Delebean's a gnome NPC who's been with Maxwell and Swindle since our session 0 and we're now passed session 47, having played in this campaign for over a year at this point. He and his monstrous menagerie have--against their better judgement, traveled with us through a lot.
Whether Swindle knows the extent of it or not, these people have become his clansmen, and Delebean's the leader of 'em.

So--when the Dwarven city of Ivorfall, an enormous city build in the center of a mountain--with only one exit in and out--befell a sudden incursion of abhorrent hooded figures who emerged from below and began fusing members of the dwarven population into horrific melting blobs of flesh-hungry gaping maws and too many misshapen limbs...The stakes were pretty high. The attack occurred just before the party returned from an errand elsewhere (wherein they encountered similar creatures that were unexpected to find)--and the carnage was already apparent. Disorder, destruction, viscera... There was no shortage of quiet terror as Max, Swindle, and the rest of their very tired team feverishly swept through the city as swiftly and undetected as they could in effort to locate members of the menagerie...dead or alive.

Two sessions of searching, and we found Delebean and most of the others as well. But already, not everyone has survived.