![]() ![]() The tragic trap of the orogene's life is told through three linked narratives (the link is obvious fairly quickly): Damaya, a fierce, ambitious girl new to the Fulcrum Syenite, an angry young woman ordered to breed with her bitter and frighteningly powerful mentor and who stumbles across secrets her masters never intended her to know and Essun, searching for the husband who murdered her young son and ran away with her daughter mere hours before a Season tore a fiery rift across the Stillness. ![]() The “lucky” ones are recruited by the Fulcrum, where the brutal training hones their powers in the service of the Empire. While they’re necessary, they’re also feared and frequently lynched. They can quiet earthquakes and quench volcanoes…but also touch them off. ![]() It’s also occupied by a small population of orogenes, people with the ability to sense and manipulate thermal and kinetic energy. The continent ironically known as the Stillness is riddled with fault lines and volcanoes and periodically suffers from Seasons, civilization-destroying tectonic catastrophes. In the first volume of a trilogy, a fresh cataclysm besets a physically unstable world whose ruling society oppresses its most magically powerful inhabitants. ![]()
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