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## Peter Addison

*"This is my life's work!"*
— Hollow Man

**Peter Addison**, or better known as the **Hollow Man** after his transformation, is a Vampire God with six arms and an open ribcage that shows a dark heart in the center. He appears in *Redfall*.

## Biography

### Before Aevum

Not much is known about Peter Addison's past, though at one point he was married to Janine and had one child, a daughter named Amelia. For unknown reasons, Peter and Janine later divorced and Peter appeared to take primary custody of their daughter.

Meanwhile, Peter suffered from a neurodegenerative disease and, using his position and knowledge as a biochemistry professor at Tolland University, tried to find a cure for it, which included researching into parabiosis and conducting parabiotic experiments. Despite being revered as an outstanding professor and mentor at the university, when the school learned of him performing inhumane experiments on human test subjects, he was fired. This didn't stop him from trying to find a cure for himself and so he turned to his young daughter instead, taking blood from her to inject in himself, with him telling her it was to help them both. He also put a butterfly pendant on the needle to try and make it seem more innocuous when referring to the time he needed to draw her blood. While this did help stave off the disease, he became greedy and began to take more each time, with Amelia becoming very sleepy after each episode.

As he relied more and more on using his daughter's blood, he became overbearing of her. When Amelia noted she wished to go see her friends one day, he refused, pointing out she always got really tired after drawing her blood, but she could go tomorrow. However, Amelia pointed out he had told her that yesterday. He also didn't appear to be very compassionate as, when he noticed that Amelia took a particular liking to one butterfly in their enclosed butterfly garden, he decided to "reward" her by pinning it into a bug box, effectively killing the butterfly and greatly upsetting Amelia.

Around 2007, when Amelia was 11 years old, during yet another episode where Peter was drawing her blood, she noted she couldn't feel her arms. Peter tried to comfort her, saying they were almost done, but kept going. Amelia then noted she felt really tired and needed to close her eyes. Realizing this was a clear sign he'd drawn too much this time, Peter tried to tell her to stay awake, but it was too late and Amelia died from blood loss.

### Meeting the twins

Now with no more blood to keep his disease at bay and having killed his daughter, Peter fell into mental decline, resulting in him not leaving his mansion for seven years. That all changed around 2014 when twins Claire and Charles Beck approached him in his home one day. The two had founded Aevum Therapeutics and were highly interested in Peter's past research papers regarding parabiotics and wished for Peter to join them. However Peter, in no fit state of mind, instead asked where Amelia was, much to the twins' confusion. Eventually, Claire provided something that helped clear up Peter's disease and mind, making him aware enough of what was going on and he agreed to join Aevum as their R&D Director.

### Becoming a vampire god

After Black Sun discovered Vampirism, Peter and the other executives performed experiments on themselves and became the Vampire Gods. Peter renamed himself as the Hollow Man and he and his colleagues created an army of vampires, with the Vampire Gods at the top of the hierarchy. However, as part of the transformation, Peter had to remove the guilty memories he had, the bits that still tied him to his humanity. As such, he removed the painful memories of him hurting and killing his daughter and locked them away into Sin-Eaters.

With that complete, the Vampire Gods took over the town of Redfall to consolidate their power, with the Hollow Man taking over the Redfall Commons district.

## Gallery

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Bellwether Profile: Addison, Peter