@@yourlocalpunkposer8107 I know this probably isn't true, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised at this point. There's only so much time one can selectively put off from completing (and unarguably so) their most famous work before unfortunately becoming dull to the idea of actually "doing" the work necessary to see it ultimately finished. Likewise, there's only so many years one can stand to wait for their favorite series to (finally) update before eventually becoming gradually apathetic towards the main author themselves - even more so when there's no stated reason as to why it is exactly the author/creator behind said series has just seemingly halted all of their work. Granted, I still love Berserk for what it is - though I'm a bit partial when it comes to Guts' earlier forays as the Black Swordsman rather than these most recent arcs. However, I refuse to hold any foolhardy (or indeed, extremely zealous) illusions that Kentaro Miura will ever bother to finish the truly unique tale of Berserk sometime within the near future (as his overall passion for the series itself has generally seemed to have dulled through the years, if his unnaturally long hiatuses are anything to go by, let alone release dates), if at all. Instead, it is far more likely that he will die before the end of Berserk can be seen, as so many others who have patiently waited for that well-desired triumphant or dark conclusion to inevitably come. Perhaps I'll be proven wrong (and hopefully so), but I sincerely doubt it.
Miura has said that he mixes and matches historical weapons, tactics, etc. to make up the world of Berserk. Some stuff is from the 1300s, some the 1500s, he goes for whats cool over what's historically accurate per se. So there is no way to "date" the world of Berserk. Still a cool video and some good stuff to think about though, great job.
He introduced the age of cannons just to give Guts a hand blaster. He expressed wanting to make a history manga but wanted more fantasy in his first attempt.
dude kushans directly spoke hindi in the manga itself, and their religion and magic were distincly hindu as well, I don't know where you got the idea that they were inspired by ottomans
kushans were nomads of obscure origins, who ruled northern India (and Iran and central Asia). Hindi for them was learned, they were not hindi themselves. Why pointing it out? Ottomans have also origins in the steppes (altough much, much later).
17:07 Guts was surrounded. For every apostle he felled, three more seemed to take its place. All was lost. Death and damnation seemed assured... THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!!!
I just always imagined that Berserk was set in medieval central europe, like eastern france, southern germany, and northern italy.. Guess I was correct?
@@heathenpride7931 lmfao when Rome feel we entered the dark ages and it brought misery over the whole continent. It wasn't "great" at all, it certainly was inevitable but not something to celebrate. The earlier roman empire was a great nation with revolutionary science and culture just like the ancient greeks. Our modern society is an abomination of nature.
jonas jonas We went into the dark ages because of Christianity and the church forcing everyone but themselves to be uneducated, conducting “witch hunts” to eliminate everyone knowledgeable person not directly under their control, just like a dictator eliminating citizens with brains that didn’t fully devote themselves to the state. They then preceded to keep all that knowledge to themselves and sparsely use it to ensure they stayed in power. That Catholic mindset of domination came from Rome itself (hence Roman Catholic), which was a mainstay from the Roman Imperialist mindset. The Romans were deadset on crushing all threats to their empire and massacred scholars such as the Celtic Druids in Britannia and the Jewish Rabbis. They then forced the populace - now devoid of their societal brain - to adopt the Roman standard of living and belief system. The Romans were a fucking abomination against nature and I celebrate their demise. Fuck your “Great Nation”
Also backing up Lith and Roderick. From wiki, "Roderick's appearance appears to be based on the character of Long John Silver from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, and more specifically, the character's depiction in the 1978 anime adaptation of the same name - Takarajima. The two have similar facial features and both are experienced sea-faring men. Puck even references the resemblance while aboard the Seahorse, cementing that it is intentional."
The Franks came from _Franconia_ , in central Germany. Oh, and The Kushan Empire was a real thing. One of the Silk Road empires of Turania/central Asia.
Could be that in the Berserk world the Kushan Empire got their hands on some serious Mystic Mojo and conquered the Ottoman Empire and decided to follow the Ottoman's expansionist policy. As the Kushan's religion in Berserk seems to combine Arabic Paganism and Hinduism, and has very little of Islam in it. I think.
The Kushan's use of war elephants and strong Indian/Hindu aesthetics and terms also lends well to them not being based on the Islamic Ottoman Turks, though they do clearly share their role as the Great Scourge Of Christendom… or whatever the Holy See's faith is called in the world of Berserk.
I think it would make a lot more sense for Wallatoria to be the equivalent to Wallachia (slightly east of Hungary), mainly because of the name. Wallachia also had quite a lot of history with the Ottomans, while Lithuania never even made contact with them I think. Edit: Now that I think about it, Morgar might be Moldavia or Hungary, since they're stated as "small nations" and Poland-Lithuania was absolutely massive in our timeline
I’m almost certain that morgar and wallatoria would be Moldavia and wallachia, both countries were in the far easy and were known for the hatred of the ottomans. One of the kings of Wallachia impaled so many people he’s what the dracula myth of is based on
go back and read history, they allied with the ottomans against the Catholics who would have butchered them during the inquisitions. Also Vlad the Impaler was ethnically Turkic too. They hated the catholics hell of a lot more then the Muslim Turks hence why they made their lands vassals of the Ottomans. The Ottomans didnt need to conquer those lands, their leaders submitted to the Turks voluntarily. BTW Orthodox Christians are known for their hatred of the Catholic christians. Likewise Catholics despise Orthodox Christians.
hon hon hon! But more seriously, I'm pretty sure Charlemagne spoke a Germanic tongue on a day to day basis (did the "French" language as we understand it today even exist back then?)
Actually Charlemagne spoke Latin ( vulgar latin that would go on to become french ) , franconian (old high german ) and a bit of greek . So really I think he was as much french and German...but since France formed earlier than germany I would say french anyway .
basicly charlemagne (or Karl der Große) was something like a french and german forefather country wise. At his time the concepts of french and german were only slowly beginning to form. Before him their wasnt realy anything remarkable of France or germany as we know it today. Just different tribes, some formerly occupied by rome, some not. But correct me if I'am wrong
At the time, there were a ton of languages that were widely spoken throughout France. The Occitan languages as well as some remenants of Celtic used to be spoken for a long time, but due to French becoming the standard language during the last few centuries, speakers of those languages are now quite rare. I seem to remember from somewhere that for quite a while during the High and/or Late Middle Ages, French was spoken by about one fifth of the population.
6:45 the horned helms, boar iconography, tunics, short swords and most especially the standards (carnyx horns) are all Iron Age Celtic. But the empire that lasts only as long as the king is a pretty good Charlemaign parallel.
Although I find the thought of the Skull knight speaking with a French accent rather amusing, you have to consider that Charlemagne lived at a time way before modern France, thus the way he spoke would be drastically different than a modern french person and so would his accent. I mean, he was king of the Franks, not king of France. Even when I look at french texts from the late medieval period (I'm french by the way) it is incredibly different from modern french, to the point that it is practically gibberish to the average french person... And Charlemagne was 800 years before that, so you can imagine how different his speech would have been!
Geiser-Reich, eh? BTW Gaiseric/Geiseric/Genseric is actually a real person from history, look him up. He was the king of the Vandals and the Alans who established the Vandal kingdom in the 5th century, which also was a major trouble for the western roman empire.
