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Nina: "You may still dice in the Dregs."

Inej: "I may. Only I'll dice on my anxiety with a knife in my hand."

— Nina and Inej on joining the gang, 6 of Crows

Inej Ghafa is a member of the Dregs known equally the Wraith. She works as the Dregs' spy, and is one of the protagonists of the Half dozen of Crows duology. Inej is Suli and was raised performing with her family as an acrobat.

Contents

• 1 Biography
  • 1.1 Six of Crows
  • one.two Crooked Kingdom
  • 1.three Dominion of Wolves
• 2 Personality and traits
• iii Physical description
• 4 Skills and abilities
• 5 Equipment
• 6 Relationships
  • half dozen.1 Kaz Brekker
  • six.two Jesper Fahey
  • 6.3 Nina Zenik
• 7 Appearances
• viii Gallery
• 9 Trivia
• 10 References
• 11 Navigation

Biography [ ]

Inej grew up traveling around Ravka in Suli caravans and performing acrobatics with her family. She learned to walk the high wire barefoot as a young child with her male parent and cousins, and she simply savage once. Inej was more than comfortable on the high wire than even other members of her family and loved the liberty of walking in the air.^[ii]

When she was 14, Inej was with her family unit on the west coast near Os Kervo performing in a summertime carnival. She was awakened from a nap and captured by slavers early one forenoon and subsequently sold to Tante Heleen, the owner of a pleasure house in Ketterdam, where she was forced to piece of work in the Menagerie as an indenture.^[iii]

When Inej first met Kaz Brekker, she overheard him asking Heleen for information about the brothel'due south clients. Inej later approached Kaz and offered to assist him only he did not respond and walked away. Kaz returned the adjacent night to buy her contract from Heleen and gave Inej the choice to join the Dregs.^[four] Inej joined the Dregs just days after her fifteenth birthday.^[v] Over fourth dimension, Kaz gave Inej her first knife, taught her to crevice safes and selection pockets, and named her the Wraith.^[3]

When Nina Zenik arrived in Ketterdam, Inej climbed to Nina'south room at the Emerald Palace in the eye of the night and offered her membership in the Dregs. Inej earned Nina's trust, being simply a few months younger than Nina and likewise from Ravka, and convinced Nina to join the Dregs.^[6]

Half dozen of Crows [ ]

Inej is at the parley between the Black Tips and the Dregs. She climbs on the roof of the Commutation and prevents stadwatch guard Bert Van Daal from shooting the Dregs. After the parley concludes, Inej fires Rojakke from the Crow Guild on Kaz's orders. When Kaz returns to the Slat to study to Per Haskell, Inej spies on their conversation from a hidden grate in a cupboard on the second flooring. She and so follows Kaz to his rooms, where Kaz explains they were hired for a job for January Van Eck.

Inej, wearing a Grey Imp costume, arrives at Hellgate prison for the Hellshow separately from Kaz and Nina. Inej assesses Matthias Helvar and dresses him for the Komedie Brute then they can escape Hellgate.

While on the Due west Stave ownership supplies for the trip to Fjerda, Inej is accosted by Tante Heleen. Shaken, Inej runs for the harbor, but is speedily engaged in the battle at the docks. Oomen, one of the Black Tips, catches her and stabs her in the side; she manages to stab him as well, but Inej is badly injured. Inej prepares to have her own life to avoid capture, but Kaz finds her and carries her to the schooner. On the manner, she falls unconscious due to her wound.

Nina takes intendance of Inej on the Ferolind for 3 days before Inej wakes up. Through conversations on the ship, Inej learns bits of Jesper and Kaz's personal histories. Subsequently the Ferolind docks, the Crows trek across the Fjerdan north, and Nina tries to teach Inej some Fjerdan.

The Crows reach Djerholm and finalize their preparations for the heist, and Inej and Matthias hash out the meaning of "home" and Nina Zenik. When they deadfall and enter the prison wagon, Inej notices Kaz'southward panic and helps ground him by talking to him. In the Water ice Court prison, the Crows realize the incinerator now runs in the afternoon, ruining their plan to escape. Withal, Wylan finds Inej's Fabrikator-made slippers and Kaz's gloves in the laundry and Inej begins to climb the incinerator shaft. Nevertheless, her shoes brainstorm to melt and the oestrus is unbearable, and Inej contemplates falling and giving up.

