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Instead of placing Ozzy (NPC to claim eligible companions) in caves in starting zones, which feels very custom/non-vanilla and immersion-breaking, place the NPC (could also be a goblin) in one of the following places:
- Booty Bay
- Ratchet (there's already an NPC to claim lost items here)
- Tanaris
- Caverns of Time

The only trouble is those are all fairly high-level zones (even Ratchet is for the Alliance); I believe part of the point of putting Ozzy in the starting zones is so low-level characters can access him. Though I don't disagree that his current locations are a bit... odd. Perhaps The Forlorn Cavern in Ironforge could be a good spot, and perhaps somewhere in the Undercity sewers.

True.

Or, if it "has to be kept" in the current starting zones, could instead make the NPC "A Mysterious Old Man".