Raging Barbarians in Fiction?

[zarionofarabel]

My memory fails me, but I vaguely remember a dwarf from one of the FR novels. He wore armor covered in spikes. He was a battlerager.

 

[Richards]

My memory fails me, but I vaguely remember a dwarf from one of the FR novels. He wore armor covered in spikes. He was a battlerager.

That would be Thibbledorf Pwent, from the Drizzt Do'Urden novels by R. A. Salvatore. Good call.

Johnathan

 

[Dioltach]

I've tried my very best to banish the Iron Tower trilogy by Dennis L. McKiernan from my memory, but apparently it hasn't worked. I've just remembered a character called Danner Bramblethorn, or something, who went beserk a few times.

 

[TheSword]

Perrin Aybara from the Wheel of Time enters battle with a blood fury and feels the wolf take over. The flame and the void could also be seen as a kind of battle trance... ignoring external distractions like pain or weakness... or mercy.

Khal Drogo from GOT definitely fights in a rage. You see that when he has the duel with his retainer over Mirri Maz Duur. Spitting and roaring about how he’s going to rip the other guys face off. Ignoring the damage of wounds just like a raging Barbo.

Drogo is probably the best known archetypal barbarian recognizable in the last decade I would say.