She destroyed a mountain for challenging her, tried entering the underworld to prove her strength, and indirectly brought about Enkidu’s death after Gilgamesh rejected her advances. Her worship even predates The Epic of Gilgamesh by over a thousand years and continued until at least the 19th century! For such an enduring goddess, Ishtar wasn’t always the nicest of gods. Ishtar (also known as Inanna) is the goddess of love, sex, war, political power, and a whole host of related concepts, as well as the patron deity of Uruk. This explains Kingu’s rage, although they seem to have something of Enkidu still hanging around… The mythological Kingu was a child of the primordial goddess Tiamat who was killed alongside her by the god Marduk and used to create humanity. Kingu, the person in Babylonia who uses Enkidu’s likeness, is completely different they’re cruel, violent, and completely loyal to Gorgon. Though they were initially meant to be enemies, Enkidu and Gilgamesh quickly became inseparable, going on all sorts of adventures until Gilgamesh’s ill-fated encounter with Ishtar ultimately led to Enkidu’s death. What remains the same throughout, however, is their close friendship with Gilgamesh. Enkidu is described in the epic as a powerful, hairy man, radically different from the genderless shapeshifter in Babylonia.
Next we have Enkidu, an integral part of every Gilgamesh legend. Now that’s someone who deserves the title of “King of Heroes!”
The Gilgamesh we see in Babylonia is him as he was after his journey to the underworld: cocky and arrogant, but tempered by a sense of duty to the people of Uruk. Mourning Enkidu’s death and struggling with the thought of his own, Gilgamesh goes to the underworld to seek out the herb of immortality, only to have it eaten by a snake right after he retrieves it. Instead, the two become close friends and go on many adventures together until Gilgamesh insults the goddess Ishtar and kills the divine bull the gods send as retribution, driving them to kill Enkidu as punishment. The Gilgamesh of the epic is a powerful but tyrannical king who the gods decide to humble by creating Enkidu to act as his opponent.
There very likely was a man named Gilgamesh who ruled the city of Uruk about 4,500 years ago (he’s really that ancient), although most of what we know about the details of his reign comes from The Epic of Gilgamesh, a collection of stories from about 1,000 years later. Gilgamesh (also known as Bilgamesh) is an interesting one since he’s the only Servant here who’s both historical and mythological. Read on to find out where each of these Servants hails from historically and how their Fate personalities stack up to the real legends that inspired them!įirst up is a character you might be familiar with from other Fate anime: the King of Heroes himself, Gilgamesh. From Latin America to the Middle East, Babylonia features Servants from every walk of life you can imagine and quite a few you might not have heard of! With so many names to keep track of, it can be tough to remember what legends all of these Servants came from, so we’ve put together a handy guide to who these heroes are and what legends they come from. Babylonia alone has a massive cast of historical and mythological figures from around the world, many from some of humanity’s oldest myths.
Out of all the Fate anime, Fate/Grand Order has far and away the most servants.
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