#Asura Adventures

[achromant]

The Assassins of W2Z2, the Pain Cliffs, face their ultimate defeat in the face of the Hidden Technique: Pocket Rat Style!

[gears2gnomes]

Don't get lost in the woods! #GuildWars2 #GW2

[asomics]

I wonder if you're allowed to bone in the super adventure box...

[rrcraft-and-lore]

Andhaka - a malevolent asura famed for having a thousand arms, a thousand heads, and twice as many eyes. Some say it's two thousand arms!

His name means "He who darkens" in some versions of the story, he is the son of Shiva and Parvati

In the Shiva Purana, Shiva is meditating and Parvarti covers his eyes in a playful moment of goofing around.

When she covers his third eye, she recoils from its power and it brings sweat to her palm that falls to the groundfrom that meeting of his third eye and her palm/sweat - the drop of sweat that falls to the ground becomes a dark boy who is born blind and ugly to Parvati.

Shiva chastised her on this in that since the child came into creation from their touches meeting, the child is theirs and should be cared for.

Later Hiraṇyākṣa the demon performed a penance in hopes of gaining a boon from Lord Shiva, in this case, to have a son, in which he is gifted the blind boy who is named, Andhaka. After Hiraṇyākṣa is killed, Andhaka is considered the demon king however, since he was born of devas, he is not considered by others an asura, and so he pleads with Brahma (the creator) after being disowned by his tribe - he is granted the boon to become immortal, but Andhaka is warned Shiva can still destroy him he leaves to subdue all his opponents among the asuras and take charge. Later he wages a war against the gods after he contemplates attacking Mount Mandar where Shiva meditates.

During this war, Bali, Andhaka's trusty general, defeats and swallows most of the gods. But Shiva fires a bolt at bali forcing him to regurgitate the gods, and in vengeance swallow Sukra, the guru of the Asuras. Then Shiva and Indra set upon Andhaka, making him bleed only, every drop of his blood spawned more copies of him, so Vishnu created the Matrikas to absorb the blood every time it spilled so no copies could be born.

This is one of the accounts and just a primer of a cool character, I want to do more of these more often, so I figured I'd just start with cool South Asian character--good, evil, neutral, whoever, whatever, cuz there are so many fucking awesome stories.

[wolfinshipclothing]

ANGER poll! (aproach with caution)

TO CLARIFY: I'm not asking which character's strongest or more powerful.

I'm asking, if we were to measure the anger level of these characters, who would be on top?

[orgrimmar-archive]

Okay So I have Opened Gw2 and at the behest of elf I have made a Sylvari AND an Asura. I will be playing the Asura because Look at him. Okay? Also tagging @kralkatorrik so he can see :) The sylvari is Wu Meng (literally fog mist)

And the Asura is Tian Wei (sweet, small)

[couple-o-commanders]

Our Guild was having a fun time with my ‘compilation of taunting the Instant Death Cloud’

Lines by Via Color by Juno

[asura-sisters]

Always those high above ones... always!

art sponsored by @ArenaNet

[sweet-beezus]

Revisiting old world form concepts

[sneepy1950]

Super Adventure Box, let's go !

[glorioblog]

The GLORIO Chat Episode 177: Winter 2025 Anime Preview

I’m not exactly sure where Beastars Final Season and the new Gundam GQuuuuuuX fit in the anime season schedule, but we talk about those and other shows airing in Winter 2025. Continue reading The GLORIO Chat Episode 177: Winter 2025 Anime Preview

[say-gex]

babe, wake up, SAB just dropped

[gears2gnomes]

Zevvy easily beat the hardest level of the SAB.

