Ash

> **Conri**: "How much?"
>  **Ash**: "About a $2000 repair for the window and a cleaning of the rugs. The coyotes will just become fertilizer out back.”
>
> Conri Tlanta to Ash about broken into windows, by wild coyotes.

* Human
* Wolf Form

## Biographical Information

### Occupation

* Northern Union Sergeant Soldier of the American Civil War  (1861-1865)
* Polish Citizen  (1869-1935)
* Prisoner of the Dachau Nazi Camp  (1935-1937)
* Prisoner of the Buchenwald Nazi Camp  (1937-1942
* University Student  (1952-1954) (1963-1966)
* Member of  Conri's Bloodline  (1835-Present)
* Bodybuilder  (2008-Present)
* Member of the Hale Pack  (2012-Present)

### Title(s)

* Ashy (By  Eli)
* Ashland, Darling, Blondie  (By  Conri)
* Tall, Dark, and Handsome

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Unnamed Parents †
* Unnamed Older Sister †

### Relationships

* Unnamed Polish Woman †  (1st Wife)  (1869-1898)
* Unnamed Czechoslovakian Woman †  (2nd Wife)  (1900-1919)
* Unnamed Polish Woman †  (3rd Wife)  (1920-1935)
* Naeomi Snow  (Girlfriend)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Kills

* Garrett Douglass  (With  Danae
* Tamora Monroe  (With Others)
* 2nd Wife
* Many Unnamed Ghost Riders
* Many Unnamed Nazis
* Many Unnamed Hunters

## Physical Appearance

### Height

* 6'1"  (Feet)
* 1.85  (Meters)

### Eye Color

* Brown  (Human)
* Bright, Supernatural Blue  (Immortal Werewolf)

### Hair Color

* Blonde

**Ash** is an Immortal Werewolf. He was born in 1801, in the Midwest of the United States, presumably on a farm, where he grew up with his older sister, and parents. At some point before 1835, Ash triggered his werewolf gene on the full moon, and isolated himself from humans by digging a bunker, where he would lock himself in every full moon, drilling iron bars into the ground, and locking it with a padlock. He was turned by Conri Tlanta when he was 34.

**Ash** is a member of an **Unnamed Family of Werewolves** and a member of **Conri's Bloodline.** He is also a member of the **Hale Pack.**

## History

Born in 1801, Ash grew up in the Midwestern United States, with his parents and his older sister, who taught him how to work on their family farm. Growing up, Ash admired his sister, and wanted to be as strong as her one day, even though she married a man at eighteen, and became a housewife for the rest of her life, in a wealthy part of Chicago. This love for her, and admiration carried on for his entire existence, and Ash was always kind to women, children, and the elderly, even giving his rations to female prisoners, since he could survive without them.

When Ash was presumably a teenager, going through puberty, he became violent, due to his werewolf nature wanting to break through the surface. This made him protective and feared by the other children his age that he went to school with, at a schoolhouse a few miles from the farm. He and his sister attended school, where she was catcalled by boys, who Ash would beat up for looking at her the wrong way, and he was severely punished for it by his mother, who had given him and his sister the gene, and didn't want him activating it in fear that vampires would come for him and try to kill him, and his entire family, if they feared that they might retaliate.

Because of this, Ash stopped interacting with anyone from his school when his sister got married, and moved away, so he was forced to be quiet and not gripe about anything, but when he was in his late teens, he snapped when one of the older boys who had wanted to marry his sister made a comment about her purity, and mocked her new husband, who Ash liked, causing him to break out into a rage, and pummel the boy's face in. He ended up dying because of it, and Ash triggered his werewolf curse as he ran from the scene, and spent his first full moon in the mountains.

He eventually dug out the bunker, and stole iron bars and screws to attach to the ground, and this was where he spent his full moon nights until he was in his mid thirties. He never tried to have any kind of relationship with any woman, because of his curse, and when his parents passed away, he was left with their money, which he used to buy a cottage in Missouri, close to his bunker, where he travelled to transform.

### Death:

In 1835, when Ash was 34, he went to his bunker to transform, but neglected to lock it with the padlock, due to his exhaustion, and broke free of his bunker. It just so happened that he ran into the path of Conri Tlanta, a werewolf-witch hybrid, who was about to transform into his wolf form. Ash didn't see him as a wolf, but as a threat, so he charged him, and tackled Conri to the ground, half naked, as he tried to go for the throat, slashing Conri with his sharp wolf claws, before Conri roared at him, and threw Ash against a tree.