Most of you probably know this already but Guts is based on a real German mercinary knight, Gotz von Berlichingen. He had his arm from the elbow down blown off by a canon and had a prosthetic made that had mechanisms so he could hold a sword or a quill. It was the most advanced prosthetic of the time. I believe he was alive around 1550.
I really have to disagree with this theory. First, the warriors shown in Gaiseric's period are in my opinion far more similar to those of keltic and early germanic warriors. Mainly based on the weapons they are using, and those poles adorned with heads (dont remember the name of those) The fortress in the back is also much more similar to an oppidum. But the main thing I have to disagree with the setting of Midland in the middle Francia, is because the ground zero for the explosion, which would have to be Wyndham's location, is nowhere near that location. If you draw a line between the fjords of Norway and the western cape of Asia Minor, the ground zero would be somewhere on that line. Which would put it somewhere closer to Prague, Bratislava, Vienna or even Warsaw or Krakow. There is also the fact that we have structures from Rome and Vatican located in Wyndham, and the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba is fused together with Palazzo Vecchio of Florence, one being from Spain, the other from Italy, in the palace of Vritannis. While trying to figure out the borders of the berserk universe is really fun, I think it is contra-productive to try and force it into specific historical borders.
Farnese is the name of an influencial medieval Italian Family Magnifico is likely a reference to Lorenzo "Il Magnifico" De' Medici (Lawrence the Magnificent), famous lord of Florence Poliziano was a scholar at the court of Lorenzo Giorgio and Federico (the rest of the Vandimion family iirc) are two very common Italian names, well used already in medieval times
6:40 The helmets (if you omit the horns which are romanticized like for the vikings) and the weird horses head (actually a windpipe called a carnyx) are typical from gaullish equipment in the times of the roman conquest :)
Gaiseric is pronounced GUY-ZER-RICK; it also happens to have been the name of the historical leader of the Vandals in the 5th Century AD, Gaiseric, who conquered Roman North Africa (most of modern day Morocco, Tunisia and the Libyan coastline) alongside his son, Huneric.
About what you said around 7:00 ... well, the men in the manga have carnyxes (the big boar headed trumpets) and are clearly attacking an oppidum (like Old Oswestry for example), so the action would take place somewhere between 400 BC and 0. One of them even has a villanovian helmet, which is from around 700 BC... also, some helmets seam to be Spangenhelms, which means they come from the early middle ages as you said. Considering this, I think Miura wanted to represent the whole pre-Gaiseric world in one picture, with elements from different contexts in antiquity. The point was not to represent an accurate scene but to evoke the pre-imperial world in just one picture. Also, Gaiseric is named after Geiseric, a Vandal king who has sacked Rome in 455 AD... maybe if berserk really take place in our world, it would just be a world where the roman empire never existed.
Holy @!#&. How did Miura learn *ALL THIS WORLD HISTORY?!* He must never leave his house! Seriously, that is a lot of knowledge. And good job to you too, content creator!
Ikr?!...I mean...Berserk has soooooooooo many inspiration in it...I mean how does a God like Miura himself digest these references and inspirations?!!!!BTW...hello again
@@edwardgaines6561 oh thanks...also...I read Berserk last year of December...and now I'm done reading the latest chapter 358...well...I think its time for me to feel the pain of the earlier fans of Berserk... Hiatus 😰
Fun fact: I am from Milan - Italy - which is included in your first Midland area. Milan literally means Midland. Also, "Farnese" was an actual house name to which many Dukes of Parma and Piacenza belonged. The name "De Vandimion" does not tell me anything, but it kinda sounds like it's from Venice, rather than Genoa. My argument being that it is not common for an Italian house name to end with a consonant, and it is usually related to very specific areas (Venice is one of these). Anyway, I loved your analysis.
Sinceramente "Vandimion" mi da più un vibe provenzano (Francia del Sud) e potrebbe benissimo essere legato ad Avignone che era un territorio papalino nel sud della Francia al confine con gli stati italiani. Il che spiegherebbe anche la devozione religiosa di Farnese dato che Avignone come già detto era un territorio del Papa ed è stato anche la sede del trono pontificio durante i conflitti con gli antipapi.
@@Old_Harry7 beh, a questo punto è decisamente più tedesco o, meglio, olandese. Comunque è molto più probabile che abbia fatto un mischione di "cose europee", quindi questi discorsi valgono fino a un certo punto. Interessante la teoria di Avignone, comunque. Non ci avevo pensato.
@@danilobondi3191 sicuramente il mischione è stato fatto però a discolpa di Miura e del resto del mondo in generale, bisogna dire che trattare di storia europea per un non-europeo è davvero difficile, soprattutto per quanto riguarda confini geografici e zone di influenza. Per quanto riguarda Avignone, personalmente ne sono convinto, il discorso calza perfettamente se si inquadra la religione e l'educazione di Farnese. Cosa ti fa pensare all'olandese per Vandiminion? Per memoria di orecchio mi suona molto francese ma non sono un esperto in materia.
@@Old_Harry7 no beh nemmeno io sono esperto, figuriamoci. Me lo fa pensare il fatto che van è il tipico prefisso (come il nostro de') tedesco/olandese. Ipotizzo che magari voleva essere van dimion e poi sia stato unito perché boh... Non essendo europeo appunto magari ha semplicemente scelto qualcosa che gli suonava bene. Poi appunto, è solo una sensazione. Se dovessi inventarmi io un cognome giapponese farei qualcosa che vagamente mi suona bene, mica mi metto a pensare alla zona nello specifico
I went to read the golden age arc and the arc after that. Seeing a skullnight as French and speaking in that nazle tone. It made it so weird and hilarious. "Our paths will cross again, Struggler." I can never read it normally again.
Gaiseric seems almost like a vague "best hits" album of some specific imperial leaders over time. It could also be argued that his story alludes to Alexander the great. In fact while I can see where the helmets and armor in the one image of the past empire could be norman/frankish I feel the way in which the cuirass is build seems closer to the Linothorax armor of that period of Greek history, but also it appears to be built of individual plates like a Coat of Plate from the late crusade period of the middle ages. To be fair I don't think you are wrong necessarily on your theory. What I would posit though is that Muira made the imagery vague in terms of time period to encompass the way in which scholar attribute the retelling of mythology from ancient and early middle ages periods. By being vague it could be 500 years ago, or longer and the legends surrounding Gaiseric could be based on the kernel of truth but has had both retelling and perhaps the deeds of forgotten heroes attributed to this legend.
I think Wallatoria and Morgar are Wallachia and Moldavia, because they were more involved, smaller(Poland Lithuania are too big), they sound more similar and are closer to the Kushan.
Pretty decent, except the panel you used to explain morgar and wallatoria specifically stated that they were small and you made them the biggest thing on the map besides the kushan empire. Lol. I think if balden was more east like you said they may be, then it would eat up a fair portion of that land and be more accurate
Kushan is way more to the east...in India. The one you call Kushan is the Ottoman Empire...and also a huge chunk of the continent to the west of the Black Sea is the territory of the three kingdoms Valahia, Transilvania and Moldova...currently known as Romania. There are lots of legends surrounding this area - a border between cultures and worlds, geographically marked by the Carpathian mountains and the Black Sea, ancient home of the Dacians.
