Ever-leaping from dangerously high heights, barbarians have crashed straight into the hearts of players since their first appearance in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dungeons & Dragons. Thꦍeir straightforward yet satisfying playstyle breeds easy-to-access characters for new and v🍸eteran roleplayers alike. And, of course, when all else fails, they get angry, and taking down a raging barbarian is the single hardest thing a Dungeon Master can attempt.
The devil-may-care, foolhardy class continues to add legends to its ranks with each table graced by these glorious beasts, but the extended universe of Dungeons & Dragons has within it some barbarians who've truly paved the way. These are the heroes who've set the standard for badassery.
7 Krusk
With the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:release of Third Edition Dungeons & Dragons, a series of adventurers were released to inspire players to try various species/class combinations. Proudly standing as the on🐻ly barbarian was Krusk, a half-orc originally from the Greyhawk setting. Many players who walked the path of a barbarian during this era♏ would know his face well.
Born to a blighted land called the Bone March, Krusk i🍰s no stranger to conflict. Thanks to his heroic actions, an attempt to give Hextor, a viscious, six-armed deity of evil, access into the plane of Oerth is prevented. Even with little adventuring experience, he battled an army of gnolls led by a death knight, while the portal was closed.
His actions are admirable, 🍰not just as a hero, but as a barbarian, where he showed that fierce loyalty to his duty and an unwavering constitution 🐻in the face of certain death are pillars of the class. We honor you, Krusk!
6 🐻 Y🥂orven Springpaw
Harengons, rabbit-like bipedals native to the Feywilds, are not often imagined as bloodthirsty brutes, as t😼heir agile stature and natural wanderlust feel better set in a role of a bard or ranger. But not all Harengons are graced with a life free of strife. One, in particular, was led away from their fantastical home by evil witches, only to become lost in the Shadowfell, left to die.
Yet Yorven Springpaw did not; he persevered and used the native energies of 💝the Shadowfell to fuel his rage against the hags who had beꦬtrayed him, slaying whatever dark creatures stood in his path for vengeance.
Branded by magical tattoos and armed with feral instincts, Yorven continued his exile through the Shadowfell, before being saved by 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Witchlight Carnival, which he joined, awaiting the day he'd return to the Feywilds to deliver a deserved death to the coven of hags. Learning to harness his rage into a deadly weapon is a path only a true barbarian can tread, and for that, Yorven is honored.
5 Torogar Steꦛelfist
Appearing in the adventure Baldurs Gate: Descent into Avernus, the minotaur Torogar Steelfist is a brutal force to be reckoned with. He serves as a bodyguard to the infamous Arkhan the Cruel, who is widely known for stealing the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hand of Vecna from the plane of Exandria, with intent of freeing Tiamat from her prison in the Nine Hells. Perhaps the only creature to match Arkhan's evil, Torogar is fearsome, deranged, and might just be at the edge of history if his masters plans come to fruition.
That is, unless your table kicked his bull butt, but even that is no ordinary feat. Torogar canonically holds a strength score of 25 due to his belt of fire giant strength and dual-wields scimitars wreathed in flame. He also rides around on an infernal machine called a Devil's Ride, which is totally just a hellish motorcycle. Whether he's alive or dead at your table, it matters not, as Arkhan could bring him back in a flash. So, for that evil tenacity, and unique sense of barbaric style, we honor the mighty Torogar.
4 Wulfgar
From the frosty northern reaches of Icewind Dale, a proud nomadic group of warriors called the Reghedmen barbarians is split among several smaller tribes, where they have defended the frozen land and its people for hundreds of years. Wulfgar, a Reghedmen from the Elk꧂ Tribℱe, was born to battle at an early age, and as an adolescent, went toe to toe with Bruenor Battlehammer, the dwarven king of the Mithral Hall.
Of course, this was just the beginning of his tale. Wulfgar was later adopted by Battlehammer, where he was granted his signature warhammer Aegis-fang, and martially trained under Drizzt Do-Urden. Wulfgar's life was spent mostly as a member of the famous adventuring party, the Companions of the Hall, where he slew the balor Errtu, defended the Mithral Hall from the orc armies of Obould Many-Arrows, and survived imprisonment in the Abyss for six years.
His tale end♔ed with him returning to the Reghedman Tribe of the Elk, where he reigned as king. He died an old, sickly man while battling a group of yetis barehanded. With a life of brutal achievement too lengthy to list, we simply honor Wulfgar, the hero of Icewind Dale!
3 Thಌibbledorf ꦑPwent
Thibbledorf Pwent was a member of the Mithral Hall, where he led a group of warriors called the Gutbusters. Pwent embodies the classic dwarven traits of brashness and loudness, while exemplifying a loyalty to his king, Bruenor, unpar♈alleled by any other. His armor was famous for being completely spiked, from head to toe, which he employed in his raging tactic of running directly into the most dangerous areas on the battlefield.
Thibbledorf defended the Mitharl Hall from drow invasions and the orc armies of the legendary Obould Many-Arrows, before being struck down by a vampire in an unrelated excursion to the ancient city Gauntlegrym. Except this didn't end his life; he just continued to murder drow raiders, raising them in undeath to serve as his troops, claiming himself the Steward of Gauntlegrym.
Before this, he apparently tried to convince a werewolf to bite him to heighten his ferocity in battle, so it looks like he got what he wanted. He eventually died alongside his longtime friend and king, Bruenor. As he was then, so sꦡhall he be honored once more.
2 Obould Many-Arrows 🍒
The leader of the orc tribe Broken Arrow, Obould is ♏a legendary orc barbarian who waged a great war for the majority of his life to claim dominion over the north of Faerun, and unite the various orc tribes of a mountain range called the Spine of the World. Obould was highly intelligent and ridiculously strong, making him the ideal candidate for warchief. It is said said the only people he feared were his future children ruining the empire he had fought so desperately to build.
Obould battled orcs, dwarves, elves, and humans to establish his kingdom, but was eventually defeated by the dwarves of the Mithral Hall. Yet he signed a peace treaty with King Bruenor, granting he and his people a huge piece of land on Faerun, named Many-Arrows, where his dream continues to flourish in the present, well after his death. Obould was a devout follower of Gruumsh, the patron deity of orcs, and was raised as an exarch by Gruumsh himself upon Obould's death, earning him an eternal place in Acheron. An orc who earned the favor of a dwarven king and an evil god simultaneously must've been one helluva a guy, and for that, we honor Obould.
1 📖Uthgar Gardolfsson 🧜
The namesake of the Uthgardt barbarian tribes, Uthgar Gardolfsson was an ancient barbarain hero who overthrew the Netherse empire's hold on Illusk (now known as Luskan) and slew the Lord of the Frost Giants, Gurt.
Players may be familiar with the latter story, as the burial mound where Uthgar rests appears ꦕin Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, where the axe of Gurt, the Frost Giant, can be retrieved and wielded.
In truth, Uthgar's life as a mortal is perhaps the lesser-known portion of his story, as many now refer to him as Battle Father, the god of physical strength. Upon his mortal death, he was sponsored by Tempus, the god of war, to ascend into godhood, and is also an exarch of Tempus, ruling over a portion of the god of war's realm dubbed Uthgardtheim.
It is possibly a barbarian's greatest honor to be dubbed the literal god of muscle, and for that, we honor you, Uthgar!