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zemenipearls · 3 years

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Zemeni Extended Universe

After two years and some change, my long fic centered around Jesper Fahey, Leoni Hilli, and Novyi Zem is finally complete! It takes place Post-CK, through KOS, and after that. It is canon compliant through then, but not Rule of Wolves. If you would like a dive into Novyi Zem, and worldbuilding at large, please consider giving it a read! Here are the parts:

Not Everyone Can Aim Rated T Word Count: 51,535 Main Character(s): Jesper Fahey, Colm Fahey, Original Characters Side Character(s): Wylan van Eck, Kuwei Yul-Bo Summary: After the events in Ketterdam, Jesper finds himself at a loss. He travels back to Novyi Zem to spend time with his father on the jurda farm. He focuses on healing wounds he didn't know he had, against the backdrop of changing Zemeni politics in response to Ravkan imperialism and Jurda Parem.

Jurda, Gold, and Invisible Ships Rated G Word Count: 6,516 Main Character(s): Original Character, Kuwei Yul-Bo Side Character(s): Isaak Andreyev Summary: "We need the Zemeni at sea..." pg 431 Atiena Kaboyonga is the daughter of an Ambassador and a member of the Council of Elders in Novyi Zem. A powerful zowa in her own right and ammassing a resistance against colonialism, she has used her oratory gift to unite zowa and different regions of the country, creating her own network of spies. Novyi Zem has been the victim of terrorist activity and when the Ravkan Throne announced they would be searching for Nikolai's betrothed, she leaps at the opportunity to discover more about the insidious politics East of the True Sea. Masquerading as a prospective bride with the Zemeni delegation, she makes the journey for information. Armed with intel from Jesper about a Shu grisha named Kuwei, and a sharp eye, she dives into the world of Ravkan politics.

The Girl of Many Names Rated T Word Count: 38,507 Main Character(s): Leoni Hilli, Adrik Zhabin Side Character(s): Nina Zenik, Nikolai Lantsov, Tamar Kir-Batar, Tolya Yul-Batar, Nadia Zhabin, Genya Safin Summary: Novyi Zem, being concerned about the relationship with Ravka and the strength of their treaties amidst brewing politics, has embedded Leoni as a double-agent for years. She rose through the Little Palace and eventually worked in the Hringsa Network. Adrik Zhabin has seen the worst that war has to offer, but instead of staying in a cushy position in Os Alta, he travels north to Fjerda to help ensure other grisha have a chance at safety, where he becomes a Commanding Officer. The two of them deal with the events and fallout of King of Scars, while navigating the feelings for each other and the global politics that entrench them.

Bullet in the Chamber Rated T Word Count: 87,356 Main Character(s): Jesper Fahey, Leoni Hilli, Adrik Zhabin, Original Character(s) Side Characters: Kuwei Yul-Bo, Colm Fahey, Wylan van Eck, Nikolai Lantsov, Kaz Brekker, Inej Ghafa, Hanne Brum, Magnus Opjer, Zoya Nazyalensky Summary: Jesper has been changed. On every level, since he first came home to Novyi Zem, everything about Jesper Llewelyn Fahey is fundamentally different. He is navigating his relationships, his shifting power as a zowa, and the world of politics. Novyi Zem is on the brink of war with Ravka, Fjerda, and Kerch, and he is involved in the heart of the conflict. Everything in his life has been leading to this moment, since even before his parents met. Leoni has left Ravka - her home of several years. But Adrik followed her across the True Sea, and now they are becoming major players as the Council of Elders make their moves. Leoni and Jesper are on a collision course that will upset international politics between nations and their lives are intertwined in ways they don't yet know.

#pls don't let this flop #jesper fahey #adrik zhabin #leoni hilli #colm fahey #grishaverse #my writing #fic update #soc fic #sab fic #novyi zem #inej ghafa #kaz brekker #nikolai lantsov #nina zenik #fan fiction #aditi hilli

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kkanej · 4 years

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let’s manifest for these in rule of wolves:

zoyalai happy endgame & hopefully a wedding (is this too much to hope for already😔)

NO REMORSE FOR THE D*RKLING! HE DIES AND STAYS DEAD!

more adrik & leoni!! if either of them die.........i’m suing

EHRI AND KUWEI POVS! IT’S ABOUT TIME

also mayu gets a cool complex character arc uwu

a bit more personality for hanne pls?? she didn’t have many traits in kos besides “not like other girls”

maybe a plot point w hanne’s mom & some explanation for why jarl brum, racist monster that he is, married a brown girl and she seems ok with it

nikolai learning to use the monster to his advantage!! and work WITH it!

