Eh Sure.
The axe stock is as comfortable as any other wooden stock reinforced with metal. Just don't go dropping it or we'll be missing toes left and right.

Reason why he came all this way is because everyone in his family but him is gone. He wronged some powerful families and they did not take it lying down. So it was a choice to join his family's unmarked mass grave or skip town and head to the farthest Ark possible.