Asura 39;s Wrath Art Book

[Giulia Satmary]

Hewas a deity who was betrayed by his former comrades, killed and framed for murder. The game, developed by Capcom and CyberConnect2, involves Asura coming back to seek vengeance against an impressive lineup of villains with incredible power, all deities. His incredible wrath burns on and never extinguishes, at least not until the end of the game.

Asura, the demigod of wrath, is humanoid in appearance, with red markings all over his body that glow orange when powered up, that trace out from his eyes. He has spiky white hair, white, pupilless eyes that make him look feral that can sometimes glow red, and tan skin. He is also rather muscular in his appearance. Asura's clothing has some Japanese influence, as the trousers he is wearing with a red flame pattern are uncommon. On those trousers, he wears a golden sash. On his legs, he wears unusual golden greaves that also act as sandals, and golden armor vambraces. His age of appearance is labeled to be 28.

Asura's wrath grows large enough to allow him to transform at times, stretching his power and changing his appearance. Across his transformations, he may also appear with six arms, with golden pauldrons on his shoulders, an entire set of arm armor, or appear as a feral beast either entirely glowing orange or all black. Upon reaching his Mantra Asura form at the end of the game, a halo can be seen floating behind his back. His six arms eventually appear with full sets of arm armor on them as well. As Asura the Destructor, he becomes akin to an actual god, with planetary size and all black.

Asura's mastery of this form is so tremendous, that he is almost always seen in this form, where Asura's arms are coated in a golden metallic armor. Through the Mantra activation within the demigods' bodies, they are able to metalize parts of their bodies to make them more suitable for battle. The process and degree of metallization differs among demigods; Asura's metallization forms mainly around his arms. This form is the base form upon which almost all transformations improve: mainly Six-Armed Vajra Asura, Mantra Asura, and Six-Armed Mantra Asura.

Originally Asura lived a content life with his wife, Durga and child, Mithra, as a member of the Eight Guardian Generals, a group of eight deities. He was a student of the great warrior, Augus, along with his brother-in-law Yasha. Asura and Yasha fought many of the monstrous Gohma. One day, Asura was confronted in the Emperor's castle by Sergei, Wyzen, and Kalrow, who tried to persuade him to join what they called "The Great Rebirth", but Asura declined. For his refusal, his daughter was made a priestess, subject to duty to the deities, and Asura was framed for murdering the emperor. Durga was killed, Mithra was taken, and his reputation destroyed. Asura spends the rest of the game going on quests to pay his rivals and the Seven Deities back for taking everything from him.

Asura discovers he remains alive in the realm of Naraka, which is the afterlife ruled by a mysterious spider known only as the Golden Spider. The Golden Spider encourages Asura to climb his way out of the realm of Naraka and get revenge. He had been dead for 12,000 years, but now he is back. While he previously acted more human and benevolent and actually had pupils in his eyes-- all of that was gone. Now that he was back in the realm of the living, he was filled with rage for his betrayal, and sought to kill all of the newly proclaimed Seven Deities.

Long ago, there lived eight deities known as the Eight Guardian Generals, who lead the demigod legions to war against the impure Gohma, bringing peace and prosperity to the world. A lie was fabricated for the humans on Earth to believe in, stating that one of the deities was black of heart, and had ambitions of his own. They called him Asura. The legend lies and says that Asura turned against his kind and struck fear into the demigod race, taking the life of their very own Emperor Strada. Asura was depicted as a three-headed titan with six, muscular arms, weapons held in each one. This Asura brought great imbalance to the world, plunging everyone into a dark era. The legend continues, then, just when it was believed that all hope was lost, seven pillars of light poured down from the heavens, and the remaining seven guardian generals appeared to cast judgement on their brother who had betrayed him. Then, they became known as the Seven Deities, and they watch over the humans from the heavens.

The Gohma were created ages ago by Chakravartin, who was a god rather than a demigod. Their entire purpose was to kill humans and be powerful enough to give the Eight Guardian Generals a run for their money, since they were being greedy and stealing human's souls for their power (mantra) instead of allowing the true god to have their souls. The hive mind and source of all Gohma, the Gohma Vlitra, had an impurity level of "Immeasurable", but they were the deities' nemesis. The events of Asura's Wrath take place right after the deities fight the Gohma Vlitra, which awakens every thousands of years. The Vlitra becomes more and more powerful every time it reawakens, and Gohma fodder numbers are constantly rising. Asura's revenge on the Seven Deities takes place with the Gohma still getting in his way.

