The Camorri nobility are the wealthy ruling families of Camorr, a merchant city built on the ruins of an ancient alien civilisation whose indestructible glass towers still dominate the skyline. Noble houses compete for wealth through trade, political marriage, and social manoeuvring, their lives a world apart from the teeming streets below. The nobility are protected from the city's criminal underworld by the Secret Peace - an arrangement with Capa Barsavi that keeps thieves from targeting the rich in exchange for the authorities turning a blind eye to crime against commoners. This arrangement makes the nobility complacent targets for anyone bold enough to break the rules, which is precisely what the Gentleman Bastards specialise in. The nobles' elaborate social rituals, feasts, and business dealings provide the stage on which Locke Lamora performs his most ambitious cons.