Zoya Nazyalensky

Zoya Nazyalensky
Official art by Kevin Wada
Biographical Information
Full name	Zoya Nazyalensky
Alias(es)	Zoya Nabri Commander Nazyalensky (former) General Nazyalensky (former) Storm Witch Rebe Dva Urga (Daughter of the Wind) Zoya of the garden (by Juris) Zoya of the lost city (by Juris) Zoya bleeding in the snow (by Juris) Sankta Zoya of the Storm Sënje Zoya daja Kerkenning (Saint Zoya of the Lightning; by the Fjerdans) Dragon Queen
Age	19-20 (Shadow and Bone trilogy, estimated) 22-23 (Six of Crows duology & King of Scars duology)
Status	Alive
Relatives	Sabina Garin (mother) Suhm Nabri (father) Liliyana Garin † (maternal aunt) Lada Garin † (adoptive cousin)
Relationships	Nikolai Lantsov (partner) Malyen Oretsev (former lover)
Physical Information
Gender	Female
Hair Color	Black
Eye Color	Blue Silver (with Juris)
Height	5'9" (approx. 175 cm)
Affiliation
Nation	Ravka
Occupation	Queen of Ravka Saint Soldier of the Second Army (former) Commander of the Second Army (former) Member of the Grisha Triumvirate (former)
Organizations	Second Army Grisha Triumvirate
Grisha Order	Etherealki Materialki (post-King of Scars)
Grisha Type	Squaller Inferni (post-King of Scars) Tidemaker (post-King of Scars) Durast (post-King of Scars)
Appearances
First seen	Shadow and Bone
Last seen	Rule of Wolves

"You are strong enough to survive the fall." — Sankt Juris to Zoya, King of Scars

Zoya Nazyalensky is the Queen of Ravka and a Grisha. Born in the village of Pachina, she originally aimed to become a soldier of the First Army before she learned of her Squaller powers. After training in the Little Palace, Zoya quickly rose to become a favored soldier of the Darkling and was frequently assigned to missions around Ravka. During the Ravkan civil war Zoya fought alongside Alina Starkov and eventually became a member of the Grisha Triumvirate and the leader of the Etherealki. Zoya is a powerful Grisha and one of the few to have possessed more than one amplifier.

Biography

Zoya was born in a small Ravkan village, Pachina, to Sabina Garin and her husband, Suhm Nabri. She painstakingly sought her distracted mother's affections by studying hard in her lessons, eating only half of her meals to share the rest with Sabina, and even going as far as to steal peaches from a duke's estate for her mother. Sabina capitalized on Zoya’s looks and planned to wed her off to Valentin Grankin, a wealthy widower of the same village, when Zoya was nine years old. Zoya agreed to the arrangement so as not to displease her mother, despite having no desire to be wed. As she wanted to be a soldier before her Grisha powers manifested.

Before the ceremony, Zoya's aunt Liliyana arrived from Novokribirsk in order to dissuade Sabina from proceeding with the wedding. Liliyana accused Sabina of selling her own child, and the argument was overheard by Zoya; soon, Sabina banished Liliyana from her house.

When the day of Zoya's wedding arrived, Liliyana appeared in the chapel, demanding that Valentin Grankin stop the marriage and blaming the gathered spectators for doing nothing to impede the ceremony. However, Grankin began to hit Liliyana repeatedly with a walking stick, nearly beating Zoya's aunt to death. Before he could deal the killing blow, however, the upset and cornered Zoya's Grisha powers emerged, a vast gust of wind striking Grankin and destroying the church. Afterward, Liliyana took Zoya away to embark on the journey to Os Alta, where Zoya immediately began her training in the Little Palace.

Starting on her first day at the Little Palace, Zoya began to learn combat, history, reading, as well as the Shu language. Zoya also made sure Liliyana received the stipend given to the parents of Grisha students.

At the age of thirteen, Zoya accompanied the Darkling and several older Grisha students on a trip to Tsibeya to search for the white tigers of Ilmisk, where an amplifier was suspected to be located. The other students discovered and captured three tiger cubs and prepared to lure the mother as they suspected she was the amplifier. Zoya, hearing the cubs' mother outside of their camp, freed the baby tigers at night and attempted to herd them away. However, an aggressive male tiger approached and lunged to attack the cubs. Zoya shielded their bodies with her own and took the brunt of the attack, leaving her with eight long scars on her back. She retaliated with a Squaller wind as she regained consciousness and sent the tiger into a tree, which snapped his spine and killed him. She obtained the tiger's teeth as an amplifier, forming the silver cuff she wore around her left wrist.