[v-akarai]

References in Servamp

Arabian mythology

Jinn. Ch. 16

Greek mythology

Elpis. Ch. 75

Moirai. Ch. 108

Pandora. Ch. 130

Pygmalion. Ch. 123

Pandora's Box. Ch. 97

Japanese mythology

Gashadokuro. Ch. 129

Kitsune. Ch. 3

Raijin. Ch. 85

Norse mythology

Baldr. Ch. 39

Bifröst. Ch. 88

Brunhild. Ch. 88

Fimbulwinter. Ch. 40

Freya. Ch. 65

Frey. Ch. 131

Gleipnir. Ch. 101

Hati. Ch. 91, 131

Hod. Ch. 39

Hliðskjálf. Ch. 96

Idunn. Ch. 65

Loki. Ch. 15

Mimir. Ch. 29

Mjölnir. Ch. 53

Ragnarök. Ch. 101, 122, 131

Sigurd. Ch. 101

Thor. Ch. 41

Yggdrasil. Ch. 42

Biblical references

Abel. Ch. 8

Adam. Ch. 128

Boaz and Jachin. Ch. 42

Eden. Ch. 21

Eve. Ch. 1

John the Baptist. Ch. 122

Judith. Ch. 147

Lucifer. Ch. 135

Noah. Ch. 145

Nod. Ch. 29, events

Hinduism

Asura. Ch. 57.5, 89.

Tarot

The Fool - Mahiru. Ch. 50

I. The Magician – Night trio. Ch. 41

II. The High Priestess – Mikuni. Ch. 42

V. The Hierophant - Shuhei. Ch. 77

X. Wheel of Fortune - Junichiro. Ch. 53

XII. The Hanged Man - Tsurugi. Ch. 50

XV. The Devil – Shamrock. Ch. 72

XVI. The Tower - Touma. Ch. 47

XVII. The Star - Iduna. Ch. 73

XVIII. The Moon - Yumikage. Ch. 69

XX. Judgement - Mikuni. Ch. 144

Literary references

 "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" Lewis Carroll. Ch. 3, 4, 7, 19, 98, 122. Misono, Lily, Dodo, Mitsuki, Yamane, Hattori, Mikuni, Bad B and Good B.

"As You Like It" William Shakespeare. Ch. 10, 38.5. Mikuni's spell.

"My Fair Lady" English nursery rhyme. Ch. 10 Mikuni's spell.

"Dracula" Bram Stoker. Ch. 12, 30. Hugh.

"Romeo and Juliet" William Shakespeare. Ch. 23, 34. Hyde, Ophelia.

"Faust" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Ch. 29 Johannes.

"Through the Looking-Glass" Lewis Carroll. Ch. 29, events. Mikuni, Johannes.

"Julius Caesar" William Shakespeare. Ch. 23, 84. Hyde.

"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" Robert Stevenson. Ch. 23, 37. Hyde, Licht.

"Macbeth" William Shakespeare. Ch. 24, 31. Kuro, Saint Germain, Mahiru.

"Night on the Galactic Railroad" Kenji Miyazawa. Ch. 26, 142. Higan, Tsubaki.

"The Little Prince" Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Ch 30, 67. Kuro, Mahiru, Sloth demon, Gear, probably Jeje.

"Hamlet" William Shakespeare. Ch. 33, 34. Hyde, Ophelia.

"The Phantom of the Opera" Gaston Leroux. Ch. 36 Licht and Hyde technique.

"Peter and Wendy" James Barry. Ch. 44, 56, 74. Tsurugi, Touma, Mahiru.

"Ring a Ring o' Roses" nursery rhyme. Ch. 53 Junichiro's spell.

“Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens” James Barry. Ch. 53, 75. Tsurugi, Touma.

"Death in Venice" Thomas Mann. Ch. 55 Gilbert technique.

"Total Eclipse" a play by Christopher Hampton. Ch. 55 Rayscent's technique.

"The Morning of the Last Farewell" Kenji Miyazawa. Ch. 57.5 Tsubaki.

"Spring and Asura" Kenji Miyazawa. Ch. 57.5 Tsubaki.

"The Catcher in the Rye" Jerome Salinger. Ch. 62 Shuhei.

"Four and Twenty Blackbirds" Agatha Christie. Ch. 62 Shuhei's spell.

"Metamorphosis" Franz Kafka. Ch. 62 Shamrock technique.

