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

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 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.

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.

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.