Character:SpartacusBauariae

Adam Weishaupt was a professor of Christian law in the early 19th century, and the founder of the Illuminati (OOOH! SPOOKY!). This guy was basically like "if evil people can form secret societies, and morally neutral people can too, why can't good people do the same?" He then proceeded to found a group dedicated to making the world more knowledgeble, but unfortuantely he was shut down by the church for heresy.

Post-Resurrection
After taking a decade to get over the idea that, no, Jesus was just a preacher and not the son of god, he began trying to piece together a new life.

He met Leonardo da Vinci in the Library of Virtually Everything, and the two discussed their pet peeves about the New Real. The conversation quickly turned more serious as they debated about the possibility that if technology was progressing towards the capabilities of the Descendants, that surely there would come a point when certain technologies were too dangerous to not regulate. This then segued into the immoral experiments that were supposedly being done in the name of "human progress", and the seeds of the Illuminated Brotherhood were born.

Aw, $#!t, here we go again!
The Illuminated Brotherhood was the Illuminati's successor in the New Real, though with a vastly different purpose and a more careful method of preventing corruption. The idea was that despite having a few secrets, the Brotherhood would have public financial records and a culture of whistleblowing to prevent the organization from harboring anyone more interested in controlling people than protecting them. Adam is still part of the Brotherhood, currently working as part of the ethics committee.

He is rumored to have been the source of the information leak about Words, the reality hacks created by various members of the Brotherhood in the 119th century of the Gaian Holocene Equivalent. He supposedly realized that when Words, which predate the creation of Superhuman Ability Modules by over a century, were created, that there were not enough checks and balances at the time to prevent abuse, and is said to have convinced the ethics committee to archive them and ban further development of reality hacks.

Whether he came to the conclusion that Lovelace-Turing Research's SAM API had finally provided the proper tools to prevent abuse of their own earlier creations, or that his supposed involvement in the creation and/or restrictions on developing Words was just a rumor inferred by his later actions, is a mystery, but since the 11990's Adam has been involved in the conversion of Words from the old and haphazard reality hacks into SAMs that are debugged and safety-tested.