But it wasn't Marius, this awful sound, this intrusion, this sudden disruption of everything, this thing grabbing hold of my hair and tearing me off her so the blood spurted out of my mouth. It was Enkil. And his powerful hands were clamped on the sides of my head.

The Vampire Lestat ~ Anne Rice

But the body itself was glass! And it was utterly hollow! Even the huge shining orbs of the eyes were transparent, only shadowy circles defining the irises. No, wait. Observe everything. And there, you can see the bones, turned to the very same substance as the flesh, they are there, and also the fine crazing of veins and arteries, and something like lungs inside, but it is all transparent now, it is all of the same texture. But what had been done to him!

The Queen of the Damned ~ Anne Rice

An ancient Egyptian king who reigns before language was written and who is the first vampire made by Akasha.

Enkil marries Akasha and together they turn their people away from the pracice of cannibalism and toward a worship of Osiris and the cultivation of grains. He has a vision of all things united in good, of channeling all forces to the same divine course.

(Enkil & Akasha)
The Vampire Lestat
~ Innovation Books ©1990

However, when Akasha brings the twin witches Mekare and Maharet to their court, she invites disaster. A spirit named Amel besieges them and Enkil, along with Akasha, attempts to harness the spirit's power for good. In the process, he and Akasha are struck down by their own people, who dislike their new decrees and Amel enters Akasha, making her a vampire. In turn, Akasha passes vampirism on to Enkil. Together the become deities.

The vampires believe that Enkil houses the vampire spirit and that to destroy Enkil would be to destroy the entire vampire race. He and Akasha initially are trapped by rogue vampires for their blood, which is the most powerful because it is closest to the immortal source - the spirit Amel. Eventually Enkil and Akasha break free but become as living statues, motionless and silent. The Elder, an Egyptian vampire, stands guard over them for centuries, placing them in the sun when he tires of his task. Marius delivers the couple, known as Those Who Must Be Kept, from the Elder and keeps them in shrines that he builds all over the world.

In one such shrine, Marius reveals the king and queen to Lestat. Lestat suceeds in waking Akasha from her trance, but Enkil also awakens and moves to protect her. Lestat believes that Enkil actually imprisons her in the trancelike state.

Marius keeps Enkil and Akasha safe for nearly two thousand years, until 1985, when he finds Enkil's transparent corpse, bloodless and deteriorating. This makes it clear that Akasha is really the one who keeps the vampires alive and that when she had no more need of Enkil, she destroyed him.

The Vampire Companion ~ Katherine Ramsland