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Two main things.
First, Griffith's AP via reality warping is currently listed at High 6-A due to using Ganishka as a medium to merge the Astral World with the physical world. This is incorrect.
What happens is that as Griffith is leaning over Ganishka's 'heart' so to speak, the Skull Knight slices open a dimensional tear ( portal) behind Grifftih with his Sword of Actuation (or Sword of Resonance depending on your translation) and appears behind him . The Skull Knight then uses the Sword of Actuation to attack Griffith , but Griffith manipulates space and redirects the sword strike into the Ascended Ganishka , who had "tapped the depths of the Astral World" through his artifical Behelit and become "Shiva", the Kushan God. The power of the Skull Knight's Sword of Actuation entering Ascended Ganishka causes (according to the wiki) "a chain reaction that opens a fissure into the Astral Plane that instantly killed the tyrant while a bright and warm light exploded from his husk . The light ... engulfed the entire world within minutes . This caused the astral plane, a realm normally concealed from humanity, to overlap with the material world."
Nowhere in either the manga or the wiki is it even inferred that Griffith did that with his own power. In fact, lore makes it even clearer he did not. If he or any of the Godhand (who should have comparable power) had been able to merge the Mortal and Astral World, they would have done it before this moment, as this is clearly the goal they have been leading up to for a while (or at least a step in a goal).
For a bit more information, the Skull Knight's Sword of Actuation is his Thorn Sword which has been agumented by him absorbing and merging Behelits with it. The Behelits are used to create Insterstices (places where the worlds merge) between the human world and the Astral World so the Godhand can transform a person into an Apostle. That is the power of the Behelit - to merge the two worlds at a certain location. The Skull Knight's Sword of Actuation is made up of the countless Behelits the Skull Knight has merged with his sword, and it is capable of opening dimensional tears to create portals between the Astral World and the physical world. This is the power that caused the entire world to be made an insterstice, not Griffith. All Griffith did was redirect the sword's blow into Ganishka using spacial manipulation so that the sword's power would spread throughout the whole of the astral and mortal worlds.
Secondly, Griffith is stated to have "possible acausality" for being likened to someone who "exists outside the story". This in no way shows acausality, and is simply a metaphor meant to show Guts how Griffith exists beyond the physical world as he resides in the Astral World - he is not beyond causality itself. It could possibly show resistance to fate and plot manipulation if we were to take it literally (which I wouldn't). But it does not show acausality. Additionally, the Idea of Evil is the overlord of fate and causality, and is the being who gave Griffith and the rest of the Godhand their powers, so it is not only far above them, but it also makes no sense for them to be acausal. There is no reason the Idea of Evil would make its servants immune to its own power. Also, there is this . Even after Griffith joins the Godhand, the IoE still controls Griffith's destiny. So he cannot be acausal. The only reason one could consider Griffith acausal is in the sense that he uses his own causality manipulation to defend himself against causality manipulation, which is not proper acausality.
So my belief is that Griffith's AP with causality manip and reality warping should be changed to unknown, and his acausality should be removed.
Edit: Additionally, the Causality Manipulation of the Godhand is more akin to low-level fate manipulation than the high level causality manipulation I've seen people make it out to be.
This is the Idea of Evil's explanation of how he manipulated fate to make Griffith come about . It 'influenced the lower level of human consciousness' to to 'create the lineage' (pushed his ancestors into hooking up). And "manipulated history and created an appropriate context". The quote "manipulated history" on its own doesn't actually show any level of the IoE/Godhand's destiny/causality manipulation either, as plenty of secret societies and immortals in fiction have said similar statements, and they manipulated history in a purely mundane way. (NOTE: I am NOT saying the IoE doesn't have fate/causality manipulation. It is obvious it does. I am just saying its a lot less powerful than I've seen people make it out to be, where they assume its on the level of Ywach's Almighty future manipulation)
Furthermore, according to the Berserk wiki, this is how Beserk defines causality:
Causality is the law of cause and effect in the world of Berserk. It is a force that influences a person's situation and even emotional states, which are tempered through years of careful, causal manipulation.
"Years of careful causal manipulation" - Causality manipulation in beserk isn't something that can just be done immediately. Their causality manipulation is more similar to low level fate manipulation, subtly guiding events over the course of history by messing with emotional states and many minor yet cumulative events. It isn't on the level of Ywach's Full Power Almighty, a similar fate/causality manipulation ability. So while their powers might work in the Berserkverse where the Godhand have been watching the future and manipulating fate for centuries, its going to be a lot less effective in a suddent and spontaneous arbitrary VS battle between only two people. Aditionally, it says that the force of causality influences empathetic states, so resistance to empathetic/mind manipulation can lessen its influence over someone.