The timeline of Berserk seems to take inspiration in late rennaisance and early modern period around 15th-early 17th century although the 2012 series of berserk depicts itself around the transitional period of armour, 14th century
The Kushan empire existed literally. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushan_Empire Also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaiseric I think this explains a lot. Miura probably picked and chose different things from different historical times. The tree where everyone is hanging reminds me a lot of a painting from Jacques Callot called The Horrors of War that depicts the aftermath of a massacre in the Thirty years war. The ottoman empire didn´t exist at the same time as the carolingian empire.
Wallatoria sounds fairly close to wallachia, it was the southern most part of where Romania is now. It would mean the ottoman empire would be in the even earlier ages
It seems like the architecture and some of the design of Gaiseric at least take inspiration from Alexander the Great, since Miura pulls some things from different time periods here. Great video!
i just saw this video, i think the whole universe in berserk is not similar to the real world empires and kingdoms because it is set on a world with same geography with us but different history and events which made such kingdoms in berserk unique on itself, comparing gazerik to charlemagne is somehow wrong i think because theres no such thing as charlemagne in the world of berserk, and we cannot put gazerik in real world because theres no such thing as gazerik in our history. there is also kushan empire which has the role as the turks but are indians and in reality exists a hundreds years ago prior to the medieval era. i think the world of berserk is like the history and events on the videogame called crusader kings where random events happen such as indians being able to invade eastern europe, or different kings other than charlemagne starting a big empire etc. it is just a different world of magic with different events of history based on the real world geography.
I mean the fact that miura has openly said he has a great fascination and was inspired with Western history (Western being European not Western as in American, that shit has never made sense) kind of gives it away that all this takes place in medieval times within Eurasia during times literally in CONSTANT war. empires falling and rising repeatedly and constant warfare it's not hard to understand where this takes place.
Kushans are definetly Indians/Hindus. And Charlemagne was not French nor German, the concept of "France" and Germany (and even concepts like "Nations") appeared way later ! Basically France, as we know it today, really appeared in the XVIII/XIXth century, a little bit later for Germany. But it is common to say that France and Germany's origins are the same : Charlemagne and his empire. So in a way, they're like two twins that never got along with each other until recently, so that is pretty cool !
I am pretty sure its something from Powerwolf, however i cannot really put my finger on which one exactly, hope it helps. Or maybe night witches from sabaton... idk Well after a little google-foo its "when the winged husars arrived" by Sabaton (unsurprisingly) - ruclips.net/video/75zmIj_4LFQ/видео.html
Culturally the Kushan are Hindu, but there invasion of Midland is more similar to the Ottomans, so they are a mix up of both. The ancient warriors there were meant to look Celtic, indicating the ancestors of the people of midland and possibly Tudor, to have been there world's equivalent of Celtic barbarians, and Gaiseric is a germanic name, so his origins were most likely in the north of his world's Europe, with Germanic based people, he was most likely the war chief of a barbarian tribe, and conquered all in his path, and fell in love with the architecture of the subjugated Roman/Mediterranean people of this world. In my opinion, I feel like he is a blend between the historical barbarian king gaiseric, who was more a raider than a great unifier, and King Charlamagne, who of course was a unifier, and is seen as the father of Europe. I feel like Griffith would be this world's welsh, for literally no reason other than his name, which is of Welsh origin (nothing against wales, I myself am part welsh), Guts I feel is most likely central European more or less a blend of this world's equivalent of Germanic and Celtic, and just a little bit of this world's Slav, Casca I'd say is basque due to her origin in the mountains, and living near the border of two countries. I'd say that Grunbeld is probably Irish, due to his homeland being a northern country, and the only northern country within range of Tudor, which did attack his homeland, would be this world's Ireland. Not just saying that cuz he is a redhead, but because geography. I also agree with the notion that Skellig is a small island south of ireland, as it does explain perfectly why the ride from Vritannis (which has been established in the video as in Italy) to skellig toon so long. Also Wallatoria and Morgar is definitely the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth in my opinion, and Balden is the early Holy Roman Empire, and Randel is Bohemia. The Panera alliance is most likely the Italian city states.
I think the Kushan are a conglomerate empire of many different asian cultures. You can see within the manga that there seem to be different ethnicities within the Kushan army, some look like Mongols, some are Hindi but I think the ruling class is definitely Arab. I always thought Casca herself was probably from one of these ethnicities, which would make sense because there were many turkic immigrants in eastern europe at certain points. I also believe Guts himself is slavic, which would make it easier for him and Casca to have met.
1000 year ago midland could easily be greece too, alexander the great united the then constantly warring city states, and went on to conquer the then known world, uppon his death, the empire split into smaller piece, and since he went all the way to india, this would make greece the middle of the known world or close enough(the then greek now turkey is also called middle east)the architecture shown also fits.
Awesome job. One of the things that turned me off of Berserk was a lack of a map. The world seemed like a shapeless nightmare fueled demon playground with Guts wandering aimlessly trapped within it. Never got a sense of place or understanding of the landmarks. You always know where you are in the world of GOT for an example, which I prefer.
I don't think it's possible to draw direct parallels to real life, we have too much contrasting information. Take Vritannis for example: it is heavily inspired by Florence (the tower is literally palazzo vecchio, Manifico sounds a lot like Lorenzo il magnifico, and his family reminds me of the de Medici family), but it's on the seaside. Also Farnese irl is the name of a dinasty that ruled over Parma. The kushan are indian-inspired (from the irl kushan empire), so they probably just expanded west a lot under ganishka (?) and don't represent the ottomans. Due to name similarity and geographical/historical relevance Waratoria is probably Wallachia and Morgar Hungary (hungarian in hungarian is magyar) Midland is France for me, and Tudor is England. It just makes too much sense. Roderick might come from Iceland: it's an island, it's isolated from the rest of Europe and it has a history of exploration ( Leif Ericsson, discoverer of America, was from Iceland). I don't know about the others
Hell yeah I live in Midland! The only one I disagree on is Morgar and Wallatoria. It's stated in the same panel that they are small empires so it's weird that they're now one of the biggest part of the map. I understand the history you're connecting them with and I can't come up with a better one but the proportions just don't seem to fit. Other than that it's a great video!
I would think Midland is actually Byzantium seeing as major battles of the hundred years war took place in rather arid environments. Also it would be easier for the Kushan, who seem more Indian than anything else, to invade from India. It also keeps Midland in the middle as Byzantium had a rather important and central location being the land connection between Europe and the Middle East. Let's not forget that Byzantium fell to the Ottomans which the Kushan have filled the void of. Midland lost its capital to the Kushan leaving me even more sure that Midland is dark fantasy Byzantium. Given how vaguely portrayed the other neighbouring nations are they could easily be moved around to fit into Byzantium's neighbours. One last thing is the Holy See's seemingly out of place defence of Midland. If it were just any other European counterpart I couldn't see the Holy See getting involved but if Midland is Byzantium it would make sense as it was a major religious hub for the real Holy See and it was the last capital of the Roman Empire which could be swapped out for Gaiseric's empire. EDIT: I didn't really bring up the Holy See's involvement very well. Yall remember when the Holy See rounded up a buncho nations to repel the Kushan? Thas what I is talkin bout. Watta yall think? Does my theory hold any water?
Morgar and Wallatoria are considered small so I would say it's Wallacia and some other balkan country. Kushan is clearly inspired by the Kushan Empire of Indus... There is also whatever nation the dragon dude is from? Some northern country.
