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*TheArtifact: Essun's point of view being narrated in second person made sense in ''Literature/TheFifthSeason'' due to there being multiple timelines in play. This convention continues here, mostly because it would be jarring to suddenly stop.
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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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* HistoryRepeats: Civilization in the Stillness seems to follow a general cycle where it builds up over time and is then set far back by a Season. Sanzed looks to be unusually prosperous at its height, perhaps owing to the node maintainers keeping the equatorial regions free of shakes.
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** The titular Obelisk Gate also seems quite finicky, prone to killing orogenes who try to use it improperly [[spoiler: and turning those who ''do'' use it correctly to stone]].
* 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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* AFormYouAreMoreComfortableWith: Hoa reveals that this why he chose to appear to Nassun in as human a guise as possible. It's heavily implied that [[spoiler: his injuries in his fight with "Steel" mean he can't take that form any longer]].
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* DoomedHometown: Nassun. Tirimo ''would'' have Every place Essun has ever lived in has been fine if they hadn't gone after Essun, but oh well. destroyed because of her, either indirectly or by her own hand. The exception is the Fulcrum, which Alabaster destroyed for his own reasons at the start of the first book. Nassun's story implies that she is headed down the same path.
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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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** It is implied that orogenes, even those without the ability to perceive magic, can tell which Guardians are which. The confrontation at the Antarctic Fulcrum has one of the senior orogenes declaring, "You're both tainted!"
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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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* AfterTheEnd: While "dead civ" ruins leftover from previous Seasons appear in the first book, they feature much more prominently in this one. This trope is also played unusually because the reader is seeing this cycle end.
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* Really700YearsOld: As in the first book, Hoa looks like a child [[spoiler: at first]] but is millennia old. This book also elaborates that [[spoiler: Schaffa]] is several hundred years old, though his damaged memory makes him uncertain of his exact age.
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** Essun has a few as well, notably in her dealings with Ykka. Like her judgment of Ykka as a poor orogene for not being able to move a pebble, the Fulcrum's method of measuring precision. When it counts, Ykka is incredibly precise, in some ways beyond what Essun can do. It's just that she had never learned to move pebbles because why the hell would she?
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: We learn here that the Guardians, who are the children of orogenes, aren't just not orogenes. They invert it. They feed on magic. Without it, they go insane and kill. They can feed off of the magic produced by people, but they can really only get their fix from orogenes.
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* FreudianExcuse: Jija hates and fears orogenes because he witnessed one of his cousins accidentally (and brutally) killing another cousin by icing them.
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* {{Irony}}: Orogenes are seen as the servants of Evil Earth, and are discriminated against and persecuted as a result. [[spoiler:In actual fact, it's the ''Guardians,'' created to control and dominate the Fulcrum trained orogenes, who have fragments or corestones of the Earth placed into them, and become its PeoplePuppets when they inevitably become corrupted.]]
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* LoveCannotOvercome: A familial version with Jija, who is torn between seeing Nassun as his beloved daughter and as a vile orogene. Ultimately, [[spoiler:when he realizes that she's not interested in "curing" her orogeny, he tries to kill her and gets TakenForGranite for it]].
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miles away and [[spoiler:developing an instant TouchOfDeath without any other physical effects]]. Ykka declines to explain, saying she'd rather keep a few tricks up her sleeve.
* 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.
* 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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*CrapsackWorldColonyDrop: [[spoiler: The moon is coming back. From what Schaffa says to Nassun at the end of the book, it appears the Earth plans to have her make it crash into the planet.]]
* CrapsackWorld: Not that it was great ''before'' the massive continent-splitting earthquake, but between the roving gangs, the impending collapse of most of society, and the ash blocking out the sun, things have gone even further downhill.
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* GeniusLoci: [[spoiler: Father Earth is speculated to be sentient and hateful to Orogenes because they took his only child from him, the Moon. Restoring said Moon to its orbit may be the only way to stop the Seasons.]]
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* HeelRealization: Zigzagged with Schaffa. He realizes what a horrible person he has been for all of his life, only to proceed to kill several innocent people for reasons unclear even to Schaffa himself. [[spoiler:Although he tells Nassun that the Fulcrum's way of raising orogenes was horrific and that he means to atone for his part in it, Schaffa proceeds to train to be a living weapon.]]
* HeelRealization: Zigzagged with Schaffa. He realizes what a horrible person he has been for all of his life, only to proceed to kill several innocent people for reasons unclear even to Schaffa himself. [[spoiler:Although he tells Nassun that the Fulcrum's way of raising orogenes was horrific and that he means to atone for his part in it, Schaffa proceeds to train to be a living weapon.]]
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