The writers for Netflix’s Shadow and Bone series must have studied the source material religiously, because they included so many clever hints at future events.
“Fine. Let’s give them Easter eggs,” is a famous quote by Shadow and Bone creator and showrunner Eric Heisserer. Just kidding, it’s not, but judging by how well the show did at foreshadowing future events, it might as well be.
Netflix’s Shadow and Bone is a pretty faithful adaptation of its source material, the eponymous first book in the Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo, who also serves as executive producer of the show. Her creative input and the love that the writers’ room has for the books are very clear in every scene of the show. They did an amazing job at writing the Crows, the trio that the books introduce only later in Six of Crows. Rather than merging the timelines, the show wrote an original storyline for the Crows that acts as a prequel of sorts to their duology. This means we see the characters at an earlier stage of life than when we first meet them in the books.
The show took this opportunity to include many hints and references to things that will take place in the future. Many events and conversations in season 1 were clearly written to establish certain dynamics that will pay off in later seasons. Some are obvious, and some are more well-hidden Easter eggs that fans are having fun finding.
Inej’s Sankta Alina dagger
When we meet Inej in Six of Crows, she owns six daggers that she treasures dearly. Inej is deeply religious; she’s named each dagger after a Saint, the larger-than-life martyrs she believes in fervently.
The show includes an incredibly heartwarming moment in the season finale between Alina and Inej: since Alina used Inej’s dagger to stab General Kirigan, she gifts Inej with her own dagger. Upon receiving it, Inej smiles fondly and says, “I know just what to name it!” This is a nod to her dagger named Sankta Alina, after the Sun Summoner herself, although the two have never met in the books.