#gw asura

[ratasum]

Vekk is young by Asuran standards but is unequaled in his knowledge of the Asura Gate network. He is skilled with magic and more than willing to risk his life…and yours…to keep his people safe.

I wanted to have something fun to take to Granite State for Mr. Maurice LaMarche to sign, and sure, I could've gone with anything else artwise... but I felt like Vekk would be fun, even if he doesn't remember playing our earliest asuran companion.

[mmigrainee]

[morgacht]

Absolutely delightful sketchpage comm for @ratasum ! Leyya and Zojja, back in simpler times…

[brightwingedbat]

I've been going on this before but I just spent 2 hours gathering data and screenshots between games and sizing them up right to try get to the bottom of the human height discrepancy between gw1/2

I realised Koss was in both games but also he's... Not really that reliable, he got overly bigger.

Note my Charr, Asura and Norn are max height. My human Ishiko (Assassin in red) is minimum height in both games. The height lines on the gw1 screenshot use the gw2 heights for comparison.

Of note, Koss got way bigger, possibly due to being awakened. But Ishiko also got bigger despite being minimum height in both games. She's notably went from shorter than dwarves to taller than them.

Asura/Dwarf heights seem to stay consistent, my asura is just max height so an average would be accurately at a dwarf's shoulder.

Norn/Charr heights are also consistent between each other, with Norn being a slight taller than a hunched charr.

From the evidence I have, it seems that humans got a small bump up in height, while dwarves got shrunk down. Charr/Norn/Asura are still pretty accurate otherwise, assuming that Jora, Pyre and Vekk are max height. If they were average heights, then either everyone except humans got shrunk or humans just got a bigger height boost.

[disabilityshowdown]

[IDs: Taimi is a light skinned asura (a dwarf-like species with large bat ears) with short brown hair and gold eyes. She is dressed in a black and green cybernetic suit. Eli Vance is a black man with a grey beard, wearing a yellow coat, green suit, and black beanie.]

Disabilities: Taimi has a degenerative disease causing chronic pain and limited mobility, Eli is an amputee with a leg prosthetic

[wyldblunt]

a long term goal is to eventually have an alt (as in an oc with lore, with the exception of my halloween mascot) for every elite spec, and optionally a core of each, so i'm trying to get my thoughts organized and. oh my god. my heavy armor roster is BARREN

(some of the characters i've left as core are really there bc they Could spec to one of the elites but i feel like i might get a better idea for a new oc... or bc i just can't think of any elite-specific lore for them)

[bluebudgie]

Some random NPC decided it would be appropriate to yeet my low level ascalonian ass into an endgame hub. I am thrilled to announce I spotted my first asura there.

He greeted me with the words "Oh great another Bookah." It was nice to meet you too, Wukk. Your ears are of impeccable shape.

[commander-gloryforge]

new rat just dropped

[dapperdraws]

.: Mesmer Raxx [COMMISSION] :.

Character is not mine.

[guardian-instincts-bad]

the short story shadowbox!

relevant extracts:

and if this is also about my tags, the dialogue from rata sum implying either they made a lore error or this is a common occurrence

I love how insane the holiday lore is for gw2.

Halloween is just this insane king guy coming back to torment the capital of kingdom again and people said “yeah we can make a holiday about this.” The city isn’t even part of the kingdom anymore but he doesn’t give a shit. Go fight in his maze, idiot.

Wintersday was originally two gods fighting over whether it should stay winter or move to spring, like some sort of demented groundhogs day. Then they fucked off and some guy was like “hey this seems like a business opportunity” and turned it into Capitalism, while also forcing people to fight his toys that just kinda came to life and started fucking around.

I love this game.

[ratasum]

Do you ever think about the fact that in GW1, the first asura we meet are just a few months/years out from fleeing the six lost cities deep underground? The fact they have settlements is a testament to their resilience because we're talking people who fled an apocalypse with nothing but what they could carry and the clothes on their backs.

