Some deaths are worthy of legend, of heroes falling battling countless foes or performing great acts. Other deaths are so embarrassing that they are best forgotten. This is ten deaths by accident, incompetence and misadventure that will only make their way into a bardic tale as a source of humour.

1. Accidentally spills oil over themselves and ignites it, causing them to go up in flames.
2. Clothing catches on something, causing them to fall badly and break their own neck.
3. Goes to sheathe their sword and misses, accidentally slicing their own leg open and severing an artery.
4. Slices their own hand with a blade to which they are applying poison, fatally poisoning themself.
5. Stumbles and falls, breaking their neck when they land.
6. Tripped over their own feet and fell over, impaling themselves on their own weapon.
7. The ceiling collapses on them after a misaimed blow hits a weakened upright.
8. The head of their mace flies off as they swing it and smashes their own skull.
9. Their crossbow violently disassembles itself, sending parts flying into their skull.
10. Turns in their saddle and falls off their horse, breaking their neck.