Utnapishtim is a king and a priest of Shurrupak. Utnapishtim survived the great deluge that almost destroyed all life on Earth by building a great boat that carried him, his family, and one of every living creature to safety. The gods granted eternal life to him and his wife.

King of Uruk, the strongest of men, and the personification of all human virtues. A brave warrior, fair judge, and ambitious builder, Gilgamesh surrounds the city of Uruk with magnificent walls and erects its glorious ziggurats, or temple towers. Two-thirds god and one-third mortal, Gilgamesh is undone by grief when his beloved companion Enkidu dies, and by despair at the prospect of his own extinction. He travels to the ends of the Earth in search of answers to the mysteries of life and death.

Enkidu was a good friend of Gilgamesh. He looked like him but he had a hairy body and was raised by animals and Gilgamesh was a king. They both went out on a quest to achieve immortality with each other to look for a plant that could give them this power. Humbaba the fearsome demon was blocking the way to the forbidden land that Gilgamesh and Enkidu was trying to get to. Enkidu suffered a slow death from being punished by the gods because him and Gilgamesh were supposed to be rivals.

Humbaba, Fearsome, powerful, immortal. Gilgamesh's quest to achieve immortality was to get through him. A battle between Humbaba and Gilgamesh and Gilgamesh's friend Enkidu who looks like him and wants to be like him but dies a slow death because the Gods punish Gilgamesh for them not being rivals.