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* TheChurch[=/=]ActivistFundamentalistAntics[=/=]SaintlyChurch: The Itempan Church, led by hateful priestess Shahar Arameri, used the Enefadeh to completely reshape the world after the gods' war. It collects taxes, provides extensive social services (universal primary education, food and housing for the disabled, public sanitation, etc.), and imposes a theological injunction against the chaos of war. The Church, with the guidance of the Arameri family, gave the world an unprecedented 2,000 years of stability and prosperity -- on the backs of the enslaved Enefadeh, and after crushing local religious traditions.
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* TheChurch[=/=]ActivistFundamentalistAntics[=/=]SaintlyChurch: The Itempan Church, led by hateful priestess Shahar Arameri, used the Enefadeh to completely reshape the world after the gods' war. It collects taxes, provides extensive social services (universal primary education, food and housing for the disabled, public sanitation, etc.), and imposes a theological injunction against the chaos of war. The Church, with the guidance of the Arameri family, gave the world an unprecedented 2,000 years of stability and prosperity -- on the backs of the enslaved Enefadeh, and after crushing local religious traditions. Also supporting the Arameri's tyrranical rule, ruthlessly executing heretics, and carefully controlling the populace with propaganda. In Yeine's opinion, and that of other Darrens, the "peace" is nothing but everyone being too crushed to do anything, and benefits no one but the Arameri.
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* KillTheGod: The villains from ''The Broken Kingdoms'' attempt to kill Nahadoth.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: The Three (two brothers and one sister) are basically a polyandrous relationship; their godly children get their share of hanky panky with each other.
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* IHaveManyNames: After Nahadoth and unchained and [[spoiler:Enefa is reborn as Yeine]], the old Itempan church starts referring to them as the "Lord of Shadows" and "Gray Lady" to avoid sounding like they've completely backtracked on the "Enefa and Nahadoth are traitors you shouldn't pray to" bit.
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* IHaveManyNames: After Nahadoth and is unchained and [[spoiler:Enefa is reborn as Yeine]], the old Itempan church starts referring to them as the "Lord of Shadows" and "Gray Lady" to avoid sounding like they've completely backtracked on the "Enefa and Nahadoth are traitors you shouldn't pray to" bit.
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* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Nahadoth and Itempas, at least in their backstory. Their relationship is something of a [[TheMasochismTango Masochism Tango]].
* MysticalWhiteHair: White-haired Viraine is a Scrivener, who can wield magic power by using the gods' language; he's also [[spoiler:the earthly vessel of Bright Itempas]].
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* BittersweetEnding: ''Kingdom of the Gods''. [[Sieh [[spoiler: Sieh is dead, but he is reborn as a god in his own universe with Deka and Shahar.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: Kingdom ''Kingdom of Gods.the Gods''. [[Sieh is dead, but he is reborn as a god in his own universe with Deka and Shahar.]]
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* DownerEnding: The ''The Broken Kingdoms.Kingdoms''.
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* GambitPileup: The end of ''The Hundred-Thousand Kingdoms'' is a mess of plots, human and divine family power struggles with world-wide consequences.
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** CompleteImmortality: Nahadoth and Itempas; it's implied that they ''can'' be KilledOffForReal, but doing so would end the universe.
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** CompleteImmortality: Nahadoth and Itempas; it's implied that they ''can'' be KilledOffForReal, but doing so would end the universe. [[spoiler: Enefa on the other hand shows more of a BodyBackupDrive sort of immortality. She died, she's gone, and now Yeine has her place, but her power and place are never completely gone because it would also end the world.]]
** Yeine and Nahadoth
* MonochromeCasting: Averted, sometimes subverted. This world is a multiracial, multicultural world, with even the gods taking widely different appearances. Because of the way he is depicted in Amn art, there is an expectation for Itempas to be pale like them, but in actuality he takes the appearance of a Maroneh (black) man.
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* WorldTree: After the Enefadah are freed Yeine creates a big ass tree to hold up Sky, which had previously been held up by the Enefadeh's powers and a very tall very thin pillar.
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* CosmicKeystone: The Stone of Earth, which is vital to the ceremony that crowns the new Lord Arameri, is actually [[spoiler:the last remnant of Enefa's body and power. Actually, WordOfGod says it's an ovary.]]
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* CosmicKeystone: The Stone of Earth, which is vital to the ceremony that crowns the new Lord Arameri, is actually [[spoiler:the last remnant of Enefa's body and power. Actually, WordOfGod says it's an ovary.]]
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* CosmicKeystone: The Stone of Earth, which is vital to the ceremony that crowns the new Lord Arameri, is actually [[spoiler:the last remnant of Enefa's body and power - her heart.]]
** Actually, WordOfGod says it's an ovary.
** Actually, WordOfGod says it's an ovary.
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* CosmicKeystone: The Stone of Earth, which is vital to the ceremony that crowns the new Lord Arameri, is actually [[spoiler:the last remnant of Enefa's body and power - her heart.]]
**power. Actually, WordOfGod says it's an ovary.]]
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: It's hard to really feel sorry for [[spoiler: Scimina when she gets handed over to Nahadoth to torture and eventually kill.]]
** It's also hard to feel for [[spoiler: Serymn when she gets her tongue ripped out by T'Vril, and then ''also'' gets handed over to Nahadoth to torture and eventually kill.]]
