Enlil Enlil was the patriarch of the Untheric pantheon . He abdicated in favor of his son Gilgeam and left Toril in - 734 DR . His symbol was a pickaxe . Description . Enlil was portrayed as a tall human male with a dark , weighty beard and curly hair . He could change his form at will , raise lightning storms , and he kept for himself , alone of his pantheon , the ability to raise the dead . Enlil wore a war helm that cannot be affected by any known attack or substance . He wielded an unbreakable stone axe that disenchanted any weapon it hit . Relationships . Enlil was the son of Nammu , the sea , and the original ruler of the Untheric pantheon . He was the father of Gilgeam and of Enki . Inanna was once his wife , but he set her aside . Realm . Enlil dwelt on the Great Mountain of the East in Eronia , the second layer of the plane of Elysium along with his fellow deities Ki , Nin - Hursag , and Nanna - Sin . The surrounding plains were flat , dotted with cities and sluggish rivers . Only petitioners and servants of the gods , or those with a legitimate request to make of the gods ' servants , could climb the mountain . Petitioners had to climb it in order to merge with their patrons . Enlil was never associated with the outer plane of Zigguraxus because while he was worshiped on Toril his avatar , like those of all the gods of the Mulan , dwelled on the Prime Material Plane . He returned to his cosmology of origin before Ao removed the Imaskari barrier that prevented the Mulan gods from communicating with the Outer Planes directly . History . Enlil was the firstborn of the Untheric gods . He rose from the sea long ago to bring the power of his spirit to the skies . A suspicious plague decimated the empire of Imaskar sometime around - 4370 DR . In response , Imaskari wizards opened two portals to two different places and times on another world . They captured slaves from that world in a series of lightning raids . On Toril the slaves intermarried with one another and became known as the Mulan . Although the Imaskari had created a barrier around Toril that denied entry to the gods of the Mulan homeworld , the prayers of the slaves were heard by Ao , who summoned the god Ptah to invite the Mulan gods to come to Toril . Because of the barrier , the only way the gods could enter Toril was by creating powerful avatar s known as manifestations to physically sail through the Flow between spheres . Enlil led his fellow pantheon members to Toril in a ship known as the " Galley of the Gods " . Enlil ' s pantheon and the Mulhorandi pantheon landed on Toril on the highest peaks of the Godswatch Mountains on the northeastern border of Imaskar . There , they divided their essences further to create lesser avatars known as " incarnations " to travel among the Mulan slaves and stir them up into rebellion against their hated Imaskari masters . To aid them , some of the Mulan were given the powers of priests , and some were made into divine minions . At first , things seemed to be going badly for the rebels , with many incarnations and minions destroyed by Imaskari minions . However , when the retreating rebels led the Imaskari attackers to the mountains where the manifestations of the gods awaited , the gods unleashed a rain of divine fury that devastated the whole of Imaskar , transforming the fertile vale into the barren Raurin desert . This happened in - 2488 DR . Enlil and his children led their people away from the barren remains of Imaskar to the western shores of the Alamber Sea , where they founded the nation of Unther . They drove away the Turami people who had previously inhabited the region , considering them to be barbarians . The manifestations , including Enlil , retired to towering palaces to concentrate on finding a way to break the Imaskari barrier , leaving the rulership of the lands to their incarnations , who became known as god - kings . In - 2087 DR , Enlil discovered pearl s on the west coast of the Alamber Sea . There , he founded Unthalass , the City of Gems . As first king of Unther , Enlil founded the system of laws known as the code of Enlil , which insisted on " justice , the destruction of evil and wickedness so the strong shall not oppress the weak , and the land shall be enlightened . " In - 1081 DR , the Theurgist Adept Thayd , last apprentice of the Imaskari wizards , opened a portal to a world of gray orc s just prior to his execution for inciting a wizard ' s rebellion . In - 1076 DR , a horde of gray orcs poured through the portal to conquer the lands of Unther and Mulhorand . In response , the divine manifestations came down from their towers to defend their lands . However , the powerful gray orc clerics called down avatars of the Orc pantheon to battle them . In the Orcgate Wars that followed , many manifestations of the Untheric pantheon died at the hands of the orcish gods , including Inanna , Girru , Ki , Nanna - Sin , Nergal , and Utu . Marduk sacrificed his manifestation to kill the manifestation of Tiamat during those battles . In - 734 DR , Enlil decided to leave the world of Toril behind and merge again with his greater self on the plane of Elysium . He left his son Gilgeam as King of Unther in his stead . This became known as Year 1 in the calendar of Unther . On Nightal 26 1486 DR , Enlil returned to Toril . Called for help by Kepeshkmolik Dumuzi , the " soldier of all the lands " and " father of all children " manifested in Djerad Thymar in the shape of a black - scaled dragonborn with golden eyes , and stopped the process that was about to return Tymanther to Abeir , thereby choosing the dragonborn as his new protégés . < ref name = " AotT / Hardcover - p463 - 464 " > < / ref >