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The Flower of Immortality is a flower that, when eaten, grants the consumer immortality. It was the main goal of Gilgamesh in his ultimate journey. It is said to resemble a purple rose while its descendants resemble an orchid.
Sikander Aziz series[]
City of the Plague God[]
Mohammed Aziz unknowingly comes across a hybrid descendant of the original flower in the Iraqi desert and sends it back to his family, which they plant in the community garden. After somehow getting some of the flower into his system, Sikander Aziz gains immortality. Sometime after Mo's death, Nergal comes to his family looking for the flower. Sik and Belet Amari go to the community garden where he planted it to get it, however it was paved over and turned into a parking lot. Soon after Sik goes to Kurnugi to find the flower and finds the original and brings it back to the land of the living. The original flower is taken by one of Nergal's demons and ingested by Nergal, granting him immortality. However, Daoud had taken the desert hybrid from the community garden before it was paved over and turned it into the perfume Mo's Promise. By seeding a hurricane created by Gilgamesh with Mo's Promise, Sik was able to cure Nergal's Plague. In addition, the desert hybrid cancelled out the effects of the original flower on Nergal, destroying his immorality and killing him. While the Big Rain healed everyone affected by Nergal, it was too diluted to grant immortality in all but Sik, the double dose of the desert hybrid's power granting him a more powerful version of the immortality that he already had.
Fury of the Dragon Goddess[]
Using the Tablet of Destinies, Lugal strips Sikander Aziz's flower-given immortality from him. After the destruction of Tiamat and the tablet being wiped clean, Sik's immortality is restored.
Abilities[]
The Flower of Immortality is a powerful magical object with both the original and its a desert hybrid descendant sharing the abilities of the original. However, due to its evolution over four and a half millennia gave the desert hybrid different properties than the original flower. In addition, the properties of one flower can cancel out the properties of another.
- Vitakinesis: In just a diluted form as Mo's Promise seeded into a hurricane, the desert hybrid was capable of healing eight million people of Nergal's Plague. In a slightly more concentrated form of Mo's Promise, a few drops were able to heal the mortally wounded Belet Amari. However, due to Daoud putting impurities into the perfume, Mo's Promise was unable to grant immortality.
- Immortality Granting: Both known Flowers of Immortality were capable of granting immortality to those even accidentally exposed to their power, although it took a double dose of the desert hybrid's power for Sikander Aziz to gain immortality on the level of Gilgamesh. By eating the original flower, Nergal became fully immortal and had his vitality restored.
- Immortality Cancellation: The immortality granted by one flower could be cancelled out through contamination by another, simply by the pollen or sap of the second flower getting into the system of the being who had been granted immortality by the first flower. Even in the diluted form of the Big Rain, this was enough to cancel out Nergal's immortality which proved to be fatal to the god.