** It's also hard to feel for [[spoiler: Serymn when she gets her tongue ripped out by T'Vril, and then ''also'' gets handed over to Nahadoth to torture and eventually kill.]]
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* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Both Viraine and Itempas. [[spoiler: Of course they're the same person.]]
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* ZombieApocalypse: A miniature one killed Yeine's father. They're never actually called zombies in the book, but the Arameri basically had the ''actual zombie apocalypse weaponized''. As in, they could direct it, and turn it on and off at will. And yes, they did use it. Never on-page, but frequently before the start of the book.
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* ZombieApocalypse: A miniature one almost killed Yeine's father.father (the "almost" is because [[spoiler: the Enefadeh intervened in exchange for putting Enefa's soul into the as-yet-unborn Yeine]]). They're never actually called zombies in the book, but the Arameri basically had the ''actual zombie apocalypse weaponized''. As in, they could direct it, and turn it on and off at will. And yes, they did use it. Never on-page, but frequently before the start of the book.
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* TheChurch / ActivistFundamentalistAntics / SaintlyChurch: The Itempan Church, led by hateful priestess Shahar Arameri, used the Enefadeh to completely reshape the world after the gods' war. It collects taxes, provides extensive social services (universal primary education, food and housing for the disabled, public sanitation, etc.), and imposes a theological injunction against the chaos of war. The Church, with the guidance of the Arameri family, gave the world an unprecedented 2,000 years of stability and prosperity -- on the backs of the enslaved Enefadeh, and after crushing local religious traditions.
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* DescendFromAHigherPlaneOfExistence / GodInHumanForm / EmergentHuman / Humanity Ensues: The Enefadeh, Itempas, Sieh.
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* EarthMother / MotherNatureFatherScience: Intentionally averted. Enefa, creator of life, is also the goddess of death, and is ruthless about offing substandard creations. Itempas and Nahadoth got most of the stereotypically emotional "motherly" aspects.
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* EarthMother / MotherNatureFatherScience: EarthMother[=/=]MotherNatureFatherScience: Intentionally averted. Enefa, creator of life, is also the goddess of death, and is ruthless about offing substandard creations. Itempas and Nahadoth got most of the stereotypically emotional "motherly" aspects.
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* ShiningCity: Sky, where delegates of the eponymous "hundred thousand kingdoms" meet and, more importantly, the Arameri family head lives. Later it becomes a HolyCity and pilgrimage destination.
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* PrimordialChaos: The Maelstrom, from which the gods were born.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:T'Vril]] is one of the most well adjusted and generally human members of the Arameri family. [[spoiler:He also rips out the tongue of a rebellious family member with a pair of tongs.]]
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* GoodIsNotNice: [[spoiler:T'Vril]] makes a much better ruler than his predecessors, but at the same time he is still very much an Arameri in some respects; particularly when he [[spoiler:''rips out Serymn's tongue'', not only to punish her but also to prevent her from revealing the truth about Oree to the gods, and then delivers her up to the mercy of Nahadoth. Who is not feeling very merciful. T'vril's trying to get rid of his 'too gentle image', and he's succeeding.]]
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* HalfBreed:
** In book one, Yeine is half Amn and half Darre, though she looks mostly Darre and thinks of herself as Darre. Also, T'vril, who is half Amn and half Ken.
** In book two, [[spoiler:Oree and Dateh who are descendants of demons, the children of Gods (specifically the Three) and mortals]].
** In book three, [[spoiler:Shahar and Deka, who are one-eighth god from great-grandpa Ahad, and Glee, Itempas and Oree's slightly-more-than-half godly daughter]].
** In book one, Yeine is half Amn and half Darre, though she looks mostly Darre and thinks of herself as Darre. Also, T'vril, who is half Amn and half Ken.
** In book two, [[spoiler:Oree and Dateh who are descendants of demons, the children of Gods (specifically the Three) and mortals]].
** In book three, [[spoiler:Shahar and Deka, who are one-eighth god from great-grandpa Ahad, and Glee, Itempas and Oree's slightly-more-than-half godly daughter]].
* MixedAncestry:
** In book one, Yeine is half Amn and half Darre, though she looks mostly Darre and thinks of herself as Darre. Also, T'vril, who is half Amn and half Ken.
** In book two, [[spoiler:Oree and Dateh who are descendants of demons, the children of Gods (specifically the Three) and mortals]].
** In book three, [[spoiler:Shahar and Deka, who are one-eighth god from great-grandpa Ahad, and Glee, Itempas and Oree's slightly-more-than-half godly daughter]].
** In book one, Yeine is half Amn and half Darre, though she looks mostly Darre and thinks of herself as Darre. Also, T'vril, who is half Amn and half Ken.
** In book two, [[spoiler:Oree and Dateh who are descendants of demons, the children of Gods (specifically the Three) and mortals]].
** In book three, [[spoiler:Shahar and Deka, who are one-eighth god from great-grandpa Ahad, and Glee, Itempas and Oree's slightly-more-than-half godly daughter]].
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* SociopathicHero: Sieh acts like one on a regular basis, [[murdering dozens in his temper tantrums and regularly threatening to do horrific things to others with little evidence of regret.]] Which makes complete sense, since he's the God of Childhood and both sociopaths and children are severely lacking of empathy and forethought.
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* BestHerToBedHer: The Darre tribe is a matriarchal society where the female leader wrestles against a male. If the female wins, he dies and doesn't marry her. If he wins, he ''rapes her in front of the entire village.''
