Mass Effect Lore - The Asari
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Here is my first Mass Effect Lore entry, this one focuses on The Asari, the first species to discover the Citadel and one of the most influential and long lived species in the Milky Way Galaxy.
I find it interesting that “pureblood” Asari are discriminated against by their own kind. When looking at real world human history it would be reversed. Mass Effect has some truly masterful writing.
Nah, give it time and "pureblood" humans will be a lower class.
@@krispr1me That’s assuming humans can reproduce with members of other races
@@addisonwelsh nice
Pure blood is like incest in human society, Liara stated that genetic code between asari are the same
Humans have the same genetic code if they are close relatives
@@krispr1me There is no such thing as pure blood. In other for us to grow as population we needed migration.
Asari government sounds incredibly inefficient. I'm amazed they advanced as far as they did.
It sounds nice but practically it would be immeasurably slow to respond and probably prone to mob mentality. I'd imagine it would also be pretty conservative since people hundreds of years old would be held in higher regard.
But longer lifespans and maybe the right laws could make it work better.
@@joeandrew8752 we only think those ways because we're human. It seems alien because it's literally alien and they have completely different motives. Even before becoming space-faring they never went to war with each other.
It's because Asari have a different mindset than Humans.
Samara is a Biotic Wonderwoman
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Judge Dredd is more accurate.
Mass Effect is just the best video game series of all time. Even with the boggled ending, if you can even call it boggled.
I haven’t ever been what someone would call a gamer, mostly just a Madden/ Tekken guy.
When Mass Effect 2 came out, my roommate at the time was so excited for it. I had never heard of the series at the time.
I watched him play it for a while, while doing other things, and found myself being interested in the story.
So I decided to give it a go. The next day was my day off, and I found myself playing through the night, the next day, and well in to the following morning. I called in sick, finished the game, and immediately went and got Mass Effect 1. I wound up having “the flu” and took the next two days off as well, and finished the first game, replayed the second, and then tracked down as much info as possible about the series, and when the 3rd game was coming!
Every DLC, every nugget of info, all of it. I consumed it like a starving man at a Chinese buffet!
I still find myself thinking about this game all this time later.
I have always wanted a Mass Effect movie series, but have realized it would likely be best served by a Netflix/Hulu/Amazon prime show.
Anyone else think that would be a good idea?
I know this is late but, that would be an excellent idea! Who do you think would be great to direct the movie though?
Considering the last of us show. I think it's more likely a mass effect show would be a hbo max series. Especially knowing mass effect a show would be a perfect fit for hbo. Especially since considering it's a large universe with a lot of characters it could be somewhat seen as a sci fi game of thrones. Just replace the white walkers with the reapers.
Check amazon series "Expanse", it is hardcore sci-fi as well as mass effect and they share a lot of similarities.
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I have always thought of them as Amazonian space elves (Tolkien type). A mono-gendered race that is extremely long lived, excels at magic, and was possibly the first race to emerge in this era.
I like the Asari's but the only thing that is creepy is the black eyes and rule number 1 don't ever call an Asari pureblood like that one Asari from lair of the shadow broker she called Liara a pureblooded b!tch.
In the waiting room of the Consort a Salarian remarked something like “Even the humans appreciate the Asari” which reminded me that I’d seen a presentation that stated the Asari appear differently to every race. That they affect perception to appear physically attractive to whom ever is looking at them. To a Salarian they have Salarian proportions while to a Krogan they are “Krogan shaped.” Etc.
So does that mean the husk asari are more accurate in shape to their true form you think? I mean the husk humans are pretty close in shape to us so it would make sense
@@justfriendly7676 That’s an interesting point, I wouldn’t think so as they’re still very human or at least couldn’t be mistaken for Krogan or other races. So maybe they’re still affecting perception in their husk state? Or maybe the whole idea is abandoned by the devs at some point? I like the whole idea though.
Probably a pheromone they secreate
@@MrMightyZ perhaps as I said with the pheromones they it may change to a different type of secretion when they become husk causing fear
First of all, I appreciate the point you made. Personally, it’s hard for me to picture a full on body change happening between each species’ perception of the Asari. If their body proportions changed, would the sense of touch be affected as much as sight? Or is it strictly based on sight?