Well Henry VII lived in exile in France in time of the war of the roses. And his Mother Margaret Beaufort send secretly money to fund his sons army and from France Henrik came and defeated Richard III in the battle of bosworth. And then Henry became a Lancastrian king and married Elizabeth of York to unite the two branches and creating the Tudor dynasty.
i know this is a long debate but the franks were of germanic heritage, ofc you can say he was french for the lols but i wanted to point this out cause Charlemagne favored Aachen(~Midland) a city in middle Francia which would further support your thesis
after the history of midland bro don't know what he is talking about, even if ottoman empire was the neighbouring country at the same period you can't deny all the reference and inspirations of the hindu culture all throughout to kushan saga, namely clothes, names, appearance, symbols on foreheads of bakiraka, all the statue of gods beside ganishka and the gods they pray, daiba is clearly drawn from a hindu yogi's appearance (he even always sits in a position you would commonly see in yoga), extensive ues of elephants in warfare (which ottoman empire never could have). As I read berserk few years ago I don't remember every detail, but as I was reading being an Indian and hindu I noticed the hundreds of reference of Indian culture & tradition.
Berserk was just inspired by many portions of history, none of that is exactly the actual history.. the characters were inspired by numerous of historical ppl, and myths/religions.. Can’t just make something fit where it’s not supposed to.
I think it's very likely the Kushan Empire encompasses the entire Muslim world, including Al-Andalus (Iberia). The Kushan Emperor has been around for centuries, and matches up with a number of historical figures. He could be Suleman, but he could also be Timur, the head of an ungodly huge Empire stretching all the way from India to encompass the entire Muslim world. Maybe it includes all the conquests of the Mongol empire as well. I think the strong Indian flavor of the Kushan has me leaning towards Timur.
8:04 charlemagne achievements were more than 1200 years ago. And charlemagne never used the title of HR Emperor. You must have looked up the starting date of the HRE and assumed Charlemagne was the first one using this title, which never happened.
I don't think its correct to assume Berserk's world has the same borders and histories around those borders as the real-world ones. Gothic Plates, ect. could have been developed in areas different from their development on our earth.
Midland is the HRE Chuder is france Kushans are the literal Kushan empire but switched places with the ottomans since the Ottomans almost conquered vienna.
You do realise that the West as a whole is germanic? It's all about where these tribes settled and assimilated, not what they left behind. In fact there is no formal distiction between the Frank and the French. It's a stylistic sleight of hand thought up by Philip II king of the Franks, who saw the groups he ruled as a nation rather than provincials under an empire. Thus he started calling himself king of France instead. Charlemagne is simply the genesis of French identity as we know it today. The oldest recognisable ancestor: an archetype of a Germanic/Latin mixture we still recognise as French. He spoke a mixture of latin and germanic dialects that serves as the basis of modern French, and as a result we call that mixture old french. Before him we find Latin, Celt and Germanic tribes and languages in less assimilated/ recognisable states. It doesn't mean his influence wasn't felt outside of modern France though. The eastern parts of his empire developped different cultures through further assimilation with eastern people, while his influence over chritiendom was so great that his legend merged with celtic ones to form that of Arthur over in Britain (according to Tolkien's research). This was further reinforced through the later French conquest of England, but later assimilations created the modern British identities. Great Men had influence all over. There's no reason the French and Germans can't share Charlemagne as kin. Our extended families are related.
“No...
It was too big to be called a loaf of bread
Too large, too rough, too European
It was indeed a baguette”
-My New Head Canon
baguettes are slim i would say a rustic pan
I’m crying lol
indeed, it was like a slab of fresh bread
At this point I just watch anything related to Berserk..Starving for a new Chapter:(
Miura won't make another chapter, he gave up on us and left us on a cliff hanger
@@yourlocalpunkposer8107 ur kidding me😵
Jun 31is the new chapter release date from what I've heard
Gray .v1 I hope so
@@yourlocalpunkposer8107 I know this probably isn't true, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised at this point. There's only so much time one can selectively put off from completing (and unarguably so) their most famous work before unfortunately becoming dull to the idea of actually "doing" the work necessary to see it ultimately finished. Likewise, there's only so many years one can stand to wait for their favorite series to (finally) update before eventually becoming gradually apathetic towards the main author themselves - even more so when there's no stated reason as to why it is exactly the author/creator behind said series has just seemingly halted all of their work.
Granted, I still love Berserk for what it is - though I'm a bit partial when it comes to Guts' earlier forays as the Black Swordsman rather than these most recent arcs. However, I refuse to hold any foolhardy (or indeed, extremely zealous) illusions that Kentaro Miura will ever bother to finish the truly unique tale of Berserk sometime within the near future (as his overall passion for the series itself has generally seemed to have dulled through the years, if his unnaturally long hiatuses are anything to go by, let alone release dates), if at all. Instead, it is far more likely that he will die before the end of Berserk can be seen, as so many others who have patiently waited for that well-desired triumphant or dark conclusion to inevitably come. Perhaps I'll be proven wrong (and hopefully so), but I sincerely doubt it.
Miura has said that he mixes and matches historical weapons, tactics, etc. to make up the world of Berserk. Some stuff is from the 1300s, some the 1500s, he goes for whats cool over what's historically accurate per se. So there is no way to "date" the world of Berserk. Still a cool video and some good stuff to think about though, great job.
He introduced the age of cannons just to give Guts a hand blaster. He expressed wanting to make a history manga but wanted more fantasy in his first attempt.
@@slyfrailzz cannon is a medieval weapon tho
@@dolsopolar I’m only describing it as Mr Miura did from an old interview. His timeline is super warped and interesting
Explains why armor is cut through like butter or shot through like paper
@@s_cky6872 especially considering how well designed the armors was
dude kushans directly spoke hindi in the manga itself, and their religion and magic were distincly hindu as well, I don't know where you got the idea that they were inspired by ottomans
Yeah, that's one I also don't agree on. I didn't get any Muslim vibes from them. More Hindu.
It only makes sense geographically. Europeans really had nothing to do with Hindus at the time.
Every video has that one moment that makes you go 'wtf', and this is it for this one.
kushans were nomads of obscure origins, who ruled northern India (and Iran and central Asia). Hindi for them was learned, they were not hindi themselves. Why pointing it out? Ottomans have also origins in the steppes (altough much, much later).
@Arusiek90 Its obviously chosen name for fictional amalgation of various middle eastern/indian empires.
17:07 Guts was surrounded. For every apostle he felled, three more seemed to take its place. All was lost. Death and damnation seemed assured...
THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!!!
COMING DOWN THE MOUNTAINSIDE
COMING DOWN THEY TURNED THE TIDE
THEN SKULL KNIGHT ARRIVED
I just always imagined that Berserk was set in medieval central europe, like eastern france, southern germany, and northern italy.. Guess I was correct?
just sayn'
Götz von Berlichingen
The actual madlad mercenary who had a metal hand
Unlucky nations /
4:46 Gaiseric was the king of the vandals in our timeline. He was one of the key players in the downfall of the Roman Empire.
Roman Empire existed only on paper by the time Vandals (and many others) came around. Its institutions and nobility completely rotten by then.
Lord Of Onions
Don’t. Rome was decadent corrupt and evil. An abomination of nature. It was a great event when it fell.
