Name: Xondario 

Race: Custom Lineage (Half Goliath)

Class: Fighter (Rune Knight)

Background: Soldier 

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Character Sheet: https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/105051156

Backstory: Xondario joined the city watch as a youth, being bigger then most, he could pass as a guard at a young age. When he got older he joined the military for a while. While on leave, he visited his old homestead and found the place destroyed. Not by fire but by being crushed. Large boulders scattered around. Nobody saw anything that he could find, best he could figure was giants. Nobody else felt that was the right explanation but Xondario was adamant.

Trying to learn about them and studying, he discovered he coukd harnes some of the old powers they were said to have in little runes he learned to use. 

Xondario was just passing through town when he was awaken to the sounds of the bells and frantic footfalls. When he heard giants were behind the disturbance, he grines and reaches for his maul.

Name: Xanthas Axelhoff
Race: High Elf
Class: Artificer - Battle Smith
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Background: City Watch (Investigator)
Backstory:
Xanthas Axelhoff is the youngest son of well to do High Elven parents. His mother is a dignitary, an ambassador who spends the majority of time travelling between cities. His father is a high ranking soldier from their home of Silverymoon. He takes after neither of them.  He is the youngest of 4 children, and the other 3 were either gifted with sword or word, but he was not interested in either. His passion was figuring out how things worked. He spent a fair number of his formative years away from home with his mother, and did a lot of traveling. During these travels he furthered his love of all things technological, which only compounded the issues with his parents, who disliked this eccentricity.  He found his true calling when his mother was kidnapped. He aided the city watch, bringing his unique perspective and capabilities to help solve the case and rescue her. He was offered a permanent job as a Watch Investigator and has been in the job ever since.

NAME: Iggrilyth Irdalynnos
RACE: Gem Dragonborn(Crystal)
STATS: STR: 9, DEX: 14, CON: 14, INT: 14, WIS: 16, CHA: 8
CLASS: Druid 4(Circle of Stars), Cleric 1(Life)
ALIGNMENT: Neutral Good
BACKGROUND: Hermit
CHARACTER SHEET: https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/105152634/6NAJGe
BACKSTORY: 

Once a child with grandiose aspiration of finding his way and absorb great founts of knowledge, Iggrilyth Irdalynnos would one day leave the home of his clan in Neverwinter on a pilgrimage to Candlekeep, determine to make his dream come true. For though the life of a scribe and family historian held its appeal, his appetite was too insatiable to be quenched. Even upon reaching hid destination far to the south, his impatience and stubbornness yet nearly cost him entry. However, one of the scholars either out of amusement or some other hidden agenda never revealed to the dragonborn, stepped in to help smooth things over and took him under her wing. For years he would plume the depths of the keep, happily gorging himself on even the most mundane of knowledge and lessons of his patron. Yet when stymied by rules and regulations that left much yet out of reach, Iggrilyth became restless.

Sensing this, his teacher offered a distraction in the form of an expedition to Anauroch desert on some fact finding mission or other. Frankly, the goal hadn't mattered much to Iggrilyth nearly as much as the region itself, and the various recess of lost lore buried within it. However, it wasn't long into expedition that the team of scholars and guards came under attack by a pair of young blue dragon that took umbridge to their presence and lack of means to meet their demands. In the chaos, he found himself separated from the group, and eventually lost in the wilds of the desert, all but destined to perish given the lack of supplies. Yet by some miracle he stumbled upon a mysterious oasis, as memories tied to it would become somewhat blurred upon departing it years later a changed dragonborn in more ways than one.  But from what little can be recalled outside of dreams is having lucked upon the company of some Djinni who found a kind of enlightenment discovery centuries ago, and offered to teach Iggrilyth to do the same. He'd also remembered being skeptical, but out of curiosity and hope of someday returning to candlekeep with his findings, he studied the natural world under the Djinni's guidance, becoming in tune with it, and in time awakened to a power beyond that. He may have stayed in the oasis, were it not for a vision that compelled the by then more even tempered dragonborn to use what he'd learn to return to the west, and find others that would aid in quelling what he took to be a coming catastrophe.

I have closed the thread and will send out invitations.

Thank You to everyone who submitted. All of them were great ideas.