Krest

Krest is a character in Metro Exodus, an engineer and mechanic with a long, restless past. He lived in the small town of Kaduy, which was largely spared when the bombs fell; knowing a nuclear winter was coming, he repaired an old truck and drove south, survived several winters alone, then joined up with various groups and travelled as far as Astrakhan, where the winters were milder. After a brush with bandits who were capturing refugees and selling them south as slaves, he found a railcar and lived by trading supplies, for a time posing as a bandit himself so as not to stand out, before heading east. On the Volga, a few years before the Aurora arrived, he ran into Silantius and his Fanatics, who took his railcar and hounded him for his love of technology, so he set up several hidden outposts along the river and befriended Katya and Nastya, who were being held by the cult.