The Broken Kingdoms (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Oree Shoth: A blind Girl, the main protagonist
• Dateh: Head of the Order of the New Light and a Scrivener. Husband of Serymn
• Lady Serymn: Owner of he House of the New Sun. Full-blooded Arameri . Wife of Dateh.
• Rimarn: Add a description of this character.
• Arameri
• Sieh: God of childhood
• Maroneh
• Hado
• Paitya
• Eru Shoth
• Itempas: God of fire & light, brother of Nahadoth & Enefa. After the Gods' war, he was the only god worshipped.
• Nahadoth: God of Darkness, brother of Itempas and Enefa
• Yeine: Once a mortal, she is now a goddess embodying the reincarnation of Enefa, the Grey Lady, goddess of dawn & fertility.
• T'vril Arameri

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• “The right to kill has become the most coveted privilege of power in this world, as in the heavens. We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest killer among them.”

  Dateh

• “I knew: whatever Shiny had done, it had been truly terrible, because Sieh’s hate had once been love. Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.”

  Oree Shoth

• “You’ve spent time among the gods, Eru Shoth. Haven’t you noticed? They live forever, but many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life’s value. So I would live, if only to spite them.”

  Hado

• “I saw something else: pain. So much sorrow and grief and anger and guilt, and other emotions I could not name because when all was said and done, my life up to then had been relatively happy. There are some things one can understand only by experience, and there are some experiences no one wants to share.”

  Oree Shoth

• “Men praise parts of me endlessly—always the parts, mind you, never the whole. They love my long legs, my graceful neck, my storm of hair, my breasts (especially my breasts). Most of the men in Shadow were Amn, so they also commented on my smooth, near-black Maro skin, even though I told them there were half a million other women in the world with the same feature. Half a million is not so many measured against the whole world, though, so that always got included in their qualified, fragmentary admiration.”

  Oree Shoth

• “If there’s one lesson the past has taught us, it is that we mortals exist at the bottom of a short and pitiless hierarchy. Above us are the godlings, and above those, the gods—and they do not like us, Eru Shoth”

  T'vril Arameri

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• “Yes. The power is in you, hidden, but the paint opens the way to that power, allowing you to bring some of it out onto the canvas. Or anywhere else you want to put it. As you grow older, you’ll find new ways to open the door. Painting is just the first method you’ve found.”

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• “I am all knowledge and purpose defined. I strengthen what exists and cull that which should not.”

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• Sky
• Shadow

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and followed by The Kingdom of Gods.

Preceded by The Way of Kings, and followed by Mistborn.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. N. K. Jemisin (Author)

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• Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year (2010: SF/Fantasy/Horror)

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• Dewey: 813.6

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• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Epic
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Authors, A-Z › ( J )

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