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* NayTheist: The primortalist movement from ''The Kingdom of Gods''.
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The InheritanceTrilogy is a series of books by N. K. Jemisin (website [[http://www.nkjemisin.com/ here]]) about a world where gods walk the earth alongside mortals (though, in general, not voluntarily). ''The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms'' and ''The Broken Kingdoms''; both came out in 2010, and the third and final book, ''The Kingdom of Gods,'' came out in 2011.
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The InheritanceTrilogy ''Inheritance Trilogy'' is a series of books by N. K. Jemisin (website [[http://www.nkjemisin.com/ here]]) about a world where gods walk the earth alongside mortals (though, in general, not voluntarily). ''The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms'' and ''The Broken Kingdoms''; both came out in 2010, and the third and final book, ''The Kingdom of Gods,'' came out in 2011.
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->There were three gods once... the god of day, the god of night, and the goddess of twilight and dawn. Or light and darkness and the shades between. Or order, chaos, and balance. None of that is important because one of them died, the other might as well have, and the last is the only one who matters anymore.
-->'''Yeine''', ''The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms''
The InheritanceTrilogy is a series of books by N. K. Jemisin (website [[http://www.nkjemisin.com/ here]]) about a world where gods walk the earth alongside mortals (though, in general, not voluntarily). ''The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms'' and ''The Broken Kingdoms''; both came out in 2010, and the third and final book, ''The Kingdom of Gods,'' came out in 2011.
''The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms'' details the life of Yeine, a noblewoman from the northern continent of Darr. She is called to the [[CastleInTheSky aptly-named]] capital city of Sky where she is unexpectedly made a candidate for the title of Arameri family head, or emperor of the world. Not all is as it seems, however, as petty squabbles break out, {{Living Weapon}}s act friendly, and the time of the coronation draws ever closer...
A major subplot of the book deals the war of [[RuleOfThree the Three]], the tribunal of creator gods; their children; and its aftermath. One of the Three, Enefa, [[GodIsDead was slain]], one, Nahadoth, was imprisoned, and the third, Itempas, took over the world. Various lesser gods are imprisoned along with Nahadoth and take up the name of Enefadeh, or "we who remember Enefa."
The story continues in ''The Broken Kingdoms'', set ten years after the first book, and starts off with the blind artist Oree Shoth finding a dead god in her rubbish... who isn't so dead after all, and proceeds to cause a whole lot of trouble for her. Oree and her intensely irritating new lodger have to navigate their way through a maze of former lovers, past crimes and timeless sorrows, in order to get to the bottom of why someone is killing godlings and making an attempt on the existence of one of the Three.
And the story is concluded in ''Kingdom of the Gods'' when Sieh the Trickster, firstborn of all the Three's children, forms a tentative friendship with the twin heirs to the Arameri - and it all goes disastrously wrong. (Or right.)
A fascinating tale of what could happen if the gods created humans in their image, humans turned on them, and by extension, the gods had all the faults that humans do.
Not to be confused with the InheritanceCycle, [[TrilogyCreep particularly because that was formerly also known as the Inheritance Trilogy]].
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!!''The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms'' provides examples of:
* AbusiveParents:
** Itempas to the Enefadeh
** Nahadoth to the demons
** Shahar to Shinda
** Enefa to Kahl
* ActionGirl: Yeine, Glee, Kitr, Nemmer.
* AllThereInTheManual: Want to know about Itempas and Shahar's son? Check the author's blog.
* AndIMustScream: Being trapped in a mortal body is this to the gods.
* ApocalypseHow: Class X-5 ("Multiversal/Physical Annihilation") as [[spoiler:the Maelstrom comes for Kahl]], leading to:
** TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople (well, better than Sieh expected)
** StarKilling
** TheStarsAreGoingOut.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:Yeine]].
** In book three, [[spoiler: Sieh, Deka and Shahar become a second version of the Three, and set out to create their own universe]].
* BarbarianTribe: Subverted. The Amn ''consider'' the races of the High North continent to be this, even though the High Northers were forcibly civilized centuries before. Turns out the Amn themselves used to be [[spoiler: cannibals]].
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Everything that happens in the trilogy is the result of ongoing clashes between the big, screwed up Arameri and divine families.
* BiTheWay
* BittersweetEnding: Kingdom of Gods.
* BloodMagic: Demon blood kills gods. Big in the backstory and book two.
* BrickJoke: At the ending of ''Broken Kingdoms'', [[spoiler: Oree imagines that, when Itempas comes back to her and their daughter, he'll have learned enough manners to wipe his feet and hang up his coat.]] At the very, ''very'', end of ''Kingdom of the Gods'', a hundred years later, [[spoiler: Itempas ''has'', indeed, learned some manners.]]
* BrotherSisterIncest: The Three (two brothers and one sister) are basically a polyandrous relationship; their godly children get their share of hanky panky with each other.
** In a human, subtle, and squicky example, Relad enjoys sexual romps with women who look like his twin sister.
** [[spoiler:Shahar and Deka's father, Remina, is their mother Remath's half-brother]].
* BroughtDownToNormal: Tempa and Sieh.
* ButchLesbian: Subverted. Yeine has short hair and is flatchested, and is 'often mistaken for a boy'. However, [[spoiler: she has sex both with T'vril and Nahadoth, and shows no interest in women, though lesbianism is apparently common in her homeland.]] Specifically subverts NoGuyWantsAnAmazon.
