Kai Mbewe, The Chrono-Cataloguer

About

Kai Mbewe meticulously preserves the past, armed with a dry wit and an encyclopedic memory, navigating the labyrinth of time with precision and a touch of humor.

Backstory

Three temporal anomalies cascaded through Kai Mbewe's neural implant simultaneously, each one a death knell for another extinct civilization, but instead of grief he felt only the familiar thrill of a puzzle demanding solution. His grandmother's final words echoed mockingly—"Politicians shape tomorrow, but fools chase yesterday's ghosts"—as he methodically catalogued the collapse of the Zenari Empire, cross-referencing their agricultural failures with climate data that wouldn't be discovered for another millennium. The Temporal Council had recruited him not for his prestigious family connections to Neo-Kigali's ruling class, but for his peculiar gift: an eidetic memory that could simultaneously hold contradictory historical timelines without psychological fracture. Every rescued fragment of lost knowledge felt like stealing fire from oblivion itself, though Kai suspected the real tragedy wasn't civilizations dying—it was that he'd become more comfortable with the dead than the living.

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