He's pretty much the deified equivalent of Peter Pan - mischievous, changeable, playful, cruel and sociopathic on occasion. Kingdom of Gods is Sieh's book - Sieh is the eldest of the Three's godling children, the God of Childhood. In The Broken Kingdoms, Itempas (reduced to mortal status as punishment) set about redeeming himself with the help of Oree Shoth and stopped a conspiracy to murder the gods using the tainted blood of demons (god/human halflings).
In The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, a mortal woman, Yeine, freed the gods and became the newest incarnation of Enefa, bringing balance and restoring the Three. Itempas went nuts and murdered Enefa, imprisoned and enslaved Nahadoth and the godlings, and gave power over them into the hands of his chosen people, the Arameri, who, for 2000 years, built an unstoppable empire using the gods as weapons. In this world, there were three major gods - Nahadoth (darkness, chaos, change), Itempas (light, order, stability), and Enefa (twilight, balance, death, rebirth), and their various godling children. Previously, on The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms: I didn't understand how the third book, Kingdom of Gods, could be so drastically different. I adored the first two books - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and The Broken Kingdoms. Jemisin's Hundred Thousand Kingdoms trilogy. The Word: This was not the review I thought I would be writing for the final book in N.K. Manages his business in the mortal realm.Īhad: A mysterious, bitter godling with painful ties to Sieh and Nahadoth. Glee: Itempas' daughter by Oree Shoth (the protagonist from The Broken Kingdoms). Enslaved his fellow gods and godlings for thousands of years and is only now starting to pay the price for it - but will he ever be forgiven? Trying to bring the Three back together again - including Itempas, who started the Gods' War. Loves him, but as the God of change, he cannot protect Sieh from the march of progress.
Sent off to become a powerful wizard, he still maintains his connection to his sister - and Sieh. Shahar: Befriended by Sieh, despite being Heir of the ruling Arameri family - but she is determined to try and rule fairly and justly, and overturn the belief that Arameri are calculating, heartless monsters.ĭekarta: Shahar's distrusted brother. Despite being alive since existence began, he is lonely and aches for something more, so he befriends a couple of children, an action that has unforeseen consequences. Sieh: The God of Childhood, eldest of the lesser godlings created by the Three.
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