

He's brought to Dreesen (and the Crows) as a witness to the emergence of the Sun Summoner, where he's interrogated and killed. He then somehow walks all the way through the Fold to Novokribirsk in West Ravka, where General Zlatan of the First Army awaits. In the show, he launches himself off the side of the skiff. In the book, Alexei is snatched by a volcra from the skiff crossing the Fold and carried off into the dark where his plight remains unknown.In the books, she doesn't have to take a magical tea to remember. In the show Alina drinks a magical tea so she can remember why she's suppressing her Grisha powers.In the show The Darkling reveals his true name to Alina early on, which is something that happens much later on in the books and is a much more pivotal moment.First Mal is drawn and then Alina burns some maps to be able to cross with him. In the books Alina and Mal were always going to cross the Fold together.Six of Crows is a spin-off set around three years after the events of Shadow and Bone, but the Netflix adaption combines them together.In the show, this never happens, the Darkling holds her prisoner and cuts off her right pinkie finger instead. In the books, Baghra is blinded by the Darkling.Although he is deceased in both the books and the show, David Kostyk, was killed off much later than his show counterpart.Their show counterparts were killed in Season 2. In the books, Tante Heleen and King Alexander III are alive.This change was likely due to Alexander being too similar to The Darkling's first name, Aleksander, which he uses publicly in the series.
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Whereas in the novels the King's name is Alexander, the Netflix series changed his name to Pyotr the Third.In the books Nadia is a Squaller in the show's first season she is a Tidemaker.In the books, Nina is too young to be present, and Mal is brought back by Tamar Kir-Bataar and Tolya Yul-Bataar. In the show, Nina is present when Alina takes down the Shadow Fold and tries to revive Mal after Alina kills him.In the books this never happens as she is too young when the events of the Shadow and Bone trilogy happen. In the show, Nina is a spy for the Darkling.

In the books he doesn't have a dead wife, the creation of the Fold being just the product of his greed and merzost manipulation.

In the books, however, he doesn't have a false name, being simply referred as the Darkling and addressed with moi soverenyi in formal situations. In the show he is named "General Kirigan", "the Darkling" being considered more of an insult.In the books, the Darkling has gray eyes and no facial hair in the show he has brown eyes and a beard.In the books, Mal goes on to rebuild Keramzin and marry Alina after she takes down the Fold. In the show, Mal becomes a privateer and takes on Nikolai's alter ego, Sturmhond, after Alina takes down the Fold.In the show, Mal is brought back by Alina using merzost. In the books, Mal is brought back by Tamar Kir-Bataar and Tolya Yul-Bataar without the use of merzost.In the show he doesn't do that for Alina's sake. In the books Mal used to bed many girls during his time as a tracker.In the show Mal has a scar in his hand to match Alina's, he doesn't have one in the books.In the books Mal has blue eyes in the show his eyes are dark brown.

In the show, after taking down the Fold Alina and Mal go separate ways and Alina is engaged to King Nikolai Lantsov.
