Parvati did not come to be Shiva's bride by pulchritude alone. Together, they would ride into battle, where she would unleash her own devastating might. Even the obstinate asuras would falter before the mighty deities. The path they blazed through the battlefield would be littered with the dust of obliterated corpses, the pair's intensity so fierce that the blood evaporated. Under the Heavens, no couple with greater vehemence or passion could be found.