Rail is one of the main protagonists of the novel The Storm Thief, along with Moa and Vago. He is a dread-locked and dark-skinned ghetto boy who left his family at a young age when he realised that his family were half starving and could never really provide a future or security for him. Instead the young Rail travelled deeper into the ghettoes of the island city of Orokos, eventually coming to the attention of the Master Thief Anya-Jacuna, head of a thieving syndicate. Here he excelled at his chosen profession, before being hit by a probability storm and losing the ability to breath normal air. The Master Thief Anya-Jacuna gave him instead a respirator pack, which he wears throughout the story.
