  Griffith’s ambition and what he achieved so far. Griffith’s whole raison d’être  basically is to get his own kingdom. To that effect he gathered a band of mercenaries known as the Band of the Hawk.We don’t know why he wants it so bad, to the point of sacrificing the entire Band of the Hawk later on. Besides his motivations might not matter as much, considering that everything has already been decided by causality, and that IoE has already decided the outcome from the beginning, and that everything else simply lead to that moment where Griffith uses his crimson behelit. The same IoE who told Griffith in the abyss that he is free to do whatever he wants, but in the end it will all go according to his (IoE’s) plan.

So Griffith, for the sake of his dream, sacrifices the Band, and gets reborn as Femto. Later on during the events of Albion, he gets reborn (quite literally) as Neo Griffith. The latter meets with Guts at the Hill of swords, and reiterates his wish to get his own kingdom.

At this point Griffith sounds like a broken record, but as I mentionned earlier, the cornerstone of Griffith’s personality is his dream of getting his own kingdom. 

And after having brainwashed most people into thinking he is the saviour, he faces Ganishka and his armies, and fulfills his own man made prophecy, as it makes it appears as though he vanquished Ganishka, who got reincarnated as Shiva...But in reality it’s all thanks to Skullknight who attacks Femto only for the latter to deflects his attack, that ends up reaping through Shiva. Not only did it kill Ganishka,but it also prompted the merging of layers. The effects can be seen all over the world, all sorts of magical creatures who were usually only present on the astral plane, end up in the same plane as humans. But more importantly thanks to that, and to Griffith posing as the Saviour, he finally acquires his kingdom.And thus Falconia is born, from the remnants of the old Wyndham.

 So Griffith at this point of the story has already achieved his dream, of having his own kingdom. But did it really require that he causes the merging of layers? Did he really have to go to such lengths just so he can use the ruins of old capital as the basis for his newly founded Falconia? I don’t think so.

While it does appear that Griffith has achieved his goal, of having his own kingdom, things most likely aren’t going to end there. Not only do I doubt that he’ll just be satisfied with having his own kingdom, but I really see it as something that will help him achieve bigger things. Basically rather than an end in itself, it’s just a means to an end, and this is all tied to IoE and the age of darkness.

On various occasions, we’ve heard various characters talk about the “Age of Darkness’, including Slan and Schierke . Femto, who is Griffith’s real form, is supposed to bring said Age of darkness.Upon his birth  he is called the Wings of Darkness, and the prophecy of the Falcon of Darkness refers to him.

"On that day, a dying sun rose above the multitude of nations. As written in the Book of Revelations, when the sun has died five times, a red lake will emerge to the west of a city with a name both new and old. It will be a sign that the fifth angel has descended upon this world. The angel is the Hawk of Darkness. He is the master of the sinful black sheep and the king of the blind white sheep. He will usher in an age of darkness to cover the world."

If we’re to analyze it, Femto/Griffith can only be the Falcon of Darkness, as he is the shepherd of the white sheep (humans in Falconia) and the black sheep (Apostles). So there can be no doubt that Griffith/Femto’s goal is ultimately to bring the age of darkness to the world. While we don’t know what it fully entails yet, we can guess some things, just from looking at what happened after the merging of layers.

Now that we know more about the structure of the Berserk world, in particular the spiritual trees and the World tree, it is apparent that Griffith’s intention through the merging of layers was to destroy the spiritual trees, and strengthen the World tree at the heart of Falconia. And it very much looks like this will work to his advantage, and by extension the God Hand, and of course IoE.

And here I’m gonna point some similarity which I found it to be unsettling, and I can’t get all the credit for it since I saw it on reddit. But if you look at the world tree in Falconia itsbranches and roots strangely look familiar. In fact they look a lot like this.

So yep.  Perhaps it really is that the World tree is connected to IoE, and in fact its roots directly connect to the evil God of Berserk.. So Griffith is literally strengthening IoE, and that is part of the age of darkness.

As far fetched as this sounds, I really don’t think it’s concidental, simply for the fact that Miura is the kind of author who throws subtle hints at us, and is really good at reusing some elements from the early parts of the story, and make it tie in perfectly with the more recent devlopments. So while he might not have thought of the World tree (I'm just gonna call it Yggdrasil) as early as episode 109 where IoE appears, I wouldn’t put it past him to throw us a bone like that.

And I even remember some photoshoped image of IoE appearing out of the corpse of Shiva during the merging of layers.

So while it does look like Griffith has achieved his dream, it’s not an end in itself, rather it’s just a means to an end, and that it will allow Griffith, or to be more accurate Femto, to truly unleash the age of darkness, which involves strengthning the World tree’s power, which I also think is tied to IoE and that he’s pretty much strengthening its power.

In fact this is all IoE's plan, Griffith getting his kingdom is just part of it, and Griffith himself is but a pawn of IoE, and he's doing its biding. 

So in conclusion, Griffith getting his kingdom is not the end game, and it's just part of a bigger plan, IoE's plan to usher the age of darkness. 