Pelting begins to fall, cooling Inej and the incinerator shaft, and Inej decides what she wants to do with her hereafter: destroy slavers who supply pleasure houses on the sea. Will renewed, Inej climbs to the elevation of the shaft and secures a rope for the remainder of the Crows to climb upward. Jesper and Nina heal her feet which had fused to the rubber of her shoes. However, the prison house is under Yellow Protocol alarms, preventing the Crows from passing the checkpoints to enter the White Island.

Inej suggests she and Nina enter with the Menagerie, disguising themselves every bit the Suli and Kaelish girls, respectively. Inej is detained at the checkpoint, where she encounters Heleen, who recognizes Inej. Inej strangles Heleen and steals her diamond choker earlier being taken back through the prison house gate by Fjerdan guards. Jesper and Wylan free Inej from the guards, and Inej gives the boys Heleen's diamond to make a drill. Inej so jumps through the pigsty in the glass and lands on superlative of ane of the tanks, which she commandeers and uses to destroy the glass, and the 3 crash through the Ice Court wall in the tank.

Back on the Ferolind, Inej and Nina discuss their hopes and plans for their futures. Inej and Kaz talk nigh the country of their human relationship; Kaz asks Inej to stay with him in Ketterdam, simply Inej is unwilling to settle for so piddling.

When they render to Ketterdam, Inej, Kaz, Jesper, Matthias, and Wylan (bearded equally Kuwei Yul-Bo) row to Vellgeluk for the commutation with Van Eck. Van Eck realizes that Kaz cares for Inej, and she is captured by one of his Squallers to exist used as leverage against Kaz.

Crooked Kingdom [ ]

After beingness captured by Van Eck's Squallers, Inej wakes up bound and blindfolded. She observes a tiny vent, and begins refusing to eat in order to become small enough to fit through information technology. Inej worries that Kaz will not trade Kuwei Yul-Bo for her. Adem Bajan brings her meals and tries to antipodal with her, just Inej ordinarily refuses chat. Using the shards of a broken basin, Inej cuts through her bonds and climbs into the vent, eventually emerging in a theater on Eil Komedie. Nevertheless, Van Eck is waiting for her with guards who elevate her onto a prop tabular array while he interrogates her for the locations of the Dregs' safety houses. Inej refuses, and Van Eck orders a baby-sit to break her legs with a steel mallet. Frightened, Inej tells him Kaz will not merchandise for her if she cannot be a spider; Van Eck agrees and puts her back in her room with a promise to come back tomorrow. Inej curses Bajan to be forsaken by the Suli.

Inej decides to give Van Eck the locations of old, unused Dregs safehouses. Van Eck calls her bluff and informs her Kaz is on his way to Eil Komedie; Inej fears for Kaz and her friends. Nonetheless, a serving boy delivers the news that Alys Van Eck has been kidnapped, forth with a ransom note from Kaz. Inej laughs, breaks Van Eck's nose, and threatens him with the graphic death of his unborn kid.

At noon the next day, Van Eck brings Inej, hooded and shackled, to Goedmedbridge. When Van Eck reveals his ploy and calls the stadwatch, Kaz apace frees Inej. She jumps from the bridge into a flower gunkhole, Kaz dresses her as Mister Crimson, and the 2 jump back onto the span. Later running from the khergud's explosions of the brothels, Kaz leads her to the warehouse district and into a safehouse. Kaz asks if she was hurt, just Inej does not tell him most the mallet. She rests for a few hours before Kaz returns and takes her to Blackness Veil Island, where the rest of the Crows are waiting.

The Crows tell her about recent developments, including the arrival of Jesper'southward begetter and Kaz selling his holdings to Pekka Rollins. Kaz reveals his programme to have Inej climb Van Eck's saccharide silos at Sugariness Reef to infect them with Wylan's chemic weevil. When Nina wants to smuggle Ketterdam's Grisha safely out of the reach of the Kherguud, Inej sides with her, forcing Kaz to accommodate Nina'due south wish. That nighttime, Inej leaves Blackness Veil with Kaz. They intercept Per Haskell, who tries to take Inej for a unlike task, but she disappears. Inej and Kaz continue to the Church of Barter, where they climb to the elevation to view the Van Eck mansion; Inej does farther reconnaissance and reports back to Kaz in the gondel. When they return to Black Veil, Inej tells Kaz that Van Eck planned to shatter her legs, and he confesses that he would still care for her fifty-fifty if she was no longer the Wraith.

