Basic Family History - The family name comes from a legend passed down through the family it speaks that the first Ashwood was a young girl with a great hound who was named Ashwood long ago during the supposed demon wars she made her fortune during that time and when the wars ended she married her love who was also a Summoner she had met him during the war and they fell in love but instead of taking his last name they decided to use her hounds name for they're family name
Because the woman was originally poor she was careful and clever with her money and instead of wasting the money she invested it in various places which helped they're wealth to grow at times the family fell on hard times as far as they're wealth went that is but they eventually settled comfortably in to Landed Gentry despite they're wealth the family always maintained they're kind and respectful ways towards all classes and always taught this way of thinking to the next generation so that the family could always prosper kindly
While the Legend of how the Family started, where the family name came from, and how they originally earned they're wealth has never been proven due to little records of that time surviving outside of the legend several members in recent times have shown up with great hounds of they're own or familiars so the family well knows and believes in the Summoners and Whysts having several in the family however they do not publicly display this knowledge and while they won't deny they're belief they don't go around shouting it to the world