Ah, Manuel. What a bold and brave fighter! Once upon a time, he raided with a mighty band of warriors, lead by none other than Rachel the Belligerent, wielder of the golden crowbar.

However, he was never one to take a life, he preferred stunning and incapacitating. This would grow to eat at Manuel after many raids, and decided he would take off into the night.

The abandoned raiders didn’t take too kindly to this, as Manuel was extremely important to their plans . You see, he had the blood of an ancient champion, Achilles, and this little fact was the only reason the raiding crew had even let him in in the first place.

The raiders stayed on his tail for almost 6 months, giving him very little room to breathe, but eventually, they either found a better answer or grew tired of the search, and gave up.

Once he could finally breathe safe again, Manuel started on his own path of retribution. He would do everything he could to dismantle this operation and everything it stood for (though if we’re being candid, he wasn’t really too sure what was going on).

He would spend the next few years sharpening his jiu-jitsu skills, and renewed his vow to never take a life again. He would then start putting together his own band, not of raiders, but of skilled agents to gather information and to bring down Rachel and whatever shadowy benefactor was funding their raids!

As he collected heroes from all over, he started to see that he really might actually make a difference. The information collected quickly revealed that someone besides Rachel was pulling the strings but whoever this person was, they made damn sure to cover their tracks.

One particular lead got them close, and had lead them to Red Wizard Capital, where a Countess with very important political ties had been murdered. Her murderer was caught with her blood and the murder weapon, but disappeared in an instant, leaving speculators to believe a wizard was behind it.

The challenge now was to locate and identify the head of this organization. Even though he had contacts within the raiding band occasionally, they would often get found out and gutted.

After losing 3 of his best men, he relied on external sources for info, but this drastically reduced his ability to track their ongoings.

He would go on to categorize all of the artifacts being collected, as well as the places they’d attack from in hopes to spot some type of pattern.

While there wasn’t too much he could deduce, he did quickly see that artifacts of great and controversial power were being stolen, and that could only lead to doom and suffering.

He was also very unsuccessful in countering the raids, and often would show up after it was too late. He and his team would gain some notoriety though, as he would stay back and help the wounded, and would often help repair the villages.

Manuel now waits for his enemy to reveal himself so that he can begin his true mission. Saving the world from whatever nonsense these wizards keep getting the Runiverse into!

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