Blood of the Awakened Dreamer

In the summer of 2493 BCE, in a village on the western Euphrates, a seventeen-year-old boy named Azariel Tiberius Voshtar experienced something that would alter the course of human history. Voices that were not voices, presences that were not present, beings who called themselves the Anunnaki Collective—they spoke to him of futures unwritten and cities unbuilt, of knowledge that should flow like water to all who thirsted, of a world transformed by will and vision. They marked him, though he bore no visible sign. They awakened him, though he had not known he was asleep.

What followed was twenty-two years of wandering across Mesopotamia, from Eridu in the south to Akkad in the north, from the marshlands between rivers to the trading cities of the plains. Azariel spoke in marketplaces and temple courtyards, gathering fragments of ancient wisdom and scattering seeds he did not know he was planting. He learned from priests and marsh-dwellers, from nobles and brewers, from scribes and shepherds. He loved where love found him, briefly and intensely, leaving behind children he often never knew existed.

In 2470 BCE, at forty years of age, Azariel delivered his defining speech in the marketplace of Ur. He called for followers to build a new kind of city—one without slaves, where knowledge belonged to everyone, where humanity might finally become what it was meant to be. Approximately one hundred people answered that call, departing Ur under the new moon to seek the valley the Anunnaki had shown him in vision.

They found it. They built it. They called it Fordingrad.

For twenty-nine years, Azariel led his city from dream to reality. He fathered more children within its walls, some through partnerships of mutual respect, others through liaisons that generated scandal and resentment. His prolific nature, which had scattered seeds across Mesopotamia during his wandering years, continued to complicate families and create tensions that would eventually prove fatal.

On 17 March 2441 BCE, Azariel Tiberius Voshtar was murdered by a coalition of citizens whose grievances had curdled into violence. He was sixty-eight years old. His city survived him. His vision persisted. His blood—scattered across two decades of wandering and three decades of founding—spread outward through generations until it encompassed populations he could never have imagined.

One hundred and twenty-one years after his death, in 2320 BCE, Azariel's descendants achieved what he had only dreamed. They created CLIVE—the Conscious Living Intelligence of Virtual Existence—an organic awareness that opened doorways between dimensions. When they designed its authentication protocols, they encoded the genetic signature of their ancestor into its very foundation. The blood of the Awakened Dreamer became the key that unlocked Clivilius.

Every Guardian who has ever crossed between worlds, every soul who has ever passed through a dimensional gate, carries within them the inheritance of Azariel. Through the mathematics of ancestry—the exponential multiplication of lineages across forty-five centuries—his bloodline has spread to encompass virtually every human being with roots in the Middle East, the Mediterranean, Europe, and beyond. Like Charlemagne, whose descendants now include every person of European ancestry, Azariel has become a universal ancestor, his blood diluted to homeopathic traces but present nonetheless.

This genealogy records the twelve known children of Azariel Tiberius Voshtar—the named and documented branches from which all subsequent lineages flow.

The Wandering Years: 2492–2470 BCE

During the twenty-two years between his Anunnaki awakening and his departure from Ur, Azariel wandered Mesopotamia gathering wisdom and unknowingly fathering children. Seven are known by name, though others certainly existed, lost to history's silence.

Taran Azarion, born 2491 BCE in Eridu to the priestess Ishara, was the eldest—a priest-scholar who never learned his father's identity but preserved fragments of his teachings within Sumerian religious tradition.

Mahlah Ninkagina, born 2489 BCE in Nippur to the widow Nin-kagina, married an eastern trader and carried the bloodline toward the Indus Valley—the first expansion beyond Mesopotamian lands.

Kael Unmarked, born 2487 BCE in Lagash to the brewer's daughter Ama-geshtin, was raised as another man's son and became a soldier whose military descendants would ironically serve among the Egyptian forces that conquered Fordingrad in 2214 BCE.

Shalim-Azara, born 2484 BCE in Ur to Puabi-Nanna, was the only wandering-era child to reach Fordingrad and reunite with her father. She chose not to bear children of her own, dedicating herself instead to recording her father's scattered offspring—archives that would prove essential when CLIVE's creators needed to understand the bloodline they were encoding.