** Lesbian [[TheHighQueen Remath]] hits the "short hair" part of this, but she's also described as more busty, hip-y, and generally feminine than her daughter Shahar.
* CapitalCity: Sky, where delegates of the eponymous "hundred thousand kingdoms" meet and, more importantly, the Arameri family head lives. Later it becomes a HolyCity and pilgrimage destination.
* CharacterDevelopment: The point of Nahadoth and Yeine sticking [[spoiler: Bright Itempas]] in a human body.
* ChekhovsGun: Glee's knife.
* TheChurch / ActivistFundamentalistAntics / SaintlyChurch: The Itempan Church, led by hateful priestess Shahar Arameri, used the Enefadeh to completely reshape the world after the gods' war. It collects taxes, provides extensive social services (universal primary education, food and housing for the disabled, public sanitation, etc.), and imposes a theological injunction against the chaos of war. The Church, with the guidance of the Arameri family, gave the world an unprecedented 2,000 years of stability and prosperity -- on the backs of the enslaved Enefadeh, and after crushing local religious traditions.
* CosmicKeystone: The Stone of Earth, which is vital to the ceremony that crowns the new Lord Arameri, is actually [[spoiler:the last remnant of Enefa's body and power - her heart.]]
** Actually, WordOfGod says it's an ovary.
* CosmopolitanCouncil: Established at the end of book three.
* CreationMyth
* DidTheEarthMoveForYouToo: When [[spoiler:Yeine and Nahadoth]] do it, ''their passion engulfs the entire universe.''
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu / PalsWithJesus / GodWasMyCopilot:
** Yeine and the Enefadeh.
** Oree and [[spoiler:Shiny]].
** Sieh and the Arameri twins.
* DisabilitySuperpower: Oree.
* DivineDate: Everywhere.
* DarkIsNotEvil
* DeadlyDecadentCourt: Sky the palace.
* DescendFromAHigherPlaneOfExistence / GodInHumanForm / EmergentHuman / Humanity Ensues: The Enefadeh, Itempas, Sieh.
* DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu?
* DownerEnding: The Broken Kingdoms.
* DownInTheDumps: With a god named Dump.
* EarthMother / MotherNatureFatherScience: Intentionally averted hard. Enefa, creator of life, is also the goddess of death, and is ruthless about offing substandard creations. Itempas and Nahadoth got most of the stereotypically emotional "motherly" aspects.
* TheEmpire: The Arameri Bright through its puppet Consortium.
** [[spoiler:Brought down to VestigialEmpire]].
* MrFanservice: More than enough, in the form of the male gods and godlings.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim
* FantasyPantheon
* FlyingDutchman: [[spoiler:Itempas's]] plot through book two and into book three.
* ForegoneConclusion: Come ''on,'' everyone except Oree, even the readers, knew that [[spoiler:'Shiny' was really Itempas.]]
* GodIsFlawed: And the Three made humans in their images, so HumansAreFlawed, too!
* [[HumanResources Godling Resources]]: The primary antagonist in the second book [[spoiler: gains power by eating the hearts of godlings]].
* GodWasMyCopilot: It sure is a surprise to Oree and Sermyn when [[spoiler:they find out who "Shiny" really is]].
-->“You knew he had been overthrown, Serymn. You’ve seen many gods take mortal form. Why did it never occur to you that your own god might be among them?”
* GoingNative: [[spoiler:Kurue, who turns against her fellow Enefadeh]] in hopes of winning Itempas' favor.
* GoodIsNotNice: [[spoiler:T'Vril]] makes a much better ruler than his predecessors, but at the same time he is still very much an Arameri in some respects; particularly when he [[spoiler:''rips out Serymn's tongue'', not only to punish her but also to prevent her from revealing the truth about Oree to the gods, and then delivers her up to the mercy of Nahadoth. Who is not feeling very merciful. T'vril's trying to get rid of his 'too gentle image', and he's succeeding.]]
** If you can consider a {{Trickster}} and an AnthropomorphicPersonification of chaos to be "good", then Sieh and Nahadoth have their moments throughout the series.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Nahadoth and Yeine, [[spoiler:Shiny and Oree]], Madding and Oree.
* GreenEyes: A major plot point in book one -- Yeine, Enefa, and Sieh's remarkable "jade" eyes.
** Also big in book three.
* HalfBreed:
** In book one, Yeine is half Amn and half Darre, though she looks mostly Darre and thinks of herself as Darre. Also, T'vril, who is half Amn and half Ken.
** In book two, [[spoiler:Oree and Dateh who are descendants of demons, the children of Gods (specifically the Three) and mortals]].
** In book three, [[spoiler:Shahar and Deka, who are one-eighth god from great-grandpa Ahad, and Glee, Itempas and Oree's slightly-more-than-half godly daughter]].
* HarmonyVersusDiscipline
* HeroicSacrifice
* HumansAreBastards: The Arameri and the New Lights, at least.
* IHaveManyNames: After Nahadoth and unchained and [[spoiler:Enefa is reborn as Yeine]], the old Itempan church starts referring to them as the "Lord of Shadows" and "Gray Lady" to avoid sounding like they've completely backtracked on the "Enefa and Nahadoth are traitors you shouldn't pray to" bit.
** Naha/Hado/Ahad/Beloved (who also has one name that Glee gave him which he never shared with anyone).
* {{Immortality}}:
** CompleteImmortality: Nahadoth and Itempas; it's implied that they ''can'' be KilledOffForReal, but doing so would end the universe.
