Chronik left the world before the world ended. When gunfire reached his forest, the former infantryman returned with a rifle, a chainsaw bayonet, and the kind of routines that keep frightened people alive after panic becomes contagious.
03HISTORY // KNOWN RECORD
Eben disappeared into a one-room cabin years before the Calamity. Isolation became discipline rather than escape.
He emerged when violence invaded the woods and discovered that survivors needed structure more than speeches. The name Chronik came from his habit of logging, ordering, and remembering everything.