When Zoya was sixteen, she made her first journey across the Shadow Fold with the Darkling and other Grisha. Upon arriving in Novokribirsk, Zoya brought copious gifts to her aunt Liliyana and met Liliyana's ward, an orphan named Lada, who became Zoya's adoptive cousin.

Shadow and Bone

Zoya is first seen riding in the Darkling's entourage through Kribirsk, the town where Alina Starkov and Malyen Oretsev are stationed, and shows interest in Mal when she sees him. Zoya is later seen in the Darkling's tent, ridiculing and laughing at Alina when she was brought up before the Darkling. She arrived at the Little Palace a few weeks after Alina did.

Later, when Alina is escorted into the Little Palace, Zoya is envious of Alina and her powers, unable to stand the fact that she herself is no longer the Darkling's favorite. When she greets Alina in the dining hall of the Little Palace, the two girls hug, while Zoya quietly threatens and berates Alina so that only the two of them hear.

Soon Botkin pairs Zoya and Alina together in combat classes, hoping that Zoya, a star pupil, can assist Alina in training. When Alina astonishingly succeeds in besting her, an enraged Zoya uses Squaller wind to slam Alina against a wall and breaks her ribs. Botkin is furious and scolds Zoya for being foolish and reckless by using Grisha powers within the sparring ring. She was barred from the training rooms and sent to speak with the Darkling. Marie and Nadia told Alina they heard that the Darkling was mad at Zoya and she left his office crying.

Before the winter fete, Zoya was seen putting on her dress when Genya Safin and Alina walked in to use the mirror, on purpose to make her jealous of Alina's black-and-gold kefta.

Siege and Storm

Zoya traveled alone across the Shadow Fold in a sandskiff to Novokribirsk, where Liliyana lived. Arriving in the town destroyed by the Darkling, Zoya found her aunt's shop to be abandoned. The death of her aunt and adoptive cousin Lada made her turn against the Darkling, and she traveled back to the Little Palace in Os Alta.

Unbeknownst to Alina at first, Zoya is among the Grisha who stayed at the Little Palace after it was abandoned by the Darkling and his Second Army troops. Upon Alina's return, Zoya announces her support of the Sun Summoner on behalf of the Etherealki. Although several Etherealki object to this statement, Alina and several other Grisha are shocked at Zoya's proclamation seeing as she and Alina never had the friendliest of relationships.

Later, Alina calls for a meeting of the remaining Grisha with two representatives per order. Zoya is a representative of the Etherealki, and she plans with Alina and the other Grisha. In the events that follow, Zoya becomes a part of Alina's forces.

However, Zoya and Alina's relationship take a turn for the worst when Alina spots Zoya and Mal kissing after Mal wins a fight against a Grisha.

When the nichevo'ya storm the Little Palace during Nikolai Lantsov's birthday celebrations, Zoya fights beside her fellow Squallers. She is also present when the final confrontation between the Darkling and Alina takes place.

Ruin and Rising

Being one of the twelve surviving Grisha from the attack on the Little Palace, Zoya stays with Alina and the other surviving Grisha at the White Cathedral until they manage to escape. Together with the others, she travels through Ravka until they find Nikolai and are brought to the Spinning Wheel.

She survives the Darkling's surprise attack on the hideout and escapes together with Alina and the remaining Grisha aboard the Bittern. After the Grisha decide to split up after creating plans to find the third amplifier, Zoya, along with Mal, Alina, Harshaw and Tolya, search for the firebird near Dva Stolba.

In the final battle within the Shadow Fold, Zoya fights volcra and nichevo'ya along with the remainder of Alina's forces. When Alina is forced to kill Mal, Zoya is seen with a burn on her cheek running towards Alina along with Tamar Kir-Bataar and Tolya.

Upon Alina's resignation from her position as leader of the Second Army, Zoya, along with David Kostyk and Genya, is appointed to lead the Grisha by Alina and Nikolai. Genya, Zoya, and David become the Grisha Triumvirate, representing the Corporalki, Etherealki, and Materialki respectively.

