But once there were only three, most powerful and glorious of all: the god of day, the god of night, and the goddess of twilight and dawn. I knelt before my grandfather with my head bowed, hearing titters of laughter. She will now be a true Arameri – and will quite possibly be killed by one of her cousins in an attempt for the throne while trying to unravel the truth about the past. Yeine goes to the Arameri home of Sky and meets with her grandfather, who informs her that he is making her his heir while keeping her cousins as his other two heirs. These gods are slaves to the Arameri, bound in flesh and made to obey their every whim. The Skylord killed one of the other gods and gave the Nightlord along with his sons and daughters to the Arameri as their own personal weapons. The Arameri have ruled the world for a very long time due to their favor with the Skylord, one of the three major gods. When Yeine’s mother met her father, a minor barbarian noble, she abdicated her position as heir to the Arameri throne. Soon after the mysterious death of her mother, Yeine Darr is summoned to the Arameri court by its ruler, her grandfather. According to Jemisin’s website, the second book The Broken Kingdoms will be released in fall 2010. The next two books in the series each focus on a different main character than the first one. Jemisin, who was recently nominated for the Nebula Award for her short story “Non-Zero Probabilities.” Even though it’s the first book in The Inheritance Trilogy, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is a complete story with a satisfying conclusion. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is a debut novel by N.

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