Picking up where The Fifth Season left off, Essun is in Castrima-under getting to grips with comm life and the various personalities within it, trying to understand just what happened to Alabaster, what his relationship is to the stone eater who accompanies him, and why he wants to teach her to manipulate the obelisks that litter the sky. Meanwhile, we pick up her daughter Nassun’s thread and follow her journey, alongside the father who killed her younger brother for his orogeny, as he takes her […]
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The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin