Adam

* Biography
* Network Files
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

### Known Aliases

Mitch Shelley, Resurrection Man, Father of All, First Hunter, First Prophet, Dying One, Source of Death, Source of Pain, *Imago Dei*, Leinth (Aliases)

### Relatives

The Presence (Creator)
Cain and Abel (Sons)
Seth (Adopted Son, Deceased)
Dora (Daughter)

## Biographical Information

### Education

Supernal Instinct and Centuries of Hunting Experience

### Marital Status

Seperated (Lilith and Eve, First & Second Wife)

## Biography

### Adam: 7225 BCE - 3940 BCE

It is said that Adam was created in the Presence's image. It is more correct to say that he was created to be the Presence's image. As a way to the sculpted man that would become Adam life, the Presence parted with one of His souls. That soul was the *imago dei*, representing the Presence's "true face". Adam was also given a significant endowment of the Presence's supernal energy, intent on making Adam His First Prophet.

So Adam would not be alone, the Presence created a feminine equal to Adam, but to compliment the supernality of Adam, his first wife was given infernal investment. This beautiful creation was named Lilith, and so it was that the couple were given the Garden of Eden to live, play, and work as the Presence studied them, ensuring both were properly made.

In order to further test their capabilities, the Presence sent the Archangels into the mortal world to bring back lessons for instructing Adam and Lilith, to prepare them for joining the human race. The first lesson was given by the Presence and in this lesson, Adam and Lilith were forbidden from eating the fruit of the trees at the center of the Garden as these trees belonged to the Presence alone.

Over time, Lilith's Infernal nature became addicted to the supernal energy of the Garden and Adam. When Adam's innate energy could no longer sustain her through physical contact alone, she began killing the creatures of the Garden, using a ritualistic blade created from the jaw of the first supernal beast she had slain. Fearing this behavior would get her exiled from the Garden, Adam took this blade from Lilith and made her promise to stop slaying the animals of their Garden. Lilith agreed, but only if Adam would allow her to preform a ritual on him so she could feed on his supernal power without physical contact. Fearing losing her, Adam agreed. Though this ritual happened and left its mark on Adam, Lilith continued to misbehave and was eventually exiled from the Garden.

Adam was prepared to leave with her, but instead the Presence created a new wife for Adam, one created from supernal energy the same as Adam - even taking a token piece of Adam to be certain that his new wife, Eve, would be a better companion to Adam. For what it was worth, Adam did love Eve and felt loved by her. The two were happy in their Garden.

### 3940 BCE - Present

Lilith's vengeful agenda eventually used Eve's love for Adam to bring about the end of the Garden of Eden experiment. Adam and Eve were cast out, forced into human society earlier than planned. Adam felt unworthy of the prophetic calling given to him and eventually chose a mortal surrogate son to fulfill the prophetic duties in his place so he could retire to the wilderness with Eve to raise their sons.

Again, Lilith sought to punish Adam for not joining her in exile. This time she corrupted the relationship between Adam's sons, cursing them into an eternal cycle of bloodshed and suffering. Unable to tolerate this, Adam reclaimed the knife that he had taken from Lilith so long ago and pledged his life, soul, blood, and the blade to the service of the divine if the Presence would only grant this blade the right to end Lilith's life and the lives of all her evil offspring.

This began the monster slaying career of the so-called First Hunter.

### Key Affiliations

* **Heavenly Host:** Adam has never been to Heaven, but he is a vital part of what keeps Heaven functioning as he is its primary incubator for worship endowment and a potent conduit for worship collection.

### Notice

The tale of the so-called "Resurrection Man" is one that is not easily verified. As you will see, the details surrounding this figure are not conventional by any means and would make the corroboration of any accounting by a witness or informant rather difficult if not impossible.

### The Curious Case of Mitch Shelley

The earliest known account of the Resurrection Man belongs to a Mitch Shelley. A trapped who lived in Wyoming in the late 19th century. Mr. Shelley was said to have been born in Central City, Missouri and came out west to a life for himself. He was a mysterious man to the few who knew him, a recluse and hermit. He lived in a cabin in the mountains around River Rock.

Shelley's story is not an interesting one until we reach his death, or the days prior to it. Locals in River Rock would later testify to the local sheriff that a woman of uncertain description (some witnesses described her as blonde, others as a brunette) asked if they had seen anyone matching the description of Shelley. Days later, Shelley stumbled down the streets of River Rock crying for help. When the local sheriff responded to the cries, he found a set of three footprints that approached a puddle of blood and then the tracks disappeared.

