Ah, well TL;DR version: 1) Ashton lost his dragons while in Marina. Painfully. 2) Ashton is now a vampire! Sort of. 3) Ashton serves a lady called Diva who... well, he'll say she's the best thing to ever happen to him, but she's not exactly "protagonist party" material so there's that.
He's not *dangerous* or anything. Just... different. This is more of a heads-up than anything. ^^;