The Author

The Author is an alias for someone mentioned throughout OneShot. He is credited for inventing a flying machine, writing and illustrating many books, and documenting about the World. He also directly helps The Player at much later in the game.

Background
He was a real person who lived in the Old World. He tried saving the world by converting it into code, creating the The World Machine. Since it needed to borrow the mental processing abilities of a living person, he used himself for it during the testing phases. He did not have enough time to fix an issue and make it stable before the world ended. Its code floated in the void for an unknown period of time "waiting" for a person to install it in their hardware and generate the universe using the code.

Legacy
In the World, the Author is well-known for writing many books. Books ranging from novels to documentations to illustrations and sketches. One said illustrations were the design for Prophetbot. He had also invented a flying machine which allowed him to travel to the different regions of the World to gather materials for his books. He's personally been friends with many of the other characters such as Silver, Alula, Calamus, George, Rachis, and some others.

Fate
It is unknown what fate befell the Author, but it has been theorized that he is still alive due to the fact that the Solstice update was a patch made to the world's code upon finding out of the Player's ability to do more than just one run.

Trivia

 * Following the date format of one of the sketches, it is clear that the calendar of The World calendar is different from the one we know. The number in the normal place of the month is 45, and there are no months after the 12th.