Ohio Ford

The bugbear Ohio Ford hails from the dusty badlands on the outskirts of the desert wastes to the north, a small trading outpost town by the name of Anvil. A former outlaw, turned semi-honourable treasure hunter for hire, Ohio dips his toe into guild activities but spends much of his time roaming around the Ridings hunting for leads on profitable finds of the archaeological nature.

## Biography

### **Early Years**

Ohio was left in the town of Anvil as an infant, and against the advice of the mistrustful townsfolk was taken in by an eccentric halfling, a pawn shop owner by the name of Rodrick Ford. There Ohio quickly gained an eye for strange and interesting oddities that made their way into his adoptive father's wares, but despite keeping himself to himself he was never quite accepted by the town. He always itched to venture out into the wilderness to seek out ancient ruins and historical wonders to bring back and show the world, but he was always discouraged because of the many dangers. "Maybe when you're older," his father would say.

It wasn't until an outlaw gang, the Blackridge Vipers, came into town that everything changed. They were seeking a treasure that their leader had lost, and thought it may have been sold by the thief who had stolen it. When Rodrick couldn't help them they shot him in cold blood and ransacked his shop. Ohio returned from his errands to find his world turned upside down, and vowed revenge on the outlaws.

He set off to the saloon with his father's antique gun and no plan whatsoever, and challenged the outlaw leader to a shoot-out there and then. The outlaws just laughed at him, and likely would have gunned him down there and then had an odd Hobgoblin monk called Sand intervened and knocked them all out with a flurry of unarmed strikes. He admired Ohio's courage, and offered him a chance to learn how fight if he joined their Order.

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-Sand belonged to a group of goblinoid monks, charismatic leader training his own small army of goblin warrior-monks out in the desert to retake sacred lands that had been stolen from them. Disciplined and focused, with a particular connection to ancestral magic within the land and their bodies that forges them into walking weapons.

-Ohio agreed to join them, but only because he wanted to learn to fight like they did.

-trained for years, following \_ for a time but ultimately realising they were little better than the Blackridge Vipers in their activities, and deciding he didn't vibe with re-taking lands towns like Anvil now stood on, and left to hunt treasure like he always wanted to.

-eventually decided to come to the East Ridings, where he had heard an old acquaintance of his father's had come for a more honest life- a man called Jebediah.

### **Joining The Adventurer's Guild**

Ohio joined the guild almost exactly the time that the Firing Squad were committing a murder spree in Otha's Rest. Sensing that he'd have little luck with treasure-hunting until these criminals had been dealth with, he lent his aid to stop them and assisted the other guild members in drawing out the shady organisation so that they could be brought to justice and the murders would cease.

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## Trivia

* Like most goblinoids, Ohio really likes onions. He can often be seen eating one like an apple as he pores over maps of the Ridings looking for sites of archaological interest.

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