Neil's own biography:

Oh wow.... Technology! Heavy!

Why can't we all be cool, get naked and dance around a campfire and play groovy, beautiful songs together, Man?

VEGETABLE RIGHTS! HAIR PEACE!

Neil's actual biography:

Neil is a depressed hippie. He's only adventuring because his rather well-to-do parents want him to find a profession and get on with his life. Unfortunately Neil would rather vibe with Mother Nature, which amounts to sitting under a tree writing maudlin, self pitying odes on his lute (slightly bashed, untuned, has at least one broken string) about unfair it is that his former flatmates made him do the shopping, cook and do the washing up afterwards.

Neil is highly suspicious of anything more technologically advanced than his lute. He dislikes people motivated by power and money - he calls them Breadheads. In private he is openly antagonistic towards authority figures (e.g. city guards) and how '...they always want to hassle him because they are a bunch of fascists who hate long hair'. In public, he's more guarded.

He does like a good demo for Druid adjacent minority causes. If there's a lesser spotted newt to be saved, he will be there with a vaguely worded placard and his lute protesting. For hours, come rain or shine. Or at least until someone pays him the cost of his bus fare.

He is accompanied by a rather sleepy baby sloth called Len Tails (geddit?). Len doesn't do much, apart from yawn at regular intervals and look at Neil in a loving, dopey way.

One final thing... Neil is a vegetarian. Never, ever let him eat meat. He might have a funny turn and turn into Neil The Barbarian.

If this happens, things will get broken.