#Grisha amplifiers

[stromuprisahat]

Ivan reached inside his collar and removed something on a thin silver chain. He held it out for me to examine. ... “My amplifier,” Ivan said with pride. “The claws from the forepaw of a Sherborn bear. I killed it myself when I left school and joined the Darkling’s service.” ~ As she spoke, light glinted off the heavy silver bracelet gleaming at her wrist. It was studded with what looked like pieces of bone. An amplifier, I realized. ~ As the last lock clicked home, her sleeve slid back, revealing the silver cuff that circled her wrist, pieces of bone or what might have been teeth fused with the metal. He had never seen her without it and wasn’t even sure if it could be removed. ~ “... An amplifier that powerful was too rare to waste. They put the fetter on me, bound the old cat’s teeth in silver so that I could never remove it. That’s how all of the most powerful amplifiers are fashioned.”

Shadow and Bone- Chapter 4 & 11 & King of Scars- Chapter 6 & 27 (Leigh Bardugo)

Why would be Grisha amplifiers traditionally bound in silver?!

Silver is rather soft metal, easy to deform or completely remove, yet Zoya's suprised, when hers breaks. It makes no sense for Ivan to wear something this valuable on "a thin silver chain". Anyone could rip it off. Hell, he could lose it in a shower!

Assuming it's not just another plot hole, we can guess the metal is some kind of alloy that contains silver and takes over its visual properties.

Now another question arises:

How can an army- albeit unusually well-stocked one- in country nearing its bankruptcy afford to give away chunks of precious metal for jewellery?

There are two possible explanations I can think of. Either the Darkling manages to conjure some extra silver the way he's able to do with provisions for his Grisha OR it's not just a symbol of Grisha power and pride, but the King's ownership. The very same palace that can afford diamond trees in its halls, while peasants starve, can probably spare some "less" precious metal to make its property look better.

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[artbymagsn]

“Like calls to like”

Mal and the Stag for Plein Airpril Grishaverse Edition

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[savethegrishaverse]

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[malinaa]

i think what ppl focus on w alina and her powers is that she is enraptured by it. she covets it. she's greedy for it and that they cannot see her without her powers bc they can't see her without her greed... but the entire trilogy is about choosing peace over power. yes she had to be sankta alina, yes she had to fight a war but bc of the war, her powers became so corrupted that it failed her in the end. she saw the consequences of it and CHOSE peace. she chose love. she chose, like that little girl afraid of being alone, mal

#malina #alina starkov #mal oretsev #the grisha trilogy #grishaverse #lit #text #tais toi lys #this post is sponsored by alina using the second amplifier in s&s #* #lys lb: grishaverse #grishaversepost #alinapost

[doyouknowthis-grishaverse]

#i did not include mal #because he isnt a normal amplifier #or the other grisha that touched him would notice #and alina wouldve noticed ages ago #grishaverse #shadow and bone #my polls #fandom polls #grishaverse polls #sab #s&b #shadow and bone netflix #the grisha trilogy #ilya morozova #siege and storm #ruin and rising #king of scars #rule of wolves #alina starkov #malyen oretsev #aleksander morozova #the darkling #baghra morozova #sankt juris #genya safin #zoya nazyalensky #ivan #ivan shadow and bone #ivan kaminsky #marie

[goblins-riddles-or-frocks]

Hold on, I remember Alina suppressing her own power so that she wouldn't be separated from Mal but I have nothing in my memory about how Mal didn't get found out as a living amplifier. It is such a big deal that the Darkling is one but was it ever explained why Mal avoided detection? Did his amplifying only work on Alina?

Yeah it’s never explained 💀It’s implied that Alina has felt a a “jolt” several times when she’s touched him but also it’s apparently not something she recognizes as an amplifier.

These both happen in S&S, during the chapel scene:

And then more obviously telegraphed foreshadowing a bit earlier:

You could argue that Alina’s idk new at being Grisha and can’t tell but Zoya literally slept with him (iirc? she def made out with him at least, there was skin contact!) so there’s no reason she shouldn’t know???

I guess the book tries to suggest that his amplifier power only seems apparent when he… closes his hand around her wrist?

But it makes no sense when the Darkling has an entire separate tragic backstory— written… while LB was working on R&R, so literally concurrent with the Mal amplifier reveal— about how he had to avoid touching any Grisha in his youth at all because they would immediately realize what he was and kill him for power.

