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The behelit ( or “Egg of the Conqueror
King” ) is a particular stone-amulet,
created by some supernatural Force. It is a
little bit smaller than an egg, its shape is
similar, but it has two eyes shut, a mouth and
a nose that appear to be randomly disposed on
its surface. There are two kind of behelit:
the olive-green one (sometimes purple as well)
and the scarlet-red one. The first kind is the
most common, and every olive-green behelit can
have more than one owner. Behelit is able to
feel despair within his own master and, whenever
it reaches its acme, the amulet will move its
own facial traits in order to become similar
to a real human face. It will then open its
mouth and its eyes (that might start crying
blood tears). At the end of this process, behelit
will open a portal to make a connection between
human and demonic world, where the God Hand
(a group of terrible arc demons who possess
enormous powers) dwells. At this point, the
behelit’s owner has to make a sacrifice,
offering the person or the people that he loves
the most, in order to become an Apostle, an
extremely powerful servant of darkness (read
our study about Apostles if you wish to know
more).
The scarlet behelit works in a similar way.
They are a way more uncommon than normal behelits,
and actually very rare. They can have only one
owner, someone that can be considered a chosen
one. Whenever the scarlet behelit comes in touch
with his master, it will never leave him, and
it will protect him whenever the owner is in
danger. Even if for a chain of strange circumstances
they will happen to split, behelit will come
back to his owner, in a way that will seem only
dependent on luck. Just like the green behelits,
it is triggered through despair, but it works
in a different way. Whoever owns a scarlet behelit,
has the possibility to become an immortal arc
demon belonging to the God Hand, abandoning
his mortal body and making a terrible sacrifice.
Study on Ideology
The God Hand ( and, considering it a metaphor,
we can think about evil in general ) is nothing
but human vulnerability, the weakness that comes
to life whenever the fundament of your existence
collapses. The betrayal of the person you love,
the end of your dream, the one you were devoting
your life to, or the inability to accept a change
that is, even if terrible, part of the flow
of things. If something like this happens, your
fragility doesn’t allow you to stand still
on your own feet, there is your fall, your collapse,
and you are swallowed by a lot of negative feelings,
killing every single positive light you kept
deep inside you. When this happens you cannot
just go on, wherever you look at you can’t
see anything but darkness, anger, hatred, pain,
despair, you don’t have anything to live
for nor to fight for ( Gatsu is a perfect example
to analyze a different condition, since he actually
lives for a revenge he seeks due to his love
for Caska ). In this very moment you become
a prey: evil pinches you, darkness becomes a
sweet poison able to seduce you… that
is the easiest path you can take: this means
losing yourself sinking into something both
terrible and infinite, instead than to keep
fighting, listening to the screams coming from
your wounded heart. Weak people cannot do anything
but becoming preys for evil, they do chose to
sacrifice everything, even the most important
person of their life, even their dreams, to
overcome their inability to stand pain.
And Gatsu, who really lost everything during
that eclipse, never had a behelit. He wouldn’t
know what to do with one, indeed.
Someone stands until the end.
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