![]() ![]() ![]() The logical conclusion is that something changed along the way, not unlike Blood Origin. Wrap gift and note for Riff Raff crew from Netflix executives More than twice as short compared to what was initially planned. Two months is way too short for eight episodes. We’ve also heard at least initially, Rats was most likely supposed to be an 8-episode series. Instead, filming took place over just May and June. This is unexpected and quite strange as initially, industry insider Daniel RPK reported that filming would take place over 5-6 months, from April to September 2023. We’ve learned that after approximately two months of filming, production for Rats codenamed ‘ Riff Raff‘ has wrapped on July 1, 2023. ![]() Rats only filmed for two months Christelle Elwin as Mistle in The Witcher Season 3 And now, it seems, the production for it is over, but much sooner than expected. Nevertheless, we kept hearing new things about it. I started flipping through it, and it had trade logs, and military campaigns, and shifting borders, and pretty much instantly I knew this was the right world for the book.The second live-action spinoff of Netflix’s The Witcher has been on our radars since November of last year, even though the streamer still hasn’t made an official announcement. There was a cover with three men in fur hats next to a sledge in snow. I got into the world-building phase, I went to a used bookstore, and I was poking through old travel books and textbooks, and I came across this Russian imperial atlas. While Shadow and Bone is 100% a fantasy book, Bardugo, an Israeli-American author who was born in Jerusalem and grew up in Los Angeles, drew inspiration from some real-life people and cultures in building her fictional world, most specifically using Tsarist Russia as the basis for Ravka, Scandinavia as a loose inspiration for Fjerda, and China and Mongolia as inspiration for Shu Han.īack in 2012, when Bardugo was talking to The Atlantic about her new YA novel, she said: “I love the standard fantasy setting of Medieval England and Medieval Europe, but I wanted to go somewhere different. The real-world inspirations for Shadow and Bone’s settings The Shu Han is also not a very safe place for Grisha, as the Shu capture and experiment on the magical folks. Alina is part Shu, and often has to deal with the racism that comes along with this. While we don’t actually get to visit Shu Han in Season 1 of Shadow and Bone, we certainly hear a lot about the Shu, the people who hail from this land south of Ravka. When we meet Kaz, Inej, and Jesper, they are all in Ketterdam, which is the capital city of Kerch, known for gambling and other commerce. An island country located west of Shu Han in the True Sea, Kerch is where Six of Crows takes place and where its main characters live. We don’t get to spend much time in Kerch in Season 1 of Shadow and Bone, but it makes quite an impression. The two end up in Tsibeya, a frozen tundra region in the northeastern region of Ravka that borders Fjerda. In Shadow and Bone, we meet Matthias, a drüskelle who has grown up believing this lie… until he meets and gets to know Grisha Heartrender Nina. ![]() Fjerda is home to the drüskelle, an order of warriors who hunt and murder Grisha because they believe Grisha are evil witches. Well, and Alina.įjerda is located to the north of Ravka, and is at war with the Ravkans. The First Army is composed entirely of non-Grisha. Ravka is a relative safe haven for Grisha, who are stigmatized and hunted in other parts of the world. Os Alta is the capital of Ravka, and it’s where the Grand Palace (where the king and queen live) and The Little Palace (where General Kirigan lives, and the Grisha are trained) are located. The Shadow Fold keeps the bulk of Ravka from having easy access to the sea, and West Ravka from having easy access to the rest of Ravka. The kingdom has been bisected by a swathe of literal, monster-hiding darkness called the Shadow Fold (or the Unsea) for hundreds of years. But Ravka has its own internal problems, too. Most of the main action in the first season of Shadow and Bone is set in Ravka, a kingdom that is fighting a war on two fronts: with Fjerda, its neighbor to the North, and with Shu Han, its neighbor to the South. Shadow and Bone is set in a fictional world where some people, known as Grisha, have magical powers. We’ve got you covered… Where is Shadow and Bone set? While readers of Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse books may be able to spot the difference between a Fjerdan and a Ravkan, your average viewer coming in cold might need a little help explaining the cultures and geography of this Russian-based fantasy world. Netflix’s adaptation of fantasy epic Shadow and Bone has a lot going for it, but articulating a sense of setting isn’t one of them. ![]()
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