Inej tells the Crows her plan to get her own ship. Then, she and Nina head to Van Eck's carbohydrate silos at Sweet Reef, where Inej climbs a silo, destroys the sugar with Wylan's chemical weevil, and walks a loftier wire to some other silo. She is near pushed into the decaying sugar by Dunyasha Lazareva, who attacks Inej on the roof of the silo, then follows her onto the high wire and hits her with throwing stars. Inej near makes it across the wire, but Dunyasha releases the line, causing Inej to fall. Corpses nether Nina'south control catch Inej with the net; Dunyasha leaves, unwilling to face Nina's army.

Kaz and Wylan meet the girls at the silos and head to the Geldrenner Hotel to regroup. After Kaz and Jesper's fight, Inej speaks with Jesper and tells him about the Suli apology: "This action volition have no echo." When the Crows reconvene to discuss Kaz's plan to auction Kuwei, Inej tells them about her encounter with Dunyasha. Inej begins to re-exercise her bandages in the hotel bathroom, where Kaz asks her to assist him plot a route to the Slat across the rooftops. Kaz also reveals he paid off her indenture and gives Inej her contract.

Kaz carefully bandages Inej'southward wounds, and as he touches her, Inej grounds him again with her voice. He kisses her neck just immediately suffers a panic assail and refuses to tell Inej what happened to him. Against Kaz's orders, Inej follows him to the Slat, where she hides in the rafters and watches Kaz fight the Dregs. When information technology seems he will be killed, Inej prepares to interfere in the fight and kill the gang members, but Kaz signals for her to stay hidden and completes his insurrection.

Inej delivers a letter to Zoya Nazyalensky and Genya Safin, spies on the embassies, and retrieves i of the fliers announcing Kuwei's auction. On the morning of the sale, she climbs the Church building of Barter to plant explosives and stash Jesper'due south rifle. From the meridian of Ghezen's thumb, Inej watches the auction proceedings until Dunyasha appears on the roof, demanding a fight. Inej follows Kaz'southward advice and looks for Dunyasha's tell, managing to seriously wound the mercenary. Dunyasha pretends to give up, and then throws dust in Inej's eyes, blinding her. Inej realizes which tiles of the roof are loose and causes Dunyasha to step on one; the mercenary falls to her death.

She runs to the chapel and retrieves Jesper's rifle. After Jesper shoots Kuwei, Inej and Kaz are locked in the chapel by Pekka Rollins. Inej prepares to fight Rollins, but Kaz stays her manus; he reveals he buried Pekka'south son alive and forces Rollins to beg at his feet. Inej is horrified until she realizes Kaz was bluffing. Kaz tells her he staged an outbreak of their faked plague at the Menagerie, forcing out Tante Heleen. Inej and Kaz watch Zoya revive Kuwei. Inej returns to find Matthias dying in Nina'due south arms, and she encourages Nina to let Matthias go and reunite with his god. At the Van Eck business firm, the Crows catechumen the gunkhole into a bodyman's clomp to smuggle Colm, Kuwei, Nina, and Matthias'south body out of Ketterdam and agree a small-scale funeral for Matthias.

Inej spends the adjacent iii weeks living at the Van Eck house with Jesper and Wylan, researching warships and collecting information on slavers. One night she finds a notation in her room from Kaz, and she meets him at Fifth Harbor the adjacent morning. Although Inej prepares to say cheerio to Kaz, he shows her the warship he bought her sitting in the harbor. They concord easily. Kaz then shows her that he brought her parents to Ketterdam to see her over again, and she cries with happiness.

Some time later on, Inej finds Pekka Rollins's country house and sneaks in at nighttime. She begins to cut out his heart, then leaves him with a threat to terminate the job if Rollins ever returns to Ketterdam.

Rule of Wolves [ ]

Inej has continued to hunt slavers on her send The Wraith. At one point, she slathered two slavers in tar and crow feathers and dumped them at the archway to the Stadhall with a notation pinned to the captain's chest declaring that one of the men of the Merchant Quango, Gert Van Verent, was dealing in slaves.

Nikolai Lantsov introduces Inej to Zoya at the queen'due south coronation. She virtually identifies Alina Starkov, but Nikolai leads Inej away to meet Linnea Opjer and talk about ships and cannons. Later on the ceremony, Inej leaves Ravka with Nina and Hanne Brum.

Personality and traits [ ]

"But what about the remainder of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We acquire to concur our heads every bit if nosotros vesture crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you lot survived when you weren't chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the earth owed yous nothing, you demanded something of it anyhow." — Inej, Crooked Kingdom

Inej is mostly known for her reserved nature. She is mentally incredibly potent, and goes for her ain aspirations without hesitation. She is quiet and morally unwavering, unafraid to speak her opinion when she feels it is needed. She is skeptical of most people merely is not outwardly harsh, and willing to offer her friendship to those who have proven themselves to exist good people. Inej is religiously traditional, ofttimes reciting Suli proverbs as advice and full general commentary. She feels more secure with knives in her possession, preferably her own, and takes comfort in the forcefulness of her title, "the Wraith".