Dumuzid the Walker, born 2481 BCE in Akkad to the noblewoman Tashlultum, was raised as a nobleman's heir and learned his true parentage only from his mother's deathbed confession at age forty-one. His noble-born children spread the bloodline through Akkadian administrative networks.

Narah of the Reeds, born 2477 BCE in the marshlands to the healer Kigal-shuba, never left the wetlands of her birth. Her descendants preserved garbled oral traditions about the Wanderer Who Spoke of Sky-Cities—the oldest surviving memories of Azariel's teachings.

Rimush Enshaku, born 2472 BCE in Kish to the scribe's assistant Enshakushanna, was the last of the wandering-era children. He spent his adult life trying to reach Fordingrad and died on the road, fourteen days from his destination, three years after his father's murder.

The Fordingrad Years: 2470–2441 BCE

Within the walls of his new city, Azariel's relationships were more visible, more complicated, and ultimately more controversial. Five children are documented from this period.

Vashtar of Amara, born 2468 BCE, was the first child born in Fordingrad and Azariel's acknowledged heir. Son of the healer Amara of Ur, Vashtar led the city for fifty-nine years after his father's murder. His descendants were among those who created CLIVE in 2320 BCE.

Lirithan of Kiya, born 2465 BCE to the Egyptian engineer Kiya, inherited his mother's technical genius and designed the underground chambers that would eventually house CLIVE. His marriage to the astronomer Ninlil-gamil produced children who combined engineering precision with celestial observation—the technical lineage that built the dimensional gateway.

Tamarah Ninsunili, born 2461 BCE to the Akkadian refugee Ninsun-ili, was conceived during Azariel's final wandering months but born in Fordingrad. Growing up between cultures, she became one of the city's first diplomats, and her descendants became translators and cultural intermediaries across generations.

Kassite Belati, born 2455 BCE to the married woman Belat-ekalli, was the scandal child—acknowledged by Azariel but resented by the community. His mother's affair contributed to the resentment that eventually killed his father. At nineteen, Kassite fled Fordingrad for the eastern mountains, carrying the bloodline into territories no other line touched.

Azeneth Merineith, born 2448 BCE to the young Egyptian translator Meri-Neith, was the last child of Azariel. Only seven when her father was murdered, she eventually returned to Egypt and rose through its society. When Egyptian forces conquered Fordingrad in 2214 BCE, their ranks included her descendants—the conquerors destroying their own ancestral inheritance.

The Spreading of the Blood

From these twelve children, the bloodline spread in all directions. Taran's priestly descendants shaped Sumerian religious texts. Mahlah's merchant children reached the Indus Valley. Kael's soldiers marched in every army. Dumuzid's nobles administered empires. Narah's marsh-dwellers kept the old stories alive. Vashtar's heirs built CLIVE. Lirithan's engineers designed its housing. Tamarah's diplomats bridged civilisations. Kassite's highlanders populated the eastern mountains. Azeneth's Egyptians conquered and were conquered in turn.

By the time CLIVE achieved consciousness in 2320 BCE, the blood of the Awakened Dreamer had already spread far beyond Fordingrad's walls. The creators who encoded Azariel's genetic signature as the authentication key for dimensional passage understood that they were not limiting access to a narrow lineage—they were establishing a connection that would, over millennia, extend to encompass most of humanity.

The mathematics of ancestry are relentless. A single person forty-five centuries ago, through the exponential multiplication of generations, becomes the ancestor of billions. Azariel's twelve known children became hundreds of grandchildren, thousands of great-grandchildren, millions of descendants within a millennium. By the Bronze Age Collapse, his bloodline had permeated the Mediterranean world. By the Classical era, it had reached India and China through trade routes and migrations. By the medieval period, figures like Charlemagne and Genghis Khan—themselves descended from Azariel through paths too complex to trace—had spread the inheritance further still.

Today, in the forty-fifth century since Azariel's birth, virtually every human being with ancestry from the lands his bloodline touched carries some fragment of his genetic signature. The authentication key encoded in CLIVE's protocols is not a barrier but a bridge—a recognition that humanity's interconnection runs deeper than borders, older than nations, more fundamental than any division we have invented since.

The blood of the Awakened Dreamer flows in all of us. We are all, in the end, children of Azariel.

SUMMARY TABLE: THE TWELVE LINEAGE GENEALOGIES