What was the Tablet of Destinies?
It was the umbilical cord connecting the sky god Anu and the earth god Ea, transformed into a clay tablet. The tablet belonged to Enlil. As the son of the sky god, Enlil was qualified to wield this divine artifact.
It was a divine artifact representing supreme divine authority and supreme royal authority—the most powerful artifact in the Anunnaki Divine Realm, and indeed in all of Mesopotamia.
But later, the monstrous bird Anzu stole the Tablet of Destinies. Anzu was also a god, wielding authority over storms and possessing the power of clouds. He believed that anything Enlil could do, he could do as well.
Yet Enlil was not flustered in the slightest.
Anzu was merely his attendant, with less than one percent of his strength. Enlil could plunge all of Mesopotamia into endlessly howling gales, while Anzu struggled to stir up a storm even within the bounds of a single city.
But that was not the important part.
The Tablet of Destinies embodied supreme divine and royal authority. In other words—only those qualified to do so could wield this artifact.
Anzu would gain nothing. Neither royal authority nor divine authority would respond to him in the slightest.
The mighty war god Ninurta, Enlil's son, defeated Anzu and reclaimed the tablet, while Anzu was imprisoned.
And what exactly was this artifact capable of?
Beyond possessing the greatest offensive and defensive power in the Anunnaki Divine Realm, it had one special ability that made everyone covet it.
Anything written upon the Tablet of Destinies would become reality—as long as the Tablet of Destinies acknowledged you.
Enlil was the one it had acknowledged.
Enki's expression turned grave, and even his movements controlling the Water of Life slowed somewhat.
"Enlil, you cannot write on it!"
Clear, unrestrained