In the midst of a large-scale battle in space between the Shinkoku Army and the Gohma, Vlitra's mere appearance was enough to destroy most of the fleet commanded by Olga of the Seven Deities. Asura was furious and stubborn enough to keep destroying his numerous enemies, and somehow managed to subdue Vlitra and prevent further deaths. Mithra was happy, and the other deities were shocked.

After this, he returns home to reunited with his family, but is summoned to a meeting with Emperor Strada. The Shinkoku witnesses are then eager to seize Asura after the Emperor flops into Asura's arms, deceased. Asura flees, only to be intercepted by Wyzen, whom Asura faces in combat. After getting past him, he returns home only to see his wife had been killed. Realizing his entire life is crumbling away, he screams. Durga's words to Asura telling him to find Mithra only led Asura to more grief. Mithra had been imprisoned by deities, and Deus attacks him. He then realizes that for some reason, Deus killed Strada and framed Asura for murder and treason, which was not enough. Deus proceeded to kill Asura, making Asura's only goal in life to seek revenge, and kill them all, empowered by his uncontrollable rage.

Asura enters a human village, where he is ambushed by Wyzen, one of his former allies. Wyzen explains to Asura that the Eight Guardian Generals are now called the Seven Deities, and that they have all grown much stronger than they were when Asura was still among them. Asura does not want to hear it, so he shuts him up, and they fight. Asura's wrath reaches a point where he unlocks the Six-Armed Vajra form which he uses to beat Wyzen. However, Wyzen then transforms as well into Gongen Wyzen, who becomes the size of a planet, by taking energy from their superweapon of mantra known as the Brahmastra. He tried to crush Asura's with his finger, but his wrath multiplied his strength so much that he was able to lift his finger with some arms and punch it with mantra-empowered attacks with the others, killing him from the ground.

Following Wyzen's death in outer space, Asura faints. When he regains consciousness, he is met by his former friend and rival Yasha. He mocks Asura for being so naive, and Asura shuts him up just like he did Wyzen. However, Yasha is more powerful than Wyzen, and defeated Asura even without relying on outside power. Now that Asura has been killed, he returns to Naraka.

After centuries, Asura is reawakened by his impossible wrath, and climbs the pillar of Naraka to the real world even faster this time. Upon entering his home world, he immediately must fight Gohma to save a helpless village, and save an innocent girl with an uncanny resemblance to Mithra. After defeating a very large rhino, tortoise, and elephant-shaped Gohma, and saving the girl, another deity called Kalrow taunts Asura from his ship. Asura kills Kalrow in his escape pod, who is less brawns and more brains, and calls Asura a feral beast for somehow defeating him without any sort of plan.

When he crashes into a mountain, he makes an unexpected reunion with his master, Augus. Augus does not play the role of a villain towards Asura; he just wants to fight him, because of how gung-ho he is. He even let Asura into his hot spring. Asura evidentially surpasses his former master, but it was not an easy match. Augus dies from his own blade, after Asura rips it with his teeth while pinned to the ground with a sword through his chest. Augus is not frustrated that he lost, instead he is content that he died in an honorable match at the hands of his student. Augus says:

Immediately following, he fights another intense wave of Gohma, then reunites with that girl he saved, that he has formed a bond with. This time, the deity who would conveniently show up and ruin everything was Olga. She sends a barrage of missiles that destroys the entire village, "purifying" (killing) everyone. Asura is furious at the pure villainy and greed of Olga and the deities, and witnesses their vileness at first hand-- Asura has had enough. The entire armada of ships in the atmosphere gets destroyed by a burst of mantra, as Asura transforms into Berserker mode. Olga is dumbfounded by Asura's power, and out of fear for her life, fires the Brahmastra. Asura is so powerful in this state, that he survives the colossal laser beam, but his glowing aura has burnt out in his new form-- Wrath Asura.

Some time later while still in Wrath mode, Asura effortlessly kills Sergei with one slash, and fights Yasha, who wishes to return Asura to his senses. After learning about the wickedness of the other deities, he had a change of heart. The Wrath Asura was a feral beast that subconsciously attacked everything, and was much more powerful than normal Asura. This time, instead of Yasha beating Asura, Asura had the edge on him. Yasha was forced to tap into his mantra of Melancholy, and finally subdue Asura, knocking him unconscious.

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