So it should be added as a note to Griffith's profile that his causality/fate manipulation is of limited use in battle
First, Griffith's AP via reality warping is currently listed at High 6-A due to using Ganishka as a medium to merge the Astral World with the physical world. This is incorrect.
What happens is that as Griffith is leaning over Ganishka's 'heart' so to speak, the Skull Knight slices open a dimensional tear ( portal) behind Grifftih with his Sword of Actuation (or Sword of Resonance depending on your translation) and appears behind him . The Skull Knight then uses the Sword of Actuation to attack Griffith , but Griffith manipulates space and redirects the sword strike into the Ascended Ganishka , who had "tapped the depths of the Astral World" through his artifical Behelit and become "Shiva", the Kushan God. The power of the Skull Knight's Sword of Actuation entering Ascended Ganishka causes (according to the wiki) "a chain reaction that opens a fissure into the Astral Plane that instantly killed the tyrant while a bright and warm light exploded from his husk . The light ... engulfed the entire world within minutes . This caused the astral plane, a realm normally concealed from humanity, to overlap with the material world."
Nowhere in either the manga or the wiki is it even inferred that Griffith did that with his own power. In fact, lore makes it even clearer he did not. If he or any of the Godhand (who should have comparable power) had been able to merge the Mortal and Astral World, they would have done it before this moment, as this is clearly the goal they have been leading up to for a while (or at least a step in a goal).
For a bit more information, the Skull Knight's Sword of Actuation is his Thorn Sword which has been agumented by him absorbing and merging Behelits with it. The Behelits are used to create Insterstices (places where the worlds merge) between the human world and the Astral World so the Godhand can transform a person into an Apostle. That is the power of the Behelit - to merge the two worlds at a certain location. The Skull Knight's Sword of Actuation is made up of the countless Behelits the Skull Knight has merged with his sword, and it is capable of opening dimensional tears to create portals between the Astral World and the physical world. This is the power that caused the entire world to be made an insterstice, not Griffith. All Griffith did was redirect the sword's blow into Ganishka using spacial manipulation so that the sword's power would spread throughout the whole of the astral and mortal worlds.
Secondly, Griffith is stated to have "possible acausality" for being likened to someone who "exists outside the story". This in no way shows acausality, and is simply a metaphor meant to show Guts how Griffith exists beyond the physical world as he resides in the Astral World - he is not beyond causality itself. It could possibly show resistance to fate and plot manipulation if we were to take it literally (which I wouldn't). But it does not show acausality. Additionally, the Idea of Evil is the overlord of fate and causality, and is the being who gave Griffith and the rest of the Godhand their powers, so it is not only far above them, but it also makes no sense for them to be acausal. There is no reason the Idea of Evil would make its servants immune to its own power. Also, there is this . Even after Griffith joins the Godhand, the IoE still controls Griffith's destiny. So he cannot be acausal. The only reason one could consider Griffith acausal is in the sense that he uses his own causality manipulation to defend himself against causality manipulation, which is not proper acausality.
So my belief is that Griffith's AP with causality manip and reality warping should be changed to unknown, and his acausality should be removed.
Edit: Additionally, the Causality Manipulation of the Godhand is more akin to low-level fate manipulation than the high level causality manipulation I've seen people make it out to be.
This is the Idea of Evil's explanation of how he manipulated fate to make Griffith come about . It 'influenced the lower level of human consciousness' to to 'create the lineage' (pushed his ancestors into hooking up). And "manipulated history and created an appropriate context". The quote "manipulated history" on its own doesn't actually show any level of the IoE/Godhand's destiny/causality manipulation either, as plenty of secret societies and immortals in fiction have said similar statements, and they manipulated history in a purely mundane way. (NOTE: I am NOT saying the IoE doesn't have fate/causality manipulation. It is obvious it does. I am just saying its a lot less powerful than I've seen people make it out to be, where they assume its on the level of Ywach's Almighty future manipulation)
Furthermore, according to the Berserk wiki, this is how Beserk defines causality:
Causality is the law of cause and effect in the world of Berserk. It is a force that influences a person's situation and even emotional states, which are tempered through years of careful, causal manipulation.
"Years of careful causal manipulation" - Causality manipulation in beserk isn't something that can just be done immediately. Their causality manipulation is more similar to low level fate manipulation, subtly guiding events over the course of history by messing with emotional states and many minor yet cumulative events. It isn't on the level of Ywach's Full Power Almighty, a similar fate/causality manipulation ability. So while their powers might work in the Berserkverse where the Godhand have been watching the future and manipulating fate for centuries, its going to be a lot less effective in a suddent and spontaneous arbitrary VS battle between only two people. Aditionally, it says that the force of causality influences empathetic states, so resistance to empathetic/mind manipulation can lessen its influence over someone.
So it should be added as a note to Griffith's profile that his causality/fate manipulation is of limited use in battle
