Looking for players for a few games

This game is based in the world of Exandria, the world created by Matt Mercer and used in Critical Role. The story takes place roughly 11-12 years after the event of the first campaign. Mainly, for now, we are playing with the Tal'dorei campaign guide, with some things coming from the one for Wildemount.
The story so far: the party is currently in Stilben, a swampy port city. The city was being ravaged by some strange plague caused by an experiment unleashed by a Myriad agent of sorts. The plague was halted, for the most part, by the party. However, just after dealing with the giant rat that was spreading the plague, the party was surrounded by the Clasp and given an ultimatum to do a job for them to clear up the fact that the party had killed a few of their members on the way to the rat. They regrouped in the temporary housing of a cleric that sought their aid.
They were visited by Keyleth of the Ashari, who after being introduced and informed of the situation, offered to help the party in someway if they went along with the job from the Clasp. However, one of their party decided it best to leave the party with Keyleth and return to the Ashari.

Things needed to make a character:
* Tal'dorei/Wildemount campaign guide(s) + PHB
* Standard array or 27 point buy
* Level 1
* Free feat for 1st level
Additionally, you may submit a concept that we can discuss and hammer out once accepted.
Current Party Loadout:
* Cleric
* Wizard
* Fighter
* Fighter

The game is very fresh, but one player decided to back out. This game will largely be combat, with lots of enemies being thrown at you.

Story so far: in the last few weeks, villages and settlements have been falling to a scourge known as the Graeul, who are insectoid in nature. Refugees and survivors have been flocking to the country's city-states for protection. The one everyone is currently in is calling out to any willing and able to join the guard/military, just in case they too are attacked. The people that will make up the party are currently in a tavern being used to recruit everyone.
What you'll need to play: a solid concept for a character would be best, as there's a lot of info to go over. Characters will be made in game.

Current character classes:
* Barb/Sorc
* Sorcerer
* Cleric

This game is reimagining of a game that ended prematurely that I once played in. The basis is that there is a religious cult out there that is seeking to dominate and eradicate any non-humans in the name of their god.

The story so far: a group of adventures were called in secrecy to see the mayor of New Haven after the disappearance of another group were captured, and hopefully not executed. They left to have a look around town and assess the situation, but came into contact with a small group that was in town, trying to convert the people living there. After a battle, one of the cultists ran from battle and the party had a captive. They gave chase soon after, coming to an abandoned church where they saw the fleer go inside. However, instead of waiting, one of them went inside...

What you need to make a character: Again, a concept would be best to look over and discuss. PHB will be the big thing to pull from.

Current Party Loadout:
* Paladin
* Wizard
* Monk/Rogue

Alright, so the short version of the concept is this; the character is an Undying Warlock whose family once served a Lich. Said Lich still holds sway over the family and has turned individuals throughout the years into pseudo-phylacteries, and the character is the next in line for that honor. The more power the character taps into the more the character starts to embody the Lich as a whole.Namely through their personality starting to shift closer and closer to the Lich's.

Their reason for investigating the cult is two-fold. The first being their patron has all but ordered them to seek out information on the cult. After all, with an ambition like theirs there has to be someone strong pulling the strings and the Lich wants to know who. Why? Well they're weaseling in on the Lich's territory with the whole grand scheme to cleanse/take over the world thing. The second reason the character would go is more personal, namely where there's a religious cult there is potential for getting help in figuring out how to sever ties with an age-old undead whose been binding itself to their family for generations or so they hope.

In combat, I'm thinking more control/support oriented. Though I'm open to pretty much anything that will gel well with the party. The character is after all looking for something to cling onto in the hopes of getting out of this unfortunate predicament.

Topo Muddyfoot came from a long line of Muddyfoots who made their home in the small and remote shire of Fartump. The Muddyfoots were woodsmen and trappers by trade, and known to go for days without returning to the shire. It was often remarked, that the Muddyfoots were more at home in the surrounding hills conversing with the beasts that roamed there, rather than in the shire making merry with their kinfolk. So it was that one day, Topo Muddyfoot, the youngest of the Muddyfoot clan at only three and thirty years of age, had been wandering some time in the grassy hills above Fartump and discovered some unusual tracks. Following the strange track he soon found they joined other similar markings, and then more. He quickly realized that a large number of creatures had come to the lands of Fartump and he had to get back to the shire to report his findings.

