I was recently reading another thread in which Aaz was answering an old lore question about where Beherits come from, and his answer made me look at something a bit differently.
"They are drops that rise from the Abyss when Griffith sheds his last tear."
We see this happen with Griffith and it's the last we see him before he becomes Femto, and it has a very dreamlike quality to it. The details are a bit vague about how this spray of Beherits then goes into the world of humanity. I imagine they are going out at the same time, even though they might not activate until passing through several 'owners'. We know some took hundreds of years to get to the 'destined' owner before activation.
This would imply two things:
1) The birth of a God Hand member involves the final tear, which creates the Beherits for a new generation of apostles. Meaning the apostles are generational to some degree. Something that gives older apostles like Zodd a bit more significance.
2) Something I think we've always suspected if not assumed: There are a finite number of Apostles possible in any given generation since their origin is tied to an eclipse ceremony. They are not easily replaced if say, a group of epic swordsman, assassin, and mages swoop into town.
A further (and reaching) speculation would be that the distinct appearances between our typical apostle and the more animal-like such as Zodd and the Snake Baron come from this generational divide. We see distinct differences even further back with the Proto-Apostles in SK's flashback, which are all shaggy-haired and almost sloth shaped. But that's pretty out there speculation.
However even if the above is true, we already know that Beherit's can be activated multiple times. I think we all assume it can have multiple owners, otherwise the Count's Beherit wouldn't be so foreboding. Good thing Skull Knight is on a strict diet of them.
Probably not a meaningful insight in the grand scope of the story. What do you think?
"They are drops that rise from the Abyss when Griffith sheds his last tear."
We see this happen with Griffith and it's the last we see him before he becomes Femto, and it has a very dreamlike quality to it. The details are a bit vague about how this spray of Beherits then goes into the world of humanity. I imagine they are going out at the same time, even though they might not activate until passing through several 'owners'. We know some took hundreds of years to get to the 'destined' owner before activation.
This would imply two things:
1) The birth of a God Hand member involves the final tear, which creates the Beherits for a new generation of apostles. Meaning the apostles are generational to some degree. Something that gives older apostles like Zodd a bit more significance.
2) Something I think we've always suspected if not assumed: There are a finite number of Apostles possible in any given generation since their origin is tied to an eclipse ceremony. They are not easily replaced if say, a group of epic swordsman, assassin, and mages swoop into town.
A further (and reaching) speculation would be that the distinct appearances between our typical apostle and the more animal-like such as Zodd and the Snake Baron come from this generational divide. We see distinct differences even further back with the Proto-Apostles in SK's flashback, which are all shaggy-haired and almost sloth shaped. But that's pretty out there speculation.
However even if the above is true, we already know that Beherit's can be activated multiple times. I think we all assume it can have multiple owners, otherwise the Count's Beherit wouldn't be so foreboding. Good thing Skull Knight is on a strict diet of them.
Probably not a meaningful insight in the grand scope of the story. What do you think?