Trishula
The Trishula is a Miscellaneous melee weapon. It is not used by any unit and is found only in the Unit Creator.
Characteristics
The Trishula is a three-pronged polearm with decent combat capabilities and an average cooldown between attacks. The weapon is also rather lengthy and gives a range advantage to those who wield it.
Units using the Trishula will lunge into their opponents when close to their weapon's range. Instead of thrusting it into opponents, units use the weapon by swinging it from side to side instead.
Symbolism
The trishula symbolism is polyvalent and rich in the Hindu Religion. It is wielded by the god Shiva and is said to have been used to sever the original head of Ganesha. Durga also holds a trishula, as one of her many weapons. The three points have various meanings, and, common to the Sanātana Dharma, have many stories behind them. They are commonly said to represent various trinities—creation, maintenance, and destruction, such as:
- Past, present, and future;
- Body, mind and atman;
- Dharma or Dhamma (law and order), bliss/mutual enjoyment and emanation/created bodies;
- Compassion, joy and love;
- Spiritual, psychic and relative;
- Happiness, comfort and boredom;
- Pride, repute and egotism
- Clarity, knowledge and wisdom;
- Heaven, mind and earth;
- Soul, fire and earth;
- Soul, passion and embodied-soul;
- Logic, passion and faith;
- Prayer, manifestation and sublime;
- Insight, serenity and Bodhisattvahood or Arhatship (anti-conceit)
- Practice, understanding and wisdom;
- Death, ascension and resurrection;
- Creation, order and destruction
- The three gunas: satva, rajas and tamas.
- Polearms
- Melee
- Miscellaneous
- Unit Creator Weapons
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