Six of Crows

Zoya is mentioned several times by Nina Zenik. Nina recounts an earlier experience with Zoya, during which the two were attempting to recruit rogue Grisha to the Second Army on the Wandering Isle. A year after the end of Ruin and Rising, Nina and Zoya went undercover in search of Grisha to rebuild the Second Army, which had nearly been wiped out during the Ravkan civil war. Zoya told Nina that she was not very stealthy as a spy and that she was too loud and 'big', and that people would notice her. Nina ran off and got captured by drüskelle and taken to Fjerda. Zoya believed Nina was dead.

Crooked Kingdom

At the Ravkan embassy in Ketterdam, Zoya and Genya are attempting to help a group of Grisha refugees escape the city. There, she encounters Nina Zenik and Matthias Helvar in the middle of a fight, pinning them and several other men to a wall with Squaller wind. She and Genya reunite with Nina after a full year of separation and Zoya expresses clear contempt towards Matthias for being a former drüskelle. After some discussion, Zoya and Genya agree to accept Nina's and Matthias's help in rescuing the Grisha. Soon, however, Nina's original escape plan is scrapped; Zoya, Genya, and the refugees are forced to remain in Kerch.

Much later, she meets Kaz Brekker and several of the Dregs as a Ravkan delegate and a member of the Grisha Triumvirate, along with Genya and Sturmhond. She is outraged at Kaz when he orders everyone but Sturmhond to wait in the outer room while the two discuss. Afterward, in conversation with Wylan Van Eck and Jesper Fahey, Genya comments that the Kerch are strangely attached to money, and Zoya storms away when Jesper mutters in response, "says the woman with a bankrupt country."

Zoya joins the Dregs, once again with Genya and Sturmhond, to take Kuwei Yul-Bo to Ravka after the ploy that was conducted at his auction. When Jesper comments that Zoya doesn't seem like the type of person to risk her own life, both Nina and Nikolai answer simultaneously, "You'd be surprised." Before departing, she informs Nina Zenik that she should "remember where [her] loyalties lie" and that Ravka would be fortunate if Nina were to rejoin the Second Army. This shocks Nina, who apparently would never have expected Zoya to praise someone, or at least not her.

King of Scars

Zoya goes with Tolya and Tamar to a goose farm outside the town of Ivets to collect Nikolai, who has escaped in his shadow monster form. Zoya finds Nikolai in time to save a young boy named Dima whom Nikolai was about to attack. She shackles Nikolai and takes him to a carriage to be transported back to Ivets. Once Nikolai returns to his human form, the two share their concerns over the strange occurrences that have been happening all over Ravka lately and the fact that Ravka is currently highly unstable due to the lack of funds or a queen.

Back in the capital, Zoya, Nikolai, Tamar, Toyla, Genya, and David discuss the trouble that Ravka is in regarding the use of jurda parem by other countries and Ravka's amassing debt to the Kerch. Zoya is very worried about the fate of the world's Grisha and Ravka. They decide to hold a festival to host foreign dignitaries, and Zoya declares they shall use the festival as a way to find a bride for Nikolai. Later, she and Nikolai discuss potential brides and Zoya learns that Nikolai is a bastard.

Zoya accompanies Nikolai into the city to respond to the new cult of those that worship the Darking, The Cult of the Starless Saint. Nikolai decides to bring the leader of the cult, a young man named Yuri Vedenen, to the Grand Palace. Zoya is highly opposed to this due to her personal history with the Darkling and the pain and loss he caused her and her friends. That night, Nikolai escapes his bonds in his monster form and flies to a town called Balakirev. Zoya fights Nikolai in his monster form on top of a bell tower. Nikolai almost kills her before she is saved by Tolya.

Once Nikolai is back to himself, they decide that the palace is no longer safe; however, they just invited guests from all over the world. Zoya assures them that they will find a cure for Nikolai.

Rule of Wolves

Zoya rides to Yaryenosh with Nikolai, Tamar, and Tolya to investigate the blight. After conflict arises between the townspeople and the Suli, Zoya helps Nikolai calm the situation, but is spoken to by a Suli woman. Unwilling to confront the woman, she then talks to Kyril Mirov about compensation for the blight. Zoya suggests killing the Darkling and insists that Nikolai charm Ehri Kir-Taban. When word arrives about the war, Nikolai tells Zoya to visit Hiram Schenck.

