Ashton Greymoore

 is an earth genasi barbarian and a member of Bells Hells. Ashton is played by Taliesin Jaffe.

Appearance
Ashton is 5'10" tall and has green stone skin and short, dark-purple crystal hair. They have a prominent hole in the left side of their head filled with slag glass, through which an opalescent brain can be seen, and the eye on the cracked side of Ashton's head is milky white. There are cracks across Ashton's left side, patched together with slag melted gold and various other metals (like kintsugi). Their blood is a very deep red, almost black.

Ashton has piercings made mostly of nails, carries multiple leather pouches, and wears a lot of well-worn leather with red fabric lining, including a jumpsuit with the top half undone. The back of his hand-decorated jacket says "JUST DON'T". He carries a big glass hammer which has "FUCK OFF" engraved in it. On Ashton's pant leg is a patch with a symbol of the Clasp.

Personality
When Campaign 3 opened, Ashton was living in the Fownsee Hollow neighborhood inside the Core Spire of Jrusar, in what would be considered destitute surroundings by anyone of means. It is a location where people come or are thrown to be forgotten. However, they saw it as colorful and fun, and had decorated their room with cast-offs and bright trinkets of little actual value.

Ashton described himself as "cranky and unpleasant", and FCG immediately agreed with him. Ashton recognized that he could be difficult with people. He identified his main goals as self-reliance, and freedom to move about.

Ashton has not had a lot of physical contact during his life. They generally avoid it due to their chronic pain and is not sure if they've ever been in love or not. Ashton had close friends in the past, and as the time goes on, he becomes more comfortable among the members of Bells Hells. They initially joined Bells Hells because Orym introduced himself as a member of the Ashari, which Ashton noticed sounded a lot like Hishari. They had planned to get Orym and other members of Bells Hells in their debt, but found in a moment of crisis that they had come to care for them as friends.

On 4-Sided Dive, Taliesin stated that Ashton has a complex series of rules that he lives by, including "If you have a deal, you don't fuck with it. If you fuck with the deal, [there will be a] new deal and I get to make up what it is," and "Don't put your hands on me if I don't know you."

In response to Laudna reminding the party of the drugs she got from Justi Pross, Ashton said that he "have never tried that stuff, but there would have probably been a time in his life where he would've been really into that".

Background
Ashton was born to an elven man and a woman of Hishari, an elemental cult village in Issylra. When he was very young, in about 823 PD, "a couple of decades" before Campaign 3, Hishari performed a "reckless" ritual around a glowing gate, which ultimately destroyed them. Ashton was found wandering near Bassuras in Marquet and was put into the Greymoore State Home. When he was about 11 or 12, he began to slowly change into his present rocky form.

Ashton and a group of children from the home formed a criminal mercenary group called the Nobodies. Years before 843 PD, the group was hired to break into Jiana Hexum's home in Jrusar (for more information, see: Nobodies § Break-in at Hexum Manor). They entered Jiana's office on the top floor, where Ashton opened a crate of Potions of Possibility. Shortly after Ashton picked one up out the crate, he was magically thrown through off a balcony. He was gravely injured and brought back to Milo Krook's home. Milo used their knowledge as a tinkerer to repair Ashton's body using glass and melted-down gold that Ashton was to receive as payment for the job. When this was not enough, they further poured the Potion of Possibility that Ashton still held into his head, successfully reviving him. The rest of the Nobodies left Jrusar.

Jiana eventually was able to track down Ashton because of his distinctive head injury. Rather than turning them in to the authorities, she instead asked for their services as a means of paying off their debt to her. Ashton accepted. Including their debt to Hexum, as of, Ashton was in debt with "multiple" third parties.

Ashton has since lived in Jrusar for some time. About Thunsheer 843 PD, a couple of months before joining the Bells Hells, Ashton was hired by the Rayia family to investigate the disappearance of the Division of Public Benefit, who they hired a week before to clear out giant creatures native to the area from a silver mine that the family owned east of the city. Upon arriving at the assigned place, they discovered Fresh Cut Grass with an eye malfunction, along with several corpses of the other party members scattered across the camp. Ashton took them to Milo who repaired the damage FCG has sustained.

