Treasure picked up from the vanquished and around the landscape allows the purchase of new swords, armour and magical rings.
One day, Indra, the king of Devas (celestial deities), disguised as a Brahmin, approaches Karnan and asks for his armour and ear rings in donation to weaken and stop him from overpowering Arjuna.
In Dark Souls, that doesn't really help because, for example, if you walk through some lava without a certain ring equipped you will lose all your armour.
A few minutes later the interim World Boxing Organisation lightweight champion, Australia' Michael Katsidis, will join Mitchell in the centre of the arena and begin to remove the 160 pounds of metal armour that he wears for his ring entrance.
Accessories aren't forgotten either with big and shiny jewellery on show: chunky necklaces and cuffs, oversized rings, massive earrings and armour-like belts.
"I was out supervising the placement of armour around the palace when bursts of gunfire rang out.
"The work was so intense, and so much of it, you just don't stop," says prosthetic designer Tami Lane, while Richard Taylor - who worked as a creative designer - said there was no time to "take wonderful photos in front of stacks of armour completed a year before like we did on Lord of the Rings".
These include the 14th-century tomb of Ralph Davenport with the recumbent figure of a knight wearing plate armour with a gorget (collar) of mail (armour consisting of linked metal rings) and a conical helmet, a tomb chest of 1654, and a recumbent effigy (statue) of Lady Egerton, who died in 1599.
Much like the debates I read now where Lord of the Rings fans debate Peter Jackson's treatment of The Hobbit, these discussions about whether or not a clothing cut or armour style was historical enough often had a lot of geek passion behind them.
Vanko, however, needs no armour.