The roman empire fucked itself mostly largely because of their conversion to christianity.
@@heathenpride7931 lmfao when Rome feel we entered the dark ages and it brought misery over the whole continent. It wasn't "great" at all, it certainly was inevitable but not something to celebrate. The earlier roman empire was a great nation with revolutionary science and culture just like the ancient greeks. Our modern society is an abomination of nature.
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We went into the dark ages because of Christianity and the church forcing everyone but themselves to be uneducated, conducting “witch hunts” to eliminate everyone knowledgeable person not directly under their control, just like a dictator eliminating citizens with brains that didn’t fully devote themselves to the state. They then preceded to keep all that knowledge to themselves and sparsely use it to ensure they stayed in power. That Catholic mindset of domination came from Rome itself (hence Roman Catholic), which was a mainstay from the Roman Imperialist mindset. The Romans were deadset on crushing all threats to their empire and massacred scholars such as the Celtic Druids in Britannia and the Jewish Rabbis. They then forced the populace - now devoid of their societal brain - to adopt the Roman standard of living and belief system. The Romans were a fucking abomination against nature and I celebrate their demise. Fuck your “Great Nation”
Also backing up Lith and Roderick. From wiki, "Roderick's appearance appears to be based on the character of Long John Silver from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, and more specifically, the character's depiction in the 1978 anime adaptation of the same name - Takarajima. The two have similar facial features and both are experienced sea-faring men. Puck even references the resemblance while aboard the Seahorse, cementing that it is intentional."
Hold on now, Treasure Island has *an anime?*
@@sneedsfeedseed9905 Yes from 70s.
@@sneedsfeedseed9905 yes
The Franks came from _Franconia_ , in central Germany.
Oh, and The Kushan Empire was a real thing. One of the Silk Road empires of Turania/central Asia.
Could be that in the Berserk world the Kushan Empire got their hands on some serious Mystic Mojo and conquered the Ottoman Empire and decided to follow the Ottoman's expansionist policy. As the Kushan's religion in Berserk seems to combine Arabic Paganism and Hinduism, and has very little of Islam in it. I think.
The Kushan's use of war elephants and strong Indian/Hindu aesthetics and terms also lends well to them not being based on the Islamic Ottoman Turks, though they do clearly share their role as the Great Scourge Of Christendom… or whatever the Holy See's faith is called in the world of Berserk.
Sounds like Falconia
Franks are the forefathers of western Europeans.
@@jaskitstepkit7153 right, but the franks were a german tribe
I think it would make a lot more sense for Wallatoria to be the equivalent to Wallachia (slightly east of Hungary), mainly because of the name. Wallachia also had quite a lot of history with the Ottomans, while Lithuania never even made contact with them I think.
Edit: Now that I think about it, Morgar might be Moldavia or Hungary, since they're stated as "small nations" and Poland-Lithuania was absolutely massive in our timeline
Imagine Guts meeting Vlad Tepes O.O ...
@@stormbringer2840 Didn't he actually meet him in the pilot? He was an apostle I think
@@mateistoian726
Hmm was this one canon ? I always thought that it was a kind of a raw draft before the actual story.
@@stormbringer2840 It's not canon, but it's still a representation of Vlad Tepes as an apostle
@@mateistoian726
Fair enough .
I’m almost certain that morgar and wallatoria would be Moldavia and wallachia, both countries were in the far easy and were known for the hatred of the ottomans. One of the kings of Wallachia impaled so many people he’s what the dracula myth of is based on
go back and read history, they allied with the ottomans against the Catholics who would have butchered them during the inquisitions. Also Vlad the Impaler was ethnically Turkic too. They hated the catholics hell of a lot more then the Muslim Turks hence why they made their lands vassals of the Ottomans. The Ottomans didnt need to conquer those lands, their leaders submitted to the Turks voluntarily. BTW Orthodox Christians are known for their hatred of the Catholic christians. Likewise Catholics despise Orthodox Christians.
So Berserk is set in a game of Crusaders Kings 2?
hon hon hon! But more seriously, I'm pretty sure Charlemagne spoke a Germanic tongue on a day to day basis (did the "French" language as we understand it today even exist back then?)
Actually Charlemagne spoke Latin ( vulgar latin that would go on to become french ) , franconian (old high german ) and a bit of greek . So really I think he was as much french and German...but since France formed earlier than germany I would say french anyway .
basicly charlemagne (or Karl der Große) was something like a french and german forefather country wise. At his time the concepts of french and german were only slowly beginning to form. Before him their wasnt realy anything remarkable of France or germany as we know it today. Just different tribes, some formerly occupied by rome, some not. But correct me if I'am wrong
At the time, there were a ton of languages that were widely spoken throughout France. The Occitan languages as well as some remenants of Celtic used to be spoken for a long time, but due to French becoming the standard language during the last few centuries, speakers of those languages are now quite rare. I seem to remember from somewhere that for quite a while during the High and/or Late Middle Ages, French was spoken by about one fifth of the population.
@@fdumbass Wasn't "French" as we understand it today only spoken in the capital until the 18th century?
@@calimerohnir3311 Something along those lines is probably true, but I can't claim that I know that much about the subject.
6:45 the horned helms, boar iconography, tunics, short swords and most especially the standards (carnyx horns) are all Iron Age Celtic. But the empire that lasts only as long as the king is a pretty good Charlemaign parallel.
Although I find the thought of the Skull knight speaking with a French accent rather amusing, you have to consider that Charlemagne lived at a time way before modern France, thus the way he spoke would be drastically different than a modern french person and so would his accent. I mean, he was king of the Franks, not king of France. Even when I look at french texts from the late medieval period (I'm french by the way) it is incredibly different from modern french, to the point that it is practically gibberish to the average french person... And Charlemagne was 800 years before that, so you can imagine how different his speech would have been!
Geiser-Reich, eh? BTW Gaiseric/Geiseric/Genseric is actually a real person from history, look him up. He was the king of the Vandals and the Alans who established the Vandal kingdom in the 5th century, which also was a major trouble for the western roman empire.
He was the one person who sacked rome yeah .
@@stormbringer2840 Exactly.
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I think he is a mix of the two . ( kind of like the kushans who were real people but ended taking the place of the ottoman empire )
He seemed to do a good amount of research so I was surprised he never stumbled upon that.
Most of you probably know this already but Guts is based on a real German mercinary knight, Gotz von Berlichingen. He had his arm from the elbow down blown off by a canon and had a prosthetic made that had mechanisms so he could hold a sword or a quill. It was the most advanced prosthetic of the time. I believe he was alive around 1550.
No it’s just a coincidence
I really have to disagree with this theory.
First, the warriors shown in Gaiseric's period are in my opinion far more similar to those of keltic and early germanic warriors. Mainly based on the weapons they are using, and those poles adorned with heads (dont remember the name of those) The fortress in the back is also much more similar to an oppidum.
But the main thing I have to disagree with the setting of Midland in the middle Francia, is because the ground zero for the explosion, which would have to be Wyndham's location, is nowhere near that location. If you draw a line between the fjords of Norway and the western cape of Asia Minor, the ground zero would be somewhere on that line. Which would put it somewhere closer to Prague, Bratislava, Vienna or even Warsaw or Krakow.