When FCG was in Ashton's mind, FCG learned that Ashton experiences chronic pain.

Campaign 3
After Bells Hells first came together, Ashton frequently served as a local guide for Jrusar, as he had been living there for some time. Shortly after Chetney's first foray into the Moon Tower, Ashton visited Jiana Hexum, who told them she had placed a wager with Evon Hytroga, and asked if they'd be interested in helping her win it - and, if they did so, settling their debt to her. Ashton brought this to the group, who expressed interest in the job in Heartmoor Hamlet.

At the Chandei Quorum party, Ashton showed up dressed as the Nightmare King. This attracted the attention of Ratanish, who approached him, and challenged him to a fight, which Ratanish won. However, Ashton's fighting impressed him, and he extended a job offer should they be interested.

A few days after the party, Ashton introduced the party to Jiana, and Bells Hells then set off for the Heartmoor. During the heist on the Twilight Mirror Museum, Ashton, angry at how dangerous Evon had made the museum, stole several important documents including invoices for commissioned fake artifacts and an indication that Jiana was illegally importing goods from Wildemount.

After this second group meeting with Jiana Hexum, during which she confirmed Ashton's debt cleared, Ashton admitted having trouble remembering the events of the break-in they had been involved in at Hexum's manor. Using Detect Thoughts, Imogen and FCG were able to regain some of Ashton's memories, which led him to decide that he needed to find the Nobodies.

The group left soon after for Bassuras to retrieve Armand Treshi. As Ashton had spent much of their childhood in the city, they continued to serve as the party guide, and reached out to All-Minds-Burn for help once it became apparent they would likely need backup against the Paragon's Call. Ashton left a message for several members of the Nobodies with Imahara Joe once it became clear the party would be fleeing the city before he could reach out.

After the party returned to Jrusar, FCG and Imogen again probed into Ashton's mind. While they did not learn new memories, FCG became briefly trapped in a crystalline prison within Ashton's mind, and Imogen saw a number of different possible Ashtons.

Ashton split off from the rest of the party briefly while in Yios after noticing Violet, an old associate. The two took on an elaborate but brief job to kidnap so called "ledgers", several kenku that had an information about the Baneful Brood (a local mob group Violet was interested in) and to prove they were stealing artifacts. Ashton agreed to work with them as emergency muscle. Violet magically disguised him as a chef, where he blended in at the mobsters house's kitchen to be ready in case Violet needed a back up. The job went south: they tied up a number of mobsters, ransacked the head mobster Orgreo's office, but eventually the house's security captured them. Ashton and Violet were dragged into the kitchen for interrogation, when a team of city's sentries raided the house and arrested the mobsters. They let Ashton free, advising him to let them know if he witness anything suspicious. When Ashton reunited with the rest of Bells Hells before they all left for the Feywild, he was covered in marinara sauce after the kitchen fight, but considered the operation to be a successful one.

Following the ritual at the Tishtan excavation site during the apogee solstice, Ashton was teleported, along with Laudna and Orym, to an unknown location.

Fresh Cut Grass
Ashton was hired to investigate the disappearance of the party of adventurers who had gone missing and discovered Fresh Cut Grass and their comrades' corpses. Ashton emotionally supported FCG and helped him bury his dead comrades, and FCG followed Ashton to their home. The two have remained close ever since.

Fearne Calloway
Ashton and Fearne seem to get along with one another and enjoy each other's mischief. They pickpocketed her when they first met, stealing an oversized earring of the Allhammer's symbol, which she stole from a pachydan priest she met on her first day in Jrusar. She then stole the earring back and offered it to Preio Madali as payment for a bottle of Elvish alcohol. She also offered to let Ashton drink some of the liquor out of her hair after Bertrand Bell accidentally threw it at her.

Jiana Hexum
Jiana became one of Ashton's first clients after the Nobodies left town to pay off their newly acquired debt. While Ashton does not like her, they believe they deserve her.

Laudna
Unlike various other members of the party who seem to find Laudna scary or off-putting, Ashton immediately takes a liking to her and is fond of her particular aesthetics, reacting favorably to her showing off of the dead rat puppet Pâté de Rolo and even going as far as to call the performance "amazing". In turn, Laudna seemingly appreciated their enthusiasm and, following a prank in which a drink was spilled over Bertrand Bell's clothes, cast Prestidigitation to pour the alcohol into their glass (even though the prank did not involve them).

