![]() ![]() After he meets with the Foretellers, Ai briefly returns to Erhenrang, but, feeling unsafe there, he decides to try his luck in another of Gethen’s nations. He meets a group of Handdara Foretellers, who are able to see the future, and who inform him that within five years, Gethen will be a member of the Ekumen. Ai’s proposal to the King-that Karhide join the Ekumen-is subsequently rejected.Īfter his proposal is rejected, Ai travels around Karhide, learning about its rural people, and one of its two religion, Handdara. Unfortunately, the morning of Ai’s meeting, Estraven is announced to be a traitor and exiled. Ai distrusts Estraven, but requires and accepts his help in order to further his mission. The prime minister of Karhide, Therem Harth rem ir Estraven, has been helping Ai arrange a meeting with King Argaven to plead his case. Because Ai is a Terran man, Gethenians see him as either an anomaly, an alien, or a sexual pervert.Īi lives in Erhenrang, the capital of the nation of Karhide. Eighty percent of the time, the people of Gethen are hermaphroditic neuters, meaning that Gethenians are neither male, nor female, and they only express sexual characteristics or desire during a period known as kemmer, which lasts for a few days every month. His task is to convince the Gethenian nations to join an interplanetary trade network known as the Ekumen. ![]() ![]() The novel begins two years into Genly Ai’s Envoy mission to the planet Gethen. ![]()
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