Two year later, a gambler who had left River Rock and settled in Blue Valley some years before Shelley's death wrote to his mother. In the letter, the gambler bought Shelley a drink and the two talked for some time before Shelley saw something that spooked him and he ran out. Moments later, there was the report of several gunshots. When the gambler left the saloon to see what was the commotion, Shelley's body was being dragged away by a horse with a rider, with a second rider not far behind on Shelley's own horse.

When the gambler's mother wrote back to explain that her son must be mistaken as Shelley had died in River Rock years before, the gambler approached the sheriff in Blue Valley to inquire to the murder he had witnessed. The sheriff explained that the man killed that day was not Mitch Shelley but rather Pastor Roger Hill.

### The Life and Death, and Life and Death of Roger Hill

The story gets more complicated when a man going by the name John Cooper was arrested on minor weapon charges by a deputy that once lived in Blue Valley. Cooper claimed that if the deputy put him in a jail cell, her might as well hang him. When the deputy refused to release the prisoner, Mr. Cooper claimed that he was Roger Hill and used to give sermons to the deputy and his old (and supposedly murdered) pastor would have known.

The deputy left the room to speak with another deputy about the concerning conversation he had with a prisoner, but when he returned with other deputy, Cooper's cell was covered in blood but the body missing. The deputies checked the doors but found all locked and showed no signs of tampering.

The second deputy would go on to have another encounter with John Cooper, though the man now claimed to be Edward Meyer and though twenty years had passed, Cooper/Meyer did not appear to have aged a day. The deputy, who was inebriated at the time, tried to arrest the man but Cooper/Meyer brushed him off. The drunken deputy shot him in the back. The next morning, when he rode out to show the sheriff the body of the man he shot, no body was found.

### Only the Beginning...

Similar stories continue to pop up. Sometimes the look of "Resurrection Man" appears to change between identities. Other times, his appearance seems constant for decades with few changes other than his alias. His hair color, eye color, skin color, and even his gender has been known to change. He's also been shown to have extraordinary abilities outside of defying the limits of death.

### Myron Dean & Rhonda Thornton

In one account, in 1959, a Myron Dean — a middle-aged African-American from Opal City was killed in a car accident and left on the side of the road and found by authorities days after his death, his heart missing from his chest. A bloody knife made from an animal jawbone nearby likely what was used to extract the heart.

In the midst of the autopsy, the coroner left the room for a few moments to retrieve an instrument. Upon returning to the autopsy room, Myron's body was missing and in its place was a white middle-aged woman. The coroner approached the body to investigate when the woman suddenly gasped and sat up. The startled coroner fell to the ground and by the time he composed himself, the naked woman had left the building, taking the jawbone blade with her.

The coroner never saw the body of Myron Dean again, but the same woman would return to his slab eighteen months later, in 1961. Identified as Rhonda Thornton, the victim of a gunshot — who was also missing her heart. No sign of the jawbone blade this go-round.

The morning that Rhonda's body was to be picked up for a burial by the local mortuary, the coroner and mortician found the morgue ransacked with Rhonda's body missing. Two years later, a witness to the ransacking of the morgue would identify Gilbert Moss as the man having fled from that scene. Moss had been picked up on a breaking and entering charge. Among his possessions at the time of his arrest was a blade made from an animal's jawbone. Mr. Moss would die in police custody two days after the witness identification. Mr. Moss's heart was carved out of his chest and the jawbone blade missing from the evidence lockup.

### The Many Lives of Gilbert Moss

Gilbert Moss turned up again, breaking out of a crematory several days after his death. Police failed to apprehend him, but a manhunt was called out and his photograph (taken during his autopsy) was distributed to numerous police officers and agents of the media in and around Opal City in 1963.

That photograph would be compared to the mugshot of a deceased John Doe in Chicago in 1970 by a resourceful journalist investigating the Resurrection Man myth. The same journalist would later claim that in 1996, he tracked down and confronted a man named Wayne Holt. who he believed to be the Resurrection Man, and interviewed him. Mr. Holt confirmed a short list of aliases he had once used, claiming that is all he could recall. However, Mr. Holt did go on to confirm several other names when the journalist inquired bout them directly. when pressed for any information going back before Mitch Shelley, Mr. Holt told the journalist that he was getting involved in something that he had no place associating with. Finally, the reporter asked why this was happening to Mr. Holt. Holt replied "I don't know... Curse from God? Why does anything happen to anyone? Life is what it is... I've just been unfortunate to live many, many lives."