Physical clarification [ ]

Inej is Suli and as such, has brown skin and dark brown, almost blackness, eyes. She has long, black pilus which she ordinarily keeps tightly bound in a braided ringlet.^{[5] [7]} She wears breeches, a hooded tunic, and quilted vests in dark colors.^[viii] Inej is lithe and muscular^[nine] but is shorter than about of her companions. Co-ordinate to Leigh Bardugo, Inej'due south acme is 5′3″ - five′4″.^[1]

Skills and abilities [ ]

"She was the Wraith – the only police force that applied to her was gravity, and some days she defied that, too." — Inej, Six of Crows

Because of her groundwork as an acrobat, Inej has fantabulous climbing skills, agility, and body coordination. She also has a souvenir for stealth, never making whatever sound as she moves. She is deadly with her knives and can kill and incapacitate as needed.

Equipment [ ]

Inej had custom Fabrikator-made leather slippers with coarse safe soles, perfectly fitted to her anxiety and capable of gripping any surface.^[v] However, her slippers melted in the incinerator at the Water ice Court.^[4] While working for the Dregs, she carries brass duke in a pocket on her right hip,^[10] climbing spikes,^[5] and pads on her knees for itch and climbing. The pads also hibernate blades that are activated by a trigger on her ankles.^[11]

Inej has many knives, all of which are named subsequently Saints. The ones hidden in her forearms take quick releases: Sankt Petyr on her right mitt, her first knife given to her by Kaz, and Sankta Alina, a knife with a bone handle. Sankta Marya and Sankta Anastasia are on her thighs, Sankt Vladimir in one of her boots, and Sankta Lizabeta (with a rose-engraved handle) on her belt.^[12]

When Inej leaves Ketterdam, Kaz gives her a warship named The Wraith, which she uses to hunt slavers.^[13]

Relationships [ ]

Kaz Brekker [ ]

"For all his selfishness and cruelty, Kaz was still the male child who had saved her. She wanted to believe he was worth saving, too." — Inej, Six of Crows

Inej and Kaz class an extremely close relationship over the two years she works for the Dregs. Kaz comes to trust her more than anyone else and relies on her and her abilities. Despite Kaz'southward crude personality and brutal reputation, Inej believes Kaz has a good heart deep down and continually points out kind actions he has taken that aren't exclusively rooted in profit.^{[seven] [fourteen] [13]} When Kaz is threatened, Inej fears for him^{[15] [16]} and becomes violently protective;^{[17] [14]} the contrary is truthful as well.^{[18] [19]}

Although Inej reciprocates Kaz'due south romantic feelings toward her, she continues to put her life goals above her relationship with him. Kaz also continually denies his feelings for Inej and claims his interest in her is simply economical.^{[11] [20]} When Kaz asks Inej to stay in Ketterdam with him, she is conflicted as Kaz keeps his walls up and she will non "settle for so little." She tells him he needs to exist a better person and open himself to her before they tin pursue a relationship. Inej regrets that Kaz chose his armor over her, but admits that it might be for the best, since she is unsure if she could handle a physical relationship either subsequently her experiences at the Menagerie.

Kaz eventually begins to show that he cares about Inej every bit more than an investment. When Inej inquires whether he would still care about her if she were no longer useful as a spy, he surprises her by telling her he would. Kaz further shows his dear for her past liquidating his assets to buy out her indenture, for which she is deeply grateful. They share a charged moment in the Geldrenner Hotel; Kaz attempts to kiss her, but his haphephobia rears its head and they pause apart.

After the sale of Kuwei Yul-Bo, Inej prepares to get out Ketterdam and laments that she volition never have a romantic relationship with Kaz. However, Kaz gifts her with a warship so that she tin fulfill her dream of hunting slavers and his but request in substitution is that she will render to Ketterdam (and him); Inej agrees that she is not done with the urban center (and Kaz) notwithstanding. Inej holds her hand at her side to meet if Kaz will brand the effort to touch her without gloves; he does, and they hold hands for the first time. The catastrophe leaves open up the possibility of a romantic hereafter betwixt the 2 of them.

Nikolai Lantsov convinces Kaz to help him steal titanium from the Kerch armed services by promising him information on the izmars'ya . Despite initially denying that he knows the Wraith, Kaz speedily agrees considering the izmars'ya pose a grave threat to Inej.

