The three books span a period of hundreds of years and follow gods and humankind alike, telling tales of love, betrayal, envy, forgiveness, sacrifice, and repentance. Taken together, The Inheritance Trilogy is epic fantasy writ large. In the process, he slowly learns of a possible war that could threaten the very world itself. Slowly dying, Sieh begins a quest to figure out how to regain his immortality. After making an oath with two Arameri children (on a whim of sorts), Sieh loses his immortality. And the third tale, Kingdom of the Gods, transports the reader forward hundreds of years in time and shifts focus to the child-like trickster god, Sieh. One day, she decides to take in a homeless and mute godling, who she calls 'Shiny.' Together, they become embroiled in a mystery, trying to discover why (and how) gods are being murdered across Amn. It centers on the story of Oree Shoth, a blind woman who has a magical ability to paint gorgeous pictures and to see shimmering outlines of magic, gods, and godlings.

The Broken Kingdom, the second tale, begins a decade after the events of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. I don't want to spoil the trilogy, so I will just briefly mention some of the major plot lines of the second and third books. In this succession dispute, the choices Yeine makes could have dramatic ramifications, and the fate of Sky and the realm itself are balanced on a razor's edge. But since Yeine harbors a secret, she soon finds herself thrust into a perilous, high-stakes game pitting the Arameri and their imprisoned gods against one another. To her utter shock and dismay, she finds herself declared a successor to the ruler of Amn and thrust into a dangerous succession dispute against two dangerous full-blooded Arameri. Yeine Darr, a northern 'barbarian' outcast, finds herself called to the center of Amn, the beautiful and dangerous city of Sky. The first book, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, begins two-thousand years after the Gods' War, in a world where the Arameri followers of Itempas reign supreme. In the process, Itempas killed Enefa and chained Nahadoth and a number of lesser gods to serve the Arameri, his devoted human followers. They waged a war among each other more than two-thousand years before the story begins, one that devastated both humanity and many of the lesser gods. Overall, the trilogy is centered on the story of the Three, the elder gods: Bright Itempas, lord of light and order Nahadoth, the Nightlord and god of chaos and change and Enefa, the goddess of twilight and life. The Inheritance Trilogy is composed of three novels: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms, and Kingdom of the Gods.

The inheritance trilogy by nk jemisin