Zoya waits for Schenck with Count Kirigin in Os Kervo and feels Juris's presence influencing her perceptions. She requests Schenck for aid from Kerch, but he refuses. On the way out, Zoya is attacked by an assassin who claims her power is unnatural. After meeting back up with Nikolai and arriving at the palace, Zoya witnesses as the Tavgharad set themselves on fire in an attempt to kill Ehri. She stays by Nikolai's side as he recovers from his own burns. Afterward, Genya, David, and Nadia arrive, and they discuss their current situation. Zoya and Nikolai visit the Darkling, who offers information on the thorn wood in exchange for a meeting with Alina Starkov.

As they walk back, Nikolai shows Zoya that the demon still lives inside him. Zoya and Tamar plan the Darkling's meeting with Alina, then Zoya asks Genya and David for help. The Darkling is taken to a sanatorium, where Zoya speaks with him before Alina, Mal, and Misha arrive. However, the Darkling escapes. Zoya offers to protect Mal and Alina, but they refuse.

After Os Alta is bombed, Zoya attends David's funeral. She stands by Genya and speaks to his bravery, then helps Genya cross to his pyre. That night, Zoya visits her secret garden, where she has dedicated a plant to each fallen Grisha. Nikolai follows and embraces her. Zoya and Nikolai travel to Ketterdam, where they find Kaz Brekker and convince him to help them. They recruit Jesper Fahey and Wylan Van Eck for the job before heading to the titanium supply at Rentveer. However, the group is stopped by the Suli and Zoya is forced to speak to them, revealing her Suli heritage. Zoya disguises the airship with mist as Nikolai and Kaz steal the titanium. That night, she and Nikolai speak privately in the hold.

Zoya leads a group of Squallers in electrifying the water after Fjerdan soldiers attempt to storm the Ravkan coast. She receives a letter from the Apparat of Nina Zenik's capture, then goes to Leviathan's Mouth to save Nina despite Genya's protests. Zoya knocks out a guard on the way to the tower and finds the Apparat holding a knife to Nina's throat. He tries to bargain with Zoya, but they escape through the wall and Zoya turns into the dragon. She carries Nina toward the battlefield as she unleashes her lightning. However, Zoya spares the Fjerdans, and the Darkling is the first to bow to her.

Zoya flies Nina back to Leviathan, then returns to human form in front of Nikolai. Inside the city hall, Nikolai turns down the crown and kneels to Zoya. She presents herself as a soldier, a Squaller, and the daughter of a Suli man, and receives support from the crowd. When the Apparat speaks against her, the Darkling defends Zoya and she orders for the Apparat to be seized. Afterward, Zoya kisses Nikolai.

They go to the Monastery of Sankt Feliks—the site of the thorn wood—and witness as the Darkling steps into the tree to hold the Shadow Fold closed. At her coronation ceremony, Vladim Ozwal places a crown on Zoya's head, and Nikolai introduces Zoya to Inej Ghafa. Zoya returns to her chambers to speak with Genya and Alina and admits that she has had nightmares about the thorn wood. She realizes that they can free the Darkling by finding the heart of Sankt Feliks.

Personality and traits

She is feared by many in the Little Palace and in Os Alta, due to her immense powers as well as her caustic nature. Often Zoya is shown to be ambitious, stubborn, and vindictive, and is capable of being extremely mean and disagreeable. Despite her prickly demeanor and her sharp tongue, however, Zoya is intelligent, hardworking, and deeply loyal to Ravka.

Zoya fulfills her role as commander of the Second Army by teaching the younger Grisha students at the Little Palace alongside the other members of the Grisha Triumvirate. She is known to be extremely harsh in training younger Grisha, but truly cares for their well-being and has earned their respect as a leader and mentor.

Physical description

Zoya has long, black, wavy hair, brown skin, and dark blue eyes. She is half Suli through her father's ancestry. Nikolai humorously describes her to be "pretty as a picture and brimming with spite." She is constantly described as beautiful.

Powers and abilities

Zoya started as a Squaller with the ability to manipulate wind. When Zoya was in school, she and other Squallers discovered a way to create an acoustic anomaly using their powers, which they used to eavesdrop on people in other rooms. Zoya is well known and considered to be a powerful witch by the drüskelle.

Zoya later gained the abilities of all Etherealki and also demonstrated passable skill as a Fabrikator.

After bonding with Juris, Zoya can shapeshift into a dragon.

Zoya is fluent in Kerch, Shu and Suli in addition to her native Ravkan.

