Spades is a private police investigator in the late 1900s. He's a shadowling/darkling, sired by Death and Fates. To avoid his destiny as the Moon's shadow, he chose to flee into the human world and took control of Rookh Williams' body as his host. Spades exudes the warm, affable charm of a bygone-era nobleman—polished in every gesture, with manners that seem plucked from a distant past. His way with words is equally colorful and formal; he might call a woman "a charming enchantress"