Ishmael Ashur

Ishmael Ashur or Lord of the Pitt is the leader of the Pitt

Background
Ashur was a member of the Brotherhood of Steel, which had not reached as far east as the Pitt at the time. In 2254 the Brotherhood's ruling council decided to send a contingent of soldiers to the East Coast. 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 Paladin Tristan.

During their travels, the Brotherhood came across the ruins of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Known as the Pitt, the city was lawless, inhabited by gangs, raiders, slavers. Other inhabitants were sick or dying from the combined effects of the intense radiation and pollution from pre-War industrial factories. The Brotherhood then led "the Scourge," a large-scale military action throughout the Pitt, combing the ruins and killing hostiles in the area. By the time the Scourge was over, only a handful of raider gangs still existed in the city, but Initiate Ashur was caught in an explosion in a steel mill and presumed dead. He was pulled out of the rubble by scavengers trying to loot his power armor.

To gain control, Ashur formed his own gang, killed the remaining raiders, and enslaved the populace to work. Ashur began importing slaves and hiring raiders from outside the Pitt area to accommodate the growth. He insists that the residents of downtown are called "workers" and not slaves. With the Pitt and its means of production firmly under his control, Ashur and his guards occupied a skyscraper named Haven as his palace to watch over the city. He lives there with his wife Sandra and their daughter Marie, who was born with a special immunity to mutation. Ashur set up his wife's lab in Haven, hoping her work can result in a cure for diseases that plague the Pitt. 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. He also runs the Pitt broadcast.

Quests

 * Unsafe Working Conditions: The Lone Wanderer's first interaction with Ashur is when he gives a speech to the slaves to pick a fighter for the Hole.
 * Free Labor: After the Lone Wanderer is done fighting in the Hole, Ashur will ask to meet with them to decide on whether they should become a Pitt raider. The player can then choose to side with him or Wernher. If the player character sides with Ashur, they must fight to stop the slaves' revolt, whereas if the player sides with Wernher, they must kill Ashur or leave him to be killed by trogs near the end of the quest.

Appearances
Ashur appears only in the Fallout 3 add-on The Pitt.

Bugs

 * Sometimes after the initial meeting dialogue with Ashur he will repeat the words "Don't let me keep you" a few times to before leaving. This appears to be a bug, supposedly caused by speaking to others in Haven before speaking to Ashur or by skipping through too much of Ashur's dialogue.
 * After accessing the computer in the room with Marie, Ashur's corpse is very likely to disappear he has been killed, so be sure to loot his body before using it.
 * Ashur's speech prior to entering the arena is bugged. In the PC version of the game, he will skip every other text block, causing the speech to be much shorter (the skipped portions of the speech can be heard in the background playing at the same time as the heard portions). The full speech plays in the Xbox and PlayStation version of the game.
 * Sometimes when entering Haven and interrupting Ashur's talk with Kenshaw you cannot interact with him and he will stand there with his legs shaking.
 * Ashur may sometimes be killed by going to hear his speech, and then shooting the guards before your weapons will be put away. The Pitt Raider that stands up on the railing may start shooting him and kill him.
 * When Ashur is delivering his speech, there may be 4 possible echoes instead of 1. He will say the last word 5 times (Once over the intercom, 4 echoes, all at the same volume) and may freeze up there.
 * If the player noclips up to Ashur's podium while he is delivering his speech, he will crouch as if he is fleeing, but it will state that "This character is busy."