Moving quickly over hill and dale and never stopping to rest, Topo made his way back to his village with all possible haste, but it was too late. The alien creatures had already decimated his village. From his vantage on the hill overlooking Fartump, Topo could see the devastation the creatures had wrought, the bodies of friends and relatives littered the streets. His only hope was that some lucky souls had made it out alive, so Topo skirted the town avoiding any contact with the invaders. The handful of survivors weren't hard to find since they were more concerned with speed than stealth and didn't have any experienced trackers with them. Topo located them and led them away from the invaders, covering their tracks.

Topo shepherded his charges towards the roads and the larger city-states realizing that this new threat could not be handled alone. Soon they found others who had been displaced and banded together with them for protection, making their way to "civilization" to join the fight against the invaders.

Race: V. Human
Class: Cleric - War Domain
Backstory: Bragthen (aka The Slob to his friends) was a former adventurer and cleric of Sharess. In his younger days, he would travel the land with others from his following. He was mainly put in charge of security at the wild events that took place in his goddess's name. However, he grew tired of that way of life. The debauchery that Sharess demanded became too much, as he was exposed to things that nobody needed ever see..all in the pursuit of exciting the senses.

Ultimately, he quit his sect and went out on his own. He did odd jobs here and there, but ultimately, he settled in New Haven. In the small town, he built a small tavern and named it the Dizzy Goat. He hired on a goblin to help him run the place, named Begon Ugo. New Haven was the perfect place for The Slob to live out the rest of his life, and he expected to do so with little else bothering him.

Then, one day..trouble came to town, and it was time for him to defend what he treasured most dear - his life.

"I was born the sixth bastard son of a very notable potato farmer in the Kervak territories. Eorling Dyrtinson, my father is a known lech that preys on his tenants’ wives and daughters. The beauty of my mother had made her a favorite of that old landsman’s advances...something my da, a Kept hedge wizard, paid little attention to. Sooo I came screaming into the world destined to be a dirt farming nobody. It was something I couldn’t abide.

From a young age I gave my parents gray hairs. By the age of 8, I had made a strange group of friends with the other outsiders in our dark little corner of Tyrholm. Urchins, orphans, miscreants and misanthropes. We made what fun we could, and when fun on our own wore out, we would involve the less-than-willing populace.

It started as practical jokes for a laugh, but it turned into something else. We children worked well together. We had nothing to lose. We could make people afraid. At 12, simple pranks turned into petty vandalism, and shopkeeps began involving the Earls men. Those tired old warriors were no match for Me and my mates. We were quick and quiet, and the old men couldn't keep up. At 15, you could complain to anybody about "those night kids", and they'd know you meant Dyrtinson Bastards..But 15 is too old to play at sneak thievery and banditry. Very soon my life started down a very different path.

That year, the man who controlled my tiny village called the vagrant boys together and made us an offer. Leave the homesteads of our parents, abandon home, pick up weapons and enter his service. We would be able to go out into the world sword in hand and see it all. Taste some adventure. Or face the stocks, cages, and possibly a noose. Simple enough choice really.

The next few years flew by in a whirlwind. The Dyrtinson Bastards had become the Rising Sons. We protected the roads, fought monsters, and guarded our Lord’s lands.

When those big bugs first showed up, we marched out to meet them. It wasn’t a glorious thing. We were overcome. Our band was broken. I saw my friends fall all around me, we scattered, we were hunted. Covered in wounds I stumbled into this town, and now...now I’m being asked to go back out. So be it. A soldiers job is never truly done."

Oriel Vespers
Expeditionary Scholar of the Alabaster Lyceum
Rogue 1
Feats: Magic Initiate, Ritual Caster
Background: Lyceum Student

Oriel has a penchant for intrigue and investigation. He utilizes this knack for sleuthing details from the Lyceum's libraries, as well as the more dangerous rumors of cabals, cults, and arcane creations. This love of esoteric lore feeds his thirst for thrill, and he has taken an interest in monster hunting. As such, the researcher travels to the farthest reaches of Tal'dorei in an effort to acquire actual specimens and better refine his methodology, while hopefully uncovering valuable arcane artifacts along the way.
Role: Planned to invest expertise in investigation and either arcana or sleight of hand initially to fashion him an arcane investigator.

Alternatively,
Could spec him as a Witch Hunter of the Claret Order
Background: Reformed Cultist
Feats: Mage Slayer, Cruel
Backstory:
Oriel once served the Remnant as an infiltrator, obtaining questionable lore and silencing dangerous opposition. However, a blood hunter snared the man and taught him the error of his way. The reformed cultist pays his debts to society and the Order through conducting the gruff, dirty work necessary to preserve civilization and thwart the syndicates and cults that threaten it.