The Apparat is restrictive of Alina’s freedoms, refusing contact with friends and travel to the surface, arguing that the growing number of pilgrims and Soldat Sol are there to witness and support in her Sainthood.Īfter a stunt using mirrors to feign her powers, she demands to speak with Genya Safin in the kitchens, and the Apparat initially refuses, referring to Genya as “Razrusha’ya” ruined. Alina hasn’t recovered from her fight with the Darkling, being unable to use her powers after the encounter. The firebird is the one thing that stands between Ravka and destruction-and claiming it could cost Alina the very future she’s fighting for.Īfter the Darkling’s attack on Os Alta, Alina Starkov and the Grisha that escaped through the chapel are residing in the White Cathedral, an underground church operated by the Apparat.

But as she begins to unravel the Darkling's secrets, she reveals a past that will forever alter her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields. Yet her plans lie elsewhere, with the hunt for the elusive firebird and the hope that an outlaw prince still survives.Īlina Starkov will have to forge new alliances and put aside old rivalries as she and Mal race to find the last of Morozova's amplifiers. Now the nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army.ĭeep in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns, a weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and the zealots who worship her as a Saint.

The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne.

Grisha ruin and rising