Notable items

 * Magical glass hammer
 * Portable hole
 * Belt of Momentum
 * Chamber pot with flowers in it stolen from Fearne
 * Ceremonial Hishari helmet. A combination of a cured leather mask with "sculpted heavy brow that pulls across the nose" and a headband with a series of leather tendrils in the back that "curl up like a living flame", pulling upward. (stolen from the Twilight Mirror Museum)

Former items

 * A sending stone given to Dorian
 * Immovable rod, taken from Laudna, but then it was decided via rollies that FCG actually has it.

Genasi abilities

 * Subrace: Earth Genasi
 * Earthwalk
 * Pass without Trace (Cast Pass without Trace 1/Day)

Feats

 * Crusher

Barbarian abilities

 * Danger Sense
 * Primal Path: Path of Fundamental Chaos
 * Fundamental Force (rage types)
 * Chaos Burst
 * Fundamental Force enhancement
 * Rage (4 per long rest)
 * Reckless Attack
 * Unarmored Defense
 * Extra Attack
 * Fast Movement
 * Feral Instinct
 * Brutal Critical (1 die)

Appearances and mentions

 * Campaign 3, every episode played by Taliesin except:



Quotations
Ashton: "That's a very interesting question. Self-reliance. A certain amount of freedom to move about." Ashton: (panting) "We'll talk later." Ratanish: "But first, you understand I have to finish the show." Ashton: "I'm not backing down. That'd be rude." Ashton: "I want to not ask." Imogen: "Sure, but sometimes you've just got to get over the shit and make it better, right?" Ashton: "No, no, sometimes you've just got to hold a fucking grudge."
 * Ashton: (regarding their head injury) "Well, you know. Heaven to some, and hell to others."
 * Ashton: "Never take copper. You never take copper. That's just kicking someone while they're down. You take silver if they're an asshole, and you take gold regardless."
 * Ashton: "I like getting paid and living."
 * FCG: "What is the thing that you're trying to get to, that you think that you want, maybe?"
 * Ashton: "Friends is always a complicated word. I try to avoid it. It implies a layer of trust that is not necessarily healthy."
 * Ashton: (introducing himself to Chetney) "I'm Ashton. I hit things for money."
 * Ashton: (to Dorian, after finding out Dorian gave the other sending stone to Cyrus) "I'm not disappointed, I'm just angry."
 * Ashton: "When you leave the site of an explosion covered in blood, there is nothing more suspicious than saying, "I didn't hear or see anything!" Just say, "Yeah, that shit was crazy, and I don't know what the fuck happened, but we're bleeding and going home." We're going to get caught, motherfuckers."
 * Ratanish: (during his fistfight duel with Ashton) "The offer still stands. When this is over, if you want work, I could put it to you."
 * Ashton: (to Laudna) "There's always a lesson to be learned, and I feel like it's one of my favorite lessons today, which is: sometimes there's no lesson to be learned. Sometimes shit's just fucked up, and the only thing you can do, because you didn't do anything fucking wrong, is get the fuck back up and do the exact same thing all over again, knowing that there was nothing to learn."
 * Ashton: "I haven't said "yes" to a lot of stuff in a while, and this group has made me want to say "yes" to things, and that's the only way to ever get the fuck out of this kind of place." [...] "Sometimes you just don't want to find out that the problem isn't the city. That maybe the problem is you."
 * Fearne: (after catching Ashton's failed pickpocketing of her) "You can always just ask. What do you want?"
 * Ashton: "I'm having this moment where I'm realizing that perhaps one of the reasons why I allow myself to get the shit kicked out of me is in the hope that people are actually fucking watching."
 * Ashton: "I don't like people trying to kill me. That was not part of this fucking deal."

Trivia

 * Ashton returns to the trend, broken by Caduceus Clay, of Taliesin playing classes or subclasses created by Matt Mercer in the main campaigns.
 * The animation on his stat card appears to be a red-hued meteor shower.