Candidate: Nikolai Karimov, one of the main characters, is an orphan who was taken under the care of Galina Zakrevsky, a mentor for the Crown’s Game that I will elaborate on later. He grew up to be handsome, so people often wanted to do activities together.
Logos: However, neither his clothes nor his low knowledge on how to do the activities made him look like that of a noble, “. . . so he delivered packages for the tailors at Bissette & Sons for bolts of cloth. He served as an unpaid assistant to Madame Allard, the ballroom instructor to all the debutantes, …show more content…
Distinctio: His values associated with this objective are that if he wins, he can work with the king, or in other words, tsar, of Russia (at the time before the 1917 Russian Revolution occurred) and therefore spend more time with Pasha, his best friend and son of the tsar; hanging out with Pasha is one of his top concerns because he is equivalent to a younger …show more content…
He displays his other value of importance in his friendship with Renata; she is a servant of Galina Zakrevsky’s house and unintentionally noticed Nikolai’s magic, which is something that he doesn’t want anyone to know about. However, he later thinks it is better to have someone he can confide in, and becomes close friends with her. Later in the book, the Crown’s Game is formally introduced as two enchanters, specifically Nikolai and Vika Andreyeva, competing for the label as Imperial Enchanter and the chance to work with the tsar, as mentioned earlier. There are five rounds for each enchanter to try and kill the other. It can end before that though because the tsar determines who the winner is. Throughout the game, Nikolai uses different kinds of magic, life-threatening or not, to create the Nevsky Prospect (the beautiful, main street in Saint Petersburg, Russia) a music box with needles to destroy a person’s shield and lock Vika in place for suffocation, his stone birds that attack Vika from all angles, and more that appear tempting to Vika and vice versa, which can cause both to forget about the purpose of the Crown’s Game because of their desire to become friends instead of enemies. Because of this, they struggle between the need to kill or let each other live, but are more on letting each other live as time passes. This is especially evident in Nikolai because his other