However, he and a number of other godlings, and Oree, are then captured by a heretical group of Itempans who call themselves the Order of the New Light. Madding, another godling denizen of the city and Oree's ex-lover, attempts to aid her.

Shiny increases the danger to Oree when, in an apparent fit of pique, he manifests inhuman power and injures, then kills, several Orderkeepers. When one of the local godlings is murdered, Oree finds the body-and falls under suspicion when the Itempan Order seeks a scapegoat rather than the actual culprit. Itempas was disgraced and sentenced to humanity by his fellow gods at the end of the previous book. She has no inkling of his identity, suspecting only that he is a godling, though readers familiar with The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms will quickly realize that he is Itempas, god of light and order. She takes in this apparently mute homeless man, whom she later whimsically dubs 'Shiny', and lives with him without incident for several months. Shadow is a city in which many 'godlings'-immortal, demigod children of the gods-live hidden among the mortal citizens, so Oree is not very surprised to find a downtrodden being who is apparently unconscious, yet glowing brightly to her magic-sight, in the trash-strewn alley behind her house. Oree seeks only to live as ordinary a life as possible, despite her unusual abilities and disability.

Oree is blind, but has the ability to see magic she has inherited this sensitivity to magic from her father, who also taught her to conceal her gift, as it is considered heretical by the Order of Itempas. It takes place ten years after the events of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and centers around a young woman named Oree Shoth, who lives in the World Tree-shrouded, godling-inhabited city of Shadow.Ī decade after the events of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms comes the story of Oree Shoth, a young street artist who lives in the city of Sky, which has been unofficially renamed 'Shadow' after the growth of the enormous World Tree. Jemisin, the second book of her Inheritance trilogy. The Broken Kingdoms is a fantasy novel by American writer N.

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