Artificial Humans: The original stone eaters are revealed to have been created by Syl Anagist to help create a new power source.Many chapters begin with an excerpt from the logs of Yater Innovator Debars, detailing how a rogga has averted an apocalypse, usually at the cost of their own life. And I Must Scream: Implied that this is what happened to the Thniess and tuners in “the briar patch”, though it's left ambiguous how conscious they are (in any case, they at least aren't capable of feeling pain).Amnesiac Dissonance: Schaffa is aware he used to be a very different person and he was cruel to his charges unlike how he was with Nassun now, though he can't remember much of it at all.

This is because they were deliberately engineered to be a racial caricature of Thniess people, who weren't albino but were associated with having relatively paler skin.

Albinos Are Freaks: The tuners' being albino accentuates how different they look from the people of Syl Anagist, which makes them be considered subhuman.Two years without the sun has made the Stillness so cold that only the equatorial regions-those closest to the heat of the Rifting-are above freezing, and even then only just. After the End: This book opens two years into the final Fifth Season.Meanwhile, Essun's daughter Nassun has also discovered how to use the Obelisk Gate, but she has come to the conclusion that the only way to ensure that orogenes will never be oppressed again is to ensure the end of the world. It is the third and final book of The Broken Earth Trilogy.Īfter defeating the invading army of Rennanis, Essun finds herself torn between helping the refugees of Castrima find a new home and completing her mission of using the Obelisk Gate to catch the Moon and end the Seasons forever. The Stone Sky is a 2017 fantasy novel written by N.

The stone sky by nk jemisin