An entire week devoted to the diminutive grumps with colossal intellects arrives on Monday the 12th! Come back then for a barrage of articles, stories, and videos

Monday:

• Matt Barrett on Asura Design

An article on the conception of the asura's character design (before Eye of the North) with a neat video of Barrett himself drawing an asura and narrating.

• Mr. Sparkles, A Tale of the Asura

Little short story from Jeff Grubb. Nice to know sylvari can give it as well as the other races.

Tuesday:

• Ambition on a Grand Scale - Matt Barrett Talks Asura Environment Art

Some cool insight into the theory behind the macro and micro of asuran architecture.

• Hey Bookah! Smart Asura Answers to Stupid Questions

I feel that Lemonade Turrets speak for themselves.

Wednesday:

• Snarky Little Geniuses - Angel McCoy on Writing the Asura

An article on asuran attitude containing a bunch of audio samples of ambient dialogue. And apparently pirates.

Thursday:

• updated asura page (with new video)

Same kind of treatment the other races' pages got, with a general lore and attitude summation.

Of the game's hexology of fucking incredible, epic-scale cities, I think Rata Sum does an admirable job of finishing the set out.

• Heron Prior on Animating the Asura

Halfway through the article, I knew this man was my hero. Plus this awesome video.

That asura warrior is all "eff you ogre".

Friday:

• That Old College Try

Lore Dump(TM). Plus a cool short-story by Ree Soesbee about (what else?) asura screwing each other over. College of Dynamics all the way.

I guess that's it for asura week. Did it change your mind about them? Plan on rolling one? Obsessed with finding a way to weaponize lemons? Leave your impressions below!

Hahaha, i dont know why i read, "Prepare your anus for asura week", damn internets are confusing my mind.

Thanks for the heads up, love the Asura.

Here it goes.

http://www.arena.net/blog/matt-barrett-on-asura-design

Really like that Shiverpeaks concept art that's with the short story. The sense of scale is tremendous.

Just release the game so I can abandon my studies for it already!

In my opinion, the asura have overtaken the charr as race with the least-unfortunate recorded dialogue. Still hope ArenaNet revisits the whole thing, because man are most of the samples bad.

God damn they are weird little fuckers

BURN THEM WITH FIRE!

But check out that city, dudes. CHECK OUT THAT CITY.

Who wouldn't want to live in a big giant floating cube?!?  Man I love the Asura.

So for people who plan on rolling an asura at some point: what college are you looking to choose for your biography?
 
If it helps, I saw it explained this way and it seemed particularly apt:

• Statics = civil engineers
• Dynamics = mechanical engineers
• Synergetics = physicists
  

At first glance, while the Rata Sum is gorgeous, it also seems to be the most one-not racial city of all.

Warming up to the Asura though. More so than I ever thought I would.

I'm guess I'll create one character of each class and spread them out amongst the races and play the first 10 levels before deciding upon a main character. By now, there's just way too much cool shit to know beforehand. Male Asura Elementalist or Engineer has got to make the list.