Originally posted by Zep Tepi:

Now that I think of it, we must have been blacksmiths and craftsmen before we died, and maybe just happened to get mixed up in the battle that killed us. Why? Because we can make some pretty fancy armor if we only get our hands on the materials. Not every warrior knows how to do that stuff.

Wouldn't be weird, in viking culture everyone was a warrior unless one was made a slave/serf. Being a blacksmith or carpenters while not raiding is feasible.

And while we're warriors who died not in battle, we're sent into Valheim to prove our worthiness.