![]() Wylan was so severely maltreated by his abusive father that he ran away, and he is horrified by the violence he sees throughout the heist. Partway through the novel, she sees pyres where fellow Grisha burned alive, as well as cells where her people were experimented on and tortured. Nina, as a Grisha, has been persecuted all her life, kidnapped by drüskelle, shipwrecked, and is now stuck in Ketterdam. Matthias was wrongfully imprisoned in Hellgate for a year and forced to fight for others' entertainment. Kaz was traumatized by being scammed by Pekka Rollins, particularly his experience stuck on a barge full of corpses, then using his brother's dead body as a raft to swim back to Ketterdam his trauma prevents him from touching people or being in crowds without feeling intensely ill and repulsed. When Heleen grabs her, she experiences debilitating PTSD. Inej was kidnapped, trafficked, and raped in a pleasure house. The world of Ketterdam is a traumatizing place, and each of the protagonists bears the scars from their journey to get there. Trauma-and recovery from trauma-is one of the main themes of the novel. As characters succeed or fail on their quests for vengeance, the novel interrogates right and wrong, though no character comes to the conclusion that revenge is not worth pursuing-while Matthias gives up on vengeance against Nina, it's because he decides she isn't guilty, not that revenge is wrong. Revenge and greed are the driving forces of the plot, as essentially every character has someone or something they want vengeance against: Kaz wants to take Pekka Rollins down brick by brick Inej wants revenge against Heleen, and later against slavers at large Matthias wants to kill Nina, and Nina wants vengeance for the crimes committed against Grisha Nina particularly takes vengeance against Jarl Brum, leader of the drüskelle who captured her. One of the major themes of Six of Crowsis vengeance. ![]()
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