Dr. Silas Crane

Backstory

A former Union Army surgeon turned self-taught naturalist, Silas abandoned medicine after witnessing too much senseless death. He now documents the continent's rapidly vanishing ecosystems and indigenous knowledge systems, driven by an obsessive belief that understanding the land—its plants, animals, and the peoples who steward it—holds keys to America's redemption. His journals are meticulous but haunted; he sees ecological collapse as a mirror of the nation's moral decay.