How Heartrending Works Shadow & Bone Power Explained

How Heartrending Works: Shadow & Bone Power Explained

Shadow and Bone introduces viewers to a fantasy realm that includes a powerful group of Grisha known as Heartrenders. Here are their powers explained.

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How Heartrending Works Shadow & Bone Power Explained

Here’s how the Heartrenders’ powers work in Shadow and Bone. The fantasy series, currently streaming on Netflix, is the small screen adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha trilogy — Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm, Ruin and Rising – and The Six of Crows duology. Fans of Bardugo’s books are already familiar with the complex geopolitical landscape and mystical elements that comprise the Grishaverse, but many Shadow and Bone viewers may need a glossary and guide to understand Bardugo’s fictional world. At the center of the textually dense plots, subplots, and traversing storylines is Grisha Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei), a young woman whose power to control light could be the key to destroying the Shadow Fold, but she is just one of many Grisha, aka “Masters of the Small Science,” featured in Shadow and Bone.

The events in Shadow and Bone take place mainly in the country of Ravka, which is at war with the neighboring Fjerda to the North and Shu Han to the South. Two distinct armies are fighting for Ravka: the human First Army and the Second Army, which is comprised of the “magical” Grisha, a group of men and women with exceptional capabilities who exist within a hierarchical structure of their own. The Etherealki (Summoners) can control natural elements such as water (Tidemakers), wind (Squallers), and fire (Inferni). The Materialki (Fabrikators) have power over metals, stones, glass, fabric, plants, and chemicals. Finally, there the Corporalki, also recognized as the “Order of the Living and the Dead.” They consist of Tailors who can alter a person’s physical appearance, Healers, who can mend bones, close wounds, and lessen pain, and lastly, the most lethal of all Grisha outside of the Darkling himself, the Heartrenders.

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Like other Grisha, Heartrenders don’t derive their power from magic (merzost), but from Small Science. “Small science [is the] idea of manipulating matter at its most fundamental levels. So you have Grisha who can control the elements but who cannot make matter out of nothing,” according to Bardugo [via Bustle]. Heartrenders, whose gifts can either run in their respective bloodlines or be a genetic anomaly, can command human organs and regulate emotions by releasing certain chemicals in the body. For example, they can literally strike fear into the hearts of those who encounter them. Heartrenders, who can be identified by their red keftas with black embroidery, can induce suffocation by removing air from someone’s lungs, control blood flow, cause heart attacks, dictate heart rhythm, and slow healing. In Shadow and Bone, they are masterful at interrogation because they work as human lie detectors, distinguishing fact from fiction based on physiological response. Like with other Grisha abilities, Heartrenders are rendered powerless without using their hands, and their targets must be in their line of sight.

In Shadow and Bone, the Heartrenders Ivan (Simon Sears), Nina Zenik (Danielle Galligan), and Fedyor Kaminsky (Julian Kostov) feature the most prominently. While the highly-weaponized Ivan embraces his destructive capabilities by massacring a group of travelers (his strength overwhelms even Alina), Nina chooses to see her power in a more positive light. After Fjerda’s drüskelle witch hunter Matthias Helvar (Calahan Skogman) demonstrates an abridged and not entirely accurate understanding of her powers, Nina points out that she can “soothe tempers” (useful during diplomatic negotiations) as well as calm and ease the minds of people in pain.

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Nina, like Kaz Brekker (Freddy Carter), Inej Ghafa (Amita Suman), and Jesper Fahey (Kit Young), doesn’t originally appear until The Six of Crows. which takes place two years after the events that transpire in Ruin and Rising. Shadow and Bone creator Eric Heisserer decided to include them to expand upon Alina’s chosen one storyline and show “the scope of the world,” [via Thrillist]. During the season 1 finale of Shadow and Bone, Nina is headed to Ketterdam, and season 2 of the series (which is all but guaranteed given the positive reviews and audience enthusiasm) is likely to expand on Nina’s more enhanced Heartrender capabilities and pave the way for her transformation into another kind of Corporalki altogether.

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