** TheAgeless / FromASingleCell: The Enefadeh are somewhere between these.
* IncestIsRelative: The Three are [[BrotherSisterIncest siblings]] who do it [[LoveTriangle three ways]]; in fact, it's implied that [[spoiler:[[MurderTheHypotenuse Itempas killed Enefa primarily out of jealousy]]]].
* InnerMonologue: The three books are first-person pieces. The first is narrated by Yeine, the second by Oree, the third by Sieh.
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence
* InterspeciesRomance
* JerkassGods: Potentially, all of them. But specifically in the first book, [[spoiler: Itempas]].
* KidsAreCruel: Sieh.
** The first Shahar murders her dad. The second one isn't cruel, but sure is bratty.
* KneelBeforeFrodo:
-->Serymn looked, radiating disdain. “Is there something I should be seeing?”
-->The Lord Arameri rose and descended the steps. At the foot of the steps, he abruptly turned toward us in a swirl of cloak and hair and dropped to one knee, with a grace I would never have expected of a man so powerful. From this, he said in a ringing tone, “Behold Our Lord, Serymn. Hail Itempas, Master of Day, Lord of Light and Order.”
* LightIsNotGood
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Nahadoth to Itempas. Because Itempas was so totally focused on order and unyielding sameness, when Naha started to spend more time with Enefa than him, he couldn't deal with feeling alone for the first time since time began and just went totally nuts.
* TheMafia
* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: An issue for Nahadoth and Yeine, as well as Madding and Oree.
* MayFlyDecemberRomance:
** Oree and Madding
** [[spoiler:Oree and Tempa]]
** Glee and Ahad
* MeaningfulName: Maroneh girls, Oree included, have sorrowful names, while Maroneh boys have vengeance-oriented names. It's Nahadoth's fault.
** Glee!
* MedievalStasis
* MoralityKitchenSink
* MurderTheHypotenuse
* OffingTheOffspring: The demon holocaust. Shahar. Itempas during the Gods' War. [[spoiler:Sieh and Kahl]].
* OhMyGods: An interesting example in that characters frequently utter the phrase while in the presence of actual gods. ''Including the gods themselves.''
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Maskers.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Yeine, who is a strong character, is nevertheless forced to compete against ''gods'' for readers' attention. Guess who wins.
* ParentalIncest
* PoisonedWeapons: Covered or made of demon blood.
* {{Polyamory}}
* PowerTrio: The Three.
** [[spoiler:Sieh, Deka, and Shahar]].
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Yeine and Usein.
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Yeine ends up having accurate visions of things that happened in the past. Originally justified in that [[spoiler:Enefa's soul, and by extension her mind, is part of her]] but, as Nahadoth points out, [[spoiler:Enefa was already dead by the time half of Yeine's visions took place.]] Then again, [[spoiler:Enefa's soul has been 'drifting' all this time, ostensibly soaking up the sights in the meantime]], which would make this more of a ZigZaggingTrope.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld
* RedemptionEqualsSex
* LaResistance: Usein Darr's High Norther movement.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Yeine tries.
* SanitySlippage: At the start of the book, the audience is told that Yeine is telling her story so that she can remember it herself. As time passes, this seems to be more and more necessary, as Yeine is apparently going mad (at one point, she says "Once upon a time there was a" [[MadnessMantra several times in a row]] before catching herself). At the end of the book, [[spoiler:it turns out that all of this was due to her soul merging with the soul of the goddess inside her, allowing her to ascend to godhood.]]
* SaveYourDeity: Yeine to Naha in book one; Oree [[spoiler:to Tempa]] in book two.
* SemiDivine: Demons are the descendants of both god and mortal, and include [[spoiler: Oree. Since demons are themselves mortal, but also partake of godhood, their blood is the only thing that can kill the genuinely-immortal gods.]]
* SexAsARiteOfPassage: In Darre.
* SexSlave: Hado and Sieh in book one.
* SexualKarma: Yeine and [[spoiler:the rest of the Three]] get ''heavy'' doses of this, it seems. Though, to be fair, [[spoiler:when the people in charge of karma are the ones in the relationship]], [[JustifiedTrope it kind of makes sense]].
* SiblingYinYang: Itempas and Nahadoth.
* [[spoiler:SomeoneToRememberHimBy]]: [[spoiler:At the end of ''The Broken Kingdoms'' it turns out that Oree's been telling her story to Itempas's unborn daughter, conceived after their one night of passion.]]
* StormingTheCastle: Maskers in Sky.
* StraightGay: Deka is this, though he's never shown to have any interest in anyone except [[spoiler:Sieh]].
* TheTimeOfMyths: Potentially, the whole trilogy.
* TimeSkip: Ten years between book one and two, and a century between two and three.
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Both Viraine and Itempas. [[spoiler: Of course they're the same person.]]
* WorldTree
* {{Yandere}}: Itempas. He murdered Enefa and then started a huge war and imprisoned Nahadoth in human flesh... because Nahadoth paid more attention to Enefa then to him for a little bit. And then there's [[spoiler: Deka in the third book, who basically invented/discovered a new kind of magic, inked it on his own body, and is quite willing to rearrange the universe just so he can have Sieh. And Deka is Arameri, and even though they're not as powerful as they were by the third book they are still very strong and scarily brutal.]]
