Berserker (Fate/Crossover - Sabrewulf)

**Berserker** (バーサーカー, *Bāsākā*) is the servant of ??? in the ??? Holy Grail War.

"*I must either cure this curse... or master it.*" - Konrad von Sabrewulf reflects on his grim destiny

## Profile

### Identity

Berserker's true identity is **Sabrewulf**, A German aristocrat who is afflicted with the rare disease lycanthrophy, the werewolf desperately seeks a cure to his condition before the beast within takes over completely, and the last vestiges of his humanity will be lost forever.

### Personality

Throughout the series, Konrad von Sabrewulf is portrayed as a conflicted and tortured human soul which is trapped inside of the body of a monster. Desperate to keep the beast within him at bay, he's willing to do anything for the chance to regain his lost humanity; from participating in the original tournament on promises of a "cure" from Ultratech, to subjecting himself to gruesome experimentation, to seeking out the Nez Percé tribe in the hopes that the native lore of the Americas can offer him insight into his condition as a "skin-walker".

The promise of a cure, however, proved a false hope—a pretense by ARIA to have an opportunity to study and weaponize the werewolf's features. Worse still, Thunder told "hímiinhaama" (the "wolf-man") that the spirit dwelling inside him was dark and violent in nature, and was not a "weyekin" (or spirit guide) known to the Nez Percé. With desperation taking hold, Sabrewulf turned to forlorn measures to try and safeguard the outside world from his alter ego's mad bloodlust. He sealed himself away within his family's estate in Germany, only to awaken and find it half-destroyed and its gates busted open with unnatural ferocity. He malnourished himself to the brink of starvation, hoping the beast within would grow too weak to wreak havoc come his next transformation; only to discover a wolf is never more dangerous than when it's starving. Now nourishing an addiction to ancient medicines which seem to slow his descent into the werewolf's savagery, Konrad lives in the terrifying knowledge that his chances of being a human again grow dimmer with every moon rise.

During the events of Shadow Lords, it became clear that the dire presence residing inside Sabrewulf neither fears nor answers to the demon lord Gargos, and is a spirit so ferocious it hunts even powerful evil in its blind thirst for more bloodshed. This soon rendered the werewolf into the ultimate wildcard amidst the struggle for humanity's survival.

## Abilities

Suffering from one of the most virulent strains of lycanthrophy on record and being the longest-lived werewolf known to exist, Konrad von Sabrewulf has been studied extensively by ARIA over the years. These observations led her to a troubling conclusion: an elderly werewolf represents a much greater danger than a younger one. While the loss of strength or dexterity a lycanthrope suffers in advanced age is negligible, the redoubled animality and the ancient instincts they master will more than make up for it. This has caused Ultratech to summarily classify Sabrewulf as "one of the most dangerous creatures on the planet."

Ultratech is not alarmist in that assessment. Even with his body now left in an elderly, dilapidated state, Konrad exhibits a frightening physical prowess; steered by decades of experience in stalking and devouring any living things that are unlucky enough to cross his path. Sabrewulf not only is highly unpredictable and savagely feral, but he sometimes displays a strange sense of self-preservation as well as moments of deadly patience. These traits have turned the aging werewolf into a grizzled survivor, and the apex predator of almost any environment he finds himself in.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Feral Lycanthrophy**

Sabrewulf growls before dashing forwards, slashing the opponent at multiple angels multiple times as he goes. He then pauses briefly to buff up, similar to his Instinct Mode, before bounding forwards for one final two-clawed swipe

## References

https://killerinstinct.fandom.com/wiki/Sabrewulf