History Literature / BrokenSky

* LittleMissSnarker: Elani

* KatanasAreJustBetter: Calica wields a katana. And unlike Ryushi, hers never breaks.

* KatanasAreJustBetter: Calica wields a katana. And unlike Ryushi, [[Once a Season hers never breaks]].

* PersonofMassDestruction: Anyone with the sufficient amount and color of spirit-stones, but most notably Ryushi, Kia [[spoiler Takami and Aurin]].

* RelationshipUpgrade: Ryushi and Calica, when a chapter in Act Two ends with the two of them fading to black in an elevator. They'd quite possibly been an item for a while before this, due to timeskips between each Act of the story, but this point was the first real display of it.
* SimpleStaff: Kia's [[Weapon of Choice weapon of choice]].

** MundaneUtility: Ryushi can also use his nigh unlimited store of power to...play a board game without ever touching the pieces.

* PowerIncontinence: Ryushi at the beginning of the series has no control over his immense power, and inevitably burns himself out anytime he uses it.

** Kia from the sacking of Osaka Stud up until [[spoiler:finding Ty on Os Dakar]] could qualify as this. Consumed by a desire for vengeance, she has to literally have the sense slapped back into her by Ryushi when she summons a golem to massacre a squad of Royalist Guardsmen on the streets of Tusami City. She spends pretty much the rest of the time being distrustful of almost everyone who isn't her twin brother and doesn't so much as shed a single tear about the loss of her family home until she reaches Os Dakar, six books (in the smaller format; only two books in the larger one) later.

This "destiny" can either be a facilitator of a person's future profession, such as blacksmithing or the ability to pilot mechanical vehicles or the ability to manipulate something which associates with their personality. The lead characters - twin siblings Ryushi and Kia - have six spirit stones each, as does their elder brother Takami. Ryushi's blue stones allow him to create (initially uncontrollable) blasts of concussive energy, Kia's red stones allow her to manipulate the earth while Takami's spirit stones allow him to create green flames at will.

The stones are implanted along the spine - between the ridges of the vertebrae - shortly after a child's birth as part of a special ceremony (the ''pah'nu'kah'')), performed only by members of an enigmatic group called the Deliverers. The Deliverers, using a combination of their own innate power and an intuitive vision of destiny, coax the stones into changing their colour to match the newborn's later life.

Magic power in the series is based on how many "spirit stones" a person has. These (extremely expensive) stones are implanted along the spine shortly after birth by a group called Deliverers, and change at implantation depending on what the Deliverers feel the person will become. Kia and Ryushi each have six (as does their brother Takami). Kia's allow her to control earth, Ryushi's concussive force, and Takami's green fire. There are also people called Resonants, in whom it is impossible to implant spirit stone, who can travel between the two worlds.

Magic power in the series is based on how many "spirit stones" a person has. These (extremely expensive) stones are implanted along the spine shortly after birth by a group called Deliverers, and change at implantation depending on what the Deliverers feel the person will become. Kia and Ryushi each have six (as does their brother Takami). Kia's allow her to control earth, Ryushi's concussive force, and Takami's green fire. There are also people called Resonants who it is impossible to implant stones in who can travel between the two worlds.

* DungeonPunk: There's a pretty high level of technology in this world, like the Machinists' devices, the Lava-based heating system in Tusami City, and the transport devices powered by people with Pilot stones.

* MirrorScare: the Jachyra actually travel through mirrors, and as such there are numerous scares with one coming out of a reflective surface.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: the Wyverns of the books only have two legs, and although they can be bonded with human riders, they are presented more as beasts than sentient companions.
* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler: Macaan's]] parents both die of a disease while he is at a young age.

* LaResistance: the group of Parakka who fight against Macaan's empire.

Magic power in the series is based on how many "spirit stones" a person has. These (extremely expensive) stones are implanted along the spine shortly after birth by a group called Deliverers, and change at implantation depending on what the Delivers feel the person will become. Kia and Ryushi each have six (as does their brother Takami). Kia's allow her to control earth, Ryushi's concussive force, and Takami's green fire. There are also people called Resonants who it is impossible to implant stones in who can travel between the two worlds.

-->"Then the Scour stepped into the doorway and all colour drained from [Ryushi]'s face. It wore a loose black cloak, belted at the waist, which swirled around its feet as it came. Its hands were held together in front of it, buried in its long sleeves. But its chalk-white face was unhooded, and there were no features there. Shallow indentations or slight lumps indicated where eyes, nose and mouth should have been, but the Scour possessed only a smooth skull of naked flesh, uninterrupted by the features by which humans recognised each other. There was something inexplicably horrible about their absence. But not as horrible as the paralysis which suddenly gripped Ryushi, pinning his heart to his ribs and making his arms go limp. Strange, then, that he still had the breath to scream as the Scour clamped its fingers around his face and began to tear and shred at his memories..."

* {{Mind Rape}}: Princess Aurin has a strange being at her disposal known only as ''the Scour''. Seeming to possess no facial features at all, the Scour possesses the power to tear through - or scour - a person's memories for gathering information, while simultaneously gathering information.

* {{Mind Rape}}: There is a method of torture/interrogation known as Scourging that is described as though someone is physically ripping apart your memories.

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Macaan.

** Kia from the sacking of Osaka Stud up until [[spoiler:finding Ty on Os Dakar]] could qualify as this. Consumed by a desire for vengeance, she has to literally have the sense slapped back into her by Ryushi when she summons a golem to massacre a squad of Royalist Guardsmen on the streets of Tusami City.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Resonants that Macaan captures are usually made into elite assassins known as Jacyra, an extremely painful process that leaves their minds tattered and their bodies more mechanical augmentation than flesh. In addition, they are unable to rise against Macaan, who can instantly end their lives using the trigger stone implanted in his forehead.

* MirrorScare: the Jacyra actually travel through mirrors, and as such there are numerous scares with one coming out of a reflective surface.

* TitleDrop: There is no indication of what "Broken Sky" stands for until the third book when [[spoiler: the dying Tochaa gives Hochi his pendant and]] it is revealed to be a translation of old Kirin meaning something divided with the hope for eventual unity.
* TookALevelInBadass: Ryushi.

* HalfHumanHybrid: people of the Dominions (who in pretty much every aspect resemble humans) and Kirin Taq (who are the same as humans except for their yellow eyes and gray skin) are able to produce children together. It is revealed that [[spoiler: Macaan is a halfbreed. Aurin also turns out to be quarter-Kirin]]. One of the minor characters in the later books is half-Kirin,with all the social rejection it typically entails.