* YouKnowWhatTheySayAboutX: Racism is alive and well in this world, shown mostly by the Arameri's reaction to any mixed-race member of the family.
* ZombieApocalypse: a miniature one killed Yeine's father. They're never actually called zombies in the book, but the Arameri basically had the ''actual zombie apocalypse weaponized''. As in, they could direct it, and turn it on and off at will. And yes, they did use it. Never on-page, but frequently before the start of the book.
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->There were three gods once... the god of day, the god of night, and the goddess of twilight and dawn. Or light and darkness and the shades between. Or order, chaos, and balance. None of that is important because one of them died, the other might as well have, and the last is the only one who matters anymore.
-->'''Yeine''', ''The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms''
The InheritanceTrilogy is a series of books by N. K. Jemisin (website [[http://www.nkjemisin.com/ here]]) about a world where gods walk the earth alongside mortals (though, in general, not voluntarily). ''The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms'' and ''The Broken Kingdoms''; both came out in 2010, and the third and final book, ''The Kingdom of Gods,'' came out in 2011.
''The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms'' details the life of Yeine, a noblewoman from the northern continent of Darr. She is called to the [[CastleInTheSky aptly-named]] capital city of Sky where she is unexpectedly made a candidate for the title of Arameri family head, or emperor of the world. Not all is as it seems, however, as petty squabbles break out, {{Living Weapon}}s act friendly, and the time of the coronation draws ever closer...
A major subplot of the book deals the war of [[RuleOfThree the Three]], the tribunal of creator gods; their children; and its aftermath. One of the Three, Enefa, [[GodIsDead was slain]], one, Nahadoth, was imprisoned, and the third, Itempas, took over the world. Various lesser gods are imprisoned along with Nahadoth and take up the name of Enefadeh, or "we who remember Enefa."
The story continues in ''The Broken Kingdoms'', set ten years after the first book, and starts off with the blind artist Oree Shoth finding a dead god in her rubbish... who isn't so dead after all, and proceeds to cause a whole lot of trouble for her. Oree and her intensely irritating new lodger have to navigate their way through a maze of former lovers, past crimes and timeless sorrows, in order to get to the bottom of why someone is killing godlings and making an attempt on the existence of one of the Three.
And the story is concluded in ''Kingdom of the Gods'' when Sieh the Trickster, firstborn of all the Three's children, forms a tentative friendship with the twin heirs to the Arameri - and it all goes disastrously wrong. (Or right.)
A fascinating tale of what could happen if the gods created humans in their image, humans turned on them, and by extension, the gods had all the faults that humans do.
Not to be confused with the InheritanceCycle, [[TrilogyCreep particularly because that was formerly also known as the Inheritance Trilogy]].
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!!''The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms'' provides examples of:
* AbusiveParents:
** Itempas to the Enefadeh
** Nahadoth to the demons
** Shahar to Shinda
** Enefa to Kahl
* ActionGirl: Yeine, Glee, Kitr, Nemmer.
* AllThereInTheManual: Want to know about Itempas and Shahar's son? Check the author's blog.
* AndIMustScream: Being trapped in a mortal body is this to the gods.
* ApocalypseHow: Class X-5 ("Multiversal/Physical Annihilation") as [[spoiler:the Maelstrom comes for Kahl]], leading to:
** TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople (well, better than Sieh expected)
** StarKilling
** TheStarsAreGoingOut.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:Yeine]].
** In book three, [[spoiler: Sieh, Deka and Shahar become a second version of the Three, and set out to create their own universe]].
* BarbarianTribe: Subverted. The Amn ''consider'' the races of the High North continent to be this, even though the High Northers were forcibly civilized centuries before. Turns out the Amn themselves used to be [[spoiler: cannibals]].
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Everything that happens in the trilogy is the result of ongoing clashes between the big, screwed up Arameri and divine families.
* BiTheWay
* BittersweetEnding: Kingdom of Gods.
* BloodMagic: Demon blood kills gods. Big in the backstory and book two.
* BrickJoke: At the ending of ''Broken Kingdoms'', [[spoiler: Oree imagines that, when Itempas comes back to her and their daughter, he'll have learned enough manners to wipe his feet and hang up his coat.]] At the very, ''very'', end of ''Kingdom of the Gods'', a hundred years later, [[spoiler: Itempas ''has'', indeed, learned some manners.]]
* BrotherSisterIncest: The Three (two brothers and one sister) are basically a polyandrous relationship; their godly children get their share of hanky panky with each other.
** In a human, subtle, and squicky example, Relad enjoys sexual romps with women who look like his twin sister.
** [[spoiler:Shahar and Deka's father, Remina, is their mother Remath's half-brother]].
* BroughtDownToNormal: Tempa and Sieh.
* ButchLesbian: Subverted. Yeine has short hair and is flatchested, and is 'often mistaken for a boy'. However, [[spoiler: she has sex both with T'vril and Nahadoth, and shows no interest in women, though lesbianism is apparently common in her homeland.]] Specifically subverts NoGuyWantsAnAmazon.
** Lesbian [[TheHighQueen Remath]] hits the "short hair" part of this, but she's also described as more busty, hip-y, and generally feminine than her daughter Shahar.
* CapitalCity: Sky, where delegates of the eponymous "hundred thousand kingdoms" meet and, more importantly, the Arameri family head lives. Later it becomes a HolyCity and pilgrimage destination.
