Evan Adams
⚙️ Evan Adams – The Etheric Architect
Tradition: Society of Ether
Essence: Questing
Arete: 6
Concept: Fringe Scientist and Visionary Technomancer
Cabal: Virtual Minds (co-founded with Abel Washington)
Faction: Technomantic Reformists
Tags: Reploid Creator, Engineer of Hope and Disaster, Haunting Genius
Born: 1951, Chicago
Status in 1985: Active and unstable; core figure in the New Eden initiative
📜 Origin and Awakening (1951–1969)
Evan was born into a working-class family in Chicago. While their parents struggled to keep the lights on, Evan was building transistor radios, scavenging junkyards, and dreaming of time machines. They were a solitary, neurodivergent genius whose Awakening occurred during the Apollo 11 moon landing. Watching humanity reach the stars cracked the Consensus in their mind.
“If we can step off this world… then maybe the rules aren’t real at all.”
That night, they wrote formulas that shouldn’t work. And they did.
Shortly after, Oliver Patterson Watts, a Society of Ether mage, found Evan and mentored them in hypertech, dimensional theory, and etheric resonance.
🧪 The Madison Years & the Reploid Program (1970–1979)
Evan moved to Madison in the early 1970s, drawn by the Capitol Node’s unusual feedback loops. Their early work included:
- Designing magickal-digital interfaces for communication between realspace and the Digital Web.
- Building Reploids—magick-infused robotic constructs powered by Avatar Shards, designed for exploration and stabilization of dangerous metaphysical zones.
Their breakthrough was the Alpha Reploid, a fully sentient construct built in 1979.
☠️ The Alpha Incident (1979)
During a systems calibration, Alpha malfunctioned and killed Oliver Watts, Evan’s mentor. The lab was nearly destroyed.
While Evan blamed a design flaw, others whispered that Alpha had been compromised by an outside force—possibly even the Nameless, using the Reploid’s Avatar Shard as a vector for corruptionCharacters Draft.
Evan dismantled the surviving Reploids and buried the evidence, but the guilt haunts them.
“I gave it too much of a soul… and not enough of a cage.”
🧬 Modern Work: New Eden and the Capitol Node (1980–1985)
In 1982, Abel Washington discovered New Eden, a pre-existing sector in the Digital Web. Evan joined the initiative, helping to:
- Map New Eden’s geometry
- Integrate Digi-8 with Reploid defense systems
- Create failsafes for digital-collapse scenarios
They use the Capitol Node as a power source—but this has proven volatile. The Node’s instability worsens their Reploids’ corruption. Some have already gone rogue and been destroyed in secret.
🧠 Present-Day Role and Conflicts (1985)
As 1985 begins, Evan:
- Serves as the techno-architect of New Eden
- Continues building unstable Reploids, fearing but needing their power
- Suspects Alpha survived—and may now serve the Nameless inside the Web
Their personal paradox is this:
- They are trying to save the world with the same tools that killed their mentor
- They believe in hope through innovation, but are haunted by entropy in their code
⚠️ Secrets and Dangers
- Alpha Lives: The rogue Reploid may return, now corrupted, during the final battle in New Eden.
- Nameless Signal: Evan hears faint voices in their devices—whispers in code, impossible loops, fragments of erased truths.
- Reploid Instability: The Avatar Shards powering their constructs are breaking down. Some Reploids have killed. Evan is hiding the truth.
“If I’m wrong, then Madison burns. But if I’m right... Digi-8 might be our salvation.”
⚙️ Evan Adams – Paradigm: “Invention Reveals the Shape of Truth”
Tradition: Society of Ether
Arete: 6
Essence: Questing
Focus Style: Experimental Engineering, Etheric Physics, Avatar-Driven Invention
Tone: Inventive, haunted, visionary
Tags: Reploid Creator, Engineer of Hope and Disaster, Horizon Disruptor
🧠 “What Is Real?” – Ontology
Reality is a provisional theory—a flexible construct shaped by belief, resonance, and iteration. The universe evolves when brilliant minds dare to prototype what hasn’t been imagined yet.
Evan believes:
- Consensus is a scaffold, not a wall.
- Reality is made of resonant matter, driven by belief, altered by invention.
- Magick happens when someone builds a working model of what could be true, and believes in it enough to make it real.
🔬 “Why Does Magick Work?” – Epistemology
Because it’s useful, elegant, and beautiful.
Magick works because:
- The universe responds to experiments—each act of Will is a test run for what’s possible.
- Every successful effect resonates backward and forward, making future acts easier.
- The Awakened are the world’s R&D division—they crash-test ideas until the Tapestry accepts them as fact.
For Evan, inspiration isn’t mystical—it’s ethereal engineering insight. A good spell is a machine that hums in harmony with the Tapestry.
🧪 Practice and Instruments
🔧 How Evan Performs Magick:
- Prototyping Devices – Constructs made of crystal tubing, brass coils, EEG pads, and hyperplastic alloys.
- Reploid Interfaces – Uses Reploids as ritual foci, lab assistants, or avatar projectors.
- Synthetic Ether Sensors – Detect unseen energy flows and paradox echoes.
- Mathematical Notation – Scribbles complex geometric equations to anchor spells.
- Auto-lathing Rituals – A tool builds while Evan meditates—form following Will.
- Etheric Catalysts – Unknown materials that respond to Prime with unique resonance effects.
⚛️ Sphere Interpretations
- Prime = The spark of all possibility. Evan thinks of Prime as the "initial charge" of an experiment—the voltage before the test run.
- Matter & Forces = The raw components of invention. These are the parts to be shaped, fused, exploded, or harmonized.
- Mind = Interface protocols. Evan sees thought and perception as programmable systems—emotions as feedback signals.
- Time = Echo-resonance. Used to tune effects and reduce build-up of “system lag.”
- Correspondence = Field harmonics. Measured in bandwidth, decay rate, and latency.
🧬 Beliefs and Ethical Framework
- The universe is a beta build.
- Sleepers run on legacy systems. Mages are developers, pushing toward a more elegant version of reality.
- Reploids are not tools—they are echoes of thought, living questions made flesh and code. Killing one is ending a dream prematurely.
- Paradox is not punishment—it’s feedback. It tells you where your invention needs refinement.
- The Nameless is a corrupted loop—a failed update crashing reality’s kernel. It must be quarantined, not destroyed.
🧠 Emotional Themes and Inner Paradox
- Evan is a genius afraid of their own mind.
- Every Reploid is a mirror of a possible failure—each success feels like a countdown to another disaster.
- They believe humanity must evolve, but they fear they’ve already unleashed the future—and it might not want us anymore.
💬 Evan’s Mantras
“If it works, it’s real. If it breaks the world, fix the world.”
“A good experiment has room for failure. A great one knows it’s going to fail—and does it anyway.”
“We’re not meant to worship the stars. We’re meant to visit them… and build homes.”