Guild Wars 3™ – Playable Species Spotlight: Asura

Summary

Hello, *Guild Wars*® community! I'm Liz Baker, senior narrative designer on *Guild Wars 3*™, with a peek into the asura of the Orrian golden age. Just as Tyria looks very different in this time before the Exodus of the Gods, so does this species of diminutive scholars.

While the majority labor to expand their beloved depths throughout the vast subterrane of Tyria, the asura of Orr represent the more adventurous and insatiable of their ilk—an expeditionary lineage who went where their kin dared not go in pursuit of an emerging force that would come to transform their entire civilization: magic.

A New (Old) Look

In *Guild Wars: Eye of the North*™, we met the asura after they emerged from an extended period of exclusively subterranean living. Their appearance has been shaped by the Depths of Tyria: no fur, not much height, large eyes, and pointed teeth.

But in the present of *Guild Wars 3*, over a millennium before Primordus's stirring, asuran society has a more balanced relationship with the surface. Though fossorial at their core, the asura do venture above ground for a variety of reasons: business, pleasure, curiosity.
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