ZOYA REVEALING HER DRAGON POWERS IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIGHT

listen i KNOW nikolai’s dad will turn out to be a shady ass bitch but i still wanna meet him just to see

cameos from the crows and maybe perhaps a little bit of confirmation that kaz & inej are an official couple please & thank u

JESPER REUNITING W LEONI 🥺

matthias shows up as a ghost........just for a minute...........pls

david gets some actual page time like the absolute icon he is

alina and mal get ONE cameo but pls give them minimum plot relevance.......my girl alina is sick of this war bullshit & having to be the protagonist. give her a break

CANON BI NIKOLAI

WLW EHRI & MAYU

ACTUALLY GOING TO SHU HAN (let me in let me INNNNN)

just one full chapter of nina making some bones do a skeleton dance

not one single character gets k worded

except the darkling yuri & sankta elizaveta 😍 y’all can straight up perish

oh and jarl brum. goodbye bitch

if anyone else dies nina can bring them back...............right??

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dandelioncrownns · 3 years

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random grishaverse facts/trivia (mostly tgt/kos, tbh), because i love useless details. Also, attempted organisation, because i like order too. + ft. my unwanted commentary

the darkling

has a sweet tooth

loves animals and nature in general

for those of you who have read demon in the woods, he got to meet the white tigers :)

his bedchamber walls are carved into trees bc he loves the woods

his favourite trees in particular are pine trees (or just evergreen trees in general)

he used to be afraid of the dark (many possibly worrying? interesting? implications to this; i won’t get into it here tho)

he likes bright colours, but wears black all the time basically for the aesthetic

he met his younger half-sister, Ulla, when he was a seer’s apprentice in Fjerda

the darkling is a musician! He plays the fiddle, and growing up, he played the balalaika and oud (i wonder if he can read tablature,,)

His father was a very powerful heartrender (maybe this is why the corporalki are valued so highly by him?)

genya

she got an amplifier between the end of R+R and the start of KoS (kestrel bones)

Genya used Dekora Nevich, the Ornamental Blade, to poison the King

It smells like cinnamon and is a warm golden colour

the royal family / nikolai’s bio family

the King once cut himself on his own sword

genya named the queen’s dog

until she was like 11, Genya was like the daughter the queen never had (omg i really wonder how Nikolai and Vasily felt about that? ik it’s not really mentioned, and Nik kinda acts like he just met Genya is S+S, but they must have been a lot closer, right?? I mean genya was almost always at the grand palace with Queen Tatiana, and nikolai just really wanted his parents’ attention, there must have been some kind of maybe one-sided jealousy/sibling rivalry thing, right?? I digress- for now)

also the queen in a dog person

p. sure Nikolai is a mommy’s boy

(possible explanation:) he looks exactly like his real father (except for his eyes). Nikolai even has the same laugh as Magnus

the queen was also fed up with Vasily and his horses

Vasily rides a white gelding horse and Nikolai rides a speckled grey horse (called Punchline)

speaking of, vasily is definitely a horse girl, but like... just the worst (darkling 🤝vasily)

Queen Tatiana’s letters to Magnus Opjer were “very racy”

She doesn’t approve of women in trousers

Linnea is ~1 year younger than Nikolai

she is good at math + studies engineering at ketterdam (I wonder if maybe she and Nikolai crossed paths when he was at uni- they’re around the same age, so maybe?)

The King and Queen hired a clown for nikolai’s 10th birthday (the worst birthday party he’d been to, inclusive of the night Vasily died, according to Nikolai)

Nikolai is afraid of spiders (and also clowns???)

nikolai:

he can juggle

Nikolai sucks at learning languages

he once spoke Fjerdan so badly a man named Knut offered him a ruby to stop

his Kerch seems pretty good tho

Nikolai met The Darkling when he was 14

Nikolai is a baritone (as is Jesper!)

In his free time, Nikolai writes bad poetry (remember that time he got stabbed w/ a letter opener bc his poetry sucked?)

he went through an emo phase/ existential crisis before becoming sturmhond.

during said emo phase, he wrote rhyming poetry pretty much exclusively

He also took philosophy classes at uni (PPE?)

alina:

alina tried on the same rose dress that the Queen watched vasily die in

Nikolai gifted Alina a VERY low-cut cobalt lace gown (In the words of Nadia, “The bodice might as well be cut to the navel.” )

Alina hates herring, but Zoya and Nikolai love it

She is VERY sarcastic and snarky!! I feel like this gets glossed over so much in the fandom, and just why?? (she’s so gloomy and over everything 90% of the time, i love it so much)

