In the Netflix Shadow and Bone show, Alina Starkov's mother was a Shu woman whose identity is not specified by name. Her father was Ravkan, and both of her parents died during the border wars.
In the Netflix show, Alina Starkov's mother was Shu, and her father was Ravkan.
Ravka is heavily influenced and inspired by Tsarist Russia of the early 1800s. Many of the countries that surround Ravka are based off of real nations that surround Russia (Mongolia and China for Shu Han and Norway and Finland for Fjerda).
Baghra is centuries old. She is the mother of the Darkling, and teaches Alina how to use her powers. She's the daughter of Ilya Morozova, a famous Grisha who created three amplifiers. Like her son, she is also a Shadow Summoner.
They were in the temple, and she consciously created her army to fight the Darkling's. It wasn't accidental. She knew what she was doing, knew that it might kill her, but she didn't care if it meant she could destroy the Darkling. This is what made her hair turn white.
Zoya was initially infatuated with the Darkling. Upon Alina's arrival at the Little Palace, Zoya instantly hates her for becoming the Darkling's new favorite, and expresses her jealousy by injuring Alina during a duel.
Squallers: Suborder of Grisha who can manipulate wind. Sun Summoners: A suborder of Grisha who can manipulate light. These are the rarest type of Grisha, which is why Alina (Jessie Mei Li) is so important.
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. Ulla spent her childhood feeling like an outcast, having heard rumors of her being part human.
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. The one person who will understand the weight of eternity and never leave him behind.
Zoya Nazyalensky is a competitive Grisha Squaller with the ability to summon wind. Prior to the events of the novels she was an admirer of the Darkling. She is hostile towards Alina at first, but joins her and turns on him when her aunt is killed by the expansion of the Fold.
People write 'z' as a '3' because the cursive form of the Latin 'z' and the Cyrillic letter 'З' (ze) evolved from similar Greek letter shapes (zeta) and look very much like the number '3', a visual similarity that's often exploited in handwriting for fluid connection and differentiation, especially in math/science. It's a common handwriting variation, not a mistake, often just context-dependent for distinction from '2' or 'O', similar to how '1' and 'l' or 'O' and '0' are differentiated.
As explained by Leigh Bardugo, Ravkan is not exactly the same as Russian; the language is heavily inspired by Russian, but is derived from both Russian and Mongolian. It seems in part to have a mostly Russian vocabulary, with much simplified noun and adjective plural endings, which may come from Mongolian.
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“When [showrunner] Eric [Heisserer] and I first sat down together, one of the first things we decided was that we wanted Alina to be half Shu," Bardugo said. Shu-Han is Bardugo's fantasy analogue for an amalgam of Asian countries, so making this change meant that in the show, Alina became half-Asian.
Li was born in Brighton, East Sussex to an English mother and a Chinese father who was raised in Hong Kong. She grew up in Redhill, Surrey and has an older brother.
They decided to let the Darkling do it. Before his heart was pierced by the thorn and his screaming body was swallowed by the thorn wood tree, he uttered his last words: "My name is Aleksander Morozova, but I have had hundred names and I have committed a thousand crimes. I am not sorry.
The only real difference in behaviour is that Mal doesn't sleep with Zoya when they meet in the first episode (episode 1 minute 17:59), which we are told that he does in the book. 5.
In Leigh Bardugo's novel, Kirigan (Ben Barnes) stuns Alina (Jessie Mei Li) with an unexpected first kiss. Later, after they demonstrate Alina's abilities to the king's court, the two passionately make out and the narrative suggests they come very close to having sex before they're interrupted.
Alina and Nikolai Lantsov: In Siege and Storm, despite fleeing together, Mal and Alina begin to drift apart. Enter Nikolai Lantsov, younger son of the King of Ravka. He loves Alina, and even proposes marriage.
Unfortunately, he also uses that as a means of manipulating the much younger and naive Alina, seducing her in order to gain control. In the books, the Darkling is the aggressor and their first kiss is initiated by him without her consent.
Despite not being as talented as her older sister, Morgana is almost just as evil as Ursula. She shows that she hates being criticized in the movie when she berates Undertow for comparing her to Ursula. Morgana is deceitful, baleful, and ruthless.
Alina isn't a part of the Six of Crows duology (although characters from those books are used in the Shadow and Bone series on Netflix.)
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Tamar Kir-Bataar. She's a Heartrender Grisha from Shu Han, but loyal to no country. She and her twin brother, Tolya, are part of Sturmhond's crew and good friends with their captain. Her weapons of choice are her dual axes.
According to Leigh Bardugo, Inej is a Gryffindor.