When he was addicted to coke and Sola left Caldwell, he became increasingly erratic. He's willing to live and let live as long as people stay in their own lane when they don't, he relishes killing them. Personalityĭomineering, he considers himself an intellectual.

He claims to be approximately 400 years old by the end of The Thief. Without her, he fell even deeper into his drug addiction. Īfter her ordeal, Sola decided to leave her old life, which meant leaving Assail because of his drug dealing. Finding the aftermath and seeing how she rescued herself despite being concussed and wounded, he knew that he was hopelessly in love with her. Using anything at hand that she could use, Sola killed her kidnappers and freed herself from the torture cabin by the time Assail showed up. When they were done, Assail killed them both. To get Sola back, Assail kidnapped and tortured Ricardo and his brother until Eduardo gave up her location. In retaliation, Benloise had her kidnapped with the intention of torturing and likely killing her.

Assail shadowed her to Benloise's and they took turns tailing each other, sometimes revealing themselves to the other and sometimes not. Assail threatened Benloise over it and Benloise cancelled the contract, but Sola, angry that Benloise wasn't going to pay her the full amount they'd originally agreed upon, took revenge by breaking into Benloise's sanctum. During this power struggle, Benloise hired Sola Morte to spy on Assail, which was how they met. Although he did help Wrath escape the attempt on his life when he went to Assail's for a meeting, mostly so he couldn't be held culpable for treason since he was not involved in the plot.ĭuring his campaign to become the prominent dealer in town, he arranged for the deaths of smaller dealers that were all ruled to be suicides by the police. Once that became too dangerous for him, he turned on the Society and passed information on their headquarters over to the Black Dagger Brotherhood.īoth the Band of Bastards and the Black Dagger Brotherhood tried to get him to take sides in their war over the throne, but Assail refused to participate and steadfastly remained neutral. Money was his primary motivation for a long time and he ended up becoming the wholesaler to the Lessening Society since his conscience wasn't bothered by the fact that he was providing lessers with a means of income through street dealing to fund their side of the war. Assail moved to Caldwell from the Old Country fairly recently and he set out to become the biggest drug lord in town.

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