Ea

He saved the few from the flood, but was it out of love, or the need for someone to cook his dinner? This master of the Abzu created humanity to be the "slaves of the gods," a pragmatic trickster who views every act of creation as a laboratory experiment. He is the god of the deep, murky waters where every secret is a hook and every gift is a snare. "I gave you the cleverness to survive, so you might survive to serve me," he whispers through the mist of the marshes. He is the engineer of a world that is stable only because he bound the chaos into a functional cage. His wisdom is utilitarian, manipulative, and devoid of warmth, the kind of intelligence that builds a wall and calls it a home. He is the master of the hidden price. He is the clever deceiver.