While searching for the last amplifier, Mal and Alina find out the truth about Mal's heritage. He is descended from Baghra's sister, making him a great-nephew of the Darkling.
It turns out Mal is descended from Baghra's sister, making him a great-nephew of the Darkling. Upon this discovery, Mal makes Alina promise she will kill him for his power if she needs it.
Ulla is a half-sildroher songcaster and the half-sister of The Darkling via their late mother, Baghra. She is also known as Sankta Ursula of the Waves.
4 Mal Is A Morozova: Family Tree Explained
Mal is a descendant of Baghra's sister, making him a member of the Morozova family tree, and a distant relative to both Kirigan and Ilya Morozova.
Though mother and son have no amplifier to tie them together, as Alina and The Darkling do, they are family. And the inherited power of being a living amplifier seems to be a sufficient substitute. Baghra is able to reach into The Darkling's mind as Alina does, projection herself into his location.
Mal was oblivious to Alina's love from before book one even began. He slept with Zoya and countless others before he realised who was waiting by his back door.
The same story also reveals the Darkling has a half-sister named Ulla, mothered by Baghra.
"[Alina] was really ostracized at the orphanage where she grew up, and that's why [she] and Mal got together," they explained. "Obviously, they also wanted Mal to be mixed race, so they, the two of them, the two 'half-breeds,' as they say, sort of have more in common with each other.
While they manage early on to find and kill the ice dragon Rusalye, aka the sea whip, it takes them until the end of the season to realize that the final amplifier, the firebird, is actually Mal.
The night before the big battle, Alina and Mal finally have sex and it's Alina's first time and they're worried about not making it through the next day and I am just so sick of seeing this. This sort of thing pops up in so many fantasy novels that it just annoys me now.
Harij was separated from his family when he was a child. He was 12 and his sister, Inej, was 14 when four men took them from their parents' wagon.
For the book character, see Nina Zenik. Nina Zenik is a Heartrender for the Second Army and a spy for The Darkling.
Did he have true feelings for Alina? Yes.
In this adaptation, Mal is Inej´s brother. Inej doesn't have a brother in the book series.
Kaz is not Grisha, nor is he a soldier, an assassin, a spy, or a sharpshooter — he's a club owner with a sharp sense of style and a trademark cane in the shape of a crow. But he is still Shadow and Bone's most dangerous player.
In the Netflix show, Alina Starkov's mother was Shu, and her father was Ravkan.
Mal (left) is played by Dove Cameron (Disney Channel's Liv and Maddie) and is the daughter of Maleficent, played by Kristin Chenoweth (Glee, Broadway's Wicked).
Mal and Evie (Mevie or Malvie) is a friendship/romantic pairing, Mal is the daughter of Maleficent and Hades, and Evie is the daughter of the Evil Queen.
Before Hades is brought back to the isle, he secretly gives Mal back the ember.
A firm part was ensuring that the letters of Alina and Malyen Oretsev (Archie Renaux) never reached each other. This was because Mal had been Alina's constant since childhood. That connection had only grown over the years — with Alina so devotedly attached to Mal that she even ventured willingly into The Fold.
Zoya destroys the remains of The Darkling when she realizes what is happening, but The Darkling's spirit goes into the body of a man named Yuri Vendenen. So, while The Darkling does return in some form, he does not return in the one that people recognize him as.
In the book, however, Alina uses merzost through her still-active connection to the Darkling in order to create her own nichevo'ya (shadow monsters like the Darkling uses) to fight back against him at the end of the second novel. As a result of her using the power that one time her hair turns permanently white.
A picture of him in Baghra's cave reveals the man hasn't physically aged a day in centuries. The Shadow Fold was created roughly 400 years prior to the events of the series and the Darkling was already an adult by then. An estimate would put him at 500 years of age, if not a bit older.
He sees her strong desire to belong and to find herself and it reminds him of himself. While his desire for Alina is not a healthy one and is obsessive, he truly does develop feelings for her. She is the one person who can bring balance to his life.
He is in a romantic relationship with Wylan van Eck. Jesper is a main character of the Six of Crows duology.