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* ColdEquation: Familiar to everyone in the setting and specifically invoked by Tonkee when she models Castrima's food supply and how long it will be until everyone dies of anemia.
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** And it has similarities to how racist parents of children who are mixed-race or who are of another race may act.
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* SecretWar: Hoa reveals that there is a great conflict going on between Stone Eaters unknown to humans. All factions want Essun on their side for her ability to open the Obelisk Gate, [[spoiler: some to end the seasons by returning the moon, others to destroy the world entirely.]]
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* MacGuffinSuperPerson: Essun is sought after or sometimes attempted to be killed by all factions of the stone eaters, due to potentially having the power to use the Obelisk Gate. She herself is unaware of the conflict or the gate at first and gradually learns the backstory of the setting.
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* RequestForPrivacy: Essun tells TheLeader Ykka that they need to speak alone about a sensitive topic. [[SubvertedTrope Ykka refuses]]: first, to emphasize that she is the sole authority in the community; second, to show that she trusts the advisors who are present; and third, because the topic has to do with the heavily reviled FunctionalMagic they both possess, which she's trying to de-stigmatize by being open and up-front about it. They have the conversation in the advisors' presence instead.
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* RequestForPrivacy: Essun tells TheLeader Ykka that they need to speak alone about a sensitive topic. [[SubvertedTrope Ykka refuses]]: refuses: first, to emphasize that she is the sole authority in the community; second, to show that she trusts the advisors who are present; her advisors; and third, because the topic has to do with the heavily reviled FunctionalMagic they both possess, orogeny, which she's trying to de-stigmatize by being open and up-front about it. They have the conversation speak in the advisors' presence instead.
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* YouAreNotReady: Alabaster considers Essun this initially. Essun counters by calling him a piss-poor teacher who doesn't know how to help her ''become'' ready, forcing her to figure things out on her own.
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* CynicIdealistDuo: Ykka is an idealist who wants to build a society where orogenes, who are victims to a lot of FantasticRacism, can be accepted members of society, while Essun is cynical and feels such a society cannot last and the other people will eventually turn on the orogenes.
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* IAmWhatIAm: Nassun ultimately concludes she's proud to be an orogene despite the world and Jija's views on such things, leading to her confronting her father.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: During a season, boil bugs attack people by injecting scalding water into their body, leading to a horrifying death when they swarm someone.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Subverted. Alabaster explicitly mentions that his nervous system functions are intact and [[spoiler:suffers infections]]. In the previous book, the sessapinae are stated to be located at the base of the brainstem and [[spoiler: decerebrate orogenes are used as node maintainers.]]
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* GoodIsNotSoft: Ykka is a genuine idealist who cares for the people in her comm and believes in making a community where orogenes can be accepted and live without persecution. However, this does not make her naive; when tensions are rising due to [[spoiler: the people of Rennanis offering to accept the people of Castrima only if they abandon their orogenes]], she is willing to coldly [[spoiler: kill Cutter in response to him killing a still]], so that all of the people's anger is directed at him instead of orogenes in general and they see that she's on their side.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The dynamic between Jija and Nassun is a pretty clear analog for a queer child and a parent who refuses to accept them, with oregene standing in for sexual orientation.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The dynamic between Jija and Nassun is a pretty clear analog for a queer child and a parent who refuses to accept them, with oregene orogene standing in for sexual orientation.orientation.
** It also has similarities to how autistic children are sometimes treated by their parents, with orogeny becoming clear in childhood, giving people a different sensory awareness of the world, and adults using abusive techniques to control their behavior and stop them from melting down, as well as the rhetoric of the "real" child being lost to the orogene and wanting a cure and some parents even killing their children over it.
** It also has similarities to how autistic children are sometimes treated by their parents, with orogeny becoming clear in childhood, giving people a different sensory awareness of the world, and adults using abusive techniques to control their behavior and stop them from melting down, as well as the rhetoric of the "real" child being lost to the orogene and wanting a cure and some parents even killing their children over it.
