Is David Kostyk dead in Season 2 of Shadow and Bone?

shadow and bone Season 2 held several surprises for fans and one of them was related to David Kostyk.

Season 2 follows Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) as she rejoins the fight against General Kirigan (Ben Barnes), aka The Darkling, to save Ravka. To do this, she needs Ilya Morozova’s last two amps to increase her power, and she is helped in this mission by Nikolai Lantsov (Patrick Gibson).

When General Kirigan and his Grisha forces arrive to fight Alina, Nikolai and the others, the fate of Luke Pasqualino’s character is at stake. Here’s everything you need to know.

Warning: This article contains spoilers for shadow and bone Season 2.

Is David Kostyk dead in Season 2 of Shadow and Bone?

In the battle, Kirigan unleashes some of his shadow monsters (Nichevo’ya) onto the Ravkan base where Alina is. One of them attacks the Sun Summoner, Mal Oretsev (Archie Renaux), Genya Safin (Daisy Head) and David.

The four become separated at the incident, with David and Genya going one way and Alina and Mal going the other. David and Genya are eventually pushed into a kitchen by the Nichevo’ya, and he urges his partner to board a dumbwaiter, which he then locks from the outside and sends down before the Shadow Monster can enter.

When the fight is over, Genya searches for David and returns to the kitchen, where she last saw him. There she can see blood on the walls, and she says that she “cannot hear his heartbeat” when she searches for it with her Grischa powers.

However, while Genya assumes this means David is dead, his body is not actually shown on screen, raising the question of whether he actually died during the battle against the Nichevo’ya. Leigh Bardugo’s original novels may offer an answer.

The Durast survives the events of the shadow and bone trilogy, and he appears in king of scars And domination of wolves, The duology focused on Nikolai, who is set three years after the trilogy and also after the Six crows duology.

In king of scarsIt is revealed that David and Genya were married before the events of the book, which is teased in the TV show when Genya finds a ruby ​​and a drawing for an engagement ring in David’s coat pocket.

David and Genya hold a more lavish wedding ceremony in domination of wolves, and during the wedding reception, David leaves his workshop to work on an idea where he is killed in a bomb attack on Fjerdan.

Given the ambiguity of David’s fate in Season 2 of shadow and boneIt is unclear if he is really dead or if he was simply carried away from the battlefield by the Nichevo’ya who were chasing him and Genya.

David’s fate was written in Bardugo’s books, but the lack of an apparent death on the show means it’s not necessarily the case that he’s already dead shadow and bone.

shadow and bone Season 2 is available now on Netflix.