Kaelus Shade
Fighter / Rogue | Criminal Strategist | The Man With Rules
Kaelus Shade is a tactician of the shadows—not a kingpin, not yet, but something more dangerous: a planner. He moves through Korvosa's underworld with patience, silence, and purpose. Raised in the Shingles and hardened by a city that chews ambition to the bone, Kaelus lives by a code of his own making. He does not kill needlessly. He does not renegotiate the deal. And he never lies to his crew.
Now, Kaelus leads a small band of loyal misfits from a secret crypt beneath a ruined temple. Together, they have begun carving a path through the city’s criminal elite, noble intrigue, and something darker stirring beneath it all. The Cerulean Society watches. Cults whisper. But Kaelus has a plan. He always has a plan.
Rhyssa Varn
Witch | Seer of Smoke and Shadow
Varisian by blood and prophecy by nature, Rhyssa is Kaelus's strangest ally—and perhaps his most dangerous. She speaks in riddles, dreams of fire and fate, and claims the world is shifting around her "center thread." That thread, she says, is Kaelus.
She brews charms, speaks to spirits, and keeps a corner of the crew's crypt warded with bones and herbs. Rhyssa believes Kaelus is meant to change Korvosa. Whether that change will save the city or doom it, she has not said.
Brother Caldus Renn
Fallen Cleric | Moral Compass | Keeper of the Flame
Once a priest of Sarenrae, Caldus was cast out for choosing compassion over law. These days, he carries a battered holy symbol he won't wear and a flask full of regrets. He serves no church, only the crew—and perhaps something smaller, quieter, more honest than the gods.
Caldus drinks more than he should, heals wounds with hands that still remember grace, and watches over Kaelus like a guardian spirit with too much blood on his robe. He believes in second chances. He hopes Kaelus is one.
Brinna "Click" Flintnose
Trapsmith | Demolitions Expert | Chaotic Engineer
Click is a dwarf with an explosive personality—literally. Born in Janderhoff and banned from three major guilds before she was twenty, Click is a genius of levers, locks, and loud noises. She talks fast, thinks faster, and keeps half the crypt wired to blow "just in case."
She trusts Kaelus because he didn't flinch when she showed him her blueprints. That, she says, is rare. She might blow a hole in the world someday, just to see what happens. Kaelus is betting she’ll blow open a future instead.
Selene Arvintino
Social Infiltrator | Fallen Noble | Smile Like a Knife
Once of House Arvintino, now something else entirely. Selene walks with poise and speaks in velvet, but her past is a ruin and her ambitions are sharp. She knows which fork to use at dinner and where the noble bodies are buried.
Selene deals in secrets. She wears forged names like silk gloves. And she watches Kaelus like someone who hasn't decided whether to trust him, love him, or use him. Maybe all three. For now, she keeps her mask on and plays the long game.
Together, they are more than a crew. They are a crack in the city's mask—a fracture spreading under cobblestone, law, and blood. They each have debts. They each have ghosts. But under Kaelus Shade's rule, they have a chance at something rare in Korvosa: a future they choose for themselves.