The novel “The Fifth Season” by N. K. Jemisin was published for the first time in 2015. It’s the first book in The Broken Earth trilogy. It won the Hugo Award as best novel of the year.

Essun is a mature woman with two young children who hides her orogene nature. One day she comes home and finds out that her husband killed their son after the boy shoe his orogene abilities and left the city with their daughter. Struck with her emotions, Essun manifests her abilities.

Damaya is a little girl when she first reveals her nature as an orogene. Her parents follow the laws and turn her over to a Guardian, who is part of an order of people who can control orogenes. Damaya is brought to the Fulcrum, where she will be trained so that she blindly obeys orders and her powers will be used to manipulate earth and stone only based on the instructions she receives.