
Battle has been your life for as long as you care to remember. You trained as a youth, studied the use of weapons and armor, and learned basic survival techniques, including how to stay alive on the battlefield. Preparing to lay down your life for your home and drink and dine with the gods in the great hall of Valhalla. Plundering and raiding is an easy way to become famous and rich and gain glory in the eyes of the Gods. Certainly, it is also the easiest and quickest way to die. You will only be able to return home if you prove yourself to be one of the strongest or luckiest.
Death is a constant companion for you, but the rewards are worth the risk: raids are a valid tool to gain influence at the political level.
The relevance of an individual is given by his possessions and prestige; as Viking, your success in raids can determine your influence, and with increasing prestige, the number of men ready to follow you grow. for a Vikingr like you, your bonds with your brother and sister are tightened through the Blood Brother Oath.
This ceremony makes men and women siblings on a spiritual level. In this way, any previous bonds have been severed and a new bond has been forged, just as strong, but free from family ties, a further reason why you are feared or envied at home; new ties with greater freedom and autonomy.
- Skill Proficiencies: Athletics, Intimidation
- Tool Proficiencies: any weapon, Vehicles (water)
- Languages: common, dwarvish
- Equipment: A set of common clothes, a set of bone dice, a pouch containing 10gp
After years of raiding in order to dine with the gods in Valhalla, you have mastered raiding and fighting in all its glory.
Before going on any raids a blood pact is born. It is worth more than any family bond and any raider you have this blood pact with would gladly take the opportunity to put their life in danger to protect yours. As a Viking, any Norse nation will offer great respect for you.

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