Looking at the hero classes, i am missing an alternative to the warrior and a second strengh based hero.
I don´t know the three talent classes of the warrior, which seems to make developments in different dirations possible, but spontanusly i am thinking of some kind of berserker or barbarian -type, who is able to ignore his malus from injuries until he is broken.
As an alternative, what about a craftsman or a smith. A wandering journeyman who has no place beside his master and is selling his work in different villages, a sidekick of the peddlar ... ..