Asura (creature)

Asura ( or ), also known as Ashura or Bashura, is a recurring creature in the Final Fantasy series, first appearing in The Final Fantasy Legend. Appearing as both a summoned monster and enemy, it is a humanoid entity with multiple pairs of arms and in some cases multiple faces.
==Appearances==
===Final Fantasy IV===
Asura appears as the queen of Eidolons, and lives with Leviathan in the Feymarch. In order to obtain her as a summon, Cecil Harvey must go to the Feymarch with Rydia and speak to her. After battling and defeating her, she is obtained as a summon, and the party can speak to Leviathan and challenge him as well.
Asura is a healing summon and has a casting time of 1, costs 50 MP to cast in all releases of the game except the DS release, where summoning her costs 40 MP. When called, Asura casts one of three spells depending on which face is showing when summoned: if she shows her serene (pale) face she casts Curaga on the party, if she shows her happy (gray) face she will cast Raise, and if she shows her angry (orange) face, she will cast Protect. In the original SNES release and the Easy Type version, the angry face casts Curaga and the serene face casts Cura, due to the Protect spell being removed from the game.
Lunar Asura fought in the Advance and The Complete Collection releases acts similar to her counterpart in battle. Her summon Grimoire does 9,999 points of damage to all enemies and has no healing effects.
====Final Fantasy IV: The After Years====
Asura returns as a summon obtained when the player defeats her in the Depths with Rydia is in the party.
====Final Fantasy IV -Interlude-====
Asura returns as summon spell for Rydia, available by default. It randomly casts one of three spells: Curaga, Raise, or Protect on all party members at the cost of 50 MP. Rydia, and thus Asura, is only available during the final battle.
===Final Fantasy X===
The Bashura appears as an enemy encountered on Mt. Gagazet and in the Zanarkand ruins.
===Final Fantasy XIV===
Asura appears as a Thavnairian primal encountered in .
===The Final Fantasy Legend===
Ashura appears as the central antagonist. He is responsible for commanding the four other fiends that antagonized the heroes throughout the story. However, it is ultimately revealed that Ashura was created by the Creator in order to test humanity's resolve.
===Final Fantasy Legend II===
Ashura returns as an antagonist, though it is not clear if he is intended to be the same Ashura as the first Legend. Here, Ashura became a god with MAGI and now rules his eponymous world. He wants to get the ultimate MAGI so that he can conquer the other worlds.
===Final Fantasy Legend III===
Ashura appears as a boss.
=== Final Fantasy Dimensions II ===
Asura appears as an earth-elemental Eidolon for Jornee. Her signet teaches Jornee Queen's Favor abilities and uses the Asura's Boon summon attack when summoned into battle. 
===Dissidia Final Fantasy (2008)===
Final Fantasy IV's Asura appears as a summon and can be obtained as a stage bonus in "Distant Glory - Villains". When summoned manually her Final Fantasy IV artwork appears, and uses Queen's Aegis where she activates one of three random effects—she will seal the opponent's ability to summon for a period of time, destroy their summon entirely, or cause the summon to activate instantly.
====Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy====
Asura returns a summonstone. She can be purchased from certain Moogle Shops for 20 KP.
===Pictlogica Final Fantasy===
Final Fantasy X's Bashura appears as an enemy.
===Final Fantasy Record Keeper===
FFRK Asura FFIV.png|Final Fantasy IV Asura
FFRK Bashura FFX.png|Final Fantasy X Bashura
Asura from Final Fantasy IV appears as an boss, while Bashura from Final Fantasy X appears as an enemy.
===Final Fantasy Brave Exvius===
Asura appears an esper and can be fought as a boss in Asura's Palace and the Trial of Asura. Additionaly, Asura from Final Fantasy IV appears as a boss during the "Rulers of the Feymarch" crossover event, while the Bashura from Final Fantasy X appears during the "Gagazet" and "Zanarkand Ruins" events.
===Mobius Final Fantasy===
Ashura appears as a fire-elemental Mage card, granting the Firaga Impulse ability.
===Final Fantasy Trading Card Game===
Asura TCG.png|Asura [2-033R] Chapter series card.
Asura 2-049H from FFTCG Opus.jpg|Asura [2-049H] Opus series card.
Asura 5-049C from FFTCG Opus.jpg|Asura [5-049C] Opus series card.
Asura from Final Fantasy IV appears as Wind-elemental Summon cards. One of the cards allows the player to use one of three effects when played—making up to two Forwards Active, making up to five Backups Active, or selecting a character card with a cost of two or less in the Break Zone and adding it to the player's hand. These effects roughly approximate Asura's Curaga, Protect, and Life abilities in Final Fantasy IV.
===Chocobo's Dungeon 2===
==Non-Final Fantasy appearances==
===Lord of Vermilion II===
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Asura appears as a rare card with an Attack of 65 and a Defense of 55.
==Etymology and origin==
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Category:Recurring summons
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