* I had initially put this as a candidate for ContrivedCoincidence, but the lingering motif of fate and destiny prevented me from making it official. Still, it is still worth mentioning: there really isn't any excuse that Guts couldn't have heard about the Hawks becoming outlaws sooner. Guts attempts to justify that the reason why he hadn't heard of the Hawks' trouble until a year later was because he was sequestered in the mountains training. That's all well and good... except that there ''really'' isn't a reason why he wouldn't have been able to pick up on it sooner, like, ''the twenty-four hours since he'd left'' sooner. The fame of the Hawks and the accusations of the supposed crimes they had committed would have sent the capital and the nearby countryside into firestorm of commotion, and Guts couldn't have been too far out of the vicinity to have not caught wind in order to help (hell, since the Hawks were on the run in the countryside, Guts should have come across them first before any rumor about them!). And he just ''happened'' to pick up on it a year later, either from a tournament, or even more conveniently, a messenger who went out of his way to get to Godo's house in the TV series. Alas, it did give the plot enough time [[GoMadFromTheIsolation to totally ruin Griffith]] [[DespairEventHorizon and edge him closer to despair]] [[AStormIsComing in preparation of horrid events to come,]] which is all that matters, I guess.

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** Aparently, that was an old battlefield.
* I had initially put this as a candidate for ContrivedCoincidence, but the lingering motif of fate and destiny prevented me from making it official. Still, it is still worth mentioning: there really isn't any excuse that Guts couldn't have heard about the Hawks becoming outlaws sooner. Guts attempts to justify that the reason why he hadn't heard of the Hawks' trouble until a year later was because he was sequestered in the mountains training. That's all well and good... except that there ''really'' isn't a reason why he wouldn't have been able to pick up on it sooner, like, ''the twenty-four hours since he'd left'' sooner. The fame of the Hawks and the accusations of the supposed crimes they had committed would have sent the capital and the nearby countryside into firestorm of commotion, and Guts couldn't have been too far out of the vicinity to have not caught wind in order to help (hell, since the Hawks were on the run in the countryside, Guts should have come across them first before any rumor about them!). And he just ''happened'' to pick up on it a year later, either from a tournament, or even more conveniently, a messenger who went out of his way to get to Godo's house in the TV series. Alas, it did give the plot enough time [[GoMadFromTheIsolation to totally ruin Griffith]] [[DespairEventHorizon and edge him closer to despair]] [[AStormIsComing in preparation of horrid events to come,]] which is all that matters, I guess.
** It's more complicated than that. Considering how the Berserk World is realistic, relatively speaking, information travels slowly. Even big news end up traveling with messengers, who might not be that concerned in informing some random mercenary on the road. Civilization is more sparse, too. Any village or town is very far away from each other. Also, Guts is the type to WalkTheEarth, without plans or routes.

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