ASHURA
Lore
Ashura is a ferocious warrior-god rooted in a demonic essence. Legends paint him as a red-skinned giant with three faces and six arms. He wears light garb-a short cloak, a celestial mantle, pleated skirt-trousers, chest and wrist ornaments, and plain wooden sandals. Each of his three heads shows a different core emotion. The center face conveys quiet remorse and sorrow, hinting at a buried potential for awakening. The right face bristles with indignation, lip bitten in barely restrained fury. The left face seethes with resentment and envy-the deep source of Ashura's endless rage.
Ashura is smart enough for battlefield strategy, yet pride, jealousy, and wrath smother that intellect. He distrusts even allies, since another's success instantly breeds suspicion.
In combat he marries speed and agility to the reach of six limbs. His upper hands wield sun and moon disks: the sun disk unleashes fiery, plasma-like arcs, while the moon disk freezes and slows. The middle hands work a bow and arrows, pinning foes at range.
The lower hands are often clasped in the gassho prayer mudra, leaving him a symbolic path to redemption. The more wounds he takes, the faster and stronger he becomes; the inner mantra "I'm hurt, therefore wronged" turns pain into fuel for rage. A mask usually covers the central head; when it cracks under critical damage he enters a berserk phase, abandoning defense for sheer destruction.
