The Chronicler is the primary author of the Continent Chronicles. According to him, each night when he falls asleep, he wakes up on the Continent and lives a full day as another person. When he goes to bed there, he wakes up back in our world.

He is able to recite the history of the Continent in such great detail because his counterpart is an influential and highly educated historian. The jumps between the worlds are enabled by an artifact known as the Dream Seed: the historian spent many years tracking one down. The Chronicler explains that the connection is one-directional and his counterpart is not aware of Earth, but that he sees yet another world in his own dreams.