Characters in The Way of Shadows

Kylar Stern

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.

Also in Shadow's Edge, Beyond the Shadows

Rat (Night Angel)

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

Durzo Blint

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

Also in Shadow's Edge, Perfect Shadow

Logan Gyre

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

Also in Shadow's Edge, Beyond the Shadows

Elene Cromwyll

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.

Also in Shadow's Edge

Jarl

A fellow guild rat and one of Azoth's closest friends, who gives Azoth his life savings so he can buy his way into Durzo's apprenticeship.

Also in Shadow's Edge

Gwinvere Kirena

Known to the Warrens as Momma K, she is the true, secret ruler of Cenaria's criminal underworld, the Sa'kagé, while fronting as its Mistress of Pleasures.

Also in Shadow's Edge, Beyond the Shadows, Perfect Shadow

Azoth

Also in Shadow's Edge, Beyond the Shadows

Rimbold Drake

Viridiana Sovari

Also in Shadow's Edge, Beyond the Shadows

Feir Cousat

Also in Beyond the Shadows

Dorian Ursuul

Also in Shadow's Edge

Solonariwan Tofusin

Also in Beyond the Shadows

Jenine Gyre

Also in Beyond the Shadows

Neph Dada

Also in Shadow's Edge, Beyond the Shadows