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1. I don't want to set the world on fire by CaptainAndrews17 for Madelie

   Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   11 Mar 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Nikolai Lantsov/Alina Starkov
   • Alina Starkov
   • Nikolai Lantsov
   • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova
   • Colonel Raevsky (The Grisha Trilogy)
   • Colonel Pensky
   • Dominik Vertov
   • Nadia Zhabin
   • Adrik Zhabin
   • Marie (The Grisha Trilogy)
   • Sergei Beznikov
   • Vasily Lantsov
   • Genya Safin
   • Tatiana Lantsov
   • Pyotr Lantsov
   • Shadow Summoner Nikolai Lantsov
   • Sun Saint Alina
   • Drawing from Russia for First Army
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Book 1: Shadow and Bone
   • Not Shadow and Bone (TV) Season 2 Compliant

   Summary

   "Before the fires
   Before the spools of barbed wire
   You said you would never forget
   What pierces deeper than the bayonet." Before the Bombs, Death Cab for Cutie.
   ****
   Alina Starkov is the newly discovered Sun Summoner. When an attack on her caravan to Os Alta goes awry, she makes a startling discovery about the youngest Lantsov Prince that sets everything in motion. For what does light need to survive? Darkness. As Alina comes to terms with her own powers, she must make a choice - a prince who would give her the world, and a Grisha General intent on destroying it. Ravka needs a sun Saint, the Darkling needs a chesspiece, but Nikolai needs only Alina to understand both who she is, and what her purpose is in a world trying to dictate *who* she is.
   ***
   An AU of Shadow and Bone that works around the plot for some great Nikolina moments and changes the ending, with some noticeable changes also along the way.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Little Tsars and Saints

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   English

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