The fear and despair was probably still incredible palpable in those early years, but they can't SHOW that, because they're in an unfamiliar world with alien creatures where THEY'RE the aliens. They're smaller and weaker and only have their intellect to rely on.

You show an ounce of weakness in a situation like that and you get killed, and I get the feeling they understood that deeply.

I think about it a lot.

[mmigrainee]

Pleeease commission me🥲🥲🥲

At least someone🥲

I can draw charrs🥺🥺

And asura🥺🥺

[bunf4rt]

My Holosmith, Walace

One of my very first gw character (and my first asura) I redraw this guy so much it’s not even funny

Doing huge pieces like this is kinda hard for me since I have a lot of trouble to be focused fora long time, but I did it!!

[distractingfloatything]

Its a big world!

Here's an illustration I was very excited for.. My tablet is having issues so ill have to retire it here. It's my new Asura character, I'll be posting some of his exploits here from time to time.

I've been a fan of GW in terms of gameplay for a looong time but I've never delved into the lore or even the story, so I'm gonna be drawing my boy here going through his journey.

Hopefully i can fix the tablet and the next one will be far better!

[wisp-of-chaos]

Asura Appreciation Week 2023 - Day One

Ok so I just stumbled over this post from @asura-appreciation-corner and hell yes! I wanna talk about my sharkrats so let's go!

Day One: Talk about one of your asura OCs! Who are they? What's their deal?

I decided to talk about Rerki, because she's my oldest asura OC and the one I started my journey with in GW2.

More about her under the cut because this is going to be somewhat long-ish:

So, Rerki is a necromancer (reaper by now) and the incarnation of my GW chars (Kairi Yiuan, also necro bc of course gotta be real here) and the very first thing that I decided about her was, that she has this midnest of "I'm a nice person, I help people. Because when they're dead they don't have problems anymore. So, killing them is helping them, therefore I'm nice."

She's not your typical hero; minding her own business and preffering to spend her time alone in her lab experimenting on poisons and minions and studying ancient necromancy stuff instead of going out of her way to help everyone she meets on the road.

She finds most (everyone, really) annoying and stupid and would rather not interact with other people if it can be avoided. Sadly enough, she got involved with the elder dragons and now has a dragon daughter so ... yeah, she's bound to meet people now, to her great dismay and disgust.

Rerki is often harsh and straight to the point, never sugar coating anything and always taking the most efficent route to get her goals done, no matter the cost.

The only instance that would have her change her approach would be when people are involved that she cares for (not that she would ever admit that). Behind closed doors, she can be very caring and gentle - in her own, uniquely blunt and insensible way. That includes Dillyn and Errube (her only remaining family members) and her Krewe (a group of misfits and unfortunate souls she "collected" over the years in her time with the Vigil & fighting Zaithan). And, of course Aurene.

But beyond that, she sees most people as beneath her and not worth the effort to talk to if she doesn't need them for something.

She became the Commander besides Dillyn and Errube, wich each of them representing one of the Orders of Tyria; but after Zaithan was slayn she retreated to her lab and continued her research (I never played Living World 1 with her so she never personally met the Dragon's WAtch gang). Until Mordremoth rose and she was needed once more.

After Mordremoth's defeat, she was done with Elder Dragon's however and gladly let Dillyn take over the mantle of the Commander. She's still part of Dragon's Watch and ready to jump in and help but is way more passive now; while Errube acts alongside the Order of Whispers in the shadows.

Rerki also has a phobia against white rabbits thanks to a stupid accident 250 years ago when she was a human exploring the North and stumbled across a secluded cave. No, she will not elaborate and if you ever mention that again you'll die. Slow and painfully.

That's all I can think of now, although theres more to this nasty angry lil sharkrat but I'm out of time and ideas right now so, yeah - thanks for reading!

And, as a little treat: have a look at her!

[spiribia]

so true i always liked that gw also had options that arent just Human But Green or Human With Different Ears

i do think they couldve gone a bit funkier with syIvari (considering the pale tree equally had a centaur parent), though i dig the bioluminescence, & could've gone a lot boxier with f norn, but i really love how they commit to charr and asura in many aspects