After that, Holt left the interview. The reporter followed him to the motel he was staying in. The reporter planned to let Holt's temper cool off before approaching him again. He staked out the motel room for the next two days but saw no signs of Holt's arrival or departure. Fearing Holt had fled, the reporter bribed the motel clerk for a spare key to Holt's room. Inside, he found Holt's body on the bed with his chest slide open and his heart missing. The reporter fled from the room to call the authorities but by the time of their arrival, Holt's body was missing.

Some security cameras would record a man wearing the clothing Holt was last seen wearing, covered in blood, fleeing the scene around the same time of the 911 call. The reporter would later identify this mysterious man as Morris Higgins who would later end up on a morgue slab a year and a half later. And three years after that, under the name Wilbur Arnold. Mr. Arnold's body disappeared, too...

### My Best Guess

This Resurrection Man is a meteor freak — a century ahead of the curve. As to what's up with the disappearing hearts, that's obviously the Illuminati at work.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Supernal Primordial Physiology:** Adam was created from supernal-enriched clay and granted power and life by the Presence.
	+ ***Imago Dei:*** "The Image of God" — Upon death and rebirth, Adam's visage will reshape itself to partially reflect the current form of Erebus — the being known as the Divine Presence, or whatever appearance is currently housing the Presence's divine grace. Currently, Adam resembles Noah Johnson, the former minister in possesion of the Presence's grace.
	+ ***Immortality:*** Adam can live without concern for age or disease.
	+ ***Miracle Magic:*** Within moments of resurrecting, Adam's ancient prophet powers begin to emerge, giving him an extraordinary ability. When Adam dies, he loses any power gained and will begin his next resurrection with a new innate ability, seemingly at random. However, Adam does retain the knowledge of how to use his powers and remains familiar in the use of each and every ability.
	+ ***Worship Absorption:*** As the First Prophet, Adam siphons residual psychic energy generated by those who worship the Presence in any form. Over time, this worship builds up and grants Adam access to more miracles. The longer he survives, the more powerful he becomes.
* **Additional Supernal Endowment:** Having consumed the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, Adam has powers that give him power bordering on the divine.
	+ ***Gift of Tongues:*** Adam has the ability to speak, write, and understand each and every language — including those of animals not capable of speech. Similarly, Adam can be understood by all lifeforms, regardless of which language he chooses to speak.
* **The Mark of Union:** Adam's right forearm bears a scar, carved by the First Blade. An identical mark is found on Lilith's arm. This is the mark left by an ancient ritual.
	+ ***Infernal Infection:*** Adam's scar will never heal as Lilith's infernal blood sealed the scar on Adam's supernal flesh.
	+ ***Resurrection:*** "While one remains both will draw breath". Should Adam die, he returns to life, through a flawed and painful process.
	+ ***Telepathy:*** Adam can press his hand against his scar to communicate with Lilith by transmission of thoughts. Though he rarely does this as the two rarely speak to one another anymore.
* **The First Blade:** Adam's jawbone blade was created from the jaw of a supernal beast slain by Lilith. The weapon has been blessed with additional power by a pact of devotion between Adam and the Presence and is filled with divine purpose. In the hands of Adam, the blade is indestructible and can pierce the flesh to smite the life from any being — mortal or otherwise.

### Weaknesses

* **Hunted:** Adam is regularly killed to harvest his heart for ritual needs.
* **Memory Loss:** The trauma caused by violent death and sudden removal from the afterlife usually leaves a recently resurrected Adam confused. It may take months for him to regain his entire memory.
* **Psychic Magnet:** Adam tends to draw the attention of others.

