While at the Spinning Wheel, Alina trains with Baghra, who was begrudgingly brought there with Misha by Nikolai.

There, the group forms a plan to find the firebird, the third of Morozova’s amplifiers, in Dva Stolba. He brings the group to the Spinning Wheel, an abandoned observatory Nikolai set up as a base of operations after the fall of the capital. When they arrive at the surface, they are found by hunters, though one of the hunters turns on the others, revealing himself to be Nikolai Lantsov. She then assembles a group of Grisha from the White Cathedral and heads for the surface. David Kostyk assembled a makeshift explosive, and Malyen Oretsev shot the bomb after it was thrown up one of the chimneys, allowing enough sunlight to pass through for Alina to regain her powers.Īlina asks the Soldat Sol for loyalty to her instead of the Apparat, and brands one of them, Vladim Ozwal, with her handprint. Though, this was according to their actual attempt to escape, as the kitchens have the only direct path to the surface. He insists that the group is planning to break out of the White Cathedral. The Apparat eventually caves, allowing the two to speak, though in the middle of the conversation the Apparat storms into the kitchens with a number of Alina’s friends in tow. 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.

The grisha trilogy