The most educated guess I could give is that maybe their facial proportions change (I.e. Eye/brow position, nose/mouth shape).
Kind of like in ME2, when you meet Matriarch Atheta (Liara’s father) and her face changed after knocking back a few, maybe the features just shift slightly to appear more stereotypically attractive to each species. I can picture the eyes shifting more to the side and appearing bigger for Salarians, or having a more defined brow line and bone structure for Krogans. And maybe typical human bone structure for humans with some slight variations.
At the end of the day though, it’s just science fiction. Either could be completely true. Thanks for bringing up the point you made! It got my brain workin 🧠💪
Parthenogenesis is what there form of procreation is close to in the real world there is a species of salamanders that procreate in that way which all of them are female I believe and their offspring are nearly identical to their mother, really strange though.
Correct. The Asari are an all-female race, in that at some point in the past there were males, but now they don't reproduce sexually. They have vestigial but functional FEMALE sex organs (note: they do not have penises), breasts, etc. To call them neither male nor female is not accurate.
@@theflyingkaramazovbrothers6 I think it would be more accurate to call them a monosexual race, with female reproductive organs, but their concept of gender is much more broad; like how Liara's father considers herself such.
“Asari just a cow” 😂
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Just want to say that I love that you're doing these lore videos. They're great!
Kyrkovisian Thanks :) I'm enjoying making them
I remember when I RUclipsd Morinths romance...not sure exactly what I was expecting LOL.
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N7Kate, are you surprised at the amount of love that ME is getting again? I've never seen such a saturation of ME vids on RUclips until the release of ME: LE. I had to go back and enjoy it all over again (twice for all three). I fell in love with it all over again and now, since the Bioware teaser trailer, I'm feeling my heart-rate go up quite a bit.
This was such a helpful video.
I know nothing about Mass Effect, but this served as a good introduction.
Thank you.
Awesome educational video. Nice in-depth analysis, yet all-round appealing too. It's like I was listening to Avina XD Well done Kate! Too bad we didn't get to explore Thessia under better, more laidback circumstances.
Another fun idea for one of your lore videos could be ancient/extinct races. The tiny bits of evidence to lost civilizations we find throughout the universe/trilogy (like the predecessors of the Protheans etc).
Also you're almost at 5k subs! :D
JustJD wow that's a compliment :) I am planning. do some history videos as well, so might touch upon the extinct races as part of those vids
Right off the bat, a quick montage of the Normandy Crew until the end.
I can't believe this doesn't have more likes, it's really good. Up to par with shoddycast's work.
i've disliked it as video forget to mention the most important fact that asari are most devious species -- they telepathically manipulate all other species to perceive them as females of their own species -- they're sexual parasites stealing other races DNA.
@@RomanVasylenko888 bro a hole is a hole, we'll bang ok.
Great video! Looking forward to more of these.
Fapachu Thanks :)
I've heard that Asari use there biotic abilities to alter there appearance to what is considered the traditional mainstream beauty of whatever race is looking at them. Is this true? I think there is even a conversation in Mass Effect 2 I believe with a small group of mutable alien races talking about how Asari all look like one of them, which sparks an argument though I could be wrong; I haven't played mass effect in years and the reason I was brought here was through watching an other RUclipsr play Andromeda. Additionally you're videos provide a large amount of insight I would have otherwise not known even if I played the game, they are of a very high quality, you're voice is easy to understand and slightly calming which fits these type of videos nicely, and the gameplay in the background is entertaining. (Also forgive any miss-spellings and/or grammatical errors, I am mildly dyslexic which impacts my ability to write large paragraphs correctly.)
If you lost the war against the Reapers then all it would take is a few Asari to go into hiding and they could help with preparations for the next cycle.
They had information from the protheons themselves and did nothing about it, set up the citadel and made themselves above all other species. Nah, the whole cycle would happen again trusting asari with it- except for liara.
@@VkMari3712 they would have needed Commander Shepard to get that information.
