still thinking about the whole mistria thingy and. oswald won't be a farmer, he is probably tied to the ruins. something like: keeper of the old boundary (or warden of the deep ruins) or whatever title if dragon priest is not available. the kind of figure villagers reference vaguely like “don’t go too far past the lower cliffs… he won’t like it” without ever explaining what he actually is. he lives just beyond the explorable edges of the map at first. a secluded, half-collapsed estate or stone outpost near a sealed ruin entrance. function wise he is a late-introduction NPC tied to deeper progression and advancing far enough into the mines/ruins or interacting with forbidden artifacts. appears the first time you trigger something you shouldn’t have. has no arrival animation, he just spawns and scares you.
