

With the help of certain influential people, they spread the fake news of Alina’s death. This allows his friends, the twin Heartrenders Tolya and Tamar, to bring him back.Īlthough Alina has lost all her ability, she and Mal realize that they will be hunted for the rest of their lives by people with ambition and lust for power. It is revealed that because Mal is an amplifier, he has two lives. She later kills the Darkling with the same knife she used on Mal. After Mal’s death, Alina’s sun summoning ability leaves her body and finds countless new hosts all over the continent. In ‘Ruin and Rising,’ the third book in the ‘Grisha’ trilogy, while the two of them are in the Fold, Mal convinces Alina to kill him so she can use all three amplifiers and defeat the Darkling.

This quality has been dormant for generations, but the same is not the case with Mal. After Baghra (Zoë Wanamaker), his older daughter, killed her sister, Morozova brought her back, effectively turning her into an amplifier.

They realize that Mal has descended from the legendary Grisha Ilya Morozova through his younger daughter. They ultimately find their way back to each other. They both joined the First Army, he as a soldier and she as a cartographer.Īfter Alina’s power as the Sun Summoner manifests, they start to grow apart. In the following years, Mal’s extraordinary tracking ability emerges. So, she sliced open a wound on her hand right before her test, making it give false results. When Grisha testers visited the orphanage, Mal couldn’t be tested because of an injury, and Alina had no intention to be separated from him. They learned to trust and rely on each other. They quickly became inseparable during their time there, with Alina often standing up against the bullies at Mal’s behest. They were subsequently brought up in the orphanage in Keramzin. The Border Wars have been catastrophic for the region, leading to the deaths of thousands, including Alina and Mal’s respective parents. Located along the border between Ravka and Shu Han, Dva Stolba has sometimes belonged to the former and other times to the latter. They were both born in a settlement in the Dva Stolba valley. While he does sacrifice his life to help Alina in her battle against the Darkling, he is later brought back by his two Heartrender friends. No, Mal is not dead at the end of the ‘Grisha’ trilogy. Is Mal Dead at the End of Shadow and Bone Books? If you are wondering whether Mal will survive when the journey ends, we got you covered. But we know where it is likely to end from the original books. In the show, Mal and Alina’s incredible journey is just beginning. They can’t seem to have enough of his reclusive and brooding personality, casual charm, and near-absolute loyalty towards Alina. But it’s Malyen Oretsev ( Archie Renaux), or simply Mal, who has garnered the most attention from the fans.
