
Materialki control materials such as metal and glass and,.Etherealki summon natural elements such as wind, water and fire.It is one of few places they can live safely, and, when training for the Second Army, they are divided into three orders: Ravka is home to most of the Grisha as they are "usually discovered as children by traveling Grisha testers and brought to. Grisha are a people who have been described as "magic-users" but in their words, they are practitioners of "The Small Science" which reflects an individual gift each holds to manipulate matter at its smallest level, the "molecular level". Each adapts elements of language, culture and tradition from countries of the real world (drawn from different real time periods).

The Grisha universe consists of the nations of Ravka, Fjerda, Shu Han, Kerch, Novyi Zem, and the Wandering Isle. The second season adapts Siege and Storm (2013) and Ruin and Rising (2014), along with elements of Crooked Kingdom (2016) in the Crows' storyline. The first season adapts Shadow and Bone (2012), and adds an original storyline featuring the Crows, a criminal gang for which the eponymous duology is named.


The series adapts the story of young Alina Starkov, an orphan and cartographer of the Ravka nation's First Army, as she discovers she is a Grisha, one with special gifts, and one long awaited to address a dire need in the universe. In June 2021, the series was renewed for a second season, also consisting of eight episodes which premiered on March 16, 2023. All eight episodes of the first season premiered on April 23, 2021. It is based on two series of books by Leigh Bardugo set in the Grishaverse, namely, the Shadow and Bone trilogy and the Six of Crows duology.

Shadow and Bone is an American fantasy streaming television series developed by Eric Heisserer for Netflix.