* CharacterDevelopment: The point of Nahadoth and Yeine sticking [[spoiler: Bright Itempas]] in a human body.
* ChekhovsGun: Glee's knife.
* TheChurch / ActivistFundamentalistAntics / SaintlyChurch: The Itempan Church, led by hateful priestess Shahar Arameri, used the Enefadeh to completely reshape the world after the gods' war. It collects taxes, provides extensive social services (universal primary education, food and housing for the disabled, public sanitation, etc.), and imposes a theological injunction against the chaos of war. The Church, with the guidance of the Arameri family, gave the world an unprecedented 2,000 years of stability and prosperity -- on the backs of the enslaved Enefadeh, and after crushing local religious traditions.
* CosmicKeystone: The Stone of Earth, which is vital to the ceremony that crowns the new Lord Arameri, is actually [[spoiler:the last remnant of Enefa's body and power - her heart.]]
** Actually, WordOfGod says it's an ovary.
* CosmopolitanCouncil: Established at the end of book three.
* CreationMyth
* DidTheEarthMoveForYouToo: When [[spoiler:Yeine and Nahadoth]] do it, ''their passion engulfs the entire universe.''
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu / PalsWithJesus / GodWasMyCopilot:
** Yeine and the Enefadeh.
** Oree and [[spoiler:Shiny]].
** Sieh and the Arameri twins.
* DisabilitySuperpower: Oree.
* DivineDate: Everywhere.
* DarkIsNotEvil
* DeadlyDecadentCourt: Sky the palace.
* DescendFromAHigherPlaneOfExistence / GodInHumanForm / EmergentHuman / Humanity Ensues: The Enefadeh, Itempas, Sieh.
* DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu?
* DownerEnding: The Broken Kingdoms.
* DownInTheDumps: With a god named Dump.
* EarthMother / MotherNatureFatherScience: Intentionally averted hard. Enefa, creator of life, is also the goddess of death, and is ruthless about offing substandard creations. Itempas and Nahadoth got most of the stereotypically emotional "motherly" aspects.
* TheEmpire: The Arameri Bright through its puppet Consortium.
** [[spoiler:Brought down to VestigialEmpire]].
* MrFanservice: More than enough, in the form of the male gods and godlings.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim
* FantasyPantheon
* FlyingDutchman: [[spoiler:Itempas's]] plot through book two and into book three.
* ForegoneConclusion: Come ''on,'' everyone except Oree, even the readers, knew that [[spoiler:'Shiny' was really Itempas.]]
* GodIsFlawed: And the Three made humans in their images, so HumansAreFlawed, too!
* [[HumanResources Godling Resources]]: The primary antagonist in the second book [[spoiler: gains power by eating the hearts of godlings]].
* GodWasMyCopilot: It sure is a surprise to Oree and Sermyn when [[spoiler:they find out who "Shiny" really is]].
-->“You knew he had been overthrown, Serymn. You’ve seen many gods take mortal form. Why did it never occur to you that your own god might be among them?”
* GoingNative: [[spoiler:Kurue, who turns against her fellow Enefadeh]] in hopes of winning Itempas' favor.
* GoodIsNotNice: [[spoiler:T'Vril]] makes a much better ruler than his predecessors, but at the same time he is still very much an Arameri in some respects; particularly when he [[spoiler:''rips out Serymn's tongue'', not only to punish her but also to prevent her from revealing the truth about Oree to the gods, and then delivers her up to the mercy of Nahadoth. Who is not feeling very merciful. T'vril's trying to get rid of his 'too gentle image', and he's succeeding.]]
** If you can consider a {{Trickster}} and an AnthropomorphicPersonification of chaos to be "good", then Sieh and Nahadoth have their moments throughout the series.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Nahadoth and Yeine, [[spoiler:Shiny and Oree]], Madding and Oree.
* GreenEyes: A major plot point in book one -- Yeine, Enefa, and Sieh's remarkable "jade" eyes.
** Also big in book three.
* HalfBreed:
** In book one, Yeine is half Amn and half Darre, though she looks mostly Darre and thinks of herself as Darre. Also, T'vril, who is half Amn and half Ken.
** In book two, [[spoiler:Oree and Dateh who are descendants of demons, the children of Gods (specifically the Three) and mortals]].
** In book three, [[spoiler:Shahar and Deka, who are one-eighth god from great-grandpa Ahad, and Glee, Itempas and Oree's slightly-more-than-half godly daughter]].
* HarmonyVersusDiscipline
* HeroicSacrifice
* HumansAreBastards: The Arameri and the New Lights, at least.
* IHaveManyNames: After Nahadoth and unchained and [[spoiler:Enefa is reborn as Yeine]], the old Itempan church starts referring to them as the "Lord of Shadows" and "Gray Lady" to avoid sounding like they've completely backtracked on the "Enefa and Nahadoth are traitors you shouldn't pray to" bit.
** Naha/Hado/Ahad/Beloved (who also has one name that Glee gave him which he never shared with anyone).
* {{Immortality}}:
** CompleteImmortality: Nahadoth and Itempas; it's implied that they ''can'' be KilledOffForReal, but doing so would end the universe.
** TheAgeless / FromASingleCell: The Enefadeh are somewhere between these.
* IncestIsRelative: The Three are [[BrotherSisterIncest siblings]] who do it [[LoveTriangle three ways]]; in fact, it's implied that [[spoiler:[[MurderTheHypotenuse Itempas killed Enefa primarily out of jealousy]]]].
