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Season one of Shadow and Bone begins in the land of East Ravka, where an army cartographer
named Alina Starkov is reunited with her childhood friend, Mal Oretsev, who is now a fearless
corporal in the First Army.
The Second Army is made up of Grisha, warriors with magic abilities known as Small Science,
who have just created a gigantic ship known as the Ultralight to pass through a dark and
dangerous magical area known as the Fold.
The Fold is an area separating East and West Ravka filled with monsters known as volcra
that had previously killed Alina’s parents and left her an orphan.
The Fold was created hundreds of years ago by a Grisha known as a Shadow Summoner, and
now only a fabled Sun Summoner could destroy the Fold for good.
Mal is drafted to join a select group of First Army soldiers aboard the Ultralight to cross
the Fold and acquire ammunition from other side.
Not wanting to be separated from Mal again, Alina burns all of the army's maps, requiring
the cartographers to join the voyage.
During the Ultralight’s voyage into the Fold, the army is attacked by volcra, causing
many soldiers to flee, while most of the others are slaughtered..
During the fight, Alina spontaneously bursts into light, saving the remaining soldiers
and revealing that she is in fact a Grisha who possesses the Sun Summoner power.
Meanwhile, a surviving cartographer named Alexei flees the Fold into West Ravka, where
he is captured by a criminal named Dreesen.
After Alexei confirms he witnessed a Sun Summoner, Dreesen kills the man and offers a huge reward
to a criminal gang known as the Crows if they capture and bring to him Alina.The Crows gang
includes leader Kaz Brekker, a sharpshooter named Jesper Fahey, and Inej Ghafa, a former
indentured servant who Kaz had saved from servitude.
When the Ultralight survivors flee the Fold, Mal’s wounds are tended to, while Second
Army General Kirigan confirms that Alina is a Grisha and the long awaited Sun Summoner.
Alina is then separated from Mal once again and taken by Kirigan to the Grisha headquarters
known as the Little Palace to meet Ravka’s King and Queen.
Once there, she is to train in her newfound powers to not only destroy the Fold, but also
earn the respect of Grisha amongst average humans.
The King wants to destroy the Fold so that East Ravka and the rebellious West Ravka can
be reunited under his rule and prepare for war against the rival country of Fjerda.
While training in her new powers under the Grisha Baghra, Alina butts heads with a wind
summoner named Zoya, who is jealous of Alina’s relationship with Mal and her attention from
Kirigan.
Alina then befriends a Grisha Tailor named Genya.
Alina also begins to experience strange dreams of a stag, which the King’s spiritual advisor,
known as the Apparat, explains is connected to one of the first ever Grisha, known as
the Bonesmith, who created mythical creatures that could be killed to amplify a Grisha’s
powers.
Meanwhile, Mal goes on a mission to find and capture the stag from Alina’s dreams, which
would amplify her powers enough to destroy the Fold.
By obtaining the stag, Mal hopes to gain an invitation to the Little Palace to reunite
with Alina.
While on his mission, Mal fails to respond to Alina’s many letters, which upsets her.
Thinking Mal has abandoned her, Alina turns her full focus to her Grisha training, making
great progress and growing closer to Kirigan, who reveals himself to be a descendant of
the Shadow Summoner wanting to absolve his family’s legacy.
Meanwhile, a Grisha Heartrender named Nina is captured by the racist Fjerdan witch hunters.
While being transported to her execution, the Fjerdan ship sinks during a storm and
Nina is forced to work with a Fjerdan named Matthias to survive.
As the two unlikely companions travel together, they fall in love.
Knowing a relationship between a Grisha and a Fjerdan could never be accepted, Nina and
Matthias plan to run away together.
Unfortunately, they are discovered by Fedyor, one of Kirigan’s loyal soldiers.
Knowing Fedyor would kill Matthias, Nina instead turns Matthias over to a group of Ravkan bounty
hunters.
Despite Nina’s explanation that she betrayed him for his own safety, Matthias is devastated
by this act and refuses to accept her reasonings.
Despite this, Nina joins the bounty hunters as they make their journey to deliver Matthias
to a prison known as Hellgate.
Meanwhile, the Crows begin their mission to capture Alina.
In order to cross the Fold and find the Little Palace, they are forced to work with a human
trafficker named Arken, who had sold Inej into servitude years prior.
Once in East Ravka, the Crows infiltrate a massive celebration at the Little Palace known
as the Winter Fete.
Also arriving at the Winter Fete is Mal, who has come to reveal the location of the stag,
in exchange for a reunion with Alina.
Unaware that Mal has come for her, Alina shares a kiss with Kirigan.
Unfortunately, Baghra, who is revealed to be the mother of Kirigan, then warns Alina
that Kirigan doesn’t want to destroy the Fold, but control its power.
It turns out, Kirigan isn’t a descendant of the Shadow Summoner, but the eternal Shadow
Summoner himself, who had unintentionally created the Fold while trying to form a powerful
Grisha army to fight back against persecution from the humans.
And so, Alina flees the Palace and is finally reunited with Mal.
Meanwhile, Kirigan manages to capture and kill Arken while the other Crows escape.
Just as Alina and Mal find the stag, Kirigan and his army arrive, killing the creature
and seriously injuring Mal.
Kirigan uses the stag’s power on himself and Alina, gaining the ability to control
Alina’s powers.
Kirigan then promises to heal Mal if Alina joins him into the Fold.
Alina is also reunited with her Grisha ally Genya, who reveals that Kirigan is staging
a coup to overthrow the King in an effort to obtain Grisha supremacy by any means necessary.
Genya also confesses to having been working as Kirigan’s spy to earn Alina’s trust,
as the King had abused her for years.
As Alina and Mal board Kirigan’s ship to cross the fold, the Crows also sneak on board.
As Alina’s powers help protect Kirigan’s army from the Fold’s volcra, Kirigan uses
his powers to expand the Fold into West Ravka, destroying the rebel army.
The Crows meet Mal aboard the ship and upon realizing Alina’s destiny, decide to abandon
their original plans to instead help save the Sun Summoner.
Also joining Alina’s side is her rival Zoya, who turns against Kirigan after her family
is killed by the Fold’s expansion.
Mal and Kirigan engage in a fight to the death that is cut short when Kirigan is dragged
away by volcra.
Alina, Mal, Zoya, and the Crows emerge from the Fold as the only survivors.
The Crows depart on a ship back home, and Kaz begins plotting for a way to avoid the
wrath of Dreesen for failing to deliver Alina.
His plan requires a Heartrender, and luckily for the Crows, they happen to be on the very
ship carrying the captured Matthias and his Heartrender lover, Nina.
Meanwhile, Alina and Mal vow to destroy the Fold once and for all.
As the season comes to a close, a battered Kirigan emerges from the Fold and commands
it to follow him into the rest of the world.
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