There is also the fact that we have structures from Rome and Vatican located in Wyndham, and the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba is fused together with Palazzo Vecchio of Florence, one being from Spain, the other from Italy, in the palace of Vritannis.
While trying to figure out the borders of the berserk universe is really fun, I think it is contra-productive to try and force it into specific historical borders.
isn't Charlemagne germanic?
*me listening casually*
*Joakim comes busting down the door*
*"WHEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!"*
My spine is a archway of pain laced with excitement *Cough* *Cough* Skull Knight
“Long story short: gavelkind succession is a bitch.”
*CK2Flashbacks intensify.*
Imagine Guts asks skullknight a question that the community is dying to know, and he answers "Oui."
Berserkers were actual Nordic warriors
Norse or Germanic or Gaulic. Berserking is a practice widely spread across Europe. The word is unique to the northern Europeans. That's about it.
Vritannis is mostly Florence with a port, you can even see some famous buildings (like Palazzo Vecchio) in some panels
Farnese is the name of an influencial medieval Italian Family
Magnifico is likely a reference to Lorenzo "Il Magnifico" De' Medici (Lawrence the Magnificent), famous lord of Florence
Poliziano was a scholar at the court of Lorenzo
Giorgio and Federico (the rest of the Vandimion family iirc) are two very common Italian names, well used already in medieval times
Kushan you say?
*Taiidan murder intensifies*
Bombing our (new) Homeworld?
"Subject did not survive interrogation."
6:40 The helmets (if you omit the horns which are romanticized like for the vikings) and the weird horses head (actually a windpipe called a carnyx) are typical from gaullish equipment in the times of the roman conquest :)
Gaiseric is pronounced GUY-ZER-RICK; it also happens to have been the name of the historical leader of the Vandals in the 5th Century AD, Gaiseric, who conquered Roman North Africa (most of modern day Morocco, Tunisia and the Libyan coastline) alongside his son, Huneric.
Very nice video, just a shame you didn't make a sort of Guts' journey recap on the map to make the map more realstic, maybe in another video?
Wait, wasn't it said that Chuder was to the east of Midlands? So it would make more sense for Chuder to be East Francia.
About what you said around 7:00 ... well, the men in the manga have carnyxes (the big boar headed trumpets) and are clearly attacking an oppidum (like Old Oswestry for example), so the action would take place somewhere between 400 BC and 0. One of them even has a villanovian helmet, which is from around 700 BC... also, some helmets seam to be Spangenhelms, which means they come from the early middle ages as you said.
Considering this, I think Miura wanted to represent the whole pre-Gaiseric world in one picture, with elements from different contexts in antiquity. The point was not to represent an accurate scene but to evoke the pre-imperial world in just one picture. Also, Gaiseric is named after Geiseric, a Vandal king who has sacked Rome in 455 AD... maybe if berserk really take place in our world, it would just be a world where the roman empire never existed.
Idk what you'd call this get re wise but this is my new favorite kinda video.
Holy @!#&. How did Miura learn *ALL THIS WORLD HISTORY?!* He must never leave his house! Seriously, that is a lot of knowledge.
And good job to you too, content creator!
Ikr?!...I mean...Berserk has soooooooooo many inspiration in it...I mean how does a God like Miura himself digest these references and inspirations?!!!!BTW...hello again
@@mcp7158 Hola otra vez! (Hello again!)
@@edwardgaines6561 what language was that?
@@mcp7158 Spanish.
@@edwardgaines6561 oh thanks...also...I read Berserk last year of December...and now I'm done reading the latest chapter 358...well...I think its time for me to feel the pain of the earlier fans of Berserk...
Hiatus 😰
If you hadn't earned a like through your hard work and analysis, the Sabaton shout out sure earned you one.
Fun fact: I am from Milan - Italy - which is included in your first Midland area. Milan literally means Midland.
Also, "Farnese" was an actual house name to which many Dukes of Parma and Piacenza belonged.
The name "De Vandimion" does not tell me anything, but it kinda sounds like it's from Venice, rather than Genoa. My argument being that it is not common for an Italian house name to end with a consonant, and it is usually related to very specific areas (Venice is one of these).
Anyway, I loved your analysis.
Sinceramente "Vandimion" mi da più un vibe provenzano (Francia del Sud) e potrebbe benissimo essere legato ad Avignone che era un territorio papalino nel sud della Francia al confine con gli stati italiani.
Il che spiegherebbe anche la devozione religiosa di Farnese dato che Avignone come già detto era un territorio del Papa ed è stato anche la sede del trono pontificio durante i conflitti con gli antipapi.
@@Old_Harry7 beh, a questo punto è decisamente più tedesco o, meglio, olandese. Comunque è molto più probabile che abbia fatto un mischione di "cose europee", quindi questi discorsi valgono fino a un certo punto.
Interessante la teoria di Avignone, comunque. Non ci avevo pensato.
@@danilobondi3191 sicuramente il mischione è stato fatto però a discolpa di Miura e del resto del mondo in generale, bisogna dire che trattare di storia europea per un non-europeo è davvero difficile, soprattutto per quanto riguarda confini geografici e zone di influenza.
Per quanto riguarda Avignone, personalmente ne sono convinto, il discorso calza perfettamente se si inquadra la religione e l'educazione di Farnese.
Cosa ti fa pensare all'olandese per Vandiminion? Per memoria di orecchio mi suona molto francese ma non sono un esperto in materia.
@@Old_Harry7 no beh nemmeno io sono esperto, figuriamoci. Me lo fa pensare il fatto che van è il tipico prefisso (come il nostro de') tedesco/olandese. Ipotizzo che magari voleva essere van dimion e poi sia stato unito perché boh... Non essendo europeo appunto magari ha semplicemente scelto qualcosa che gli suonava bene. Poi appunto, è solo una sensazione.
Se dovessi inventarmi io un cognome giapponese farei qualcosa che vagamente mi suona bene, mica mi metto a pensare alla zona nello specifico
I went to read the golden age arc and the arc after that.
Seeing a skullnight as French and speaking in that nazle tone. It made it so weird and hilarious.
"Our paths will cross again, Struggler."
I can never read it normally again.
Gaiseric seems almost like a vague "best hits" album of some specific imperial leaders over time. It could also be argued that his story alludes to Alexander the great. In fact while I can see where the helmets and armor in the one image of the past empire could be norman/frankish I feel the way in which the cuirass is build seems closer to the Linothorax armor of that period of Greek history, but also it appears to be built of individual plates like a Coat of Plate from the late crusade period of the middle ages. To be fair I don't think you are wrong necessarily on your theory. What I would posit though is that Muira made the imagery vague in terms of time period to encompass the way in which scholar attribute the retelling of mythology from ancient and early middle ages periods. By being vague it could be 500 years ago, or longer and the legends surrounding Gaiseric could be based on the kernel of truth but has had both retelling and perhaps the deeds of forgotten heroes attributed to this legend.
I made the mistakes of watching this video while playing crusader kings 2, and the music began overlapping.
Holy shit man you trully dont miss any detail even the tainiest, i like that please keep doing videos on berserk
I'm french and I approve this video.
I would love to hear skull Night say " La causalité me force à manger cette baguette !" X) (and also your video is amazing ;) )
For those that don't understand French this translates to: "A casualty caused by me forcing my manager to eat baguette."
