Additionally, a dream is imparted in the masses foretelling the coming of the 'Falcon of Light', who will save them from their misery. With the onset of plague, famine, mercenary bands-turned-robbers, natural disasters, and ultimately Kushan invasion in the kingdom, droves of Midlanders seeking refuge flock to the city of Albion. Roughly two years following the birth of Femto, a series of calamities sweep the kingdom of Midland, providing a proper context for a millennial temporal exception known as the Incarnation Ceremony – where someone in the divine domain who signifies 'the Falcon' will be incarnated in the Physical World. Ultimately unable to commit the deed, the Count is dragged into the Vortex of Souls. They offer to grant the Count new life, so long as he agrees to sacrifice his daughter Theresia to demonkind.

The God Hand is summoned by the cry of the Count's beherit, activated by the lethally wounded apostle in his bout with Guts. Despite the unforeseen intrusion, the God Hand hails the birth of their fifth and heralds an age of darkness. Almost immediately after the act, the Skull Knight encroaches on the Eclipse and escapes with Guts and Casca in tow, unscathed by Femto's efforts to stop him. After Griffith's inexorable sacrificing of his comrades and rebirth as the fifth angel Femto, he rapes Casca to spite a restrained Guts, inducing shock and ultimately amnesia within the former. As they foretold, the God Hand formally meets with Griffith during his Eclipse, and more explicitly explain the reason for their audience with him: so that he may join their ranks as the fifth Guardian Angel of the God Hand, for the price of sacrificing the Band of the Falcon, as preordained by causality. The God Hand is complete with the birth of its fifth member Femto.ĭuring Griffith's year-long imprisonment beneath the Tower of Rebirth, the God Hand appears before their future kinsman in a vision, referring to him as 'King of Longing' and informing him of their impending audience with him at the proper place and time.

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