![]() ![]() ![]() Van Eck wants Kaz to break Yul-Bayer out of prison, so the scientist won’t share the formula for parem with foreign governments. ![]() The man who invented jurda parem, a scientist from Shu Han named Bo Yul-Bayer, is being held in the Ice Court, an impenetrable fortress in Fjerda. Jurda parem is extremely addictive, and Van Eck fears governments could potentially control Grisha with the promise of more parem while using the Grisha’s augmented powers to wage disastrous wars. The merchant tells Kaz of a new drug called jurda paremthat, when ingested by Grisha, amplifies their existing power. Seventeen-year-old Kaz Brenner or “Dirtyhands,” leader of the Dregs gang, is abducted by a merchant with a business proposition. A people known as the Grisha, who originated in Ravka (the text’s version of Russia), possess magical powers. Six of Crows begins in Ketterdam, an invented version of 17th-century Amsterdam, and the novel’s main characters hail from the seedy criminal district known as the Barrel. ![]()
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