Like this bit in Demon in the Wood makes it super clear that he’s not holding her wrist lol

And this seems to imply any touch is dangerous?

Which, I mean is also in keeping with the trilogy proper where any time the Darkling touches anyone at all it seems to have a noticeable effect. You could maybe argue that the trilogy cases are him using his power on purpose, because it seems to be something he can control at all. But also that still doesn’t jive with shdhff the main moment Demon in the Wood hinges on!

Honestly I’d respect it as a discrepancy more if it was lampshaded as Morozova’s amplifiers being special or it having to do anything with Ilya Morozova specifically trying to hide that quality in his daughter that he resurrected and Mal… inherited that? I also just think it would be funny if it was addressed and the Darkling was taxidermy fox.jpeg about it because it would probably piss him off soooo bad that Mal just never had to worry about any of the issues of being a living amplifier.

But afaik it’s just never discussed lol

#yay plot holes #also I don’t get the focus on hand around a wrist when we’ve seen amplifiers as pendants and necklaces and earrings #feels like baseline contact should be enough… #grishaverse #shadow and bone #demon in the wood #grisha trilogy #i ramble sometimes #all the bendy punctuations #meta

[kor-ee-an-door]

I have so many questions about Morozova's amplifiers but none more than the Sea Whip. How did that work? Yeah, he caught a stag and he used his daughter's corpse but Rusalye is just a mystery. Did he go on a little adventure, capture it, made an amplifier and then return home? His abode did not look so lavish so I don't know how he would pull the funds for that. Did he capture a little sea whip, did his experiments and then released him into the wild? How ild was this guy? What else did he plan to do?

#i think the context implies he was both Grisha old ie. ageless when he married but that he lived longer still so the order may b different #but still #so many questions with this guy #ilya morozova #Morozova's stag #Morozova's amplifiers #baghra #baghra morozova

[crowshoots]

at what point in our friendship can i start mentioning my grishaverse OCs in our threads 🥹

#thinking lovingly abt talia and erin and daiyu and saoirse <3 #the tldr is a) talia does the gang tattoos b) erin is a dime lions turned dreg. pekka jumped on her bc shes an amplifier and can make sure #grisha arent influencing high stakes gamble games #b) daiyu is (depending on the timeline) a razorgulls lieutenant and eventually leader #and saoirse is a menace on the true seas that ruins merchant ships when they feel like it #<3 pspspsps befriend me and u get to rp w them too

[steampunk-raven]

do you think kaz has tan lines from his gloves

#or zoya from her tiger amplifier #grishaverse #zoya nazyalensky #kaz brekker #six of crows #grisha #shadow and bone

[scentedmiracleobject]

It’s a crime that  no one noticed the amplifier in Ivan’s hand

#team grisha #amplifiers #shadow and bone #ivan shadow and bone #Grishaverse #second army

[stromuprisahat]

Just Evil Dark Lord Things:

The Darkling: *has friendship bracelets made for his minions out of his shitty mother's bones*

#Shadow and Bone #02×07: Meet You in the Meadow #The Darkling #General Kirigan #Grisha loyalists #Baghra Morozova #Grisha amplifiers #grishanalyticritical #The Cult of the Starless Saint #Cult of the Starless Saint #V #anti Baghra #When you can share an amplifier #he can just as well use it!

[calboniferous]

in physical agony lads im 2k into another fic plan with six journal articles on historical wound care open in my browser

#malarkling is going to be the death of me i CANT #someone save me #i blame the War Room scene #if i dont put them in Situations Right Now with uncomfortable secxual tension im goin to Explode #also the Amplifier Lore TM is driving me to the brink lIKE what do you MEAN #theyre both mythical power-ups claimable-by-death and somehow this never is a plot point between them?? #like they have Amplifier Plot with alina but not each other?? #ESPECIALLY when amplifiers are (sorta)canonically alluring to grisha in borderline supernatural ways #the potential for aleksander to have a Very Strange attraction to Mal is RIGHT THERE #aleksander who has always experienced the amplifier-grisha thing from the perspective of the amplifier #experiencing the draw of a Powerful human amplifier from Mal #baghra doesnt count #im LOSING MY MIND #ALSO?? MAL CANONICALLY BEING ABLE TO FIND MOROZOVA AMPLIFERS?? so could this extend to other morozova amplifiers like. oh i dunno #aleksander morozova #sab

