Adam was created in New Orleans shortly before moving to Detroit with Mai.
Mai came upon him in a library, reading occult books. She liked him because at the time, although guardedly, she was able to be honest with him and he was accepting and eager for the new life he was about to embark on.
She's wanted to groom him into a lawyer, but he himself seems to want to be a Tremere sorcerer instead. Recently he's been reading nonsense books like numerology, proving that Mai is a very poor teacher.
He recently went through a period of very serious illness, with apparently supernatural causes. A copy of The Tapestry was removed from his room and Mai attempted to nurse him back to health. When he was close to death, he recovered, and it may have had something to do with a ritual performed the night before at the Motor City Casino? by the Tremere Justicar.
Adam seems to have become more interested in the life of the dead than Mai is, and seems to long for the embrace as Mai becomes increasingly less willing to invite him into the type of life she leads.
One big bonus of Adam's dark seriousness is that he scares away all the other player characters and they very very rarely crash at Mai's haven anymore.
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