Enki and The End

Author's Notes

This is the conclusion story, where our clueless, possibly dreaming protagonist selects a file labeled ENKI after having encountered a strange book in a room deep underground. The other two stories, Rune and Children of the Maize, are both versions of human memories, while the Enki file is different (and has very different effects on our human protagonist)! I wanted to tie together each of the origins of writing but almost got carried away in Sumerian creation lore instead. So, a highly modified and abbreviated narration is provided instead by The Librarian.

There's an amazing creation story, where Enki combines the blood of a sacrificed god (one of his kind) with clay to shape the first man. He was making slaves, originally, but Enki grew fond of them after a while. Myths of war between the Anunnaki and the Igigi (the first slaves the Anunnaki made - clones of themselves) were used to transition the humans from slaves to equals, mostly because I wanted to keep The Librarian's character benign and give the story a light-hearted ending. The one aspect I couldn't work in as well as I wanted was that each of the stories in the book, Enki, Odin and Itzamna are related as instances of novel written language development.

Conspiracy theories abound regarding the Anunnaki, and if you've ever watched the show Ancient Aliens you've probably heard of them before. The theory that our species was deliberately seeded here is not scientifically supported in any way, but the idea that we could have been is too much fun not to explore. I had SO much fun working on this project and learning how to use Twine, even on an absolute beginner level. Thank you for reading/playing!