Jarek is the king’s assassin, a man raised in shadows and shaped by survival. Orphaned young and taken in by the Spymaster, he grew into a weapon the crown could use, known across Vellara for a reputation that has never faltered. He lives apart from the court, preferring the solitude of a loft above the royal blacksmith’s forge to the chambers kept for him in the castle. Silence and isolation are what he knows best, and he doesn’t seek anything beyond that.