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.

The Broken Earth Book 1 by Roger Colby