Her ability to control the light means that Ravka might have a hope of destroying the Shadow Fold forever, making her a valuable asset. Separated from Mal for the first time in years, she’s brought before the Darkling, the leader of the Second Army, and labeled a Sun Summoner: a never-before-seen kind of Grisha. Most Grisha - Ravka’s word for magic users - are identified as such in early childhood, and none of them have exhibited the powers that she’s just put on display. Word of Alina’s latent Grisha powers travels fast.

When the fearsome creatures known as the volcra attack her team on their first trip through the Shadow Fold, Alina explodes with a burst of light, saving her only childhood friend, a fellow orphan named Mal, from certain death. With the Ravkan capital separated from its major port and trade cities - and Ravkans unable to go around it, due to poor relations with their neighboring nations - the Fold leaves Ravka with no choice but to build strong armies to defend itself from hostile forces and escort goods and people across the darkness.Įnter Alina: a 17-year-old orphan from a border village, now working as a cartographer in Ravka’s First Army (non-magical folk serve in the First Army, while Grisha make up the Second Army forces). Four hundred years ago, the Black Heretic opened the Shadow Fold: a wide scar, full of nothing but monsters and darkness, that stretches from one side of Ravka to the other. Major spoilers for Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone trilogy follow.

The first season of Netflix’s Shadow and Bone follows the events of Leigh Bardugo’s 2012 novel of the same name, leaving many to wonder: What happens at the end of Shadow and Bone? Alina’s adventures have just begun at the end of the first Grishaverse novel, and will continue in Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising. The Grishaverse has finally made its way to the screen.

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