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This is a list of all available characters in Heimdall. The better you manage in the first three trials, the more characters will be available. Perfect performance brings up all the 30 characters.

There are seven classes: beserker (sic), blacksmith, druid, navigator (only 2 available), shipwright, warrior (most characters) and wizard. The player must select only 5 characters in his party, therefore 2 classes are out.

The following table lists all 30 characters. There is also an average of their skills to help the player select the "strongest" ones.

Number Name Class Strength Dexterity Luck Health Runelore Average
1 Aeigr warrior 35 35 15 25 0 22,0
2 Ormr wizard 20 21 21 15 22 19,8
3 Yimnä shipwright 36 10 18 15 0 15,8
4 Järmes navigator 22 27 42 17 10 23,6
5 Olaf druid 5 25 13 13 32 17,6
6 Melhrid blacksmith 40 25 28 27 0 24,0
7 Karl warrior 38 37 35 30 0 28,0
8 Friöi druid 8 28 27 21 32 23,2
9 Bláfótr wizard 25 25 20 27 38 27,0
10 Ulf warrior 40 38 25 36 0 27,8
11 Alfrún blacksmith 44 23 10 38 0 23,0
12 Slengr beserker 40 35 30 36 5 29,2
13 Cöoktä warrior 40 42 32 39 0 30,6
14 Hildr druid 10 30 38 30 38 29,2
15 Egil navigator 25 27 44 35 18 29,8
16 Gerfast shipwright 38 12 38 34 0 24,4
17 Toki blacksmith 45 33 32 42 0 30,4
18 Brandr beserker 43 42 35 39 10 33,8
19 Esti warrior 42 42 25 42 0 30,2
20 Gamal wizard 27 28 37 36 38 33,2
21 Ása druid 12 35 40 32 39 31,6
22 Svëncyr beserker 46 45 35 42 15 36,6
23 Yürr warrior 45 44 37 44 0 34,0
24 Leoha wizard 30 31 39 38 42 36,0
25 Skotr shipwright 40 10 41 39 0 26,0
26 Eymund blacksmith 48 32 37 48 0 33,0
27 Siggä wizard 35 30 40 40 47 38,4
28 Ihir druid 17 40 44 38 40 35,8
29 Erikir warrior 47 46 40 49 0 36,4
30 Yëda beserker 50 49 45 49 20 42,6

Note that the manual does not explain the differences and specialties of each class. Virtually there are no classes as all characters can advance any skill freely. However this is the general template:

  • Warriors are the most numerous of the available characters. Their strongest skills are Strength and Dexterity. They have no Runelore.
  • Beserkers are comparable to Warriors but are in general the strongest of all other classes in almost every skill, and unlike Warriors, also have Runelore.
  • There are only two Navigators. They are mostly average excepting Luck, which is the highest of all other classes.
  • Blacksmiths are comparable to Warriors, with significantly less Dexterity, and a bit less Luck.
  • Druids are average, but are the weakest in Strength.
  • Wizards are comparable to Druids but in general better, and have average Strength. Druids and Wizards classes have the highest Runelore of all other classes.
  • Shipwrights have the least Dexterity of all and have no Runelore.

One suggestion is to pick a core of 2 or 3 playing characters and pick others and random. Play with these selected characters and advance them in each island, keeping the others always in the ship, simply using their inventory as storage space before and after visiting an island. This way your 2 or 3 "favorite" characters will be stronger, and sooner, than distributing action to all 6 characters.

Trivia note: Character 13, Cöoktä, has a portrait that looks more realistic than the other characters. His face is a digitised photograph from a competition winner, who won a contest run by CORE Design and ACE: Advanced Computer Entertainment magazine in the November 1991 issue of ACE Magazine. The winner's surname was 'Cook', which was adapted into a more Viking-like name.