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Rikku Takanashi

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 1:06 pm


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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
PostPosted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 1:07 pm


Ashwood Family Tree
(Current Gen)

Main Branch(Head Branch)
James Ashwood(Father)
Olivia Ashwood (Mother)(Still working on)
Oliver Ashwood(Brother)
Aalina Ashwood
Tory(Aalina's Familiar)

Main Branch(Second Branch)
William Ashwood(Father)
Camilla Ashwood(Mother)
Emily Ashwood(Alma's sister)
Alma Ashwood(Emily's sister)
Amelia(Emily's Hound)
Ashelia(Alma's Hound)

Main Branch (Third)
(Open for Plotting)

Distent Branches
Chloe Ashwood
Amietta(Chloe's Hound)
(Other Distent Branches open for Plotting)

Current Ashwood Generation
The Current Generation of Ashwoods consists of the three Main Branches and many Distent Branches

Main Branches
The three main Branches consist of three Brothers James Ashwood, Wiiliam Ashwood, and ??? Ashwood(open for ploting) These three brothers are as close as brothers can get but only James was due to inhert so they're father started saving up at they're request when he passed James Inherted the family Land and House then with the saved up Money William and ??? brought land of equal size to James'es so the three brothers were equal in wealth

James married a woman named Olivia and had first a son named Oliver then a daughter named Aalina Oliver is 18 and Aalina is 16
William married a woman named Camilla and had two twin daughters Emily and Alma who are both 12
??? (Open for Plotting)

Distent Branches
Chloe Ashwood's Branch
Chloe's Distant Branch is rather old one of the first to split off from the Main Branch in fact hers went the route of Shop Keepers mostly Herbal type shops currently Chloe runs a "New Age" type shop where she sell's dried herbs, health potions, books on herbs, essental oils that kind of thing

Rikku Takanashi

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Rikku Takanashi

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 2:21 pm


General Ashwood Wealth Info
The three main branches of Ashwoods all own large swaths of land with a reasonable amount of farms on each land this allows them to maintain a medium level of wealth for Landed Gentry they charge a reasonable amount of rent and tax from those who live and work they're land so to not cause hardship for them

The three Main Branches help each other when needed being very close but they don't just help each other they also help and receive help from some of the Distant Branches of Ashwoods that wished to stay connected and apart of the family the Main Branch help and receive help from these Distant Branches even though most of them have "Come Down" in the world status and monetary wise because of this they have gain some of the "Stench of Trade" despite this however they are still well respected by a good portion of the Upper Class and are very respected among most of the Commoner Classes

Estate Info

Main Branch(Head Branch)
Aalina's branch of Ashwoods owns a fairly large swath of land on the northern outskirts of Arkenvale with a reasonable number of farms

The land near their Small Country House has a small forest behind and around it where a few poor commoners live

Main Branch (Second Branch)
Emily and Alma's branch of Ashwoods owns a fairly large swath of land on the southern outskirts of Arkenvale with a reasonable number of farms

The land near their Small Country House has a small lake behind the house with a few large tree's scattered here and there around the house and lake as well theres also a almost circle like boarder of smaller trees which seprates the land around the house and the farmland

Main Branch (Third Branch)
(Open for Plotting)
PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 12:39 am


Ashwood Code of Conduct

Ashwoods are taught a Code of Conduct that the family created at it's birth all Ashwoods are taught this Code of Conduct and most follow it even the most distent branches

Code of Conduct
Be kind and Respectful to Commoners - All upper class Ashwoods are kind and respectful to people of the Commoner class (And Ashwoods of the Commoner Class are kind and respectful to other members of their class) Upper Class Ashwoods try to not cause hardship for Commoners be it the farmers on they're land or the staff in they're house to a person on the street the family was founded by people who were originally Commoners and the be kind and respectful to commoners Code has been around sense the families founding

Be of Noble Moral - This means simply to be a good person help when it's needed be honorable in your actions those sorts of things

Equality - Ashwoods are taught that just because they may have more money then someone else or are from a old family it doesn't mean they are better then other people they are more priviliaged but they are not better the only reason a Ashwood would ever think of themselves as better then someone else is when they are being a good person morally and the other person is not and even then its not something to openly or sometimes even privetly gloat about

Social Status pah! - Ashwoods are taught to worry about their Social Status only as much as they need to to hit the bare minimum of they're class they are taught to be themselves, find real friendship instead of just social status friends, and do the right thing even if it wouldn't typically be socially acceptable there are however a few things Ashwoods can't do (Cause a big scandle, for the Upper Class Ashwoods marry a person from the Commoner Class, etc)

Follow the Social Code of Conduct Unless... - As you'd expect each Ashwood try and follow the social code of conduct for they're class however if it clashes with they're person Code of Conduct then they're Code of Conduct holds priority except in certain cases because of this Ashwoods tend to push the boundry of what the Upper Class would consider acceptable Conduct (Respecting Commoners, Receving Money from Commoners outside of they're Estate, etc)

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