Adam Weishaupt

"*Everyone who stands with me and the Illuminati shall become enlightened!*"
―Adam Weishaupt's Entrance Line **Adam Weishaupt** is one of the many Champions in Aeon Clash.

## Description

Enlighten your allies to the truth as Adam Weishaupt illuminates the battlefield with his higher plane of existance.

## Background

* **Source:** Wikipedia Article

Johann Adam Weishaupt (6 February 1748 – 18 November 1830) was a German philosopher, professor of civil law and later canon law, and founder of the Illuminati. Weishaupt's character and intentions have been variously assessed. Some took a negative view, such as Augustin Barruel, who despite writing that Weishaupt's goals were that "Equality and Liberty, together with the most absolute independence, are to be the substitutes for all rights and all property" saw this as more dangerous than beneficial, and John Robison who regarded him as a 'human devil' and saw his mission as one of malevolent destructiveness. Others took a more positive view, including Thomas Jefferson, who wrote in a letter to James Madison that "Barruel’s own parts of the book are perfectly the ravings of a Bedlamite" and considered Weishaupt as an "enthusiastic Philanthropist" who believed in the indefinite perfectibility of man and his intention was simply to "reinstate natural religion, and by diffusing the light of his morality, to teach us to govern ourselves". In his defense, Weishaupt wrote a Kurze Rechtfertigung meiner Absichten in 1787 (A Brief Justification of my Intentions). A translation was done by Dr. Tony Page in which he wrote: "Weishaupt’s plan was to educate Illuminati followers in the highest levels of humanity and morality (basing his teachings on the supremacy of Reason, allied with the spirit of the Golden Rule of not doing to others what one would not wish done to oneself), so that if Illuminati alumni subsequently attained positions of significance and power (such as in the fields of education and politics), they could exert a benevolent and uplifting influence upon society at large. His project was utopian and naively optimistic, and he himself was certainly not without flaws of character – but neither he nor his plan was evil or violent in and of themselves. It is one of the deplorable and tragic ironies of history that a man who tried to inculcate virtue, philanthropy, social justice and morality has become one of the great hate-figures of 21st-century 'conspiracy' thinking."

## Stats

**Adam Weishaupt** is a Mage Champion and a part of the **Damage Class**.

* **Health:** 1250 (Lvl. 1) / 2200 (Lvl. 20)
	+ **[LVL = +50 HP]**
* **Damage:** 115 (Lvl. 1) / 400 (Lvl. 20)
	+ **[LVL = +15 DMG]**

## Skills

### Default Skills

* **PASSIVE: Damage Boost**
	+ Killing enemies increases the PLAYER's damage, this can stack up to 5 times.
* **SKILL 1: Magic Blast**
	+ Fire a magic blast in front of you that damages and knocks back the first enemy hit.
		- **COOLDOWN:** 6s
* **SKILL 2: Magic Wave**
	+ Unleash a magic wave around yourself that damages and knocks back all enemies hit.
		- **COOLDOWN:** 8s
* **WEAPON ATTRIBUTE:**
	+ **WAND:** Once the Damage Boost Meter has 5 stacks your skills deal double damage.

### Champion Skill

* **CHAMPION SKILL:** Iluminatus
	+ Adam Weishaupt enlightens allies around him to the truth, sending them to a higher plane of existance for 10s. While in this state allies are healed and cannot be damaged by enemies. Once the duration ends Adam Weishaupt gains health regeneration for 8s. while slowing down all nearby enemies in the process.
		- **COOLDOWN: 25s**

## Notes

* Adam Weishaupt was a silhouette from Season 2 of Aeon Clash up until the end of Season 5, but wasn't released until Season 6 as a playable Champion