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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KnightOfTheGrey" data-source="post: 8065992" data-attributes="member: 7025833">Half the cast of Three Kingdoms, certainly. The Illiad, but there's some divine intervention going on in that story. Roland (song thereof), Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid"). Any of the Knights of the Round Table. Cast of the Heike. Heroes out of Norse sagas, my knowledge in this area isn't extensive but Ragnarr Lothbrok (Lodbrok?) and his sons are names I do know.Aside from straight-up prowess at hitting people mythical high-level fighters tend to have legendary equipment (Guan Yu and the Green Dragon Crescent Blade, Achilles and his seven-layered shield, that kind of thing), be particularly terrifying (Zhang Fei's lengendary shouting, Rodrigo Diaz running off an enemy army as a corpse propped up in armour on his horse at the end of the story), so courageous/pure-hearted that they can wander through other peoples' magics unaffected, and able to perform impossible physical feats or inspire others to do the same (only example off the top of my head is Liu Bei getting his horse to jump a river).Part of the problem with doing anything with any of those is figuring out what overlaps with Paladin/Barbarian/Ranger. In the past when I've attempted to re-work D&D Fighter seldom survives as an independent class (usually gets rolled into "Knight" along with Paladin) just because so much of what it could do would step on the toes of another class.</blockquote>