“The Nighhawk's Star” Kenji Miyazawa. Ch. 62, 76. Shamrock technique.

"Rock-a-bye Baby" an English lullaby. Ch. 70 Touma's spell.

“Schlafe, mein Prinzchen, schlaf ein” lullaby. Ch. 70 Touma's spell.

"Who Killed Cock Robin" an English nursery rhyme. Ch. 70 Yumikage's spell.

"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" Lyman Frank Baum. Ch. 70, 88. Tsukimitsu brothers’ spells.

"Daddy-Long-Legs" Jean Webster. Ch. 74. Dark Night Trio, Touma.

"King Lear" William Shakespeare. Ch. 86. Hyde.

"The House of the Sleeping Beauties" Yasunari Kawabata. Ch. 86. Iori.

"The Divine Comedy" Dante Alighieri. Ch. 118, 120, 121. Niccolo, Ildio, Gluttony demon.

“A Brute's Love” (人でなしの恋) Edogawa Rampo. Ch. 122 Mikuni, Lily.

"Coppelia" ballet Leo Delibes. Chapter 122 Mikuni, Lily.

"Salome" Oscar Wilde. Ch. 122, 147. Mikuni, Lily.

"Turandot" opera by Giacomo Puccini based on the play by Carlo Gozzi. Ch. 129, 136. Lily.

"The Tempest" William Shakespeare. Ch. 131. Licht and Hyde.

"The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway. Ch. 134 Hugh.

"Flowers for Algernon" Daniel Keyes. Ch. 135 Hugh.

"Jane Eyre" Charlotte Brontë. Ch. 136. Hokaze.

"Madama Butterfly" opera by Giacomo Puccini. Ch. 136. Lily.

"Hansel and Gretel" the Brothers Grimm. Ch. 140. Faust and Otogiri.

"Girl Hell" Yumeno Kyusaku. Ch. 147. Mikuni, Noah.

Music

"Für Elise" by Ludwig van Beethoven. Ch. 34

"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" by Johann Sebastian Bach. Ch. 125

Sonata No. 17 "Tempest" by Ludwig van Beethoven. Ch. 131

Movies

"It's a Wonderful Life" (1946). Ch. 131

"Life is Beautiful" (1997). Ch. 131

I believe this list can be expanded. Somewhere I’ve written only chaps when some reference was mentioned for the first time and omitted all further mentions.

Special thanks to hello-vampire-kitty, joydoesathing and passmeabook, because some works wouldn’t be included in the list without their observations.

[anghraine]

Sometimes I just feel the need to share my Guild Wars 2 hobbyhorses in poll form, so I'm doing that! This one is for GW2 appreciators whose main is a human, or who at least sometimes play/would play a human they have particular interest in.

There are a ton of human communities and subcultures in the game, but the plot forces you to come from a pretty specific one: you have to be a Krytan citizen, loyal to Queen Jennah, from the Salma District "melting pot" area of Divinity's Reach in Kryta. Only one choice of backstory lets you even choose your family's ethnicity (and this choice has no impact on any later dialogue or story). But if you could choose one of these different human origins than canon allows, which would it be?

*There are canonical descendants of Orrians who, at the time of the Cataclysm, presumably happened to be traveling or visiting away from home, or had moved elsewhere—but they seem to be very rare and "Orrian" overwhelmingly refers to the undead menace.

**The crimes in question include "heresies against Palawa Joko," "treasonous talk" (also against Palawa Joko), and "not a pleasure in class." This Commander still finds themself slipping into habits of "praise Joko" etc and are trying to get over it by repeating the standard praises in what would be wildly inappropriate or blasphemous contexts back in Vabbi.

***A stranded human orphan reared in kodan traditions in Frostgorge Sound, a brilliant human transfer student attending an asura college, a human stepchild or adoptee of a different-species parent, whatever.

[orgrimmar-archive]

was supposed to be a simple doodle but it got out of hand. drew my (basically?) sona as an asura just because ive been itching to draw one all day