Asura-born (Race)

##### [ Tiefling Reskin ]

The **asura-born** are connected to their far ancestors, the asura, in a few ways. To understand the asura-born descendants, then, it is imperative to first know of the asura.

## Asura

Asura, unlike their benevolent deva counterparts, are power-hungry and jealous. They are always seeking to compete with the deva and they are bitter enemies. The asura's lust for power stems from the irony that they are never meant to exceed the deva in ability, and always fail in their clashes. Their curse is to never realise the extent of their hubris, and to be stuck in an eternal state of envy and desire for more. Their descendants, the asura-born, tend to be similarly power-hungry with a touch more of worldly freedom. The'asura’s s curse results in unending jealousy towards thd Deva. However, this vicious cycle leaves scars on the asura: the price they pay for constantly seeking power, and ultimately failing. These scars are then usually inherited by their progeny, the asura-born, and tend to be developed and manifested in a spectrum of negative emotions, known as The Six Banes: Apathy, Egotism, Fury, Grievance, Intemperance, and Obsession. Moreover, any individual beyond just asura-born affected by the asuran touch can sometimes feel the influence of one or more of The Six Banes begin to manifest, as the asuran scars extend to them as well. Despite being enemies of the benevolent deva and holding a susceptible corruption from the six bane spectrum, asura are not necessarily evil; they are simply anti-deva in tradition. Many asura have little care for what goes on outside of their varying ethnic circles, religions (they worship the deva who helped their ancestors in the past), and politics.

## Asura-born

Every asura-born can manifest a negative emotion to varying extents and extremes. For some, it may be constant wilding frustrations at simple things, fostering a tiny piece of Fury, which they try to control. For others, their greed could be boundless, generating a large piece of Intemperance, which they let run wild in acceptance or helplessness. Depending on how much an asura-born chooses to welcome or shun it, the influence of a Bane can be heightened or supressed. The asura-born have the potential for achieving greatness by embracing their Banes, at the cost of potentially losing themselves to it, letting the scars of their ancestors take over their minds. However, mastering control over something so disruptive to oneself can sometimes bring its own empowerment, and so some asura-born cultivators embrace this difficult path of usually conflicting control and acceptance over themselves.

The asura-born may feel the urge to continue the endless war with the deva as well - in this case, it is with their descendants, the deva-born. These races may posses somewhat similar rivalries as their ancestors, with their more belligerent members potentially even killing members of the other on sight.

 ***Obsession*** | Dispater

## Appearance

Asura-born can have human looks and skin tones, as well as bright red, green or blue skin tones. They may have vestigial devilish or demonic physical features like animal-like eyes, claws, feet, and wings. Alternatively, they can look more or less human, with very minor inhuman features.

## Age

Asura-born, being a hybrid of humans and asura, mature at the same rate as humans but live up to 350 years.