Equipment

Zoya's first amplifier was in the form of a heavy silver bracelet studded with teeth from a male white tiger of Ilmisk. Her second amplifier is in the form of two black fetters constructed from the scales of Juris as a dragon.

Relationships

The Darkling

Zoya was initially infatuated with the Darkling. Upon Alina's arrival at the Little Palace, Zoya instantly hates her for becoming the Darkling's new favorite, and expresses her jealousy by cheating during a duel and injuring Alina. The Darkling's punishment for injuring Alina out of pure recklessness is taking away Zoya's amplifier.

After the events of Shadow and Bone, Zoya chooses to side with Alina Starkov's resistance due to the Darkling's attack on Novokribirsk which killed her aunt, Liliyana Garin, and her adoptive cousin, Lada Garin.

In King of Scars, Zoya shows disgust and hatred towards the Darkling and repeatedly expresses contempt towards the Cult of the Starless Saint. She vehemently speaks on behalf of the Darkling's victims—especially Genya, Alina, Baghra, and her aunt Liliyana.

In Rule of Wolves, Zoya seems to understand some of the Darkling's actions, and seeks to find a way to kill him so he doesn't have to hold the barrier forever, out of mercy.

Alina Starkov

In Shadow and Bone, Zoya seems to hold a grudge toward Alina and does not miss a chance of taunting her. After unfairly injuring Alina in combat, Zoya is punished and does not confront Alina, but still dislikes her.

As the story goes on, Zoya supports Alina and stays at her side. As she is one of very few Grisha who stands behind Alina until the end of the war, Zoya forms a tentative friendship with Alina. In the epilogue of Ruin and Rising, Zoya gifts Alina a blue kefta with a note saying "You'll always be one of us" after Alina loses her power.

In King of Scars, Zoya continually defends Alina's legacy despite her mistrust of Saints and worship. Zoya expresses pride in seeing the followers of the Sun Saint and Alina's extensive influence.

Genya Safin

When the two characters are first introduced, they have a mutual dislike of each other: Zoya resents Genya because of her status as a servant, while Genya loathes Zoya for her arrogance. Genya and Alina even barge into Zoya's room before the winter fete, forcing Zoya to wait in the hallway while Genya uses Zoya's cosmetics to style Alina. Genya admits that she only wanted to see the look on Zoya’s face when the Squaller saw Alina dressed in the Darkling's colors.

By the end of Ruin and Rising, Zoya and Genya have both accepted roles in leading the Second Army as heads of the Etherealki and Corporalki respectively. Although Genya complains that Alina must be punishing her by forcing her to work with Zoya, the two Grisha are shown bickering good-naturedly in Crooked Kingdom.

By King of Scars, Zoya and Genya have developed a close friendship. Zoya readily comes to Genya's defense in the face of members of the Cult of the Starless, and Genya admits to missing Zoya when she and Nikolai disappear in the Fold. Before Zoya, Nikolai, Tamar, and Tolya depart on their pilgrimage around Ravka, Zoya surprises Genya by embracing her and telling her to be safe. When Nikolai and Zoya return from the Fold, Zoya and Genya hug again after Zoya reveals that she once asked Genya to bleach her hair blond when she was drunk.

Malyen Oretsev

Zoya and Mal have a brief relationship. Zoya saw Mal for the first time in the very beginning of Shadow and Bone, when Zoya is spotted by Mal and Alina in the Darkling's coach that nearly runs Alina over.

In Siege and Storm, Mal constantly fought other Grisha near the stables after dark. Once when Alina was watching a fight between Mal and another Grisha, Malyen won the fight and the crowd cheered as Zoya came over and kissed him, leaving Alina hotheaded and jealous.

When asked by Alina whether or not the two had done anything in Kribirsk, Zoya responds "It happened.”

Nikolai Lantsov

Though Nikolai and Zoya do admit that they find each other attractive, they mostly balance each other and respect each other. Nikolai often refers to Zoya as his steady commander, and feels as though he can count on her ruthlessness. Though Zoya often feels drawn to Nikolai, she reminds herself that she as a Grisha could never be his queen.

Throughout King of Scars, Zoya is the one to lock Nikolai up at night to stop the beast. The intimacy of it often gets to Zoya. For Nikolai, he enjoys the excuse to talk to her, and her presence keeps him calm and grounded. He feels that he never has been entirely immune to her beauty.

