In my freshmen year of college, I took an Ancient Civilizations class. During this course I leaned about ancient Hindu culture ranging from their gods, their stories and the significance of the symbols commonly associated with both. Now it is no secret that Bungie constantly references religions in their games, be it the Flood in Halo serving as an allegory to the Great Flood, MJOLNIR powered assault armor named after Thor's hammer and so on. This time around, I feel that Bungie may have used these in the creation of at least one of their entries: the Fallen. The concept of the Fallen sound very much like the demonic Asuras found in Hinduism. The Fallen are described as belonging to, "once noble houses now scattered to the wind". That shows that they were a great people at one point, but now they are savage, violent nomads seeking to conquer. They also have four arms in which to do even more damage against their adversaries. Interestingly, many deities in Hinduism have multiple arms. This symbolizes the immense power of these deities. Asuras also characterize this trait, but unlike the main Hindus deities, they tend to only have around four to six arms. Besides having a similar number of arms, the concept of reincarnation and rebirth that plays in Hinduism also links the Asuras and the Fallen. A rebirth as an Asura is considered one of many unhappy births in Hinduism, right behind coming back as an animal and so on. So we have four-armed marauders who have fallen from grace and seek to conquer and destroy. I see a connection there, I wonder if more of Destiny will have connections to Hinduism, provided I'm right of course. What do you think?