II-Griffith's ultimate plan:

But will Griffith, assuming there’s still something left of the person he once was(other than his dream), be really  satisfied with being IoE’s pawn? I mean sure he got his kingdom, that he wanted so bad for some obscure reason, so everyone wins right?He gets what he wants, and through his action IoE’s hold on the world is strenghtened.Guts line here suggests otherwise:

Guts knows Griffith best, so according to him Griffith getting his kingdom is just a means to an end, and he plans to "soar even higher".

And I'm inclined to think so as well, and here I can't help but draw a parallel with Sinbad from Magi. Both are machievellian characters, and as it turns out Sinbad wasn't satisfied with just creating his own country, or achieve world peace, he wanted to reach new heights, and it is currently his goal and motivation for what he's doing in Magi.

So Griffith's ultimate goal cannot be to just have his own kingdom, even if said kingdom ends up covering the whole planet. Falconia is currently the only safe place for humans, so we can bet that it will grow to meet the needs of a growing population, as more humans will flock there for safety.

But what can be bigger than ruling the whole world basically? It can only be to become God itself.

This is a bit of a wild speculation but logically that can only be the higher stage. Griffith is already seen as the saviour, he used the prophecies of the Holy see Church to pose as the Hawk of light. His character is riddled with references to the Christ/Anti-christ. And he's a God Hand which is a real concept in Judaism. 

Nevermind the fact that as I said the man that Griffith was wouldn't be satisfied with being a pawn, he's the one who uses others, not the other way around. So perhaps he's just using IoE. 

Perhaps he won't outright overthrow IoE, but he could merge with it, becoming a new being, similar to the Holy Trinity in the Bible.But how does he hope to achieve that?

 It is generally believed in the fandom that Griffith will sacrifice Falconia.Let's see how much weight this theory has.

What happens if and when things don’t work out as planned in Falconia ? Already we saw Griffith fail once, and be rejected even, by Rickert of all people. We’ve seen him reject Griffith’s offer of joining him, in what has to be one of the best moments in the history of Berserk. God that bitchslap was glorious.

So he clearly can’t control everyone, especially those who were close to him when he was still human, and thus know him better. But more importantly,  what happens when his utopia is threatened, by none other than Guts?

There is no doubt about Guts ability to get people to follow him, through the course of his life he has influenced a great deal of characters, starting with the BoTH who were also loyal to him(except Corkus but he was a jerk anyway). As the BoTH’s raiding commander he managed to earn the trust and respect of his men like Gaston. And even after the loss of the Band, we saw Guts influence the lives of  Farnese namely,Serpico but also Jill, Luca and the girls,Isidro, Schierke and Flora,Roderick and the gang,  Isma and the merrows etc.He even has his own band now.And it’s pretty clear he’ll end up getting the support of the Hanafubuku king, aka Dannan which could be a real threat to the God Hand.

There’s no denying that Guts can make allies and also inspire people, just like Griffith is able to inspire people in his own way. And more importantly, Guts as the struggler might be able to create some waves that will come down crashing on Griffith’s so called utopia, as explained by Skullknight in his fish allegory. 

For that, and maybe even as part of IoE’s plan, Griffith might come yet again to sacrifice the whole of Falconia.

Also we have to consider nature of causality in Berserk, and how according to Flora it is a spiral, not a circle (cycle).

Other than the fact that this pretty much confirms that things won't have to go the same way they did with Skullknight, it means to me is that while things aren't taking place in a cycle, each spiral that is threaded by fate could see some similar events happen, and even with a bigger intensity.

We have to remember that Falconia was build on the ruins of the old Wyndham, which was destroyed when the four “angels” came down to free the “Wise man” and punish Gaiseric who had imprisoned him. And it is highly hinted that Gaiseric is in fact Skullknight, and the Wise man is Void. And if we look back at the tower of rebirth , we can clearly see human skeletons at the bottom of the tower, wearing the brand of the sacrifice on their forehead. So clearly back then an Eclipse took place, which saw the ascension of Void to the God hand. 

Guts and Griffith are basically this era’s version of Gaiseric and Void. The similarities between Guts and Gaiseric, as the supposed previous owner of the Berserker armor, are far too great to be dismissed. So those events are bound to happen again.

And seeing as how humans are flocking to Falconia, as it is one of the last “safe” places in the world, the scale of this event will be bigger than anything seen up till now. 

So what we could see is Griffith sacrificing both humans and apostles, not just because his dream could be threatened, but because that would ultimately be his real plan, that will allow him to reach new heights, which can only be something like becoming God.

And to play devil’s advocate, maybe he’ll do that to save all humanity.We can say that the fate chosen by IoE is one that more often than not leads to a bleak end, so perhaps Griffith will truly be a saviour, and get rid of an evil God. 

Well this is more of a wild speculation of my part, but I will admit that I always found his character to be a bit underwhelming, since he so easily was manipulated by the other God Hand like Ubik, and obviously IoE. So that kind of development could turn out to be interesting, but either way I do not see him being satisfied with just having his kingdom, and an eclipse might yet happen, especially if we consider the nature of causality.

So those are strong hints imo that Griffith could yet sacrifice the whole of Falconia, to become pretty much a living god, and that I believe is his ultimate plan.

 Phew this took forever to make, but I wanted to do something special for my 100th post. Thanks for reading.