Who married Nikolai?

9. The wedding of Nikolai and Ehri is the big climax to the whole book. Nikolai and Ehri start getting married, but Ehri's sister interupts the wedding, trying to kill Nikolai. This causes Nikolai to morph into monster form and start killing wedding guests, including Ehri's sister.
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Who does Nikolai fall in love with?

Nikolai falls in love with Alina during her time escaping the Darkling, and he believes her presence is enough to unify the country and attempt peace. By the end of the series, there's only one man who has stuck by Alina's side and provided her with the support she needs: Mal.
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Does Nikolai end up with Alina?

Ultimately, though, Mal and Alina are endgame. After three books of will they or won't they, Alina's dalliance with the Darkling, and near-engagement to Nikolai, the pair end up together running the old orphanage where they grew up in Keramzin.
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Does Nikolai love Alina?

He loved her even when she did not rise. He loved her when she did not chase him down and laugh and call him a fool in her special Alina way.
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Does Nikolai marry Zoya?

In Rule of Wolves, Zoya confesses that she loves Nikolai, and at the end of the book, it is implied that Zoya and Nikolai intend to marry.
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Did the darkling have a wife?

Many centuries ago, known then as the Black Heretic, the Darkling returned home to his partner Luda, who was also a Grisha Healer.
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Who is the love interest in Shadow and Bone?

Over the course of Shadow and Bone and its sequels, Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising, Alina forms romantic attachments with Mal and two other men: the Darkling and Nikolai. Keep reading to find out more about them, their relationships with Alina, and which one she chooses in the end.
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Do Alina and Mal kiss in the book?

Mal and Alina kiss right before finding the stag in the book. In both the books and the show, Mal and Alina spend several key days together in the forest after she escapes from Kirigan. In the show, Alina decides they should track down Morozova's stag.
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Who Alina parents?

Both Bardugo and showrunner Eric Heisserer said in interviews that making Alina half-Shu made a lot of sense for them, with Bardugo pointing out that the books' Alina was born on the border between Ravka and Shu Han.
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Why didn't Alina marry Nikolai?

Nikolai Lantsov. The developing relationship between Alina and Nikolai becomes a theme as they arrive at Court. He asks her to be his queen in front of Mal, she refuses, for she is grieving about the Darkling's betrayal and she had trusted him.
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Does Nikolai ever kiss Zoya?

Nikolai is the too clever fox, who has defeated the first two traps-- the Fjerdans and the Kerch-- only to be undone by the third trap-- his love for Zoya. Anyway, when Nikolai proposes he kisses Zoya, professes his love for her, and gets down on one knee.
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Does Nikolai love Marya?

While in Moscow, they meet Nikolai Rostov and he and Marya confess their love for one another. Eventually, they marry and are settled at Bald Hills. Marya's marriage is perhaps the most significant tell of her emotional and spiritual growth.
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Who is the most powerful Grisha?

The Darkling ranks No. 1 as the most powerful Grisha, wielding the ability to summon and manipulate shadows. The Darkling claims to be the great-great-great grandson of the Black Heretic.
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Is Kaz in King of Scars?

No crew of characters will ever match Jesper, Wylan, Inej, Kaz, and Nina, but the group in King of Scars is pretty fun. Likewise, whereas the plot in King of Scars is somewhat vague, it is laser-focused in the trilogy. The Six of Crows duology is the pinnacle of both character and plot.
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Did Mal sleep with Zoya?

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.
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Is Alina in Six of Crows?

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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How does Shadow and Bone end?

How did Shadow and Bone end? They find the stag, but Alina can't kill him before the Darkling's army arrives. The Darkling kills him and makes Alina an amplifier, binding her to the Darkling. The Darkling forces Alina to travel to the Fold under the guise that she will destroy it.
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Who does Nina Zenik end up with?

Nina first thought Hanne was a Heartrender, but it appeared to be that Hanne was a Healer. The two become very close, eventually working together at the end of King of Scars to begin to bring down Jarl Brum. Nina is in love with Hanne and they are engaged to be married.
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Are there LGBT characters in Shadow and Bone?

Kit Young plays the wise-cracking sharpshooter Jesper Fahey, who is gay in the books. His sexuality isn't dwelt on at length in the TV series, but one of his storylines in an episode reveals that he is queer. Jesper, together with Inej and Kaz Brekker, form the criminal gang known as the Dregs.
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Does Alina kiss the darkling?

Alina kisses The Darkling first in 'Shadow and Bone'

In Bardugo's first novel, which is also titled Shadow and Bone, Kirigan kisses Alina without warning. The first kiss between the two characters differed in the show, and instead, Alina makes the first move.
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Is Mal related to 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.
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Is darkling in love with Alina?

Bardugo, the author of the Grishaverse novels as well as executive producer of the show, walks a very fine line. She doesn't objectively romanticize the Darkling, but lead character Alina Starkov, against her will and better judgement, does, to an extent.
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Did Luda love darkling?

In the cold open for episode seven, "The Unsea," the audience finally learns more about General Kirigan (also referred to as "the Darkling"). The show flashes back hundreds of years and shows how General Aleksander Kirigan was once in love with a healer named Luda.
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Did Aleksander create the fold?

When the Ravkan army tracks him down to the Grisha hide out, a heartbroken and desperate Aleksander creates the Shadow Fold. The soldiers themselves are transformed into volcra and he in turn becomes the Darkling.
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