Tuesday, 27th April 2021 at 12:26 pm
New Netflix fantasy series Shadow and Bone plunges viewers into a rich alternate world, full of warring nations with their own distinct cultures and people who all interact over the course of the series.
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Created by author Leigh Bardugo in her Grishaverse novels, the countries and map of Shadow and Bone are an iconic part of the source material, and you can see how it all (literally) unfolds in the tweet below – but what are the countries, and how do they factor into the series?
How can you know where you re going if you don t know where you ve been?
The Grishaverse is a world populated with six countries: Ravka, Shu Han, Fjerda, Kerch, Novyi Zem and the Wandering Isle. The first season of Shadow and Bone takes place in three of these countries: Ravka, Kerch (specifically its main city Ketterdam), and Fjerda (when soldiers fight enemies, they re usually Fjerdan soldiers). Each of the countries are influenced by historical cultures; Ravka was inspired by Imperial Russia. Bardugo explained in a 2013 Tumblr post that Fjerda is inspired by Scandinavia and Kerch is influenced by the Netherlands and Germany. Shu Han, Ravka s neighbor to the south, is influenced by Ancient China and Mongolia.
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MAKHI KIR-TABAN, BORN OF HEAVEN, was a queen from a long line of queens.
And they were all fools, she thought, her pulse quickening as she read the invitation in her hand.
If they hadn t been fools, I wouldn t be in this predicament right now.