Before Ash could even get to his feet, Conri grabbed him, and out the corner of his wolf eye, he could see darkness on Conri's pale arm, as well as the scent of blood, before Conri dripped a mouthful of it into Ash's muzzle, forcing him to swallow, before he used his claws to slash through Ash's entire throat. He collapsed, dying on the ground as Conri cleaned his hand in a stream nearby, and the last thing Ash saw as a mortal was the sky, before he felt his heart stop, and closed his eyes.

He woke up to a brighter sky, and found that he was in his human shape. Conri caught his attention, and told Ash what he had become, showing him his bright blue werewolf eyes in a pocket mirror, as well as his claws and fangs. He offered Ash the option to come with him and learn how to be an immortal, craving blood, but Ash refused, saying that he wanted to learn to live himself. Conri did, however give him the basics, on compulsion, blood hunger, concealment, and strength, which would grow with age and practice, before he left Ash, telling him that he was the first one he made that didn't want him to be by his side when he was learning about his new life. Ash told him that he liked being alone, and they didn't see each other again until World War II, when Conri would venture to German occupied Poland to free Ash from the concentration camp.

### New Life:

After his transformation, Ash proclaimed himself dead by making his first kill of a man that was in similar description to him, and made it seem like an animal attack, and insured his parent's property in Missouri, so that it would accumulate wealth, and he could claim it later on in his long life. He later traveled to Indiana, where he lived for a few decades, before enlisting to fight for the North in the Civil War against the Confederates. During this period, he met Nixie and Naeomi Snow, who he knew were immortal witches of Conri's creation, and the three of them became good friends, their friendship lasting to the present day, with even Ash and Naeomi getting together in the future.

Nixie and Naeomi stuck by Ash on the battlefield as he fought for the Northern Union, acting as nurses, healing sick and injured soldiers with their blood, which healed all wounds, and when the war ended, they took him to Europe for the first time, visiting the Snow estate in Toulouse, France, where Ash lived with them for a couple years, before moving on, visiting the Kingdom of Italy, Kingdom of Spain, and the German Empire, as well as Bavaria and Hungary, before settling in Poland in 1869, where he gained citizenship that he still holds in the present, claiming new aliases, linking him to himself in the 1800s.

He married three times, living in Poland, each marriage to a young woman, so he could spend at least thirty years with her, and then fake his death, travel to Bavaria, wait until his wife died, and then return with a new name. He married his first wife, a Polish woman in her early twenties in 1869, the year he moved to Poland, and faked his death thirty years later, in 1898, when he migrated to the Czech Republic in early 1900, where he met his second wife, who followed him back to Poland, when his first wife moved with her parents to England. They were married until 1919, when his wife, who turned out to be a witch found out that he was immortal, and divorced him, trying to kill him in the courtroom, and in retaliation, Ash sucked her blood, killing her a month later, and labeled her death as suicide, putting her in a bathtub.

Ash's third and final wife before World War II, whom he married in 1920, was the kindest to him, and had been widowed when her husband died in the first World War, and he married her partially for stability, but also for grief, since he did love his previous wife, but she had tried to kill him, so he had to keep her from trying to reveal his secret, no matter how much it hurt him. He was the closest to his third wife, and told her everything about himself, including his past, his status, and his maker, and she was understanding, no matter how long it took her to understand that he was never going to age.

### World War II and Imprisonment:

Ash and his wife were married for 25 years, until Nazi Germany occupied their city, and took Ash to a concentration camp, where he was with his wife for a few months at the Dachau camp, before they separated them, and Ash never saw her again. She remained in the camp until she was moved to the ghetto, where she managed to flee to Spain for a few months, before getting on a truck to the United Kingdom, where she never remarried, and died in the late 1980s. Ash on the other hand was revealed to be an enhanced kind of being to the Nazis in 1937, and was taken to the Buchenwald camp, where he was horrifically experimented on, but healed by nightfall, just enough to be physically fine, but not so much so that the Nazis got suspicious. After leaving the Dachau camp, and moving to the Buchenwald, camp, Ash's torture continued to get worse, with the doctors taking blood samples for their congealing experiments, which usually ended with the subject bleeding out, but instead of this happening, Ash healed, which led the doctors to take a liking to him.

