Fridge Brilliance
- Inej is currently 16/17. She's been working with Kaz for 2 years, and was a sex slave for Tante Heleen for a year before that. Crooked Kingdom confirms that she was 14.
- Less extreme (though still pretty darn extreme) cases apply to the other crows.
- Kaz was doing dirty work to survive at 9, and was doing dirty work for the gangs at 14. He was thrown into a pile of corpses when he wasn't even 10 years old yet. Consider that.
- Jesper's been working for The Dregs for a while now, and he's only 17. Considering his skill set, he's likely an assassin or hit man.
- Ravka is shown as being on some kind of moral high ground, particularly compared to Kerch and Fjerda, but they're still sending out child soldiers. Nina had to have been 15 at the most when she was sent to find grisha—though it is noted that Nina left school over her teacher's wishes.
- At 17, Matthias was already out witch hunting.
- In a related example, the Drüskelle who kills Matthias is only 14.
- Wylan's father lists beatings as one of the methods used to try to force him to read.
- There's a high probability that Kaz has been purposefully enabling Jesper's gambling addiction to forcefully keep his skills in The Dregs.
- A lot of Grisha clearly died from the parem. How many did we not hear about, and how many had the earlier versions of it tested on them by the Shu?
