Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

The devs have said no to hirelings (NPCs). Its supposed to feel "lonely" you are essentially in Viking purgatory.

Up until the introduction of neutral Dverger in Mistlands I would have agreed with you...

Oh yes and excepting Haldor the "Trader" that doesn't seem to know there is nobody to trade to!

Oh yes and the immanent introduction of another NPC....

as well as the facility for you to play with (presumably) 9 other members of your old Warband when you were alive

I'm not having a go at Knight here rather pointing out the "Mixed signals" the Devs toss out on the subject.

Surely the balance has to be apart from actual player companions, the NPC's are very few and far between.

There will be no NPC "Hirelings"a sits YOU (and maybe your pals) Odin has task to suppress the Forsaken for another age not you and a buncha/Elves/Dwarves/Mercs from elsewhere the game lore is clear: the players are "Almost Hero's" that failed at making the grade for Valhalla by such a small margin craft Odin figured they might be good enough for a little task he had in mind and if not, no loss to him, and well worth the small inconvenience of sending and rescuing them from Valheim IF they do destroy the enemies trapped their once more.

Now if I were the Devs I'd look at the clamour for more community/NPC for Valheim 2.0 which could be built with stuff like that in mind.