While this happened, in 1939, the *Anenherbe,* an organization of Nazi officials who wanted to use the occult to win the war took notice of the experiments done to Ash, and were in the process of convincing the doctors to let them have Ash when Conri Tlanta got himself imprisoned in the same camp as Ash, and the doctors began to experiment on him as well. Ash warned Conri about the severity of the experiments, but Conri didn't listen, and got way worse torture done to him when the doctors found his fangs, and began to extract venom from the pockets in his mouth, that on humans, were known as tonsils. However, they didn't try this on Ash, since Conri managed to compel the main doctor, and this went on until 1942.

In 1942, in the midst of the war, Ash was on the table again, this time with Conri in the same room, and the doctors were planning on using Conri's venom on Ash, to see how he would react to it, and when it did nothing when they tried to force him to drop his fangs, they decided to use it on the human test subjects. Ash begged Conri to help him stop the doctors, but he wasn't strong enough on his own, since they only fed him human food, and he hadn't had blood in over two years, surviving on food, since the last time he'd fed, he killed a doctor, and had to compel the others into thinking that there had been a riot, and that took most, if not all of his power out of him. Conri agreed with him, and while Ash was sleeping, along with the entire camp, he let out a roar to let the witches and werewolves nearby know that they were in trouble, and when the doctors took the venom from Conri and tried to inject it into a Jewish prisoner, in the middle of the night, after hearing the roar, they were surprised to be attacked.

A group of ten witches and werewolves, which included Nixie and Naeomi, who were fighting for France, Gianna, Luke, Cyrus Dubois, and Jenefer, one of Danae's werewolves, as well as four others. They first slaughtered all of the Nazis in the camp, before liberating the prisoners, which included Ash and Conri, who helped them take the prisoners out of the camp, after killing and feeding on Nazi drone soldiers, to replenish their strength, before heading to a safe house in Denmark, where Cyrus teleported Ash to New York, where he met Danae, and she healed him, at Conri's mansion, where he lived for the rest of the 40s, until the war was over, and helped Conri and Danae remodel the mansion in 1946.

### After the War:

Ash decided to attend university for the first time, in 1952, where he procured a master's in psychology, graduating in 1954, and later, decided to go back to school in 1963, where he got another degree, this one in sports psychology. He graduated in 1966, and both Conri and Danae were at both of his university graduations, cheering him on as he worked for private clients for about fifty years in different parts of the United States, but mostly sticking to the Midwest and the East Coast, where he was most at home, and where Conri was.

In the late 70s, Ash helped Danae take Conri out of his bender in New York City, and helped detox him in Danae's safe house in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where Ash began to go to the gym regularly with Conri, and over the course of the 1980s, and the early 1990s, he developed a passion for physical health and fitness, something that he had been working on keeping after the war, so that his body wouldn't be weak again.

When his third wife from before the war died in 1982, Ash heard about it on the news, as she had been on a list of prisoners who had escaped to the U.K. and later made a life. She went on to become a nurse, and helped in Vietnam with the soliders who returned home, and always spoke highly of Ash to her adopted children and grandchildren, calling him the angel who never grew up. He went to visit her grave in Manchester, England, leaving flowers, and paying his respects to her sisters and family. Her sister knew who Ash was, and thanked him for coming back, even if she was already gone, and he told her that he left the family money to help them, before he left, keeping in touch.

When he returned to the United States, he went into a program to get his bodybuilding certification in early 2000, and after failing the tests a couple times, he got is certification, and hung it on the wall of his condo, and began to work as a bodybuilding coach in 2008, and continues to do so.

In 2011, Ash returned to the mansion when Conri had switched off his humanity, and when he heard that Conri was pregnant with a the baby of a shifter werewolf, something that he didn't even know was possible. He knew that male genetic werewolves could carry young, but he didn't think of the interspecies coupling as something that would work. Either way, he supported Conri and defended the house from intruders, who later became allies, and when the child was born, Ash fell in love.

### Confronation with the Löwenmensch:

In 2013, Ash was called by Danae to fight the Ghost Riders, and only agreed because it would give him a chance to kill the Nazi Alpha Werelion, or Löwenmensch, Garrett Douglas. He traveled to Beacon Hills, California, where he and the rest of the Hale Pack subdued the Ghost Riders and the McCall Pack, giving Danae and himself the chance to kill the Nazi.