[evanbuckleys]

the way people who haven’t even read the grisha trilogy go on twitter and say the most incorrect stuff about the characters is so wild to me

#somebody was like....how would mal be the third amplifier he's not even relevant enough #LIKE ARE YOU SERIOUS RN #not relevant?? he's literally a part of the darkling's bloodline and the reason they even found the stag in the first place?? #y'all are MAKING STUFF UP #emma.txt #grisha trilogy #shadow and bone spoilers #ruin and rising spoilers #just in case? i mean it's in ruin and rising but

[pizzabookbuying]

me at any given opportunity just making the plot about family dynamics and maternal love

#I have this one original work that I wrote for fun and it started as this chaotic little romance inspired by the cruel prince and also #Skyrim of all things. yes it’s weird and I do love it a lot #but the more I write it the more I’m just like ACTUALLY MAKE THIS ABOUT THE MC AND HER MOM #SCREW THAT DUDE I WANT MOTHER DAUGHTER BONDING #and rn I’m working on a shadow and bone fanfic #and if you’ve read the grisha trilogy you’re probably thinking. but Wait…Alina is an orphan #and yes. yes she is. But this is MY au and also it’s set 1000yrs before s&b so it doesn’t make sense for malyen ‘firebird’ oretsev to be the #also I’m feeling very very VERY chaotic and j think I WILL be exploring my chaotic little theories about amplifiers in this fanfic you can’t #stop me. also it’s so addicting to write family dynamics. I don’t even like reading them that much but OH BOY WRITING THEM—

[glitter500000]

Bruh people need to understand that Baghra and Aleksander are just not good people

#It doesn’t mean they don’t have good intentions #Baghra really only wanted her and her son to survive in a world trying to kill them #Aleksander wanted a place where Grisha don’t have to live in fear of just existing #But its their methods like Aleksander’s morals is basically gone from the years he lived and Baghra porbably lost hers long ago #Baghra literally helped kill a whole innocent village and took no regret in it in The Demon in the Wood because it was to protect her son #Aleksander used the fold and killed a whole innocent town to prove that he’s not fucking around #“Oh but in the show Zlatan was there and-“ yeah there were still just regular people there too who knows if all of them supported Zlatan #These are the two big ones that made me be like wow what is wrong with them but there’s more #Stop trying to say one is better or one had it worse like both of them had it bad in their childhoods and both are ruthless for their goals #Baghra had lost her family at a young age due to her actions and was on the run since #Aleksander had spent long periods of his life running and hiding and having to deal with Baghra’s mothering(which is for a different post) #Also both of them could not really form connections cause they’re amplifiers and ppl were more greedy back and could kill them #Both were shadow summoners so they were a lot more known to be scarier and more rare then normal Grisha and they were Grisha so… #Something you could argue is their reasonings #Baghra’s is typically selfish because she really only cares for her and her son’s wellbeing #Though why really would she if they spent most of her life trying to kill her #Aleksander’s is quite selfless as he’s not doing this for him but for all the Grisha #But he doesn’t care for whoever is really in his way so long as they move aside or get cut down ally or not #And don’t even get me started about Baghra’s relationship to Aleksander and Aleksander’s relationship to Alina that’s for a different time #aleksander morozova #baghra morozova

[dhampiravidi]

I feel like I’m alone in this opinion BUT (spoilers for Shadow & Bone/the Grisha Trilogy:

Is it just me or did Alina not actually become equal in power to the Darkling until she got all 3 amplifiers? I understand that she only trained for a couple months to a year as opposed to his 400+ years but IDK that’s what it seemed like to me. Does anyone think Aleksander could’ve even made use of an amplifier on his own? I mean (lol) imagine if he’d killed Mal…what a surprise that would’ve been 😈. The new poster for the show’s S2 made me think about this…also, maybe I missed it, but does anyone know if Aleksander can Summon to become invisible? I just really like the idea of that.

#sab #sab s2 #sab season two #sab season 2 #sab spoilers #grishaverse spoilers #the Grisha trilogy spoilers #Grishaverse #the Grisha trilogy #alina starkov #the darkling #aleksander morovoza #morozova’s amplifiers #unpopular opinion #hot take