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Your MC reminds of of Roland Deschain from Steven King's Dark Tower series. He was born in a world that had it's faults but which was generally stable and peaceful. Then the world "moved on" despite Roland's best efforts to hold things together. He witnessed and participated in the events that destroyed the world he knew and replaced it with a darker, grimmer shadow of itself. He was also disconnected from time in a way that meant that most people he met didn't remember the old world and had only heard of it in story.

King started the book series late in Roland's story, long after the world had moved on. You could say that the books start at the beginning of the end of Roland's tale. They follow him through a finite, critical series of events that determine his fate and the fate of the universe.

But King didn't ignore Roland's long and interesting past. He worked in flashbacks to the time before the world moved on. With them he was able to illustrate the ways that Roland and the world had changed and why.

It worked for Steven King, so maybe it would work for you. Just be careful not to include so many flashbacks that they overshadow the present.

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