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Mandy asked this question about The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2):
Does it not bother anyone else that Nassun went and commit a genocide on the Antarctic Fulcrum? Her reason for doing it is still unclear to me. She went from accidentally killing someone and feeling mortified about it to casually murdering a whole community who was not hurting anyone without an ounce of remorse? I'm on the Stone Sky now and I JUST CAN'T GET OVER THIS.
Danica From the things she was saying and the way she was thinking at that point I think she believed that the Fulcrum way of doing things was bad and that t…moreFrom the things she was saying and the way she was thinking at that point I think she believed that the Fulcrum way of doing things was bad and that they break orogenes also making them bad. She says something along the lines of the Fulcrum way being the reason her mother could never love her, etc. Since all of the people in the Antarctic Fulcrum had already gone through the hand breaking I think she assumed that they were all beyond "saving" and already well on the road to turning out like the elders of the Fulcrum. But she also has started to see herself as a monster for being born an orogene; I can only assume she starting to think that all orogenes are monsters so that probably helped in the decision making.(less)
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The Obelisk Gate
by N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)
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