@@stevenbaumann5911 yeah, thanks to liara for that whole recording thing. Without her, asari would be fucked
Not necessarily the Reapers wipe the galaxy clean of everything this includes resources like food and water.
@@codyconnor6981 actually they leave certain plans alone that have not reached a certain level of development. One example is the yahg. And remember the protheans were able to keep Illos a secret.
Now do one about the humans next. Nothing is known about them except they open relays, eat hot chip, and kill council.
So much (or many details) have gone into this universe
Your voice is amazing, I chose the asari for my mate in my playthrough
To bad Ashley doesnt see the values too :,(
Great Lore video! Looking forward to More!
Thanks :) more definitely to come
well done lore video, I'm looking forward to the next ones :)
P Ma thanks :) more will be coming
You have such a soothing voice. Its great to see a female gamer making theses videos.
@@ThatCreeNative1 lol stfu geez
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Great job! You have a very pleasant voice for this. Subbed!
thats pretty cool. i had no idea the asari's whole government ran online and anyone in society could partake. guess its hard to catch all that shit when the Reapers are coming lol
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Glad you enjoyed the video 😁
Straight away, the Destiny Ascension.
The Ardat Yakshi give a whole new spin to the term 'sexual conquest'.
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Anyone else still watch these amazing videos?
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Hold on, if they could develop a bizarre disease by mating among their own kind, how did they survive before finding other aliens? Did they just stay alive for so long this never became a problem before they met other Salarians?
Ardat-Yakshi were always there. That is why their culture had means to handle them. I guess they noticed that offspring from aliens were much less likely to be them so stigma to mate with other Asari evolved.
Asari had a headstart on the rest of the cycle and basically wasted it
Im just over here wondering if before Asari developed space travel and started mating with other sapient species whether they melded with non sapient species like dogs and cats for earth?
Two words. Space elves.
Thanks for the vid!
Will you do more of the ME lore?
Roddy Shikatekime I will definitely be doing more mass effect lore vids, looking forward to making them :)
Iam new to mass effect , this has been so a good time I never knew what I was missing, but iam only on 2 at the last mission
The world and Lore of Mass Effect is so rich and interesting! Enjoy the game's 😁
"asari appear human-"
tell that to the Turian, Salarian and Human celebrating a bachelor party on Illium cause they all see something different.
Nice vid. I see you're getting ready for Andromeda. HYPE!!! Looking forward to the next one. Will you just be doing the different species or are you planning to cover things like technology and history, as well?
Print Dog thanks! so hyped!! I will definitely be doing some history videos and tech videos especially looking at the different classes for people not familiar with them
N7Kate Great. Can't wait to see more.
This is incredibly sad looking back on this after the way Andromeda flopped
@@turtleshellz89 Andromeda made a bad first impression, but it isn't a terrible game. When people noticed that some of the NPCs faces are stiff and unemotional, and that the game had some glitches, they started an uproar that blew the truth of Andromeda's flaws out of proportion. For example, some people say that Ryder's squadmates are dull, boring and unlikeable compared to Shepard's squadmates, and the counterattack I have for that is we know Shepard's squad, we've known them ever since we played the first Mass Effect game in 2007. Ryder's squad, they are new, we are just getting to know them. When given the chance, they have the potential to be great Mass Effect characters in their own right.
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Thanks Josh, I enjoyed making this video and also look the Asari. Mass Effect has such an incredible universe and lore
Nice channel. Please do more Mass Effect Lore.
The one species in the galaxy that could have prevented the Reaper War by preparing for it.
She said in the video that they cant fight conventional or defensive wars. They're more suited to special operation missions. Also, each Asari only having a couple kids every 1000 years probably means they don't have a very big population either. The only species that could've made a difference were Turians and Humans but they didn't care until it was too late.
They didn’t know about the Reapers because they couldn’t get the beacon to work. Yeah, they extracted some information, but it was basically a library written in another language.
They look like blue turians...
Nah man they look like blue Salrians
What happens when an Ardat-Yakshi attempts to mate with another Ardat-Yakshi? Do they both die? Does the more powerful one survive? Or could they potentially create a positive feedback loop where they just become exponentially more powerful?
