Essun

Essun is the main character of the Broken Earth Trilogy.

Essun is the character we most closely follow during the trilogy, and we can see her personality evolve as she grows. As Damaya she's proud and hardworking, as Syenite, she's arrogant, enthusiastic, curious, ambitious, and frustrated by a lack of recognition of her qualities, and by the limits of her orogeny. As Essun, finally she has become more grounded, patient and determined, she's grown into a powerful orogene who's enraged at the way the world is, and the way people treat orogenes, and more than anything at Jija for what he did to Uche.