Karel asked:

Why did Hoa love Essun specifically? I know form his past he loved Kelenli, but every orogene is presumably a descendant of her? So why in the story does he love Essun, how did he know she would go on to essentially save the world?

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Nirkatze When Essun asks Hoa why he is helping her, he says something like "you asked if I was okay." In the first book, when Syenite connects to an obelisk for the first time, she sees the stone-eater trapped inside it, an asks him if he is okay. I don't know if that is the entirety of the reason, but that moment of empathy seems to have given a jumpstart to feeling.

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