So this isn’t technically a fact-fact, but there is no way Alina wasn’t at least a little bit into women. Did you read how she talked abt genya? Zoya? there’s no way she wasn’t into them

Alina doesn’t really like hard cheese

zoya + zoyalai:

Zoya’s horse is called Serebrine

Zoya can use her lightning as a defibrillator (I’m sure other squallers can do this too with the right training)

Zoya likes Nikolai’s hands (and Nikolai likes Zoya’s feet lmao)

she has ‘weird (long?) incisors’

she definitely had a crush on Nikolai since Ruin and Rising

kaz:

Kaz grew up on a farm in Southern Kerch, in Lij

Kaz is a both a cat and a dog person (he just likes strays)

Matthias is a dog person, obviously

All the other crows are cat people

He likes hot chocolate

both he and nikolai like brandy

hates cereal

Kaz is obsessed with magic + likes puzzles

actually very funny if he wasn’t terrifying (honestly?? at leat 70% of his dialogue is just witty quips/jokes)

Kaz’s right leg is the one he broke, and the dregs usually get their tattoo on their right forearm

the other crows:

Jesper has been known to go line-dancing (and would like country music)

Mal and Jesper were friends in S+S!! (Probably) Jesper has a not-really-secret crush on sturmhond.

He also had a VERY not secret crush on Kaz before wylan, ofc

Matthias’ middle name is Benedik

Nina would win in an arm wrestling contest against Jesper

Inej has a thing for Kaz’s eyes

Nina was at the orphanage with the other grisha kids in R+R

In the opening scene of CK, Jesper was wearing a navy waistcoat with little gold stars (his fashion is just top tier honestly)

grisha- powers, etc.:

A solar eclipse would have no effect on the Darkling’s powers, but it would make it harder for Alina to summon.

Fabrikators can make flowers bloom

The twins have shark teeth amplifiers

Adrik and Leoni are saints

general world stuff:

Gay marriage is legal in Kerch!

there was a landbridge connecting Shu Han and Kerch but the council of tides covered it

Antimony is used as mascara

kruge is pale purple paper currency

ravkan currency has Nikolai’s face on it (ig not anymore tho?)

Hringkälla is celebrated on March 20th

the distance between Ivets and Os Alta is only about 100 miles? (i’m just going to willfully ignore this, because thats,, so small?)

Mermaids and dragons exist(ed) in the grishaverse

misc:

the daughter of the duke of ivets has a daughter who can play the harp

there is not fourth tale of krigi

The baroness Natasha Beritrova is fifty (as of KoS) and has lands near caryeva

Elke Marie Smit is from one of the most powerful Kerch families and is just 16 in KoS

Oncat is an orange tabby

Anya liked Joost a lot :( (I got way too attached to them at the start of SoC and was so sad + confused when they died lol)

david eats hard boiled eggs for his working days in the shops

‘Malyen’ is the Ravkan version of ‘Malcolm’ (very fitting)

Nikolai brought the kids at Keramzin toy boats + frequently sends Alina and Mal gifts

The triumvirate would also visit them every feast of Sankt Nikolai too :)

star signs / birthdays (ik the gv constellations aren’t the same as ours, but idc):

Inej: Cancer (june 21st - july 22nd)

Kaz: Capricorn (december 22nd - january 19th)

Nina: Leo (july 23rd - august 22nd)

Jesper: Gemini (may 21st - june 20th)

Matthias: Taurus (april 20th - may 20th)

Wylan: virgo (august 23rd - september 22nd)

Kuwei: aries (march 21st - april 19th)

Darkling: aries

Nikolai is most likely either a gemini or cancer (but he could also be a Leo or Taurus). Whatever it is, he is a summer baby.

Alina and Mal have the same birthday (they were given the Duke’s birthday when they came to the orphanage)

heights:

Jesper is 6’2” - 6’3”

Kaz is 6′

Matthias is 6’4

Nina is 5’9”-5’10”

Inej is 5’3” - 5’4”

Alina is ’short’ (5’3”?)

Mal and the Darkling are ‘tall’ (tbf, like all the characters are tall >:( I want my short people rights)

Nikolai (well, stumhond, but i think they’re the same height) is described by Jesper as tall (so 6’2”+?? why is everyone so tall??? I-)

Zoya is several inches shorter than nina (zoyalai height difference lets go)

Kuwei is slightly shorter than Wylan (who is about 5’8”?)

there’s definitely more, so if you made it this far and have any more, pls add to the list!

#grishaverse #six of crows #the grisha trilogy #the darkling #nikolai lantsov #alina starkov #king of scars #rule of wolves #<< mild spoilers #zoyalai #kanej #etc. lol #brain dump

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