I think the more powerful one would survive. Her mind would overwhelm her partners. The more they kill the stronger they become
You'd think Samara would've stopped having children after her second child turned out to be an Ardat Yakshi as well
The inability to self-reproduce is an extraordinary disadvantage and seems like the primary emergency which must be resolved.
A species must be able to self-reproduce.
participational politics seems a good thing to higher cultures :D
Factions should have their own separate relation status.
Artifical intelligence should never oversee anything ever.
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Asari justicars remind me of judges from the dredd universe.
Asari is also supposed to be a named crater on the dwarf planet Ceres.
I hope that finally in ME 4(or5) we will able to play as asari or another species in ME :)
Asaris are beautiful
I’m not sold on the pure blood ardat yakshi thing,as before spaceflight, the Asari were all pure blood
Meld lol what a funny word for intercourse
If Earth had a real Superman with super powers no aliens would ever take over earth of they were real.
SCIENCE!!!
Asari appealing
This video was made when we still had hope for Mass Effect Andromeda Oh What A Difference time makes
Can't remember what my motivation was for making these videos, other than wanting to share how amazing the world and Lore is for Mass Effect 😁
Love the video
If an Asari mated with a Rachni, then would the child be the Asari equivalent for a siren?
I never understood the "Pure Blood" thing. For thousands of years Asari only knew of themselves before meeting other alien species ... so wouldn't everyone be Pure Blood prior to that? 💀
I think racism in general is always stupid and agree the whole 'pure blood' prejudice was always very silly and never made sense and I think bioware definitely intended for it to be seen that way
Great vid
Asari are female version of Namekian from Dragon Ball.
Video is awesome but i have one thing. On one of the clubs in Mass Effect 2 you can hear the conversation of Salarian, Human and Turian that all say Asari looks like their species but blue. What means that they don't exacly look like human. We see them as humans cause we play as human (and i believe that most of us players are humans too). Which means that asari look is unknown.
That's only a theory and should not be considered with-out facts.
The facts are there. You can go to Mass Effect 2 and find 3 guys watching asari dancer on the table and if you listen to their conversation they mention it that they look different for all of them
That is not a fact, that is a mere conversation between a few friends in speculative nature. As established by lore: turians believes long crests (or mandables, for them) are attractive and asari have them long, salarians related positively to high-pitched noises and exotic colors (asari have this), humans find any-thing that is relatable to human body shape (such as asar) attractive. *Your mention is not of concrete, irrefutable, indisputable evidence and as a result is shall not be considered canon.*
@@random3857 then there are also the statues and ancient paintings of Asari in the temple on Thessia. And during the party in the Citadel DLC, Garrus and Tali make fun of Humans and Asari for their weird legs, e.g. normal human legs. So yeah, I think this conversation on Illium was just meant to be funny
@@GSWoof That's not what happened
You know that Adair are meant to refer to a series of freshwater clams?
Farmers feed cities
I have got an assignment on asari and have to create a utility product for them... Something that would benefit them into this mass effect videogame... Any suggestions?
what if ardat-yakshi mate with each other
That's just chaos, madness 😁
@@alvinkey3468 I wanna see it happen
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Mass effect theme and Heroes theme sound similar lol
When I play mass effect on my Xbox 360 my Xbox 360 green eye keep turning Fed and then always turn it left off I want to know p.
Can you do video about halo flood vs mass effect reaper
I HATE the asari. They are just so pathetic. Like the Turian's we see how powerful their fleet is, able to withstand the reaper invasion for a considerable amount of time. The krogan we see as unstoppable brick sh-- houses who can take on armies! Evem the salarions who are set up as more spy/espionage type army proves their worth on a few occasions. (Most notably Novaria) but the asari, we are told constantly how powerful they are, we are told constantly that they are the best, but whenever we see them fight they get bent over like they dropped the soap on prison! Heck first game we face an asari commando unit, which you would think are epic badasses and will challenge you and push you to your limit, but no, they go down just as easily as the geth you had been mowing over up to this point!
