The primordial ocean, where lives had been created at the beginning of time, looked very different from the blue ocean that people knew. Despite the infinite possibilities it possessed, the primordial ocean was destructive and nasty, having a temperature of over one hundred fifty celsius and a muddy consistency due to the rocks that acid rains melted getting mixed into it. Through various chemical reactions, all kinds of organisms were created in the primordial ocean, but they all disappeared nearly as quickly as they came into being.

Tiamat symbolized that very ocean. According to the myth, she and Apsu had Lahmu, Lahamu, and many other children. However, when their children transcended to Celestialhood, they thought Tiamat and Apsu were blocking their path to world domination. Hence, they tried to get their parents out of the picture.

They eventually managed to kill Apsu, Tiamat’s husband, but she still tried to rationalize their rebellion as the generations transitioning from one to another. However, the rebellion kept becoming stronger, bringing destruction to the world and threatening Tiamat herself.

To retaliate, Tiamat gave birth to new children, but without Apsu’s essence, they were inevitably born incomplete. Those demonic deities were now called Tiamat’s Eleven Demonic Creatures.

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