Record of ragnarok: Fem Gilgamesh

Chapter 2

Bruhilde P.O.V thoughts

Humanity was beautiful as well as ugly and there was someone who saw them like that. Someone who could see and understand the brilliance that humanity had.

And that person was the most loved by the gods, Gilgamesh of Uruk.

Gilgamesh, the great half-god and half-human king born from the union between the king of Uruk, Lugalbanda, and the goddess Ninsun.

She ruled the Sumerian city-state of Uruk, the capital of ancient Mesopotamia.

Gilgamesh is a supreme and transcendent being so divine as to be two-thirds god and one-third human, and no one else in the world can match her.

She was the King of Heroes.

The one who possessed all things in the world, whose history is recorded in the oldest epic poem of mankind, the Epic of Gilgamesh, which portrays Gilgamesh as a hero, destined to be king and achieve great feats. She is driven to fulfill her destiny, facing challenges together with her best friend Enkidu.

Her title, King of Heroes, is not intended to call her a king who is a hero, but rather implies that she is the king over all heroes. She is the oldest hero of humanity, the origin of all myths and the model on which heroes are based on, so her story is copied within the mythologies of all the countries of the world. The heroes of various myths are derived from her legend.

Although there are numerous kings with titles such as the King of Knights or the King of Conquerors, she is the only one in all heaven and earth crowned with the title of King of all Heroes.

Born and designed to connect rising humans and fading gods.

She was sent to secure the humans and bind the land that was slowly leaving the Age of Gods.

She was a being that embodied the two sets of life forms, with the blood of those who had ruled and the blood of those who would rule from there.

During her childhood, she loved the gods rather than humanity, but then the gods created Enkidu at that time to punish her.

Enkidu watched the young Gilgamesh, but could not understand the need to punish such a kind and ideal king who was praised and loved by her subjects. There could be no flaw that required correction, and the only problem was that she did not submit to the gods even if they respected them. Enkidu was forced to admit that the gods had been correct when they saw the girl turn into a young woman. Gilgamesh quickly began to put herself first before her people, and they lamented the change of their great king. Even the gods were surprised by this great change.

The reason was simply that she had been born with the conclusion already drawn, existing independently as a being neither fully divine nor human. She acquired the characteristics of both, so her field of vision reached even beyond what the gods could comprehend. Her overwhelming power generated overwhelming isolation, but her strength from herself prevented them from abandoning the mission imposed upon him.

She became the greatest and richest king on Earth, who eventually acquired all the treasures in the world. Uruk became an unprecedented prosperous place, and Gilgamesh was considered so powerful that even the gods could not ignore her existence.

This was shown when a goddess, Ishtar, the goddess of fertility, fell in love with Gilgamesh and proposed to the perfect king. Gilgamesh rejected her at once because she knew that she was unfaithful, cruel and corrupting of all men. She was furious, feeling that she had insulted her, and turned to her father, the god Anu, for revenge.

Ishtar begged him to unleash the Bull of Heaven. The beast of the gods caused seven years of starvation and destruction on earth.

Working together, Gilgamesh and Enkidu defeated him after binding him with the Chains of Heaven, causing the dark clouds that covered the world to vanish and thus saving the earth from the flood.

Ishtar's reputation was once again crushed, and her fury did not diminish. She asked for them to be killed for the sin of killing a beast of the gods with the body of a human. Her request was granted, but the gods had loved Gilgamesh, the creation that they considered perfect. And Anu was not willing to kill Gilgamesh for his daughter, neither were the other gods. So, they decided that Enkidu was the one will receive the punishment.

Enkidu slowly weakened and returned to being clay, while Gilgamesh clung desperately to the crumbling clod in her arms. She was angry about this, believing that she was the one who deserved retribution if necessary. Enkidu tried to calm her down by telling Gilgamesh that they were just the one of the many treasures in Gilgamesh's collection, that she would find countless more in time. Instead, Gilgamesh stated:

"You have courage. Only you have such value. I hereby declare: In this whole world, only one will be my friend. Therefore, for all eternity, their value will not change."

Enkidu returned to their original state afterward, leaving nothing behind but the thunderous cry of Gilgamesh.

And Gilgamesh could never forgive the gods.

She could never forgive the fact that Enkidu was killed. In a world where she was extremely powerful, only Enkidu proved to be her equal.

Enkidu was her best friend, her partner and brother/sister.

Enkidu was held extremely high value in Gilgamesh's eyes. A value that Gilgamesh believed that not even all of her treasures together could surpass. Before her eyes, her treasures were just sludge next to the value Enkidu had.

Enkidu didn't make her feel alone.

And their death was something for which she never forgave the gods.

Her hatred is such that if she ever met Ishtar again and any other Gods who appear before her, she would unleash the full power of the Enuma Elish of Ea upon her.

Gilgamesh's hatred of the gods is indeed one that surpasses her contempt for humanity.