On a singular supercontinent called The Stillness, people live with the constant danger of quakes and, in the coastal comms, tsunamis. Living among humans are Orogenes, who can harness the power of the earth to wield magic. Humans fear the Orogenes, and given the chance, slaughter them. The Fifth Season tells us of the story of three Orogenes: Damaya, a young Orogene, who is taken to the Fulcrum to be trained as an Imperial Orogene; Syenite, a four-ringer Imperial Orogene, who goes on a mission to help a coastal comm and at the same time procreate with the ten-ringer Alabaster; and Essun, an Orogene who lives in disguise as a still.
