Asura
Asura is a god of slaughter and judgment in Soul Land divine lore, wielder of the Asura Sword and one of the pantheon's mightiest names, described as a dark-red-armored figure whose trials test those who walk the path of killing.
The divine legends of the Soul Land novels reserve a special dread for Asura, named among the mightiest of the gods. In the lore he is a god of slaughter and judgment, wielder of the Asura Sword, a figure whose title stands at the summit of the setting's pantheon; the stories that mention him agree on severity, exactness, and a power that other divine names are measured against.
His described form fits the office: slender rather than massive, taller than the Sea God of legend, wrapped in dark red patterning and armor, with blood-red eyes and a murderous aura condensed into ice. Mortal tradition ties his name to trials of killing, and to grounds he is said to have left behind in the mortal world for testing those who follow the path of slaughter.
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