Splotch

Summary

Splotch is a pre‑Deluge human child adopted by the giantess Sansuna whose survival through the comet impact and flood begins the Line of Splotch, a family line that carries a mandate to remember and resist erasure.

Overview

Splotch is an early human from the era before the Great Deluge. Sansuna, a half‑Anunnaki giantess, adopts him and raises him under her protection. He receives his name from her observation of a mark behind his ear. During the comet impact and subsequent flood, Sansuna shields him and ensures his survival. Before the water overwhelms their shelter, she instructs him to live, make his mark, and not forget. That verbal directive becomes the core of a generational tendency in his descendants.

The Line of Splotch later produces humans who tend to act as recorders, bridge‑builders, and opponents of systems that erase people into categories. Evadine Knightly descends from this line, and her grandmother’s flood story preserves a family memory of Splotch and Sansuna. Splotch functions in the story as origin point for a human tradition of remembrance that runs parallel to Anunnaki archives.

Details

Identity

• Human male child from pre‑Deluge period.

• Adopted and named by Sansuna.

• Physically small compared to Sansuna; ordinary human scale for that era.

• Identified by a mole behind his left ear; from Sansuna’s vantage this appears as a smear, leading to the name “Splotch.”

Relationship to Sansuna

• Adopted son and pupil.

• Learns basic survival skills adapted from giant‑level mastodon hunting to human scale.

• Receives from her the prayer for a good death and later the key instruction that defines his line.

• Carried in a specially prepared pouch during hunts and during the disaster.

Role in the Field and wider setting

• Zero direct Field manipulation recorded for Splotch himself; he remains an unascended human.

• The Field records his survival as an anchor event; Enki later views this through Field memory during his own purgatorial loop.

• The mandate he receives produces a persistent pattern in his lineage:

  • Tendency to remember events that authorities would prefer to hide.

  • Tendency to “make a mark” through writing, building, or other enduring work.

  • Tendency to stand against efforts to divide and erase.

• Evadine Knightly inherits this pattern unconsciously and later expresses it through her scribing and actions in the war.

History

Life before the impact

Splotch lived in a region where mastodons moved through forest and open ground. Sansuna, already an established hunter in that area, had adopted him earlier in his life. He accompanied her on hunts, observed megafauna behaviour, and trained for future independent hunting on smaller targets. Sansuna gave him the prayer for a good death and basic instruction in cautious movement.

The comet impact and Great Deluge

On the day of the catastrophe:

• Mastodons halted and trumpeted, birds broke formation, and a bright streak grew across the sky.

• Splotch recognised a level of threat beyond his capacity to affect, fell to his knees, and recited the good death prayer that Sansuna had taught him.

• Sansuna lifted him, placed him in a fur‑lined pouch, and ran toward a gorge that could shield them from blast and debris.

At the gorge:

• Sansuna descended into a narrow slit between rock pillars and positioned her body to shield the pouch from above.

• The first shockwaves and heat pulses passed over them; Splotch remained alive due to Sansuna’s positioning.

• When floodwaters arrived, Sansuna trapped air in the pouch and sealed the opening having her mouth, then waited under increasing pressure.

Once the worst turbulence eased:

• Sansuna pushed them out of the slit and swam upward.

• She grabbed floating debris for support and kept the pouch above water as soon as possible.

• Splotch coughed and breathed, confirming survival.

Before their descent into the gorge, Sansuna had spoken directly to Splotch: “Live. Make your mark, Splotch. Do not forget.” That sentence became the core law inside his family.

Aftermath and lineage

The narrative does not yet give a detailed account of Splotch’s later life. However:

• He lived long enough to carry Sansuna’s instruction into his descendants.

• His family preserved a story of a giant woman who saved a boy during a great flood.

• In modern times, Evadine’s grandmother retold this story as family history without naming Sansuna or Splotch explicitly, but the details match Enki’s Field vision.

Across generations, the Line of Splotch repeatedly produced:

• Scribes and record keepers.

• Mediators and translators in border spaces.

• Individuals who oppose reduction of persons to labels or disposable units.

Splotch’s survival and his acceptance of Sansuna’s words underpin this pattern.

Notes

• Splotch provides a human‑scale counterpart to Anunnaki and Igigi preservation efforts, grounding the idea that humans can maintain their own lines of memory.

• His line’s mandate centres on endurance, record, and resistance rather than on power accumulation.

• The family story that reaches Evadine through her grandmother confirms that pre‑Deluge events remain present in human oral tradition, not solely in tablets or divine archives.

• Splotch’s ordinariness in other respects emphasises that long‑term impact does not require noble birth or direct Field access.

Citations

• Codex entry Splotch (in‑setting character profile and description of the Line of Splotch).

• Codex entry Sansuna (for adoption details and the key phrase “Live. Make your mark, Splotch. Do not forget.”).

• The Brothers: Enlil & Enki, Act 1, chapter “Immortal Sin” (Enki’s Field vision of Sansuna hunting, Splotch’s prayer, the comet impact, and their survival through the Flood).

• The Brothers: Enlil & Enki v0.27, Act 2, “The Scribe” (Evadine’s grandmother recounts the family flood story, demonstrating lineage from Splotch).