Ruin and Rising
Chapters - Leigh Bardugo
Chapter 1
Alina begins to organise a way out of the Apparat's underground sanctuary, navigating the competing loyalties of those around her.
POV: Alina Starkov·On page: Mal Oretsev, The Darkling, Zoya Nazyalensky, Genya Safin
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Chapter 2
Reunited with some of her former allies, Alina leads a small group back into the world above. The scale of Ravka's collapse under the Darkling becomes clear.
POV: Alina Starkov·On page: Mal Oretsev, The Darkling, Zoya Nazyalensky, Genya Safin
Source: Fandom
Chapter 3
The search for the firebird begins in earnest. Alina follows threads that point toward the answer being closer to home than she expected.
POV: Alina Starkov·On page: Mal Oretsev, The Darkling, Nikolai Lantsov, Zoya Nazyalensky, Genya Safin
Source: Fandom
Chapter 4
The group takes refuge with an unlikely ally. Alina and Mal work through the fractures between them while piecing together the firebird's location.
POV: Alina Starkov·On page: Mal Oretsev, The Darkling, Nikolai Lantsov, Zoya Nazyalensky, Genya Safin
Source: Fandom
Chapter 5
The truth about the firebird's nature is revealed and it reframes the entire trilogy's logic. Alina must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to use it.
POV: Alina Starkov·On page: Mal Oretsev, The Darkling, Nikolai Lantsov, Zoya Nazyalensky, Genya Safin
Source: Fandom
Chapter 6
A period of preparation before the final confrontation. Alina trains, grieves, and tries to hold together a group of people who all have different ideas about what victory should look like.
POV: Alina Starkov·On page: Mal Oretsev, The Darkling, Nikolai Lantsov, Zoya Nazyalensky, Genya Safin
Source: Fandom
Chapter 7
Nikolai resurfaces, changed in ways that complicate the alliance. His situation becomes one more thing Alina must find a way to fix before the end.
POV: Alina Starkov·On page: Mal Oretsev, The Darkling, Nikolai Lantsov, Zoya Nazyalensky, Genya Safin
Source: Fandom
Chapter 8
The group moves toward the Fold for a final reckoning. Old relationships are tested as each person confronts what they are willing to die for.
POV: Alina Starkov·On page: Mal Oretsev, The Darkling, Nikolai Lantsov, Zoya Nazyalensky, Genya Safin
Source: Fandom
Chapter 9
The Darkling's forces close in. Alina uses her power at the edge of what she can sustain, and the human cost of the war becomes impossible to abstract.
POV: Alina Starkov·On page: Mal Oretsev, The Darkling, Nikolai Lantsov, Zoya Nazyalensky, Genya Safin
Source: Fandom
Chapter 10
The climactic confrontation inside the Fold. Everything the trilogy has been building toward converges in darkness.
POV: Alina Starkov·On page: Mal Oretsev, The Darkling, Nikolai Lantsov, Zoya Nazyalensky, Genya Safin
Source: Fandom
Chapter 11
The aftermath. Alina and Mal reckon with survival and what it has cost them. Ravka begins the slow work of becoming something new.
POV: Alina Starkov·On page: Mal Oretsev, The Darkling, Nikolai Lantsov, Zoya Nazyalensky, Genya Safin
Source: Fandom
Chapter 12
POV: Alina Starkov·On page: Mal Oretsev, The Darkling, Nikolai Lantsov, Zoya Nazyalensky, Genya Safin
Source: Fandom
Chapter 13
POV: Alina Starkov·On page: Mal Oretsev, Nikolai Lantsov, Zoya Nazyalensky, Genya Safin
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Chapter 14
POV: Alina Starkov·On page: Mal Oretsev, Nikolai Lantsov, Zoya Nazyalensky, Genya Safin
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Chapter 15
POV: Alina Starkov·On page: Mal Oretsev, The Darkling, Nikolai Lantsov, Zoya Nazyalensky, Genya Safin
Source: Fandom
Chapter 16
POV: Alina Starkov·On page: Mal Oretsev, The Darkling, Nikolai Lantsov, Zoya Nazyalensky, Genya Safin
Source: Fandom
Chapter 17
POV: Alina Starkov·On page: Mal Oretsev, The Darkling, Nikolai Lantsov, Zoya Nazyalensky, Genya Safin
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Chapter 18
POV: Alina Starkov·On page: Mal Oretsev, The Darkling, Nikolai Lantsov, Zoya Nazyalensky, Genya Safin
Source: Fandom
Epilogue: After
An epilogue from a new vantage point, looking back at the events of the trilogy from a distance that makes them feel like history.
POV: Alina Starkov·On page: Mal Oretsev, Nikolai Lantsov, Zoya Nazyalensky
Source: Fandom