101 Atypical Barbarians

[Kami2awa]

21. The Self-Exile

He hated civilisation, the grinding oppression of 9-5 jobs, sneering cliques and parasitic upper classes. So he decided to turn his back on it and head into the wilderness. He's never been happier.

(Slightly stolen from Mr Saveloy, the barbarian ex-schoolteacher, for whom the terrible hazards and daily risk of death were preferable to having to teach another class.)

22. The Berserker

He's the king's honoured guard, and he behaves like it. He moves in exalted circles, appreciating all that they have to offer. He discusses politics and scholarship at banquets, plays complex games of strategy in his spare time, and reads the works of the poets and philosophers of far-off lands. All the while, he is dressed in the finest clothes, under a magnificent cloak crafted by the finest furrier from a mighty bear's hide.

And then comes the time to fight. The king's wizards and alchemists prepare brews and potions that drive him and the other berserkers into a frenzy of rage and destruction terrifying to behold.