In terms of battle prowess, Inanna is acknowledged among her pantheon as triumphant and unchallenged, as in every challenge she undertakes, she emerges victorious. Provided that she is universally worshipped as a war goddess as well, one of her primary sources by which she is empowered is war, chaos and combat, and thereby she has unparalleled skills in handling herself on the battlefield. Such as with a bow—she does not need take on a proper stance or position to shoot precise arrows, defying all common sense with her archery in that her arrows will never miss its mark. In addition to that, Inanna is often associated with fertility, sexual love, war and by virtue of having conquered several other deities' domains and taken on their authorities—Inanna has access to a wide variety of celestial authorities that, in presence alone, her heavenly sovereignty can be likened to that of a skyfather's. Needless to say, these authorities are parallel with every little concept she is associated with.
The Divine Triad of which she is a part of unites the three deities into a trinity, by which they are individually granted access to each other's power—in Inanna's case, she is associated with two prominent deities whose involvement enlightens her with a distinct sense of justice, enriches her wisdom, and allows her to carry out divine justice aptly, weaponizing the sins and crimes of others against them. Furthermore, her material riches are rendered virtually limitless and caters to her fixation with lapis lazuli and other precious stones by virtue of good karma. Conversely, she can as easily bring about extreme misfortune.
Other than that, Inanna, through her lordship over war and combat, has the innate ability to adapt to newer methods of fighting, and become adept at it during combat the more she may use said method, as well as manipulate morale, mentality, emotions or feelings during warfare (such as bloodlust, anger and arrogance) to make her targets either more susceptible to battle, or severely weaken them like so. Furthermore, her association with destruction also enables her to resort to more unconventional methods such as breaking down atoms, destroying the soul, and so on. Since she has also taken on the powers of Anu, Enki/Ea and Enlil too, she is authorized to employ sky-related abilities, employ primordial waters to bend them to her whims, and govern aspects of the Creation itself on a higher plane of existence.
Bull of Heaven: The Bull of Heaven is one of the most disastrous, and strongest divine beasts to ever exist, and is represented by the Taurus Constellation. It originally did not belong to her, but due to her threats to her father Anu, its control has been bestowed unto her by him as a result. When summoned, the Bull covers the heavens in its entirety with a reflection of the boundless space; stellar objects glimmering about its celestial frame in the form of the Taurus Constellation, a veil of clouds dancing in vortices to gather into a dense, intangible figure of a heavenly bull whose horns and hooves are the only things tangible about it. Its movement spells disaster, and its presence brings calamity. And with its hooves shall it smash earth to carry out its assigned deed to utterly decimate her opponents, laying ruin unto the bountiful Earth with pestilence and virtually unstoppable annihilation. Furthermore, this Divine Beast is inherently linked to the constellation it represents—meaning, if it were to be physically destroyed, Ishtar can resummon it after a considerable amount of time passes for it to recuperate.
Divine Chariot, Margidda: The brilliant flying contraption that traverses the skies. Akin to a shooting star, it is remarked by the great King of Uruk to be the fastest thing to travel across the skies. Namely Margidda, the celestial chariot of the war goddess, Inanna, this chariot is pulled by seven divine lions, and is wholly forged out of gold. For that reason, this chariot is simply unequalled when it comes to aerial combat and a show of speed, leaving a trail of light that shines through the curtain of the night in its wake.
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| Ankar | A battle mace; one of her many weapons she uses in combat. |
| Seven-headed Warhammer Cita | One of Ishtar's many glories; the seven-headed Cita is often attributed to its late successor, the Lernaean Hydra in that they share many of each other's qualities, such as the poison that completely nullifies any form of self-healing and how it is lethal to even those of divine origin. Bathed in its venomous dread, this warhammer proves to be a dangerous artifact to face in combat, as similar to its successor, Gods are not immune to its poison either. |
| Unnamed Bow | Self-explanatory. A divine bow with which Ishtar can produce an endless volley of arrows with little to no drawback. These arrows can additionally carry varying properties based on her appliance, as well as adjust its range of destruction. |
| Sahalu Kusig-sukur | It is unnamed, and is believed to be her primary weapon with which she triumphs most of her adventures. It is attributed to having decimated the mountain range of Ebih. |
| ‶ Rising on fearsome wings you rush to destroy our land: raging like thunderstorms, howling like hurricanes, screaming like tempests, thundering, raging, ranting, drumming, whiplashing whirlwinds! ʺ |
Carnal love and violence, fecundity and death, beauty and terror, centrality and marginality, order and chaos... the sheer contradictory duality between the multitude of authorities and powers Inanna governs and possesses have defined her to be the fearsome force that illustrates her uncertainty, portraying her to be the figure that is both revered and feared by the mankind she cherishes and chastises for acting out of place. Once the prominent goddess of love and beauty, she was later branded as the expression of chaos, death and destruction, bringing about ruination and crisis wherever she treads. There had been numerous accounts in which she was likened to be a demon god; both due to these records and the glaring features of her battle-wear. As such, her true form as a god is an amalgamation of her conquests, her epithets and all that she has earned ever since her conception, making her out to be the inexorable Demon God she was believed to be. Multiple arcs of lightning and a beam of light enclosing Inanna's figure initiates her transformation, at the end of which she comes out with a brilliant full-body armour and a horned helmet decked out in lapis and other precious stones, whose defenses deviate from the mundane understanding of armaments. Her aura is henceforth enchanted with a repulsive sense of evil that induces irrational fear in the hearts of even the most stout-hearted, a most abhorrent aspect that Ishtar started to lament deep down, given her change of heart. With this, Ishtar's attributes are significantly boosted, deeming her former might a meager shadow of this exposure.
La Minam Baraqu - Lightnings Innumerable: Producing an immeasurable amount of photons to blanket the heavens like an inescapable cage, Inanna commands with a single gesture to subject her target(s) to a downpour of galactic electrical currents, supplemented with the concept of destruction to atomize them, if not snuff out their soul in the same fashion.
Sarhu Karasu - Astral Calamity: Preferably drawing her bow, Inanna opens successive fire upon her enemies with an array of highly-condensed arrow-like projectiles that implode into a three-staged blast whose resulting waves of destruction serve as a failsafe to prevent escape from its epicenter; engulfing her opponents with an energy only rivaled by the collapse of an entire galaxy.
Sabatu Gallu - Cataclysmic Evil: Heavens obediently bend to the whims of the fearsome Goddess of War, whose single gesture unceremoniously disrupts the equilibrium of nature and calls forth a cataclysmic storm, its immediate escalation to a full-fledged tempest foretelling the divine retribution that thereby awaits her opponent(s). Arcs of lightning encircle the disorderly pillar of ever-circulating gales, generating a counteractive forcefield that aims to strike trespassers with such power that it is fixed to disintegrate, and engrave a divine curse that wholly prevents any self-healing faculty; the unruly gales seeking to lay ruin unto whosoever dares oppose it.
Baramu Dilibat Magguru - Venus Kaleidoscope: Reproducing the concept of the celestial body, Venus, into a multi-colored sphere of meta-physical energy, she intends to incinerate her victims down to their concept with a purging attack.
Kakkabu Sahluqtu - Star of Destruction: The Antithesis to the impetus behind the ever-expanding Creation. Part of the journey is the end; as such, she combines all elements that make up the creation, and shunts an unsparing storm of Chaos into the reality, indiscriminately decimating any and everything in her path.
