In pursuit of the Band of the Falcon, Wyald's group comes across a farm that housed people who aided them, having all the residents slaughtered and the women raped. Though Wyald was reluctant to carry out the task as he had something else to do that day, he changes his mind upon hearing it had to do with Griffith breaking out of jail - the one his interests were at. When the Band of the Falcon rescued Griffith and escorted him out of Wyndham, the King ordered the Black Dog Knights to hunt them down. Wyald and his army of convicts, named the "Black Dog Knights," gained an infamous reputation for being the most cruel army in all of Midland, as their habit of instigating atrocities caused the King to send them to remote battlefields to keep them away from his sight. In order to earn the fear and respect of the other convicts, Wyald killed him in a spectacular fashion by impaling him on the spike of a tower. An enormous man known as Barbo the armor hacker approached to challenge his claim and the two fought to the death for the right of leadership. Wyald volunteered as leader of this new army, claiming that he was the strongest and the position was his by right. It was this imprisonment which led him to meet the King of Midland five years prior Griffith's escape, who ordered all able bodied criminals to be assembled and drafted into war. At some point after becoming an apostle, he was taken prisoner. Very little is known about Wyald's life before he became an apostle, other than that he was a small frail old man. His attacks also proved strong enough to break Guts' large sword. While he was already immensely powerful and agile in his human form, his apostle form presented a massive boost in his basic abilities to the point where he could take out dozens of armed men with a tree trunk. Though he was not skilled, his apostle abilities made up for this to the point he could overwhelm more experienced and skilled opponents. He knew how to use psychological fear and charisma to the point he was able to intimidate his hardened criminal soldiers and make them obey. Similarly, Wyald was able to capture Casca, who is known for being an agile fighter. He also had superhuman reflexes and speed, being able to parry/block all of Guts' attacks with ease using a simple log. Wyald had a massive amount of strength, as he was capable of crushing one of his men's skulls with only two fingers, punched a falling boulder into pieces, stopped Guts' sword with his teeth and a single hand, and ripped a tree apart with his hands. He later attempted to justify his actions to Nosferatu Zodd, who quickly killed him. However, when the situation was dire, Wyald lost his usual cocky and playful attitude and became desperate, holding Griffith hostage in order to summon the God Hand to restore him. He raped and mutilated women, burned children alive, killed his own soldiers mostly for fun, and he stripped Casca and Griffith naked in front of their own men. Wyald had absolutely no semblance of morality or empathy and took a sadistic pleasure in his actions. He often put his men in serious danger for the sake of "fun", recklessly charging them through the Band of the Falcon's traps, killing a soldier beforehand after he protested and massacring them when they lost their morale. Guts himself commented on his carelessness, that his technique was sloppy and he compensated by pure reflex. Wyald was, by all definition, a libertine, always following his motto "Excitement and Enjoyment". In his apostle form, his arms fused into his torso as his waist transformed into an ape-like body with a mouth in his "chest" that had a flower-like penile tongue and multiple eyes across his body, one on each shoulder, and one at the fusion of his upper waist and lower neck. When going into battle, Wyald donned thick animal skins and pelts alongside armor, including an actual skinned dog as a helm. He was shown to be rippling with muscle with a thick coating of body hair. He had a long, jutting face and wide eyes with wild, thick hair and heavy brows. Even in his human form, there was something abnormal about his features, with Barbo and Guts calling him a monkey.
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