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* {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler: Nassun kills her father after he tries to kill her in their final confrontation, unable to accept her as an orogene.]]
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* ReluctantPsycho: Schaffa is half-controlled by the Earth and has impulses to kill people that he doesn't understand, like when he kills Eitz's family. However he tries to suppress these urges and take care of the children in Found Moon as best as he can.
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''The Obelisk Gate'' is a 2016 novel by Creator/NKJemisin and a continuation of ''Literature/TheFifthSeason''. Continued in ''Literature/TheStoneSky''.
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''The Obelisk Gate'' is a 2016 novel by Creator/NKJemisin and a continuation the second book of ''Literature/TheFifthSeason''. Continued in ''Literature/TheStoneSky''.
''Literature/TheBrokenEarthTrilogy''.
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* StrawManHasAPoint: The Fulcrum has propagated the idea that orogenes cannot be trusted and will destroy everything if given the chance. By the end of this book, Essun has destroyed four separate comms, two of which she lived in, with her orogeny.
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* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Nassun in the last chapter.
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* PersonOfMassDestruction: Essun has destroyed--intentionally or otherwise--no fewer than four comms [[spoiler: including one of the largest cities to survive the Rifting]] over the course of her life.
** [[spoiler: Nassun]] has also racked up quite the body count by the end of the book, even though she's not even a teenager yet.
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** Essun has destroyed--intentionally or otherwise--no fewer than four comms [[spoiler: including one of the largest cities to survive the Rifting]] over the course of her life.
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** Essun has destroyed--intentionally or otherwise--no fewer than four comms [[spoiler: including one of the largest cities to survive the Rifting]] over the course of her life.
** [[spoiler: Nassun]] has also racked up quite the body count by the end of the
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: A few days prior to the beginning of the trilogy, a lorist named Renthree visited Tirimo, and Nassun spotted her on the way home from creche. The next day, Nassun skipped creche to see her, and gave her a diamond that she had found with orogeny to try and buy an apprenticeship, unaware of its value. After thinking it over, Renthree visited Nassun's house and gave the diamond to Jija, assuming that he knew about it from the start. In turn, Jija thought about where and how Nassun could have found it, bringing his already-present suspicions about Essun and their children to a head. Then Uche woke up from his nap, sessed the diamond in Jija's pocket, and innocently asked him about it, confirming those suspicions and pushing Jija over the edge.
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* LostTechnology: Dead civ ruins are this. Given that the book takes place primarily in Tirimo (a comm built inside a dead civ ruin) and largely concerns the harnessing of the Obelisks (dead civ artifacts), this trope is particularly relevant in this book.
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* LostTechnology: Dead civ ruins are this. Given that the book takes place primarily in Tirimo Castrima (a comm built inside a dead civ ruin) and largely concerns the harnessing of the Obelisks (dead civ artifacts), this trope is particularly relevant in this book.
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Tirimo is the town in the first book
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* ArtifactOfDoom: Tirimo's control center seems to be a place where Obelisks are made. It also houses some decidedly more dangerous moving parts.
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** On the other story arc, the Obelisk Gate is opened, meaning the world has a chance, [[spoiler: but the same thing that happened to Alabaster is happening to Essun.]] On the smaller scale, the people of Tirimo are saved [[spoiler: but their home is irreparably damaged, making them commless]].
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** On the other story arc, the Obelisk Gate is opened, meaning the world has a chance, [[spoiler: but the same thing that happened to Alabaster is happening to Essun.]] On the smaller scale, the people of Tirimo Castrima are saved [[spoiler: but their home is irreparably damaged, making them commless]].
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* GaiasVengeance: Folklore says that Father Earth hates humanity because they stole his only child. Evidence suggests that the Stillness' tectonic instability was caused by the planet losing it's moon. Whether it's an angry GeniusLoci or simple physics causing the Seasons, this trope applies.
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** Similarly, use of the titular Obelisk Gate grants the user world-spanning awareness and terrible power, but [[spoiler: turns them partly to stone and poisons their orogeny so that using it makes the stone spread.]]
