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Keep Heresy On Your Lips (And Saints Out Of Your Prayers) by RainbowOmens
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
25 Oct 2025
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After creating an act of merzost that rivals the Fold, Alina desperately prays to the Making at the Heart of the World. Surprisingly, it answers.
Now she's centuries in the past, surrounded by people she's long since buried. With the little piece of the Making she carried back with her guiding her, she'll do things differently this time. She'll keep Grisha safe from everyone that wants to hurt them. She won't fall for the manipulations of those that want to use and martyr her. And she has no intention of being left alone in the world ever again.
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- Part 2 of I Can't Stand To Lose You Again
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Wicked Like You (The Years Showed Me What You Already Knew) by RainbowOmens
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
18 Oct 2025
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The centuries are not kind to Alina. To Grisha. As time drags on she begins to understand The Darkling. Why he made the Fold. She turns into something like him. Maybe something worse.
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- Part 1 of I Can't Stand To Lose You Again
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Everything I Wanted by MoyaSolnishka
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
16 Sep 2025
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It's difficult to stick to your morals when you haven't experienced the world, seen power, or know what it's like to wield true strength. The pull of knowledge, strength, and acceptance is too much to fight against when it seems like every possible path leads Alina into his hands. She'll have to figure out how to retain any sense of herself in the face of the Darkling's plans for her.
**Picks up near the end of book 1, but may contain bits of information up to Rule of Wolves.**
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Are We Really Strangers? by just_another_fantasy
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
07 Sep 2025
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Centuries ago, the Darkling had indeed found the sun summoner. His only true equal… his wife. Together they worked to liberate the Grisha and usurp King Anastas before she was taken from him, killed to everyone’s belief. History forgets this sun summoner.
Time passes, and slowly steals memory of her from his mind.
It is four hundred years later when there is a new sun summoner found on the Unsea, a girl that reminds him so much of his lost lover. And so, the Darkling must question whether they are really strangers, or if fate is only playing cruel tricks on him.
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- Part 1 of The Whims of Time
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False stars in the sky by ElisaBel147
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
06 Sep 2025
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Ever since Alina was found by the testers at eight years old she's been told her life has one purpose: To tear down The Fold and reunite Ravka.
Despite this Alina hasn't set foot outside the palace walls since the day she was brought to the Darkling to raise. To make matters worse she has barely seen the Darkling for more than ten minutes at a time since then, only ever really seeing him to show the progress of her training.
So what happens when he suddenly returns in the middle of the night, five years after she last saw him, promising he's there to stay?
Or: What if Alina was raised at the Little Palace and wasn't so easily manipulated?
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Genya Safin has had enough loss. When a mysterious stranger places parem in her hands, she decides it is the perfect opportunity to take everything back.
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The Shadow's Embrace by sanktakoroleva (notyousankta)
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
25 Jul 2025
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Centuries after the creation of the Scorching Sea—also known as The Searing—which tore Ravka in two, rumors began to spread of a Shadow Summoner. Whispers claimed a man had massacred a group of Shu hunters who had been seeking to purchase Grisha in a brothel in Os Kervo, wielding a blade made of shadows. As the Second General and leader of the Grisha in Ravka, The Sunwrought was tasked with investigating and apprehending the mysterious Grisha. Alina Starkov, calm and poised, accepted the order without hesitation. With her most trusted Grisha by her side, she traveled discreetly across the far edge of the Scorching Sea—haunted all the while by demons with jet-black eyes.
In the cramped quarters of the captain’s ship, Nikolai paced back and forth, barely containing his agitation. His so-called mentor and first mate sat nearby, reading a book with lazy ease. Finally, the privateer stopped in his tracks and shouted, “You’re the Shadow Summoner?!”
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Reverse Darklina where Alina is the Second General and Aleksander is a member of Nikolai's crew.
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He'll Be Back for Her by shadowdaddyforlife
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo
06 Jul 2025
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When Alina Starkov had set fire to the dead body of Aleksander Morozova - which had been placed on the funeral pyre - she hadn't realized that this would only be the beginning of her troubles. She did not only inherit the dark powers of the Darkling, losing the ability to summon light, but she also threatened the political security of all Ravka. All Saints' Day - also known as Diedy - was approaching inexorably, and it was then that Alina was to publicly appear to her subjects. A painting found at a stall with gifts for the dead forever changed the life of the future queen of Ravka. Or rather, not the painting itself, but the caption put under it, which read: "The Starless Saint".
This story begins at the end of Season 2 of the "Shadow and Bone" TV series and presents the possible events of Season 3 from the perspective of Alina Starkov and Aleksander Morozova. The plot is based on the concept of "love warring", presented by Ben Barnes, who plays the Darkling. This fic is a canon divergence, combining the events of the series and the book canon from the "King of Scars" duology.
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- Part 1 of "Shadow and Bone" - Season 3 & Season 4
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Written By The Victors by Sarcasmismydefaultmode
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
18 Mar 2025
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Corporal and cartographer in the First Army, Alina Starkov's path diverged from her best friend's, Mal Oretsev, when they joined up as children. A decade later, her path intersects with his once more at Kribirsk, but it is not Mal's path alone that will be changed by Alina's presence.
