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Each Descendant has an affinity to different play styles, from focusing on defense to pure damage. [6] As a result, each Descendant can be built, through the mod system, to maximize their affinities and give the Descendant more power. [6] Each Descendant and weapon have a mod capacity which restricts the amount of mods the player can use. [4]
Aruval, the Tamils revere the weapon, a type of billhook, as a symbol of Karupannar in (Tamil mythology) Asi, a legendary sword mentioned in the epic Mahabharata. Chandrahasa, the divine sword given to Ravana by Shiva; Khanda, (also Mahābhārata Sword), Khanda is represented as wisdom cutting through ignorance. In Hinduism, the Khanda is a ...
Asi (Sanskrit: असि, romanized: Asi) appears as a personification of the first weapon ever created according to Hindu epics. 'Asi' means 'sword'. A legend concerning Asi appears in the Shanti Parva book of the Mahabharata. [1] In Rigvedic Sanskrit, Asi is still used as a term for a kind of sacrificial dagger or knife. [2]
Daṇḍa" (Sanskrit: दण्ड, literally 'stick', 'staff', or 'rod', an ancient symbol of authority) [1] is the Hindu term for punishment. In ancient India, the ruler generally sanctioned punishments but other legal officials could also play a part. Punishments were handed out in response to criminal activity.
Tartarus is the place where, according to Plato's Gorgias (c. 400 BC), souls are judged after death and where the wicked received divine punishment. Tartarus appears in early Greek cosmology , such as in Hesiod 's Theogony , where the personified Tartarus is described as one of the earliest beings to exist, alongside Chaos and Gaia (Earth).
The idea of divine justice taking the form of collective punishment is also ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible, e.g. the Ten Plagues of Egypt, the destruction of Shechem, etc., and most notably the recurring punishments inflicted on the Israelites for lapsing from Yahwism.
In Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Cronus, Cronos, or Kronos (/ ˈ k r oʊ n ə s / or / ˈ k r oʊ n ɒ s /, from Ancient Greek: Κρόνος, romanized: Krónos) was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of the primordial Gaia (Mother Earth) and Uranus (Father Sky).
The following is a family tree of gods, goddesses, and other divine and semi-divine figures from Ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion. Chaos