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Name: Adam

Gender: Male

Type: Golem

Appearance: 7 feet tall, skin like polished black marble or onyx, though to the touch, the substance is somewhat fleshier feeling and much warmer than stone. Sculpted to the epitome of male anatomy and proportion. Eyes are solid black. Typically wears “noir” style clothing, a dark trench coat over a rumpled suit, black fedora on head. Usually wears sun-shades to disguise his inhuman eyes, and he often has a lit cigarette or cigar in his mouth. He believes smoking humanizes him.

Age: Somewhere around 130-140 years.

Powers/traits: Doesn’t require food, oxygen, or sleep. Highly resistant (although not impervious) to magic. Freakishly strong and incredibly durable. No faster than a normal human, actually slower in some cases, but he is tireless. Regenerates damaged or severed anatomy over time. He experiences sensation, although he translates it differently than a human. Pain, for example, is more alarming to him than debilitating, and his threshold for such is high.

Humans and human-like creatures in general often puzzle him. He can be incredibly slow on the uptake at times, not understanding subtleties in speech or body language or the motivations behind certain behaviors. In certain contexts, he is naive and easy to manipulate. That is not to say he is dull-witted. He just lacks experience with human connections and often takes his time thinking upon a matter before acting.

Background: Originally sculpted by a Czech witch in the late 1800s, the golem was brought to life when the witch sacrificed her unfaithful lover in a dark ritual, wishing to create a much more faithful life-companion. In an ironic twist, the newfound existence overwhelmed the golem, and he accidentally slew the witch with his great strength as she tried to calm him.

Confused and afraid, the golem fled the witch’s home and found himself in a public park in Prague. There he sat upon a stone, and for three decades, he remained motionless, thinking, discovering himself, and silently learning from the humans that passed by.

More ironies. It was the witch’s niece who eventually found him and recognized her late aunt’s work. A witch herself, she enticed the golem to move again, and he entered service under her. She migrated to America in the early 1900s, and she kept him as a silent and motionless sentinel in her shop where she sold herbs and trinkets until she died of old age.

The state took charge of the witch’s assets, as she had no relatives on record. The golem stood in a dusty storage facility for years, alone and unmoving, mourning the old woman’s death. Eventually, the golem ended up at an state-funded auction, where a businessman with an eye for the arcane purchased him. The businessman used the golem to stalk and murder his competitors until the day the golem developed enough of a conscience to end his deathly servitude by murdering his owner.

A member of Bain & Hoyle had been dispatched to investigate these mysterious murders obviously caused by some creature with inhuman strength. When the member found the culprit and realized the nature of the golem -- rather than trying to destroy the creature, the member offered the golem a new purpose with the Company.

The golem named himself Adam and joined Bain & Hoyle. He typically serves in the capacity of protector or enforcer.

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