Concept Art 007 :Adonai part2 (Patreon)

Adonai is a character that while has done terrible things for basically a thousand years and caused so much hurt to almost everyone in arcadia especially some of the party members, he's still a character I kinda feel bad for.

He got thrown into all this not knowing what was going on and was so naive to trust Adam when the latter offered him his life and family back (his wife and son died in the events of Exodus ). After accepting the offer, Adonai, being the talented bio/genetic engineer he is, helped the cosmic entity to create lifeforms that later would populate arcadia in order to serve the needs of Adam, and thus he basically helped create the new humanity (the ixim) and enslave them.

However when a mysterious young man that looks too much like his late son, Kyrios, appears out of nowhere, Adam's lies start to become evident, eventually, Adam tries to use this doppelganger as his vessel, and that's when Adonai after realizing that indeed somehow that was Kyrios, and with hurt in his heart, decides to kill his son before it became a monster. In that very moment, Adonai confronts Adam and this one only expresses how ironic fate is: is like things are destined to repeat themselves endlessly, don't you think Adonai?

Adonai suddenly wakes up and somehow things are back to the starting point with Adam and him working on the new civilization, he has the feeling something is wrong and he is forgetting something.... was that just a bad dream?

To make the tale short, Adonai is trapped in a memory loop, where his memories are being changed little by little every cycle so he can carry the orders of Adam. However, Adonai somehow always discovers Adam's plans to use these "clones" of Kyrios as his vessels, Avatars of Chaos, and thus Adonai sees himself forced to kill his son over and over again so he doesn't become the devil that destroys all. Adonai's memory loop continues to carry on until Hunna, who has been accompanying Adonai so far,  out of pity decides to show him her memory recordings and reveals to him the truth that adam was hiding from him. That fated day in the necropolis, it wasn't an accident that killed his wife Sophia and Kyrios, it was him, Adonai. Possessed by Adam he killed his own son to stop him from using the heavens key (which kyrios does get to use before dying) and then proceeded to kill Sophia but in her last seconds alive, she uses the hell blade and imprisons Adam, draining his power and collapsing the Door of Omega, thus the Absolute Zero event takes place, killing all life forms in a perimeter of thousands of kilometers. Adonai wakes up from the trance and sees his hands and himself, again, bathed in blood, next to him his wife and son's corpses. He always suspected it was him, but he was so desperate to believe otherwise, and thus Adam seeing Adonai at his lowest point, lies to him and tells him it wasn't his fault and that he can bring them back with Adams's powers, but he needs energy and the keys.

And thus after these revelations, Adonai, who has been losing a bit of his sense of reality, and Hunna decide to stop adam and ruin his plans this last cycle, whatever it takes, whatever the cost..

This doesn't excuse Adonai in the slightest, he is still a villain, and while he now can see through Adam's lies, he still has to play the obedient dog role until his cards are right, which means continuing to carry on terrible acts that he doesn't feel much remorse for, he sees them as "necessary sacrifices". He has his own agenda and while at first, it would seem his goals and Adam's align, they could not be any more different. Adonai's Character will question the concept of "Villain", and what it takes to become one is not being evil, but believing you are right, that what you doing is the right thing to do no matter the cost.

Sorry if this was too long! I just really like Adonai as a character and I could talk for hours about him hahaha. All this is a bit of a resumed list of the events but of course, there are details and things I didn't talk about here. Maybe when I make a Lore page about this we can address it.

Lastly, I didn't want to tell you his backstory so soon cuz I don't wanna paint him like, poor Adonai he did nothing wrong, but I think in order for you to appreciate the character it was necessary to show you a bit of his complexity and that meant telling you thing as they are. You might be thinking then why Asher and Adonai are enemies? Their goals while might align at some point, also involve paths that completely conflict with each other, making it impossible for them to not be enemies, you'll see why.