Jesper Fahey [ ]

Jesper and Inej work together as members of the Dregs. They accept a close friendship and show immense care towards each other. When Inej is injured as the Crows go out Ketterdam, Jesper is incredibly distressed and visits her sickbed regularly. Jesper battles an addiction to gambling, and after this addiction causes the Dregs to exist attacked, Inej encourages him to take the get-go step to remedy his addiction. They occasionally bond over their crushes on Kaz, too.^[21] Jesper and Inej have a mutual understanding of and respect for each other.

Nina Zenik [ ]

"Thanks for keeping me in this world when fate seemed determined to drag me to the next. I owe you a life debt." — Inej to Nina, Six of Crows

Inej recruited Nina to the Dregs at Kaz's teaching, and Nina and Inej quickly formed a close bail. The two trust each other immensely and have comfort in each other'due south presence. When Inej is stabbed in the battle to escape the Ketterdam harbor, Nina nurses her back to wellness. Nina and Inej are invested in the other'south future happiness,^[22] and they regularly support each other throughout the Crows' jobs in Ketterdam. When Matthias is killed, Inej comforts Nina.

Appearances [ ]

• Half-dozen of Crows
• Crooked Kingdom
• Rule of Wolves

Gallery [ ]

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Illustration for the Crooked Kingdom special edition past Bon Orthwick

Trivia [ ]

• Inej's astrological sign is Cancer.^[23]
• Co-ordinate to Leigh Bardugo, Inej is a Gryffindor.^[24]

References [ ]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 ane.1} "How tall are your The dregs characters?" on Leigh Bardugo'south Tumblr
2. ↑ Crooked Kingdom, chapter 17
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Six of Crows, chapter 16
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.ane} Six of Crows, chapter 25
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.ii 5.3} Six of Crows, chapter 2
6. ↑ Six of Crows, affiliate 6
7. ↑ ^{vii.0 7.ane} Half-dozen of Crows, chapter 18
8. ↑ Half-dozen of Crows, chapter 17
9. ↑ Vi of Crows, chapter 14
10. ↑ Six of Crows, chapter 4
11. ↑ ^{eleven.0 xi.1} Six of Crows, chapter 12
12. ↑ Six of Crows, chapter 10
13. ↑ ^{13.0 thirteen.one} Kleptomaniacal Kingdom, affiliate 44
14. ↑ ^{fourteen.0 14.1} Crooked Kingdom, chapter 37
15. ↑ Kleptomaniacal Kingdom, chapter 7
16. ↑ Crooked Kingdom, chapter 23
17. ↑ Crooked Kingdom, chapter 27
18. ↑ Six of Crows, chapter 13
19. ↑ Half dozen of Crows, chapter 45
20. ↑ Crooked Kingdom, chapter 8
21. ↑ Six of Crows, affiliate 23
22. ↑ Six of Crows, affiliate 42
23. ↑ Collector'due south edition of Kleptomaniacal Kingdom
24. ↑ Leigh Bardugo on Tumblr

Navigation [ ]

v• d •due east Half dozen of Crows Duology
Main Characters	Kaz Brekker • Inej Ghafa • Jesper Fahey • Nina Zenik • Matthias Helvar • Wylan Van Eck • Kuwei Yul-Bo • Jan Van Eck • Pekka Rollins
Minor Characters	Joost • Anya • Emil Retvenko • Councilman Hoede • Geels • Bo Yul-Bayur • Per Haskell • Tante Heleen • Jordie Rietveld • Specht • Rotty • Jarl Brum • Cornelis Smeet • Adem Bajan • Colm Fahey • Aditi Hilli • Alys Van Eck • Marya Hendriks • Zoya Nazyalensky • Sturmhond • Genya Safin • Dunyasha Lazareva • Anika • Pim • Keeg • Roeder • Karl Dryden • Jellen Radmakker
Locations	Ketterdam • The Barrel • Hellgate • Ice Court • Djerholm • Black Veil Island • Kerch • Fjerda • Ravka • Novyi Zem • Shu Han • Wandering Isle
Groups	The Dregs • Dime Lions • Blackness Tips • Stadwatch • Grisha • Drüskelle • The Menagerie • House of the White Rose • Merchant Quango • Council of Tides • Khergud
Events	Hringkälla • Hellshow • Queen'due south Lady Plague • Komedie Brute
Miscellaneous	Jurda • Jurda parem • Kefta • Indenture • Djel • Ghezen

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