To grasp the firebird, it is important to first dig right into a Grishaverse idea referred to as “amplifiers.” If Grisha are a bit like magicians with explicit areas of experience, consider these amplifiers like amulets that improve their pure skills. Most Grisha’s amplifiers come from the stays of a particular animal — one which, within the case of the Netflix sequence, the Grisha feels a sure connection to. In season 1, Alina dreamed always of a white stag, and its antlers turned out to be her amplifier. In season 2, Tamar (Anna Leong Brophy) tells Alina her personal amplifier was a shark, whose tooth she nonetheless wears in her ear.

In accordance with Tamar, amplifiers can solely be made if the animal they arrive from is killed by the Grisha, a rule Alina refuses to just accept. The Solar Summoner tries to place this concept to the take a look at with the ocean whip, a water-dwelling dragon that she begins dreaming about after the stag has died. In contrast to different Grisha, who solely ever have one amplifier their entire lives, the Solar Summoner desires of three. “I feel they’re to be linked by way of me so I can then destroy the Fold,” Alina tells the others, and since she’s a prophesied hero, there is no cause to not consider the foundations of magic will bend for her.

Sadly, Alina does find yourself having to kill the ocean whip along with her magic when it lunges for Mal. Nonetheless, Alina has yet one more probability to show her concept proper: the firebird. In Grishaverse lore, the firebird is an imposing and extremely revered creature that is just about the identical as a phoenix. That is how Alina envisions it, too, till Mal uncovers the reality: that he is the firebird.