### Analytics

#### Adam

* **Physicality:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Occult:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Weaponry:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Expertise:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Ranged:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Strategy:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
	+ **TOTAL:** 85
	+ **RANKING:** Moderate Threat

#### Resurrection Man

* **Physicality:** (Initial Entry - 3 — Trained / Exceptional)
* **Occult:** (Initial Entry - 3 — 3 — Trained / Exceptional)
* **Weapons:** (Initial Entry - 3 — 3 — Trained / Exceptional)
* **Expertise:** (Initial Entry - 3 — 3 — Trained / Exceptional)
* **Ranged:** (Initial Entry - 3 — 3 — Trained / Exceptional)
* **Strategy:** (Initial Entry - 3 — 3 — Trained / Exceptional)
	+ **TOTAL:** (Initial Entry — 30)
	+ **RANKING:** (Initial Entry — Low Threat)

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* For a while, Geon would exchange messages between Eve and Adam before he was captured by Odin and made to serve him.
* For some time he was known as Leinth. During that time he met someone posing as Alpanu.
* During the time of the Spanish Inqusition he was chosen to be a source of power. Heaven begun to harvest his heart to gather worship. Adam generally accepted this. The harvest time was once a year and then it decreased to every three months.
	+ When Gadreel came to harvest the heart they would usually talk and have a drink. Adam would die with a smile on his face.
	+ Suriel and Camael method of harvest didn't include any pleasantries.
* When Rory Regan joined Shadowpact he was asked with keeping an eye on Adam to insured he was not a threat and keep an eye on him as he volunteered at a soup kitchen in Gotham City that he goes to. Eventually Rory approched Adam and told him the truth. However, he already knew, they soon became friends and even showed Rory a few moves he could do with the Suit of Souls as it had originally belonged to him. Since then he has used Rory's pawnshop to travel between Gotham and Star City.
* His methods are usually blunt and unsophisticated.

#### Lilith

* Lilith was created from infernal clay, because the Presence hoped that the opposing energies would cancel one another out and their progeny would be truly mortal beings. Unfortunately the Presence miscalculated His ability to control infernal beings.
* Using dark magic, Naamah sent shades out to all corners of the Earth, armed with the scent of the oasis' former residents. The summoned spirits found the only target remaining on Earth, Adam. They compelled him to return home where Lilith and Naamah captured him and tortured him for years in an attempt to corrupt him.
* He spent enought time with Lilith to recognize her no matter how she appears.

#### Theories

* Before 2016, his fate was unknown after Lilith and Naamah captured him both of who give conflicting accounts about his fate:
	+ One theory states he became the Phantom Stranger. He chose to fight the chaos which had corrupted Lilith and devoted himself to the occult, eventually becoming a Lord of Order in the fight against the Lords of Chaos.
	+ Another theory is he is Lucien. Adam chose to leave his family in search of knowledge. He became a storyteller (much like his wife and sons) to pay his way through his travels until he met Dream who offered him all the knowledge he could ever need, if he only swore service to a new master.
* If legends are to believed, the Addams Family are the descendants of Adam and Eve's third son, Seth. They possibly took their name from "Adam's Family".
	+ Many generations after Lilith cursed the sons of Adam, pitting Cain and Abel against each other, the long-suffering immortal Adam came upon two sons of his bloodline who were warring with one another over their inheritance. Distraught over this revelation, Adam petitioned a powerful being (whether God, an angel, or one of the Endless — sources vary) to intervene. The result was the sons and daughters of Adam's line were prevented from taking the life of their own kin, but upon hearing of this, Lilith placed her own curse on the family making them unnatural and unsettling, resulting in the family often dying at the hands of others. The nature of this curse claims to explain the Addams' interest in death and despair, as well as the family's abundance of genetic abnormalities.

### Notes

* He's composited with DC Comics character Mitch Shelley/Resurrection Man and Cain from the *Supernatural* TV show as well as the bibical Adam.
* In the comics Mitch Shelley was a hero capable of resurrection and gaining new powers with each rebirth thanks to nanobots called Tektites.
* His appearance is based on the actor Timothy Omundson, who portrayed Cain on the show.
* Leinth is an Etruscan deity.

## RepCap and Network Files

RepCap: AdamNetwork Files: Resurrection Man

## Links and References

* Appearances of Adam

1. ↑ RepCap: Adam
2. ↑ Network Files: Resurrection Man
3. ↑ Network Files: Geon
4. ↑ VOX Box: Fall From Grace 14
5. ↑ VOX Box: Fall From Grace 7
6. ↑ RepCap: Lilith
7. ↑ Network Files: Naamah
8. ↑ VOX Box: Fall From Grace 12
9. ↑ Network Files: Phantom Stranger
10. ↑ Network Files: Lucien
11. ↑ Network Files: Gomez Addams
12. ↑ Network Files: Fester Addams