Ishmael Ashur Ishmael Ashur , officially Lord Ashur , is the ruler / leader of The Pitt and former Brotherhood of Steel Paladin . Background . Beginnings . Ashur was probably born somewhere on the West Coast of the United States . As he grew up , he became a loyal member of the Brotherhood of Steel , which had not reached as far east as the Pitt at the time . Like most of the Brotherhood , he vowed to recover any and all advanced technology . Eastwards Expansion . In 2254 the Brotherhood ' s ruling council decided to send a contingent of soldiers to the East Coast , with three important objectives . First , to scour the ruins of Washington , D . C . , once the nation ' s capital , and recover any and all advanced technology . Second , to investigate the reports of super mutant activity in the area . Third , to re - establish contact with the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel and return them under Lost Hills command . The Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel was formed when a large Brotherhood airship crashed in the area surrounding Chicago , IL . Initiate Ashur was part of this team of soldiers , under the leadership of one Owyn Lyons , other members of the party included Rothchild , Henry Casdin and Knight Paladin Tristan . The Scourge . Unable to contact the Midwestern Brotherhood , the Brotherhood pressed on eastwards towards Washington , D . C . During their travels , the Brotherhood came across the disturbingly vile ruins of Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . Known as The Pitt , the city was lawless : rape gangs , raiders , slavers , and many other kinds of horrors all freely wandered and anarchy ruled the streets . The few innocent inhabitants had to scratch out a living in this terrorizing environment , most of whom were either sick or dying from the combined effects of the intense radiation and pollution from pre - war industrial factories damaged by the bombs spewing into the atmosphere . Horrified by what they saw The Brotherhood then led " The Scourge " , a large - scale military action throughout the Pitt , combing the ruins and killing anyone who dared to put up a fight . Due to their sheer superior technological and combat abilities , the Brotherhood sustained virtually no losses but wiped out much of the Pitt ' s population . By the time The Scourge was over only a handful of raider gangs still existed in the city . Although the intent of the Scourge remains unclear , the Brotherhood took many non - mutated children , such as Paladin Kodiak , from The Pitt and placed them into initiate training . During the Scourge , Paladin Ashur was caught in an explosion in a steel mill and was presumed to be their only casualty , so the Brotherhood left him within the mill and moved forward towards Washington , D . C . . Ashur lay there for hours , but was soon awoken when he was pulled out of the rubble by scavengers trying to loot his power armor . Ashur impressed them , with some of the scavengers even considering him a god . With the locals not having to worry about the rampant raider gangs which once infested the streets , he brought many of the scavengers in the area together under his leadership . Founding of The Pitt . Instead of trying to return to the Brotherhood , Ashur founded the new city of The Pitt because he was touched by the tenacious locals who had endured great hardship before , during and after the Scourge . Another reason being the fact that it contained the only operational steel mill the Brotherhood had ever run into , allowing the Pitt to produce its own equipment . To gain control , Ashur formed his own gang and using his Brotherhood training and expertise quickly began killing the leaders of remaining raider gangs to establish dominance . Raiders who did not rebel were incorporated into his gang and numbers swelled , his control over the Pitt grew to the point where his territory extended to most of the ruins . Ashur transformed his raider gang into a functioning government under his autocratic rule , rebranding his gang an " army " with the most fierce raiders becoming his lieutenants . With the Pitt firmly under his control , Ashur and his guards occupied a mostly intact skyscraper called Haven as his palace to watch over his city . However , it wasn ' t long before he realized that raider gangs would not be enough to allow his new civilization to grow . In order to achieve this , Ashur soon started to use slaves ( whom he insists on calling " workers " to remind them that they all have a chance at freedom , no matter how slim ) as labor and admits he hates to do this , but claims " it has to be done " since most citizens of The Pitt are unable to have children due to the Troglodyte Degeneration Contagion . Most of the non - raider population was enslaved forming a " working class " , managed by a brutal " upper class " largely composed of raiders to watch over them and punish dissent . The Pitt began to slowly rebuild , the slaves made great progress in making things operational in the Pitt again - Ashur eventually started importing slaves and hiring raiders from outside the Pitt area to accommodate the growth . Cure Discovery . The Pitt was approached by a scientist named Sandra Kundanika after hearing about its status as an up and coming civilization in the wastes . Instead of being enslaved or attacked by the raiders guarding the city ' s perimeter , Sandra was welcomed into the Pitt ' s raider class due to her talents which greatly impressed Ashur , eventually marrying her . A year before 2277 Sandra had become pregnant and gave birth to Ashur ' s child , a daughter named Marie . In a miraculous stroke of luck , Marie was discovered to possess a special ability that the rest of the Wasteland lacked : she was immune to mutation . This immunity meant that Marie would not be affected by the Troglodyte Degeneration Contagion , which had been massively blighting the Pitt . Ashur and Sandra quickly set to work on developing a cure for their fellow Pitt inhabitants . It is hinted that if the cure were to be successfully produced allowing natural population growth , Ashur would greatly re - organize the Pitt by abolishing slavery and granting all its citizens their freedom . Daily schedule . Ashur spends the majority of his time in his office at the top of Haven , but is occasionally seen giving speeches to the slaves of The Pitt every once in a while . He also runs The Pitt ' s radio station . Appearances . Ashur appears only in the " Fallout 3 " add - on " The Pitt " .