Alina has always stood out, both as girl and as a woman, due to her Shu heritage even as she has tried to disappear. But this latest crossing of the Shadow Fold will throw her into the path of the powerful General Kirigan, drawing his interest.
But Alina is not the naïve, trusting girl she was at sixteen. And when the legendary Sun Summoner is discovered, she will face a choice between remaining a pawn of the powerful, or claiming her power for her own.
Ravka will never be the same.
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Breath of Life by zoyassun
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
13 Mar 2025
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"you believe me like a god,
i'll betray you like a man"Nikolai Lantsov x original female character
IN WHICH Sabina Marin - a lost Tidemaker with a complicated past - is tasked with a mission that leads her back to her home country, and into the midst of an all out war.
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Volkolak by Sad_outsider
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
12 Mar 2025
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Never go into the forest, never take off your pectoral cross, and never, under any circumstances, go outside on the night of a full moon - these were the three immutable rules that Alina, like other children in Keramzin, was taught from childhood. But one day she disobeyed, which set off a chain of horrific events and became the beginning of her transformation.
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Obsession by darklinastyle13 for Keira_63
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
14 Feb 2025
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Eternity can be quite boring, especially when all your friends have companions, and you're always the only one left alone. Valentine's Day was the worst holiday for a lonely, single vampire who had no prospects at all. Luckily, a chance meeting changes it all for Alina.
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Ravka, country split into two parts by the Sun fold. Created by the gilded heretic in greed for more power. Dying after creating the fold, leaving her descendants paying for he sins.
The golden general, strongest from all of the descendants, sun summener. A grisha who ones was seen as glory, worshiped but now as destruction, bad luck. Leader of the second army and all grisha in the Little palce.
Aleksander Chernov is nothing more but a simple cartograph of the frist army. The only family he ever had is Mal Oretsev, a tracker of the frist army. And very protective brother.
How all can changed when they were part of normal crossing of the split(fold).-----------------------------------
on hold, not posting nowSeries
- Part 1 of My grisha stories
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Shadows at Sunrise by ShadowedDarkness1230
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
14 Jan 2025
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Alina Starkova, once Ravka’s sainted Sun Summoner, has become a vessel of corruption after wielding the forbidden magic of merzost. Determined to reclaim her life on her own terms, she thrusts her consciousness back in time to the days before she ever met Aleksander Morozov—the Black Heretic known as the Darkling. No longer the naive mapmaker, this version of Alina is cold, calculating, and dangerously unhinged. She delights in her newfound power, taking pleasure in the shadows now laced through her sunlight and viewing the unscarred youth of her body with equal parts triumph and disdain.
Yet her designs go far beyond mere vanity: she will manipulate the future she once endured, revel in her superiority over those powerless to stop her, and ultimately challenge the Darkling’s very role in shaping history.
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𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑𝐒 by Yuriella_Li1ith
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
09 Apr 2024
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He was a boy, desperately hiding in Shu Han, when he met her.
A girl who was so utterly viscous, yet so strangely kind, freed him from the midst of a veritable nightmare.
Aleksander never forgot her, not even when the merzost took with it the most humane parts of himself, in exchange for his pain.
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Or, the "they've known each other for centuries but one of them loses their heart and the other one loses their mind and they keep missing the fact that they're one whole person when they are together"! Darklina AU that no one asked for. -
I don't want to break these chains by ab_winns
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
21 Mar 2024
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My regrettably belated contribution to #alinaweek2024, for the 18/3 prompt of Dark Alina, wherein Alina, unhappily wed to Aleksander, plots to kill her husband. He finds it all terribly charming.
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Inspired by a tweet from @bowfrcsts:
me and my girl dont argue. she poisons me in my sleep and i walk it off like a man. -
you might make me a monster (i might like it) by Keira_63
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
18 Mar 2024
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“You might make me a better man.”
“And you might make me a monster.”
One of those things turns out to be true.
And Alina embraces her ruthless side.Series
- Part 3 of Alina Week 2024
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The Patience of a Saint by meanwhiletimely for annihilare
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
02 Mar 2024
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She will turn his own power against him, turn his own body against him. She will conquer.
All of Ravka knows the Darkling is the Sun Queen's prisoner, powerless and under her control.
For now.
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Ain't it a gentle sound, the rolling in the graves? by Fiora for midwinterspring
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
16 Feb 2024
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She had not known. She had trusted Mal. And Nikolai. And everyone else.
She had believed the Apparat when he had said that the Darkling would bring destruction, and that this would be right for Ravka.She had trusted them all. Like a naïve little girl.
What had she done?Series
- Part 2 of My Valentine's mixtape 2024
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King by Rainbowdoggo84
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
13 Feb 2024
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Mal tried to save Alina and she does not need to be saved.
Mixtape Song: King by Florence and the Machine