Darkblade
Troubadour
I'm not sure if I should put this in World Building or Research so I'm putting here because it's the first place I clicked on.
A WIP I have in planning stages (for this year's Write About Dragons online class) involves an old west Sheriff from the early 1880s getting killed by an outlaw and finding himself in Valhalla. From there the he wanders Valhalla along with his Valkyrie, Sally. A reoccurring idea in the story is the different people he meets in Valhalla and how they find meaning in their after lives filled with endless mortal combat and rebirth.
So I'm looking for suggestions on existing characters from mythology and public domain works and historical people he could meet. I'm quiet flexible in what it means to be a warrior and how you get into Valhalla. Leaders that may have seen less personal combat but still waged large amounts of war and those who were known warriors but died outside of combat can still end up in Valhalla. As long as they would be dead by 1880.
Currently I have, three confirmed characters that have been worked into the outline.
King Charlemagne and Joan of Arc lead a band of crusaders, church millitants, paladins and other assorted "Holy" Christian warriors in attempts to destroy their 'cursed' pagan afterlife and prove themselves worthy of Heaven.
Hercules's mortal half, while his Olympian side serves as labourer to the Greek Gods his mortal side, which still posses his great strength found itself in Valhalla. Unless he is provoked he avoids conflict with the other chosen dead, instead preferring to remain in the wilderness fighting the occasional monster that crosses into Valhalla.
I also have one character concept that needs a name, face and some fleshing out. Another dead law enforcement officer who leads other dead watchmen, constables and other assorted law enforcement with the belief that it their duty to remove the worst criminals from Valhalla by non-lethally apprehending them and keeping them imprisoned. I originally intended him to be Inspector Javert from Les Miserables but I recently read that Victor Hugo's descendents are fighting legal battles against unauthorized sequels to the novel as violations of moral rights. I don't want to risk getting messed up in that.
Any comments, criticisms and/or suggestions are welcome.
A WIP I have in planning stages (for this year's Write About Dragons online class) involves an old west Sheriff from the early 1880s getting killed by an outlaw and finding himself in Valhalla. From there the he wanders Valhalla along with his Valkyrie, Sally. A reoccurring idea in the story is the different people he meets in Valhalla and how they find meaning in their after lives filled with endless mortal combat and rebirth.
So I'm looking for suggestions on existing characters from mythology and public domain works and historical people he could meet. I'm quiet flexible in what it means to be a warrior and how you get into Valhalla. Leaders that may have seen less personal combat but still waged large amounts of war and those who were known warriors but died outside of combat can still end up in Valhalla. As long as they would be dead by 1880.
Currently I have, three confirmed characters that have been worked into the outline.
King Charlemagne and Joan of Arc lead a band of crusaders, church millitants, paladins and other assorted "Holy" Christian warriors in attempts to destroy their 'cursed' pagan afterlife and prove themselves worthy of Heaven.
Hercules's mortal half, while his Olympian side serves as labourer to the Greek Gods his mortal side, which still posses his great strength found itself in Valhalla. Unless he is provoked he avoids conflict with the other chosen dead, instead preferring to remain in the wilderness fighting the occasional monster that crosses into Valhalla.
I also have one character concept that needs a name, face and some fleshing out. Another dead law enforcement officer who leads other dead watchmen, constables and other assorted law enforcement with the belief that it their duty to remove the worst criminals from Valhalla by non-lethally apprehending them and keeping them imprisoned. I originally intended him to be Inspector Javert from Les Miserables but I recently read that Victor Hugo's descendents are fighting legal battles against unauthorized sequels to the novel as violations of moral rights. I don't want to risk getting messed up in that.
Any comments, criticisms and/or suggestions are welcome.