@@rorygreenland3565 whoa its been i while since I say that XD thx btw dude !
@@rorygreenland3565 but they're many mistake but don't worries here's my translation : The causality force me to eat this baguette !
I think Wallatoria and Morgar are Wallachia and Moldavia, because they were more involved, smaller(Poland Lithuania are too big), they sound more similar and are closer to the Kushan.
Ganishka is based on Kanishka, real life Indian monarch, and his empire was named... Kushan Empire. Yeah, Miura did not changed so much there.
As a modern day French person, I totally dig the idea of Skullknight speaking with a baguette accent.
*HON HON HON*
As a French, i can say we don't say "hon hon hon" and i see many times english say that that like that French popoles say and i don't understand.
Pretty decent, except the panel you used to explain morgar and wallatoria specifically stated that they were small and you made them the biggest thing on the map besides the kushan empire. Lol.
I think if balden was more east like you said they may be, then it would eat up a fair portion of that land and be more accurate
Kushan is way more to the east...in India. The one you call Kushan is the Ottoman Empire...and also a huge chunk of the continent to the west of the Black Sea is the territory of the three kingdoms Valahia, Transilvania and Moldova...currently known as Romania. There are lots of legends surrounding this area - a border between cultures and worlds, geographically marked by the Carpathian mountains and the Black Sea, ancient home of the Dacians.
The timeline of Berserk seems to take inspiration in late rennaisance and early modern period around 15th-early 17th century although the 2012 series of berserk depicts itself around the transitional period of armour, 14th century
The Kushan empire existed literally. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushan_Empire
Also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaiseric I think this explains a lot.
Miura probably picked and chose different things from different historical times. The tree where everyone is hanging reminds me a lot of a painting from Jacques Callot called The Horrors of War that depicts the aftermath of a massacre in the Thirty years war. The ottoman empire didn´t exist at the same time as the carolingian empire.
the fashion, architecture, weaponry and tactics are actually more reminsicent of the 30 year war which takes place in the 17th century.
Wallatoria sounds fairly close to wallachia, it was the southern most part of where Romania is now. It would mean the ottoman empire would be in the even earlier ages
How can this help us end the idolmaster though
I think Wallatoria would be wallachia since it has a history of fighting the Ottoman empire and they share similar names.
Imagine Guts meeting Vlad Tepes ... O.O
@@stormbringer2840 he'd end up killing him and I'm not willing to spend 6 years reading that arc when Casca's memory arc is so close to being done.
"hon hon struggler"
-Skull Knight
It seems like the architecture and some of the design of Gaiseric at least take inspiration from Alexander the Great, since Miura pulls some things from different time periods here. Great video!
Really nice shit 👍 I have always ask, why we does not have a map of Berserk...
i just saw this video, i think the whole universe in berserk is not similar to the real world empires and kingdoms because it is set on a world with same geography with us but different history and events which made such kingdoms in berserk unique on itself, comparing gazerik to charlemagne is somehow wrong i think because theres no such thing as charlemagne in the world of berserk, and we cannot put gazerik in real world because theres no such thing as gazerik in our history. there is also kushan empire which has the role as the turks but are indians and in reality exists a hundreds years ago prior to the medieval era. i think the world of berserk is like the history and events on the videogame called crusader kings where random events happen such as indians being able to invade eastern europe, or different kings other than charlemagne starting a big empire etc. it is just a different world of magic with different events of history based on the real world geography.
I mean the fact that miura has openly said he has a great fascination and was inspired with Western history (Western being European not Western as in American, that shit has never made sense) kind of gives it away that all this takes place in medieval times within Eurasia during times literally in CONSTANT war. empires falling and rising repeatedly and constant warfare it's not hard to understand where this takes place.
Love the use of CK2 music
BTW, regarding Jadwiga pronunciation, you could say Hedwig, because that's the English version. :)
i mean the name Midland just makes me believe most of the cast of Berserk are English, I mean, I live in the West MIDLANDS.
Kushans are definetly Indians/Hindus. And Charlemagne was not French nor German, the concept of "France" and Germany (and even concepts like "Nations") appeared way later ! Basically France, as we know it today, really appeared in the XVIII/XIXth century, a little bit later for Germany. But it is common to say that France and Germany's origins are the same : Charlemagne and his empire. So in a way, they're like two twins that never got along with each other until recently, so that is pretty cool !
What music was used at 17:10 ?
I am pretty sure its something from Powerwolf, however i cannot really put my finger on which one exactly, hope it helps.
Or maybe night witches from sabaton... idk
Well after a little google-foo its "when the winged husars arrived" by Sabaton (unsurprisingly) - ruclips.net/video/75zmIj_4LFQ/видео.html
Culturally the Kushan are Hindu, but there invasion of Midland is more similar to the Ottomans, so they are a mix up of both. The ancient warriors there were meant to look Celtic, indicating the ancestors of the people of midland and possibly Tudor, to have been there world's equivalent of Celtic barbarians, and Gaiseric is a germanic name, so his origins were most likely in the north of his world's Europe, with Germanic based people, he was most likely the war chief of a barbarian tribe, and conquered all in his path, and fell in love with the architecture of the subjugated Roman/Mediterranean people of this world. In my opinion, I feel like he is a blend between the historical barbarian king gaiseric, who was more a raider than a great unifier, and King Charlamagne, who of course was a unifier, and is seen as the father of Europe. I feel like Griffith would be this world's welsh, for literally no reason other than his name, which is of Welsh origin (nothing against wales, I myself am part welsh), Guts I feel is most likely central European more or less a blend of this world's equivalent of Germanic and Celtic, and just a little bit of this world's Slav, Casca I'd say is basque due to her origin in the mountains, and living near the border of two countries. I'd say that Grunbeld is probably Irish, due to his homeland being a northern country, and the only northern country within range of Tudor, which did attack his homeland, would be this world's Ireland. Not just saying that cuz he is a redhead, but because geography. I also agree with the notion that Skellig is a small island south of ireland, as it does explain perfectly why the ride from Vritannis (which has been established in the video as in Italy) to skellig toon so long. Also Wallatoria and Morgar is definitely the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth in my opinion, and Balden is the early Holy Roman Empire, and Randel is Bohemia. The Panera alliance is most likely the Italian city states.
I think the Kushan are a conglomerate empire of many different asian cultures. You can see within the manga that there seem to be different ethnicities within the Kushan army, some look like Mongols, some are Hindi but I think the ruling class is definitely Arab. I always thought Casca herself was probably from one of these ethnicities, which would make sense because there were many turkic immigrants in eastern europe at certain points. I also believe Guts himself is slavic, which would make it easier for him and Casca to have met.
cries in gavelkind. that sums up my ck2 game rn
1000 year ago midland could easily be greece too, alexander the great united the then constantly warring city states, and went on to conquer the then known world, uppon his death, the empire split into smaller piece, and since he went all the way to india, this would make greece the middle of the known world or close enough(the then greek now turkey is also called middle east)the architecture shown also fits.
as tekking101 would say....GEOGRAPHY IS EVERYTHING
TAKE HEED, MON AMI. LE ECLIPSE IS ABOUT TO BEGIN OUI OUI. C'EST LA VIE, CAUSALITY
Awesome job. One of the things that turned me off of Berserk was a lack of a map. The world seemed like a shapeless nightmare fueled demon playground with Guts wandering aimlessly trapped within it. Never got a sense of place or understanding of the landmarks. You always know where you are in the world of GOT for an example, which I prefer.
