There is nothing even remotely close to viking culture, when it comes to paladin. The only viking class is fury warrior in wow, and potentially Warlock, if you play affliction, and you wanna be some kind of dark/pagan ritualist/oracle I guess.
For warriors in wow, valhalla basically exists and they literally have their class order hall there 
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Rogues are more like vikings
technically speaking considering most of them were thieves
just sayin
Pillaging and raiding =/= being a stealthy pickpocket lol.
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No, rogues have nothing in common with vikings. Rogues are cowards in wow, and the only non-coward rogue spec is a pirate -.- what is viking-like about poisons and backstabbing???
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Vikings had long boats and sailed to other countries , raided and pillaged ( stolen land/ gold )
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pirates ( outlaw rogues) sailed on a boat, stole stuff, raided countries
sound about the same to me
damn pirate vikings ⌠nasty things
How about a dwarf pirate?
Shiver me ginger beard,
avast ya lanky landlubbers
⌠i need to make an outlaw dwarf nowâŚF
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The real question is, why is there this unrealistic fantasy and obsession with vikings?
Most norsemen were farmers and peasants, just like any other medieval people and countries.
Vikings were just Scandinavian raider/trader, just like frankish warriors, saxon warriors or any other medieval warriors. They didnât wear horn helmet and didnât go to war naked berserk.
What is so unique of them that need to be made a special class? They were just warriors.
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Because Vikings themselves had sagas dedicated to mere humans fighting monsters and other creatures where the human was presented as the underdog.
Itâs like the story of David and Goliath multiplied by a 100.
You ever read the saga of Beowulf? I advice you to do so.
It even highlights the change from Paganism to Christianity.
Vikings just had a big warrior culture, Their whole belief was to die a honorable death. It wasnât uncommon for an old man to join a raid just for the chance to die in battle. As by Viking beliefs it would give them access to Valhalla.
But a lot of people donât realise that this belief goes back a few hundred of years.
You could say that the Scandinavians are the Germanâs cousins.
Theyâre the same ethnicity, basically and at one point they had the same believes.
Hereâs what Julius Caesar had to say about the Germanic peoples.
According to Caesar, the Germanic tribes he encountered gave primacy to war, rather than to religion or domestic life. Their religion apparently lacked an organized priesthood and centered upon the veneration of nature, and Caesar suggested that the Germanic tribesmen devoted all of their energies to gaining renown in battle.
Caesar also describes the pastoral economy of the semi-nomadic Germanic tribes that he encountered across the Danubian frontier. Again, he highlighted the Germanic tribesâ single-minded focus on warfare, recording that-unlike the Romans-they eschewed both wealth and luxury, living off conquest and raiding. For Caesar, this warrior ethos made the Germanic tribes into formidable enemies, and he contrasted the military vigor of the Germanic tribes with that of the more civilized Celts.
According to Tacitus, the Germanic tribes chose their war chieftains according to their merit as military leaders and their feats of valor on the battlefield. Furthermore, these chieftains did not exercise arbitrary authority and ruled only so long as they led their people to victory.
For Tacitus, the secret to the Germanic tribesâ formidable military might was the cohesion of tribal society. The Roman author maintained that unlike the imperial legions of Rome, the Germanic war-bands were composed of clans and families, and their warriors fought alongside their own kinsmen, vying for their respect. In this warrior society, individuals sought the esteem of their peers through conspicuous displays of valor, each seeking to outdo the other in feats of bravery.
Thereâs historical evidence of vikings going into battle bare chested, some historians think they took âmushroomsâ to enter a psychotic state. Thereâs Christians referencing to Vikings as âdemonsâ because they fought like they were possessed.
But Vikingâs werenât the only people that fought without any armor, the Picts did so aswell.
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Of course, I am not denying vikings or norsemen have their unique culture. But war and warriors were fundamentally the same for every civilization.
The Greek Spartans has big war culture. The Romans also worship their own war god. The Japanese samurai believed in honorable death too. And the Mongols probably had the biggest war culture.
They were fundamentally the same: people fighting for their survival, expansion and faith. Every culture had this in its own history.
I heard that from historian too. And that was obviously rare occasions: when they had no armor around or wanted to boost morality.
There is no sane people would go to war naked if they could avoid it. When this happened, there were clearly special reasons.
stop watching netflix, vikings werent cool
Implying Iâm even paying for that garbage. Iâve watched Vikings show and I honestly would advice to only bother with season 1 and 2. The other 3 are a joke.
I havenât even bothered to watch Valhalla series after they changed a real life viking that actually existed to a black woman just to hit diversity rating.
I havenât watch the Northman yet to conclude my opinion.
There arenât many good viking movies.
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The first season originally aired on History channel and they planned for it to be a miniseries about the viking culture, but due to its success it was renewed for later seasons. While the show and viking culture in general is often overly dramatized, there are a lot of true events in that particular show. But I guess itâs cool to diss successful shows and movies the masses enjoy 
Anyway, back on topic. Someone mentioned rogues and I was thinking about that too. There are certainly some similar elements depending on your RP âloreâ
Dwarf sounds cool and would best suit the culture, but their height and how armors fit them bothers me in game. I did however just create a Dwarf shaman, weâll see how that goes! Also created an orc warrior on Draenor 
Warriors Class hall in Legion was effing Valhalla.
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Warriors order hall was literally Valhal lol.
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Warriors order hall was Skyhold, which is part of Halls of Valor. This is obviously based on the great feasting halls of Valhalla that Vikings believed in. If thatâs not obvious enough you report to Odyn (Odin).
Paladins were inside a church and follow âThe Lightâ, a very un-viking thing to do.
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While that may be true, donât forget that the deity that humans used to worship was Tyr, a titan.
Tyr is inspired by its real life equivalant, Tyr, God of Justice in pagan religion.
Humans in Azeroth used to worship the hand that fell off from Tyr when fighting Galakrond or an Old God minion, hence the order called âthe Silver Handâ.
Norse mythology is very big in the Warcraft franchise.
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Fight for Valhalla, the eternal battlefield off Glory!
Orc Warriors are the best 
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Well true but not completely because according to the game lore original humans were vrykl offspring left on the shores of azeroth after the curse of flesh happened.
And the vrykl are warriors that have their gods.
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