Guild Wars 2

I was roleplaying on my human the other day when I came across something that bothered me as I too RP with an Asura as a main that I had never come across before.

There was a Krewe of Asura and they, like a charr warband, were willingly taking orders from the Krewe Leader.
While I understand a Krewe Leader is incharge of the krewe, it’s just whether or not they are to give out orders as such and then for the krewe member to bend over and do what is told.
For me it just seems a little bit off considering how bubbly the Asura are and always (mostly) consider themselves to be their best boss.
So what do you guys think? Do Asura take orders?

Um, of course they do. In fact, most asura do.

Asuran society is organized around the idea of krewes. Jeff Grubb (the writer responsible for the vast bulk of the lore/worldbuilding in Guild Wars) explained that you’ll have a recruiter who will go out and hire a team of asuras depending on what skills are needed to adequately fulfill the aim(s) of the task or research project. He compared a krewe working to a movie set: a group of people will get together with a common goal, work on it, disassemble and then go their separate ways again. You will want to think of the krewe leader as the director. He/she gives the orders and the rest of the krewe are obligated to fulfill that: it’s both a professional and a social contract in the asuran world.

That’s not to say that all asura take it lying down, so to speak. I don’t think asura necessarily have a problem with authority at all. They have a problem when they disagree with that authority or think their methods are better. I remember in Ghosts of Ascalon there was a krewe tending to the asura gates, but one of the team members had his own ideas about how to align the crystals and frequently (secretly) went against his leader’s orders and did them his own way, effectively endangering anyone who wanted to use the gates.

Perfectly natural for Krewe members to take orders.

Not sure what you’re on about…

Our player Asura have very little interaction with our Krewe though, unlike NPCs. And being the Snaff Savant I suppose gives you greater range of freedom, too.

Thanks for clearing that up for me!:)