I would say Tudor is actually east francia, due to it being stated that they fought a war with the kingdom of Grant to the north.
Me , a french seeing the picture. " dat some good shit "
I'm a simple french, i see a french flag, i click.
Same here. And then I fall on crowd of hangry germans who dare to clame that Charlemagne wasn't french. I have no regret xD
I don't think it's possible to draw direct parallels to real life, we have too much contrasting information.
Take Vritannis for example: it is heavily inspired by Florence (the tower is literally palazzo vecchio, Manifico sounds a lot like Lorenzo il magnifico, and his family reminds me of the de Medici family), but it's on the seaside. Also Farnese irl is the name of a dinasty that ruled over Parma.
The kushan are indian-inspired (from the irl kushan empire), so they probably just expanded west a lot under ganishka (?) and don't represent the ottomans.
Due to name similarity and geographical/historical relevance Waratoria is probably Wallachia and Morgar Hungary (hungarian in hungarian is magyar)
Midland is France for me, and Tudor is England. It just makes too much sense.
Roderick might come from Iceland: it's an island, it's isolated from the rest of Europe and it has a history of exploration ( Leif Ericsson, discoverer of America, was from Iceland).
I don't know about the others
Imagine if Berserk and Duranki were in the same world/universe
Hell yeah I live in Midland!
The only one I disagree on is Morgar and Wallatoria. It's stated in the same panel that they are small empires so it's weird that they're now one of the biggest part of the map. I understand the history you're connecting them with and I can't come up with a better one but the proportions just don't seem to fit. Other than that it's a great video!
Woop woop action taking place here in Deutschland
I would think Midland is actually Byzantium seeing as major battles of the hundred years war took place in rather arid environments. Also it would be easier for the Kushan, who seem more Indian than anything else, to invade from India. It also keeps Midland in the middle as Byzantium had a rather important and central location being the land connection between Europe and the Middle East. Let's not forget that Byzantium fell to the Ottomans which the Kushan have filled the void of. Midland lost its capital to the Kushan leaving me even more sure that Midland is dark fantasy Byzantium. Given how vaguely portrayed the other neighbouring nations are they could easily be moved around to fit into Byzantium's neighbours. One last thing is the Holy See's seemingly out of place defence of Midland. If it were just any other European counterpart I couldn't see the Holy See getting involved but if Midland is Byzantium it would make sense as it was a major religious hub for the real Holy See and it was the last capital of the Roman Empire which could be swapped out for Gaiseric's empire.
EDIT: I didn't really bring up the Holy See's involvement very well. Yall remember when the Holy See rounded up a buncho nations to repel the Kushan? Thas what I is talkin bout.
Watta yall think? Does my theory hold any water?
I'm French, and I approve of this French Skull Knight theory whole heartedly. Vive la France.
Had to come back to this vid just to say I can’t stop reading skull knights lines in a French accent 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Dude, this a great video, thank you so much
Morgar and Wallatoria are considered small so I would say it's Wallacia and some other balkan country.
Kushan is clearly inspired by the Kushan Empire of Indus...
There is also whatever nation the dragon dude is from? Some northern country.
I did understand the Kushan as being Indian, who gathered Ottomane troops on their way to Europe. But the other assumptions do sound reasonable to me
Well Henry VII lived in exile in France in time of the war of the roses. And his Mother Margaret Beaufort send secretly money to fund his sons army and from France Henrik came and defeated Richard III in the battle of bosworth. And then Henry became a Lancastrian king and married Elizabeth of York to unite the two branches and creating the Tudor dynasty.
i know this is a long debate but the franks were of germanic heritage, ofc you can say he was french for the lols but i wanted to point this out cause Charlemagne favored Aachen(~Midland) a city in middle Francia which would further support your thesis
Love this video could use an updated one
after the history of midland bro don't know what he is talking about, even if ottoman empire was the neighbouring country at the same period you can't deny all the reference and inspirations of the hindu culture all throughout to kushan saga, namely clothes, names, appearance, symbols on foreheads of bakiraka, all the statue of gods beside ganishka and the gods they pray, daiba is clearly drawn from a hindu yogi's appearance (he even always sits in a position you would commonly see in yoga), extensive ues of elephants in warfare (which ottoman empire never could have). As I read berserk few years ago I don't remember every detail, but as I was reading being an Indian and hindu I noticed the hundreds of reference of Indian culture & tradition.
I think that morgar and walltoria are eastern holy orders
Love your vid man
Heh, I just realised that the center of the explosion was in Poland. I just assumed it was in France and Germany for most of the story.
Where is Falconia and guts is from which part?
whats the background music?
Keepin it simple...Great Video !m keep em coming
Berserk was just inspired by many portions of history, none of that is exactly the actual history.. the characters were inspired by numerous of historical ppl, and myths/religions..
Can’t just make something fit where it’s not supposed to.
Check out Vinland Saga as well!
wallatoria seems to be wallachia, wallachia managed to defend alone vs the ottomans a couple of times
Can you please upload the map somewhere in high res? I may need it for a berserk tabletop game
I think it's very likely the Kushan Empire encompasses the entire Muslim world, including Al-Andalus (Iberia).
The Kushan Emperor has been around for centuries, and matches up with a number of historical figures. He could be Suleman, but he could also be Timur, the head of an ungodly huge Empire stretching all the way from India to encompass the entire Muslim world. Maybe it includes all the conquests of the Mongol empire as well.
I think the strong Indian flavor of the Kushan has me leaning towards Timur.
8:04 charlemagne achievements were more than 1200 years ago. And charlemagne never used the title of HR Emperor.
You must have looked up the starting date of the HRE and assumed Charlemagne was the first one using this title, which never happened.
I don't think its correct to assume Berserk's world has the same borders and histories around those borders as the real-world ones.
Gothic Plates, ect. could have been developed in areas different from their development on our earth.
Midland is the HRE Chuder is france Kushans are the literal Kushan empire but switched places with the ottomans since the Ottomans almost conquered vienna.
Charlemagne was not French and there is no reason he should have had a french accent.
You do realise that the West as a whole is germanic? It's all about where these tribes settled and assimilated, not what they left behind. In fact there is no formal distiction between the Frank and the French. It's a stylistic sleight of hand thought up by Philip II king of the Franks, who saw the groups he ruled as a nation rather than provincials under an empire. Thus he started calling himself king of France instead. Charlemagne is simply the genesis of French identity as we know it today. The oldest recognisable ancestor: an archetype of a Germanic/Latin mixture we still recognise as French. He spoke a mixture of latin and germanic dialects that serves as the basis of modern French, and as a result we call that mixture old french. Before him we find Latin, Celt and Germanic tribes and languages in less assimilated/ recognisable states.
It doesn't mean his influence wasn't felt outside of modern France though. The eastern parts of his empire developped different cultures through further assimilation with eastern people, while his influence over chritiendom was so great that his legend merged with celtic ones to form that of Arthur over in Britain (according to Tolkien's research). This was further reinforced through the later French conquest of England, but later assimilations created the modern British identities. Great Men had influence all over. There's no reason the French and Germans can't share Charlemagne as kin. Our extended families are related.