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The first wanderer between worlds, an immortal amongst the last of humanity, and a man that made quite the mark on the connected universe withinRemnant 2, Ford has quite a full backstory that you can easily miss in the game. That is unless you find every dialogue scrap from NPCs, item descriptions, and note scraps throughout the realms and three video games.
Throw on top of that the world-ending events of the finale and you can often overlook some of the most interesting background lore in the series so far. So whether you missed your chance to chat with Ford before the big final fight or just didn’t piece together the story and focused on fun gunfights, then here’s everything you need to know about what happened to Ford at the end of Remnant 2.
Ford’s Backstory
Known as Andrew Ford, he wasthe founder of Ward 13and one of a few groups of individuals who were renderedessentially immortalafter encountering alien artifacts whilst trying to recover the Earth’s World Stone. It all began whenancient alien writings were discoveredon Earthand studied by top military experts and scientists.
The strange writings spoke ofwhere to find and how to use the Red Crystals, or “World Stones” toconnect to other realms and travel between them at will. This could only be managed byconnecting an individual known as a “Dreamer” to the crystalsin order to manipulate the Crystal. However, this would lead to humanity’s downfall in the long run.
Ford wasone of the original expedition forcesthat was sent to recover the Earth’s primary World Stone. Unfortunately,the tomb it was within collapsed, killing everyone inside including Ford and his teammates.
However, for some unknown reason,they all suddenly reappeared elsewhere, completely healed and finedespite just horribly dying a few minutes ago. Ford was arguably the most impacted by this event as itmade him immortal. But he would use this for his benefit for over a century, exploring dangerous worlds, dying, and then just continuing where he left off, althoughit was not all smooth sailing for Ford.
Ford’s Impact On Earth’s Downfall
Ford wasn’t solely responsible for the Earth’s downfall, but he did play an unwitting part in the process. He was unknowinglyinfluenced by The Root. As the Earth dabbled in experiments involving Dreamers,an entity calling itself The Dragon began pulling the strings from the shadows. It was a dark creature that wasmanipulating both Ford and Dr. Harsgaard, a scientist who worked at Ward 13, guiding them towards its own dark goals.
Over time,Harsgaard would push for more Dreamers to connect to the World Stone, with the end goal of having four of them at once. Though Chronos, anadventurer who sought to stop the encroaching darknesswould try to interfere, he would unwittingly play into The Root’s plans as well, becoming the “Fourth Dreamer” and opening a door forThe Root to fully invade Earth.
The conflict following The Root’s invasion of Earthwiped out over half the population of the planet.
Ford In Remnant: From The Ashes
Feeling somewhat responsible for the invasion of Earth,Ford set off from Ward 13 determined to rip the rotting Root out of the planetonce and for all. He would travel for years, just as he did before the fall of Humanity, but unfortunately,he would disappear, with Ward 13 being taken under the care of his daughter, Ellen.
Ford would eventually be found years later on Yaeshaby the protagonist of Remnant: From The Ashes where he would reveal to the Wanderer thatthe Dreamer was the Roots' connection to Earthand that this link must be severed.
What Happened To Ford In Remnant 2?
Ford would appear again in Remnant 2, though this time he takes a more passive role. Instead of seeking adventure or retribution, Ford, now several hundred years old, merely provides animmortal mentor role to travelers passing through Ward 13.
He asks the protagonist of Remnant 2 toseek out the location of Ward Prime, the site of the original Dreamer Project. Here he thinks lies the original Dreamer and the Root’s last connection to the other realms.
Warning: Spoilers For The Ending Of Remnant 2 Below
What Happened To Ford At The End Of Remnant 2?
Ford is last seen right before the end of the game as he is disintegratedalong with everyone and everything else as Clementine performs the Great Reset to the Universe. This happens after the protagonist of Remnant 2 travels to an Alternate Earth that the Labyrinth Guardian describes asthe original source of the Root Infection of the multiverse.
It’s there that a brutal fight that involves the Roots manifestation shifting reality and just reviving itself whenever it dies plays out. It’s an intense slugfest that, gameplay-wise, can be brutally hard if you go in unprepared, but there’s no ultimate victor. Instead, it’s decided thatthe only way to stop The Root from destroying the Universe is to reset everything.
The hope was thatpurging the Universe of the contaminant, then resetting thingswould work. Just like they had once been before in Universe 1.0 beforeThe Root inserted the World Stones into Universe 2.0in order to travel over. The reset would seemingly fix things for Earth 3.0. Though time will tell as it’sheavily implied that all the universal cycles within the Remnant series are part of a long-running simulationand this cycle will just repeat again and again.