* InnerMonologue: The three books are first-person pieces. The first is narrated by Yeine, the second by Oree, the third by Sieh.
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence
* InterspeciesRomance
* JerkassGods: Potentially, all of them. But specifically in the first book, [[spoiler: Itempas]].
* KidsAreCruel: Sieh.
** The first Shahar murders her dad. The second one isn't cruel, but sure is bratty.
* KneelBeforeFrodo:
-->Serymn looked, radiating disdain. “Is there something I should be seeing?”
-->The Lord Arameri rose and descended the steps. At the foot of the steps, he abruptly turned toward us in a swirl of cloak and hair and dropped to one knee, with a grace I would never have expected of a man so powerful. From this, he said in a ringing tone, “Behold Our Lord, Serymn. Hail Itempas, Master of Day, Lord of Light and Order.”
* LightIsNotGood
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Nahadoth to Itempas. Because Itempas was so totally focused on order and unyielding sameness, when Naha started to spend more time with Enefa than him, he couldn't deal with feeling alone for the first time since time began and just went totally nuts.
* TheMafia
* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: An issue for Nahadoth and Yeine, as well as Madding and Oree.
* MayFlyDecemberRomance:
** Oree and Madding
** [[spoiler:Oree and Tempa]]
** Glee and Ahad
* MeaningfulName: Maroneh girls, Oree included, have sorrowful names, while Maroneh boys have vengeance-oriented names. It's Nahadoth's fault.
** Glee!
* MedievalStasis
* MoralityKitchenSink
* MurderTheHypotenuse
* OffingTheOffspring: The demon holocaust. Shahar. Itempas during the Gods' War. [[spoiler:Sieh and Kahl]].
* OhMyGods: An interesting example in that characters frequently utter the phrase while in the presence of actual gods. ''Including the gods themselves.''
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Maskers.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Yeine, who is a strong character, is nevertheless forced to compete against ''gods'' for readers' attention. Guess who wins.
* ParentalIncest
* PoisonedWeapons: Covered or made of demon blood.
* {{Polyamory}}
* PowerTrio: The Three.
** [[spoiler:Sieh, Deka, and Shahar]].
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Yeine and Usein.
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Yeine ends up having accurate visions of things that happened in the past. Originally justified in that [[spoiler:Enefa's soul, and by extension her mind, is part of her]] but, as Nahadoth points out, [[spoiler:Enefa was already dead by the time half of Yeine's visions took place.]] Then again, [[spoiler:Enefa's soul has been 'drifting' all this time, ostensibly soaking up the sights in the meantime]], which would make this more of a ZigZaggingTrope.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld
* RedemptionEqualsSex
* LaResistance: Usein Darr's High Norther movement.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Yeine tries.
* SanitySlippage: At the start of the book, the audience is told that Yeine is telling her story so that she can remember it herself. As time passes, this seems to be more and more necessary, as Yeine is apparently going mad (at one point, she says "Once upon a time there was a" [[MadnessMantra several times in a row]] before catching herself). At the end of the book, [[spoiler:it turns out that all of this was due to her soul merging with the soul of the goddess inside her, allowing her to ascend to godhood.]]
* SaveYourDeity: Yeine to Naha in book one; Oree [[spoiler:to Tempa]] in book two.
* SemiDivine: Demons are the descendants of both god and mortal, and include [[spoiler: Oree. Since demons are themselves mortal, but also partake of godhood, their blood is the only thing that can kill the genuinely-immortal gods.]]
* SexAsARiteOfPassage: In Darre.
* SexSlave: Hado and Sieh in book one.
* SexualKarma: Yeine and [[spoiler:the rest of the Three]] get ''heavy'' doses of this, it seems. Though, to be fair, [[spoiler:when the people in charge of karma are the ones in the relationship]], [[JustifiedTrope it kind of makes sense]].
* SiblingYinYang: Itempas and Nahadoth.
* [[spoiler:SomeoneToRememberHimBy]]: [[spoiler:At the end of ''The Broken Kingdoms'' it turns out that Oree's been telling her story to Itempas's unborn daughter, conceived after their one night of passion.]]
* StormingTheCastle: Maskers in Sky.
* StraightGay: Deka is this, though he's never shown to have any interest in anyone except [[spoiler:Sieh]].
* TheTimeOfMyths: Potentially, the whole trilogy.
* TimeSkip: Ten years between book one and two, and a century between two and three.
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Both Viraine and Itempas. [[spoiler: Of course they're the same person.]]
* WorldTree
* {{Yandere}}: Itempas. He murdered Enefa and then started a huge war and imprisoned Nahadoth in human flesh... because Nahadoth paid more attention to Enefa then to him for a little bit. And then there's [[spoiler: Deka in the third book, who basically invented/discovered a new kind of magic, inked it on his own body, and is quite willing to rearrange the universe just so he can have Sieh. And Deka is Arameri, and even though they're not as powerful as they were by the third book they are still very strong and scarily brutal.]]
* YouKnowWhatTheySayAboutX: Racism is alive and well in this world, shown mostly by the Arameri's reaction to any mixed-race member of the family.
* ZombieApocalypse: a miniature one killed Yeine's father. They're never actually called zombies in the book, but the Arameri basically had the ''actual zombie apocalypse weaponized''. As in, they could direct it, and turn it on and off at will. And yes, they did use it. Never on-page, but frequently before the start of the book.
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