In the Shadow Fold, before the ceremony, Nikolai and Zoya share a moment. Nikolai admits that he likes seeing Zoya comfortable, and wants to be the one making her feel so. Nikolai feels as though Zoya is still a mystery, and asks her how she got her amplifier. When Zoya reveals her scars, Nikolai feels a sudden overwhelming attraction toward her. Zoya has never told anyone about her amplifiers, and telling this to Nikolai is intimate.

As they say goodbye before the purging, Zoya is about to say something when she is interrupted. Nikolai wishes badly to know what she was about to say.

When Nikolai is training with Elizaveta, she says that there is a reason she chose Zoya to put in danger, because Nikolai cannot let her be in harm's way. When he is ultimately battling the beast, it is Zoya's words in his mind that bring him back to himself.

When Nikolai tells Ehri Kir-Taban she is to be his queen, Zoya must push down her jealousy, even if it confuses her.

In Rule of Wolves, Nikolai and Zoya continue their daily back and forth, and also engage in casual flirting. Nikolai finds himself upset when he sends Zoya on a mission related to the Darkling. When Zoya returns, they both witness the death of their mutual friend, David, and make efforts to comfort his wife. A few days later, Nikolai views Zoya walking on the palace grounds in the night. He begins to think she is meeting a lover, and out of jealousy, he decides to follow her out. He follows her to a large gate, where she acknowledges that she knows he is there. He continues to go with her, until he finds himself in a garden, that Zoya has planted herself. Zoya tells Nikolai that she plants a flower to commemorate all the friends that she has lost. Nikolai is surprised, as this is a side of her he's never seen before. He begins to comfort her, and Zoya confides in him, leaning on him and crying. As Nikolai walks back to his quarters, he realizes that she is already a leader, and that he does indeed feel strongly about her.

Later on while on a boat after visiting Ketterdam, Nikolai admits to Zoya that he wishes to marry her, not for political reasons but out of true feeling. Zoya declines. saying that love is out of the cards for people like her. Zoya later expresses that she wish she said yes to him, especially because they are about to go into a battle that could kill them both. They both survive, and a few days later, Zoya admits to Nikolai that she loves him. The two begin a romantic relationship after that. It is implied that they intend to marry in the future.

Juris

In King of Scars, as Zoya battles Juris in his dragon form in the Shadow Fold, he destroys her amplifier, causing Zoya to feel broken and hate him. But as Juris teaches Zoya the old ways of Grisha power, he becomes her mentor. Juris teaches Zoya what he knows; that her form of an amplifier was the weakened way, and that true amplifiers occur when the Grisha and the beast become one. Juris explains that when he battled the dragon, he became the dragon, and with that, he held the strength, powers, and memories of the dragon. He became the Heart of the World. He also explains that he was not only a Squaller, but and Inferni and Tidemaker, because like Ilya Morozova says, "aren't we all things?". Juris then teaches Zoya that she doesn't call power, she is the power.

When Zoya uses this knowledge of her new powers to escape Elizaveta's prison, she runs to Juris. He is already dying, but tells Zoya that she must kill him to allow him to become her amplifier. She hesitates, because Juris has become like a father to her. But ultimately she kills him, surrendering herself to him and becoming him and the dragon. She uses her newfound Durast powers to form new amplifiers for herself, and Juris's memories, lives, and powers pass onto her.

Later Nikolai notices that Zoya's eyes turned silver for a moment, becoming slits like a dragon's.

Marie and Nadia

At the beginning of Shadow and Bone, Marie and Nadia act as Zoya's friends but badmouth her in her absence, calling her stuck-up to Alina. Nadia and Zoya genuinely begin to bond in Ruin and Rising, and are depicted as good friends in King of Scars.

Appearances

• Shadow and Bone (first appearance)
• The Tailor
• Siege and Storm
• Ruin and Rising
• Six of Crows (in flashback(s))
• Crooked Kingdom
• King of Scars
• Rule of Wolves

Gallery

Zoya in official Grishaverse art by Kevin Wada for SDCC 2019

Official bookmark by Bon Orthwick with illumicrate for the King of Scars release

Zoya in official art by Samira Ingold for the Rule of Wolves release

Etymology

• Zoya is a Russian and Ukrainian name meaning "life."

Translations

Language	Translated name	Transliteration
German	Zoya Nazjalenskji

Trivia

• According to Leigh Bardugo, Zoya is a Slytherin.