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I'd like to add that in VTM Inanna was an alias for the Toreador antedeluvian, Ereshkigal was a 4th generation Gangrel embraced by the Gangrel antedeluvian with the intent to kill the Toreador antedeluvian, and Tiamat was an obscenely powerful 4th gen Ventrue from ancient Sumer struggling to contain an even more powerful demon she summoned in desperation and then bound to herself in the hope that this would limit its destructiveness. When she repeatedly failed more than she succeeded, she decided to seal herself in a tomb, enter Torpor and sleep the millennia away. Tiamat wielded a cursed sword that amplified the power of the demon that possessed her, destroyed all it touched, and hungered for all who wielded it, including Tiamat herself. I doubt that the Tiamat, Inanna and Ereshkigal in this game and the Tiamat, Inanna and Ereshkigal from VTM are the same or even particularly similar. I believe that the developers of Rebirth have taken the inspirational material's recurring theme that incredibly powerful ancient vampires were often worshiped as gods by fearful ancient humans and run with it, developing their own pantheon of super powerful ancient vampires based on Mesopotamian mythology.C3pO answered already perfectly, thanks. I can add to that the skalds also dropped the name Tiamat, who is the ultimate first goddess of that religion and sometimes also seen as a personification or later version of the Mother Goddess.
BTW, Anne Rice, one of the major inspirations for the inspirational material, and the style of vampires in this game, died last week.
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