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I honestly can’t see them having a row of six nipples. They’re not clearly based on any animal like the Charr, which are rightly assumed to have six nipples as they are a feline race that has the capacity to move freely on all fours. Asura are, and have always been, a bipedal race. They don’t have any reason to have six nipples, nor do they give birth to a ‘litter’, they give birth to 1-2 children at a time on average, like humans.
Or, at least, there hasn’t been anything to hint otherwise. I’m sure some Asura can have a lot of babies at once, but I doubt its’ a common thing.
And, a note: Despite how ‘boring’ some of these theories are, they are stated, by the developers, to be mammalian, live-birth bearing bipedal creatures with mammary glands. Nothing else.
http://guildwars2.pl/about_lore_and_mechanics_with_eric_flannum_guildwarspl_exclusive,a545
Q: How easy it will be to determine the gender of Asura characters? Do female Asura have breasts?
Eric: Asura are mammals and female asura do have mammary glands, however they are not particularly prominent the way they are in humans or norn. For the sake of physical attraction, asura place much more importance on the ears, eyes, and shape of the head (larger head equals larger cranial capacity of course!) than anything else. As for telling the genders apart, female asura tend to have much softer and fine features than males and wear their hair differently.
Belly button – http://imageshack.us/a/img11/6458/bellybuttonasura.png
Sense of family – http://secretagentcat.com/2011/09/12/in-the-mind-of-genius/ and http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Asura
Live childbirth – http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/2056/gw840.jpg
Information re-stated for newcomers.
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They drew my Asura as a Charr too! Then again, a Charr ICly called her ‘Charr-Heart’ once before, so I think it suits her!
But, yes. I saved it. I’m keeping it nice and safe in the holiday tab in my bank.
http://guildwars2.pl/about_lore_and_mechanics_with_eric_flannum_guildwarspl_exclusive,a545
Q: How easy it will be to determine the gender of Asura characters? Do female Asura have breasts?
Eric: Asura are mammals and female asura do have mammary glands, however they are not particularly prominent the way they are in humans or norn. For the sake of physical attraction, asura place much more importance on the ears, eyes, and shape of the head (larger head equals larger cranial capacity of course!) than anything else. As for telling the genders apart, female asura tend to have much softer and fine features than males and wear their hair differently.
I think it was from the Tixx event, actually..
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If there’s no pouch, it has to be typical live birth. Maybe a baby Asura head is much softer than a baby Human head during birth? If there is a pouch that we just can’t see than.. I don’t know, I guess it’s that.
And yeah, there are armors to show off the female Asura chest too, and this also shows the lack of nipples.
Basically, the gist of it is.. we don’t really know anything about Asura anatomy for certain.
Basically what Oglaf said. Goodness knows poor Anet would be swamped with claims of it being ‘perverted’ despite nothing on the chests to suggests nipples or anything they need to hide.
I love their appearance, culture, beliefs, architecture (oooh so much love for it), basically everything about them. Makes for fun personalities and situations to roleplay.
Didn’t think I’d like them much at first, I was planning since launch to main a Charr, but I’ve fallen in love with these diminutive geniuses. Love how varied they can be, looking cute and being nice, or looking menacing and being completely evil and forgoing all consequence for the pursuit of science.
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Becc? I like it. Suits an ‘adorable little Mesmer’. c:
Ooja, my Asura warrior muscle-lady who’s considered a little ‘weird’ by Asuran standards.
Yeah, my question is a little weird, though it does all tie in to the Asuran reproduction and then nursing methods. Right now, I typically assume the children are just born with fully-formed or nearly-formed teeth, thus the ability to eat meat and the lack of need for mammary glands or pores. And using Norn to try to determine the anatomical correctness of an Asura is a little.. hard. Norn are basically humans but larger, so we can assume their anatomy is similar to our own. With nipples, etc. Asura are a completely different thing.
We know Asura have outward genitalia, and no nipples. We know they have bellybuttons, and thus have live birth. What we do not know is how they feed their children.
If they have live birth, they lean towards mammalian, but the lack of mammary glands, seen in that not even the male Asura have nipples, even with certain armor sets like Pit Fighter, which can allow nipples to be seen on their male Norn and Human, lends more to their other reptilian or shark-like attributes.
I’ve always thought that, being a subterranean race, they were like.. shark-moles.
As for the childbirth situation, I doubt those are newly-born progeny running around in Metrica. They are more likely a few years old, old enough to be in school, and have had time to develop in size. Even as they’ve developed though, they are still quite small, and thus must have been pretty darn tiny when first being born.
And the Sylvari have ‘orbs’ in front of them due to being based on the anatomy of humans, but that is beside the point.
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There is a clothing glitch that allows one to see their character model ‘naked’ in a ken and barbie sort of manner. Their pants are just typically too high up for it to be seen.
Seen here: http://imageshack.us/a/img11/6458/bellybuttonasura.png (Cropped some bits just in case.)
Thus, live birth. Also, if you’ve seen the in-character model of progeny.. they are very, very small. And you can be amazed by the complexities of childbirth and all the adjusting that can, and needs to be, done. But that’s beside the point.
>asuras don’t seem to have families or marriages, and they put no interest in biological closeness (brothers, sisters).
This is also untrue. Asura have a very close-knit familial structure, and recognize extended family members such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and take good care of their children, helping them get the best education that they can.
See here: http://secretagentcat.com/2011/09/12/in-the-mind-of-genius/
And here: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Asura
“Asura have a strong sense of family and extended family, they affectionately refer to their children as “progeny” or “offspring”. They also venerate their parents, and grandparents. Asura traditionally cremate their dead."
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It’s assumed that Asura are mammals, because they have bellybuttons, and thus must reproduce using live birth. But, neither the male nor the female Asura have nipples, so it can either be assumed they have no mammary glands (which would make sense due to no bump beyond the pectoral muscle) or instead of nipples, they secrete milk through pores like platypuses.
So, how do they feed their children? Are the children born with the rows of sharp teeth, making them able to eat the fungus in caves and meat? Or is it the milk-pores theory?
I support this.
I had an issue before that got the response of ‘Anet not having the tools’, this would be something good to be able to do, for the guild member’s sake.