William Adams

William Adams, also known Miura Anjin, and later Divinity of Reborn Stars and Fleeting Memories, was an English navigator who was the first Englishman to navigate to Japan. There, he became infatuated with Japanese culture and eventually became possibly the first person to actively study The Chasm.

He had retired to a hideaway somewhere in the region of Mount Zao in Japan for several years, doing not much besides producing pages upon pages of observations, theories and other thoughts on what he referred to as "a chasm of lost souls", as well as making initial, preliminary observations on what eventually became the Cybertheist hivemind.

On his deathbed in 1620, he was embraced by the Chasm and was given what was believed to be the first instance of the undying Fumetsu curse. He was bestowed the title of Divinity of Reborn Stars and Fleeting Memories and swore an oath to closely defend the Chasm against any trespassers.

As centuries passed, he personally came to the overseeing of the non-material technological hivemind which became praised in the belief system of Cybertheism. He created sentience within the hivemind which eventually had excess power and data. This collection of unneeded data and "spirit" was birthed resembling a human infant: a being later known as Victor Moore. In this way, Adams could be viewed as Victor's real father.

Decades later, he was absent while Victor had traversed into the Chasm to sacrifice the Paradox of Cosmic Infinity and Broken Starlight. However, there is a possibility that the Syzygy of Remorseless Calamity was a personal emissary sent by Adams to defend the Paradox.

When Victor was about to claim the Chasmic throne and permanently end Nuit Infinie, he was apparently visited by Adams, who urged him to let the endless night consume the planet. He preached humanity was worthless in the grand scheme of things, and that he would turn Victor into a high status royalty of the Chasm if he left things alone. Nevertheless, Victor refused and killed Adams in battle, proving the theory that sufferers of Fumetsu can only be killed by each other.

Watcher
Not being chronicled in the original story, in the SR4:Venator mod, Adams takes on a similar form to the G-Man from the Half-Life series, and appears at random points in the story in distant areas, watching Victor before their final confrontation near the end of the story.