![]() ![]() Fulcrum-trained orogenes are marked by their black uniforms and are tolerated slightly better than untrained orogenes, in that they are not murdered quite as often. ![]() ![]() If they are not killed by their family or community, they are given to a Guardian, to be trained at a location called the Fulcrum inside the city of Yumenes. They are widely hated and feared, and many are murdered by small-town mobs when their powers are discovered in childhood. When this occurs, a visible circle of frost appears around them and living things can be flash-frozen solid. They can cause and prevent earthquakes, and when angered can unintentionally kill living things in their " torus", or area of influence, by extracting the heat from their bodies to use as energy to manipulate the ground. Orogenes: People with the ability to control energy, particularly that of the ground (directly) and temperature (indirectly).The society of the Stillness is broken up into many "comms," "use-castes," ethnicities and species. Every few centuries, its inhabitants endure what they call a "Fifth Season" of catastrophic climate change. The Fifth Season takes place on a planet with a single supercontinent called the Stillness. It is the first volume in the Broken Earth series and is followed by The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky. ![]() It was awarded the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2016. The Fifth Season is a 2015 science fantasy novel by N. ![]()
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