Equatorials People who live in the more stable and wealthy equatorial-region cities such as Yumenes and Dibars.Sanzed Equatorial Affiliation: The ruling Empire, informally known as Old Sanze.Stone Eaters: Long-lived, moving sculpture-like beings who can move through rock, which is also their diet.Commless: People without the protection of a settlement or 'comm,' either by choice or due to expulsion from a comm.Geomests: Academics who study 'geomestry,' which seems to be a discipline unique to the Stillness, combining the study of geology with chemistry and other physical sciences.They are the order that watches the Fulcrum. Guardians: Warriors, hunters, and assassins tasked with controlling orogenes through pain and training or, alternatively, execution.The slur 'rogga' is used against orogenes, who likewise call non-orogenes 'stills.' The orogenes of the Fulcrum are tasked with servicing the comms of the Stillness in many different ways, such as clearing debris, reproducing inside the compound and quelling micro-shakes. They wear rings on their fingers to denote rank, ten-ring being the highest. Fulcrum-trained orogenes are marked by their black uniforms and are tolerated slightly better than untrained orogenes, in that they are not murdered quite as often.

If they are not killed by their family or community, they are given to a Guardian, to be trained at a location called the Fulcrum inside the city of Yumenes. They are widely hated and feared, and many are murdered by small-town mobs when their powers are discovered in childhood. When this occurs, a visible circle of frost appears around them and living things can be flash-frozen solid. They can cause and prevent earthquakes, and when angered can unintentionally kill living things in their ' torus', or area of influence, by extracting the heat from their bodies to use as energy to manipulate the ground. Orogenes: People with the ability to control energy, particularly that of the ground (directly) and temperature (indirectly).The society of the Stillness is broken up into many 'comms,' 'use-castes,' ethnicities and species. Every few centuries, its inhabitants endure what they call a 'Fifth Season' of catastrophic climate change. The Fifth Season takes place on a planet with a single supercontinent called the Stillness. It is the first volume in the Broken Earth series and is followed by The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky. It was awarded the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2016. The Fifth Season is a 2015 science fantasy novel by N.

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