During the Scythe series, the Scythedom faces the spread of corruption, hedonism, and malfeasance amongst some of its scythes. Throughout the world, regional Scythedoms are splitting into factions, fomenting disorder within the Scythedom.

Scythe is a 2016 young adult novel by Neal Shusterman and is the first in the Arc of a Scythe series. It is set in the far future, where death, disease, and unhappiness have been virtually eliminated due to advances in technology, and a benevolent artificial intelligence known as the Thunderhead peacefully governs a united Earth.

Nov 22, 2016 · Scythe is the first book of the Arc of a Scythe series. "Thou shalt kill" A world with no hunger. No disease. No war. No misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control.

In entries in her "gleaning journal," Scythe Curie gives the reader the history of her world. in 2042, humans became immortal and created the Scythedom, an organization of scythes—people trained to "glean," or kill others permanently—to control the population growth.

Jan 15, 2024 · “Scythe” unfolds in a future where humans have conquered death, and the Scythedom, a group of trained individuals called scythes, are tasked with managing population growth through “gleaning” – a permanent form of death.

When humanity came up with the idea to create the Scythedom, several hundred years before the start of the novel, it put rules in place to guide scythe behavior, while also insisting to the rest of humanity that scythes are unusually and incorruptibly just and moral.

The Scythedom is group of specialized people who “glean,” or permanently kill, humans to manage population growth. Citra is an active, decisive person, prone to anger, while Rowan is neglected, observant, and more empathetic than most people in the post-mortal age.

Immortal humans, and the Thunderhead, cannot control humanity's worst impulses and grabs for power as represented and carried out by select scythes, particularly Scythe Goddard. The Scythe quotes below all refer to the symbol of Thunderhead.

May 13, 2020 · The Scythedom was created to aid the humankind as well, to enable the humanity to prosper, but in differently than AI. They are the enactors of the necessary death and without them, humanity would perish because of overpopulation.

The Scythedom, led by Scythe Curie, gives Scythe Anastasia a standing ovation. Scythe Anastasia announces that she’ll glean Rowan by blade, but before she does, she punches him in the face, using her new scythe ring, “accidentally” granting him immunity by …