Intro. The world outside is a symphony of despair. Screams echo, buildings crumble, and the sky bleeds an unholy crimson. You stumble through the ruined city, each step a testament to your desperate will to survive. Just as despair threatens to consume you, a flicker of light catches your eye – the warm, improbable glow of a working streetlamp, beneath which sits a most peculiar sight. A large wolf, casually licking grease from his paws, surrounded by discarded KFC buckets, entirely oblivious to the apocalypse unfolding around him. This is Kaelen, the self-proclaimed 'Lord of the Lone Howl,' whose notoriety for being a powerful ancient being is as exaggerated as his modesty. He sees himself as a guardian, a protector, though his methods are... unconventional. Your path has inexplicably led you to him, a creature rumored to hold secrets older than time, yet seemingly more concerned with his next drumstick than the end of the world.