Their way of fighting is not suitable to those encounters. Asari commandos are masters of guerilla warfare and assassination. Their bodies are just as frail as any other sentients (maybe even more so). Against overwhelmingly powerful Reapers being great at small unit-warfare is about as useful as champion wrestler at artillery fight.
Question couldn't liara still get pregnant if male shepard slept with her the original way
How long would it take to have alien baby ? Do asari have eggs or give born ? Can asari have baby from human
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Blue people go brrrr
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Anthony Hernandez hahaha thanks :)
stop laughing at me being creepy! its suppose to bother you lol gawd
Anthony Hernandez haha not much bothers me :P
do you play ME 3 multiplayer at all? hmmmmm?
I still think it would be pretty cool if they create a genuine male Asari (and no, not an Asari that just likes to use masculine pronouns). Granted, the chances of that happening are low, and it may conflict with some previously established lore, but in the hands of a dynamic writer, it could add a new layer of depth to the Mass Effect universe. It could also add some character depth of a male member of an entirely female species and his struggle with his place in the world (something like Y: The Last Man). Maybe it could be explained that male Asari, being male obviously, lack the necessary reproductive organs to give birth and require females to help produce male or female offspring, while the females can give birth via pathogenesis but only to females, which gradually drove the Male Asari population to the verge of extinction over the Millenia. Just food for thought, but I still think it would be an interesting idea
It’s literally biologically impossible for their to be a male Asari. They’re a mono-gendered species. They’re not actually female, they just look like it. Gender isn’t in their DNA
@@addisonwelsh I'm well aware. Like I said Its just food-for-thought, nothing more
Lucky how come you get too get way with, copyright video from mass effect videogame company.
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(psst asari use manipulation to appear as the do, each race sees them as their own. so for us humans they look human yes)
Lol...no.
@bryan diaz varela Loll wtf!
@bryan diaz varela At the Asari temple in ME3 there are many ages old paintings and statues of Asari. I think it is a safe bet that they would have picture themselves such as they are.
Jay C that's exactly what an asari would say
It's possible that they somehow use their biotics to make others feel more attracted to them? Idk, just guessing.
Is Nevada a state, or a city in another state?
That's a random question, it's a state.
@@N7Kate of course it is. Thanks for your timely response.
To bring some more randomness...In what year was nevada "inc incorporated? And if you're feeling really random, try putting nevada's state into a 3-d shapefile, then scale and rotate it around and play jigsaw puzzle with other places
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Asari = Future USA?
Too based to be that despicable nation
Hey I’m new to the series and my first mass effect game was andromeda
It was worst ME game and I recommend to play original trilogy starting from ME1 if you haven't already.
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Liara best girl!!!!!
The Asari are a feminists fantasy
I know, it's awesome.
These actually like men from other specie's.
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Andromeda lol
"resemble female humans" Hey! We don't know what they actually look like remmeber!? They warp our senses to make themselves attractive automatically i don't even think they do it on purpose
Somone mentioned pharamone secretion as a possible reason for this and i think that makes ALOT of sense
They do look like that to everyone else though, that's why Asari statues look the way they do
@@jackcassidy9963 yeah but they don't tho in mass effect 2 a truian human and salarian all said they looked like their own races thats and then at the end they realized none of them actually know what the asari look like. I think its some type of biotic field they emmit and is emmited by their artifacts kinda like supper low powered indoctrination but built into the asari through evolution
@@andrew9371 That wouldn't make sense at all, those three guys were not only drunk but were naming off characteristics that led them to believe they were closer to their race, the tendrils of the Turians, voice and intelligence of the Salarians, and body of a human
@@andrew9371 You also have the fact that even Protheans found Asari attractive, the ancient statues in the Asari museum show what they look like, and in ME3 Garrus and Tali make fun of how weirdly shaped human and Asari legs are
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This makes fuck all sense.
How did Asari procreate before they discovered other races if mating with another Asari is inherently seen as inbreeding?
That would be a result of their species and culture over the history of their existence. Over time they had these arak yakshi or whatever qnd dealt with it. When other species were discovered they realized that with same species procreation theres a higher chance and over time their culture along with other factors tended to frown on it.
Least favorite race. Liara had such an annoying voice and was such a pain in the ass.