Danae weakened him, before Ash descended upon him and described in great detail how painful his death was going to be, slashing his body, as it healed and healed, before Danae poisoned his heart, and the Ghost Riders turned him into one of their own. Ash later complained about how he should have been the one to kill the Nazi, but Danae pointed out that being a Ghost Rider was one of the worst fates that anyone could fall to, so Ash figured after this that his revenge was deserved and carried out.

## Abilities

* **Werewolf Nature:** Being part werewolf, his body contains the werewolf gene that provides him with standard werewolf attributes and provides him with enhanced senses, such as hearing, sight, and smell, as well as heightened aggression. He can tell when someone is lying to him by listening to their heartbeat, a trait that he shares with Shifter Werewolves.
	+ **Full Werewolf Shift:** Ash has the ability to shift into a full wolf, and controls the transformation, due to being immortal, able to shift at will, and with the immortality thrumming through him, healing his body as he shifts, it isn't painful to become a wolf.
	+ **Werewolf Bite:** As a werewolf, his bite is lethal to vampires, monsters, and some other supernatural creatures. It can only be cured with Conri's blood, as well as Danae's and other hybrids in their family tree.
		- **Healing Factor:** Ash possesses superhuman regenerative abilities, meaning that if he is physically injured, his body will heal rapidly. Like vampires, werewolves can heal from the most grievous of injuries, even in human form, albeit more slowly in comparison to vampires. However, unlike vampires, when a werewolf's neck is broken, they stay dead.
		- **Lycanthrope Enhancement:** Ash is able to make his eyes glow when angry or threatened, or at will. When a werewolf is furious or forced to defend themselves, their anger increases all their power and abilities for a short period of time, which allows them to access some of the power of their wolf form to give them an edge.
	+ **Full Moon:** Ash's strength, speed, agility, and all of his powers are enhanced to their peak during a full moon.
	+ **Immunity to Silver:** Ash is immune to magic bonded to silver. Weapons made of silver might wound them, but the wound still heals at supernatural rates and will not be fatal to them.
* **Immortal Nature:** Due to immortality, both hybrids of witch and werewolf possess supernatural physical and psychic abilities. Although they are immortal, they are not full Immortals, more like a half Immortal due to their Werewolf sides and Witch sides tainting the full potential of immortality.
	+ **Mental Compulsion:** Ash is able to look into someone's eyes and manipulate their minds. This can be blocked by certain herbs, for humans, and supernatural abilities by witches and werewolves.
	+ **Advanced Healing Factor:** As is able to regenerate from any damage sustained on his body as a result of their unconditional immortality. His bones snap back into place after being broken, and he has been seen to fully recover from gunshots, stab wounds, snapped necks, and torso impalement.
	+ **Advanced Immunity:** Ash possesses a caliber of immortality that grants them immunity to all weaknesses. He is immune to wooden weapons, sunlight, vervain, werewolf bites, decapitation, heart extraction or fire and are able to walk freely into a home without being invited by the owner first. His body is completely indestructible.

## Weaknesses

* **Magic:** Like all supernatural creatures, Ash is susceptible to other forms of magic and witchcraft.
* **Emotions:** While the emotion of the hybrid affects their performance and stamina, Ash has shown that he does not fall under that, with a strong sense of self.
* **Heart Extraction:** Ripping out Ash's heart will lead to instant death.
* **Wolfsbane:** While it is a more profound weakness for werewolves, the herb doesn't affect Ash as much, due to his immortality making him less affected by the herb, merely making him slightly inebriated if he ingests it.
* **Decapitation:** Dismembering of his head will lead Ash to instant death.

## Relationships

* Ash and Conri (Sire/Sired)
* Ash and 1st Wife (Husband/Wife/Widowed)
* Ash and 2nd Wife (Husband/Wife/Widowed)
* Ash and 3rd Wife (Husband/Wife/Widowed)
* Ash and Naeomi (Packmates/Boyfriend/Girlfriend)
* Ash and Eli (Packmates/Uncle/Nephew)
* Ash and Gianna (Packmates/Friends)
* Ash and Nixie (Packmates/Friends)

## Etymology

**Ash:** Ash is a gender-neutral name derived from the Hebrew title Asher, meaning “happy.” Nature lovers may also recognize this arboreal title from British origins, relating to the verdant ash tree. The Vikings and Gaels considered the ash tree a symbol of protection believed to preserve the purity of holy wells and springs.