Schaffa, Essun's former Guardian, awakens underwater after Essun's devastating counterattack during the climax of The Fifth Season.
The story is told primarily from the perspectives of Essun, a powerful orogene driven out of her home at the beginning of the first book, and Nassun, her 10 year-old daughter. The plot revolves around their journey to find each other again, and their efforts to discover why Fifth Seasons exist. It follows two main characters: a mother and daughter, both of whom are magically talented ("orogenes"), who were separated just before the most recent Fifth Season.
The book continues forward from an especially bad Fifth Season, one that may become an apocalypse. The Obelisk Gate takes place on a single supercontinent, the Stillness, which suffers from catastrophic climate change every few centuries (the so-called "Fifth Season"). The Obelisk Gate was released to strong reviews and, like its predecessor in the series, won the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Jemisin and the second volume in the Broken Earth series-following The Fifth Season, and preceding The Stone Sky. The Obelisk Gate is a 2016 science fantasy novel by N.
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