3500 B.C
500 years after the birth of civilization in the land of Sumer, a sun rose on the Mesopotamian Plain. In the sun's glow stood Kish, a city in turmoil. On the streets of the city a young boy darted through the streets. As was the custom of the day, his head was shaven and his hooked nose had become more noticeable as he entered his adolescence. This was no ordinary boy, however, this was Sumer.
Sumer hadn't aged that much in the five centuries since his birth. About a century after he was brought to the ziggurat in Eridu he witnessed his people attempt to build a tower towards the heavens which was known as Babel. The project collapsed as suddenly everyone started speaking different languages, and Sumer took to wandering the other cities as Eridu declined following that incident. The project failed because Enki, the patron god, was angry. How could anyone have stayed there after that! He took the human name Enlil of Lagash to disguise himself. Now his wandering had brought him to Kish, where his search for other personifications had so far produced no results and where a crisis was bringing the town to its knees.
In Kish, a crisis had developed and in the valley of Enlil, the God of the Wind, a "Big Man" had been chosen to handle it. What followed afterward was jarring. Sumer decided to ask around as to what had happened.
"You must be new around here" said a man.
"What is going on?" asked the nation
"Enlil has given the big man the power to rule for life"
"Why would the gods do that? Wouldn't you oppose him?"
"He has the army behind him"
Just then, the new despot of the city took Sumer, for being a ruler, he was told of his identity. Not since his days in Eridu had Sumer seen a state as powerful. He decided to stay in Kish. His people had come a long way.
Back in Eridu, someone started putting symbols which had been put on clay contracts onto clay tablets. This sort of art had been named Cuneiform by the locals, and it still continued to change. Sumer found Cuneiform interesting and decided to become a scribe in Kish. Sumer still wished for other companions like himself, and he started to search beyond the Mesopotamian plain for other civilizations, especially in the fertile lands and deserts to the west of his domain…