Ulf the Barbarian

''"Ulf hunt elk." - Ulf, revealing his core motivations to those who seek to understand him.''

Ulf Ulfriksson, more commonly known as Ulf the Barbarian, was an unruly viking who terrorized much of Elderain. Though he lacked the mental capacity to string together sentences of more than a few syllables, his penchant for raiding, pillaging, and hunting elk earned him notoriety all over Elderain, which his family immigrated to in order to indulge in these passions. He was a player character in the "Where Wolf?" oneshot, played by Nina and Jack's dad, and he later returned as an NPC in the Fallen Kingdom campaign.

Backstory
Ulf the Barbarian hailed originally from the mysterious, warlike, and primitive land of Sweden, along with his older brother, Janta. His family came to Elderain as his father managed to follow a single elk all the way there from his homeland, and it is this aptitude for hunting that would follow Ulf for the rest of his life. There were certain elements of his family history, however, that Ulf could not leave behind in Sweden. At birth, he was gifted a great and mysterious battleaxe that had been passed down from father to second-eldest son for generations: this ax was cursed by an unknown figure centuries before, who trapped the spirits of Ulf's ancestors inside it by infusing it with their own blood, and prophesying that only a descendant of the Ulfrikssons would be able to communicate with them and, therefore, eventually figure out how to free them.

How unfortunate for the Ulfriksson ancestors that this task fell to Ulf, who by a long way lacked the intellectual capacity to help them.

Though his ancestors have been talking to Ulf for as long as he can remember, he has never managed to piece together what their repeated pleas for help meant. Instead, they find that they must spend most of their time counseling Ulf through the various uncomfortable situations he finds himself in: indeed, convincing him not to give in to his raiding and pillaging instincts at every opportunity ended up being something of a full-time job for the ancestors. To date, the battleaxe has accompanied Ulf on many an adventure throughout Elderain - one time, even hunting down an evil werewolf on behalf of the King's army - and from these adventures, Ulf brings back copious amounts of loot, enough to support his beautiful but extremely conniving and manipulative wife Doris, his niece Anouk who lost her parents as a young child, and his godawful son Sune. So, despite never fulfilling his destiny by freeing the spirits of his ancestors, one could say he leads a fulfilling life. Ulf hunt elk, and all that.