Great Fool warlock Unferth. Am I cooking. Pact of the blade. Of course this is going with Unferth being a kind of jester. If we’re going with Unferth as some kind of advisor maybe a fiend warlock. I’m pretty passionate about him being a warlock of some kind. Of course that’s assuming that the Danes turn away from God instead of already having been pagans in which case I’d go with hexblade warlock. These are all of course leaning into the suggestion that he’s some kind of magic user at least that his sword could be special. Leaning less hard into that, maybe a rune knight fighter or a battle master fighter.
Oath of Glory Oathbreaker paladin Beowulf…. hear me out. Or maybe oath of the crown oathbreaker. No matter what he’s doing he’s doing something wrong…. Either he breaks his oath of glory by chronically going on his own when he has companions or he breaks an oath of the crown by chronically fucking off to fight monsters who knows where instead of being a good member of Hygelac’s court. Rather important character bits I find that people miss. But to fit with the coast-guard’s statement that he determines that Beowulf and his guys aren’t exiles, perchance Oath of Redemption paladin…. I think oath redemption suits him best considering positive points of his characterisation. I think redemption paladin best marries the reading of him as a positive example with his failures to follow in positive examples. The oathbreaker ones more highlight his failures to follow the poem’s other positive examples and kind of go into the tone of him as doomed all the time, in a way that I wouldn’t do simultaneously with the Gender Stuff in my head mostly because “oathbreaker” gets double loaded with negative meaning in the setting and I’d rather fully commit to his failures than try to balance the other stuff in there.
