The Way of Shadows

A street orphan born Azoth; he leaves his old life and his name behind to apprentice himself to the city's most feared assassin, training for years in the deadly arts of the wetboy.

The Black Dragon Guild's brutal enforcer, who beats and terrorizes the Warrens' guild children over unpaid dues.

Cenaria's most accomplished wetboy, a legendary assassin with supernatural abilities who reluctantly takes on Azoth as his apprentice.

Heir of House Gyre, one of Cenaria's most powerful noble families, and Kylar's closest friend from a world far above the slums.

A devout girl adopted out of the Warrens who grew up alongside Azoth and Jarl, and who loves Kylar from behind the anonymity he keeps between them.