Roderick Ashwood

Roderick Ashwood is the Lord of House Ashwood, a noble house in the Kingdom of Lorithia.
== History ==
Lord Roderick was born shortly after the fading of the First Flame in the Fourth Age and as such at the beginning of the Age of Dark and to unknown parents. His parents died however very early on in his life, leaving him an orphan to grow up alone in the newly built Town of Firelink, where the Firelink Shrine once stood and rebuilt by the Ashen One during the nicknamed Era of Healing.
Roderick was very prominent from an early age when it came to riding horses, especially the ones that were found near the Town of Firelink. Remarkably, Roderick discovered that most of the horses that were born around the Town were distinctively white coloured, which he described as Ash. As such, Roderick began to corral these horses and starting breeding them, despite being the age of only ten. He attributed their white colour to the fact of the Ash from the kindling of the First Flame seeping through to the surface, giving the Horses their Ashen colour.
Eventually, the amount of horses that Roderick was breeding caught the attention of the Ashen One, who wished to purchase horses for the use in a standing army that Lorithia may need in the future. Discovering that Roderick was very young, it certainly startled the Ashen One with how proficient Roderick was with the taming and breeding of these wild horses but also of the colour that the horses had taken, stating how unique they were. The Ashen One then bestowed a generous offer of a Lordship to Roderick, who at first did not wish to sell his horses, but realised that the breeding of the horses were too expensive to handle by himself and so he accepted the Lordship, officially being named as Lord of the Town of Firelink and The Horse Lord, at the age of fourteen.