Alexander Ashford, 6th Earl Ashford



Alexander Ashford was the son of Sir Edward Ashford, co-founder of the Umbrella Corporation. His children were Alfred and Alexia Ashford.

In his youth, Alexander damaged the family's reputation and good name, which may be linked to the mysterious death of his father Edward. This also allowed Ozwell E. Spencer to consolidate his power over Umbrella Chemical, inc.. Alexander was later employed as a scientist by the Umbrella Corporation and sent to Rockfort Island. His precise role is never explained, but it clearly involved deep genetic studies, as his crowning achievement was the discovery of the gene regulating human intelligence. Despite this, he remained a relatively minor scientist and was never truly rewarded.

Hoping to put it to good use, he used advanced cloning techniques and stolen strands of DNA from the corpse of the Ashford family matriarch, Veronica. Along with his DNA, he created a pair of twins, which he dubbed Alfred and Alexia. Alfred was of normal intellect, whilst Alexia was a genius. The creation of these twins were horrifying at best. Finding it unbearable that anyone should find these records, Alexander hid them in a secret room at the Antarctic Base. However, Alfred found the secret room, but was unable to open the doorway, requiring three family gemstones to open it. He easily accessed two of them, as they belonged to him and his sister, but tricking his father into surrendering his was another matter. He eventually succeeded, and opened the door. He read the records, and became insane with the realization he was merely the by-product of another experiment on his father's behalf, and to the atrocious truth behind the experiments that ultimately resulted in his and his sister's creation.



Embittered at his father for not making him as intelligent as Alexia, Alfred trapped him and used him as guinea pig to test Alexia's experimental t-virus strain, the t-Veronica. After the experiments, finding him unacceptably inferior, the twins chained him in a secret room in the Antarctic base, where he eventually became the abomination known as 'Nosferatu'.

He escaped some 15 years later after Claire Redfield and Steve Burnside attempted to escape the building by using a digger to drive through the wall. He quickly undid the majority of the chains around him with little to no effort before heading off in pursute.

He made it to a Heliport just as Claire and Steve arrived on the roof and fought Claire. He, however, was defeated due to damage to the chest and the two escaped.



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