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Merchers are Kerch merchants, many of whom live and work in Ketterdam.
Mercher Quotes in Six of Crows
The Six of Crows quotes below are all either spoken by Mercher or refer to Mercher. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3: Kaz
Quotes
“The Barrel is a den of filth, vice, violence—”
“How many of the ships you send sailing out of the Ketterdam harbor never return?”
“That doesn’t—”
“One out of five, Van Eck. One out of every five vessels you send seeking coffee and jurda and bolts of silk sinks to the bottom of the sea, crashes on the rocks, falls prey to pirates. One out of five crews dead, their bodies lost to foreign waters, food for deep sea fishes. Let’s not speak of violence.”
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Chapter 45: Kaz
Quotes
“Chaos will come, and I will be its master. Its very wealthy master.”
“You will be ensuring slavery and death for Grisha everywhere,” Inej said.
Van Eck raised a brow. “How old are you, girl? Sixteen? Seventeen? Nations rise and fall. Markets are made and unmade. When power shifts, someone always suffers.”
“When profit shifts,” Jesper shot back.
Van Eck’s expression was bemused. “Aren’t they one and the same?”
After the battle in the Djerholm harbor, the merchling had come to Kaz to warn him that he couldn’t be used as leverage against his father. Wylan had been red-faced, barely able to speak the words of his supposed “affliction.” Kaz had only shrugged. Some men were poets. Some were farmers. Some were rich merchers. Wylan could draw a perfect elevation. He’d made a drill that could cut through Grisha glass from parts of a gate and scavenged bits of jewelry. So what if he couldn’t read?
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Mercher Term Timeline in Six of Crows
The timeline below shows where the term Mercher appears in Six of Crows. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
...warn Anya to do as she’s told. He then comes back out and assures a mercher Joost doesn’t recognize that Anya will be fine—she’s a Healer and has a “sweet disposition,”...
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Chapter 2: Inej
...of town that Kaz himself built up and renovated. It’s now a bustling hub for merchers and tourists alike, and the Dregs get first dibs on directing “pigeons” (tourists) to Dregs-owned...
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Chapter 3: Kaz
...chair in a lavishly furnished study, with stadwatch guards at the door. An impeccably dressed mercher stands up from the desk, and based on his elaborate ruby pin, Kaz knows who...
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Chapter 5: Kaz
...settee and eats cakes from the coffee service her client left. Kaz asks if the mercher who just left is going to be able to save his business. Nina is a...
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Chapter 18: Kaz
...the farm, and the siblings traveled to Ketterdam. Jordie planned to get a job with merchers, but he soon found that nobody wanted to hire from outside of their circles. One...
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Chapter 42: Inej
...on Vellgeluk, an island where slavers and smugglers conduct business—Van Eck “isn’t quite the upstanding merch he seems.” Inej tells Kaz that she’d like to go home for a while, and...
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