Earth
Earth describes stone, soil, mineral mass, compression, and the transfer of force through solid ground.
Favorable in sanctioned battle Metal about +15% damage → A damaging Earth technique receives the favorable matchup once when the target carries the listed Current.
Resisted in sanctioned battle Lightning about −15% damage → A damaging Earth technique receives the resisted matchup once when the target carries the listed Current.
Native technique about +5% damage If a creature naturally carries Earth, its damaging Earth techniques receive a separate native-attunement benefit.
If a hit would otherwise deal 100 damage, a favorable matchup makes it roughly 115 and a resisted matchup makes it roughly 85. Attack, Defense, guarding, conditions, critical hits, and battle variance still affect the final number.
Natural record
11 documentedSpecies observed with Earth
These species dossiers carry Earth in the current public Collegium catalog.
Basaltusk Basaltusk are huge tunnel-dwelling fenborn with continuously growing mineralized tusks.
Breakerback Breakerback are enormous semi-aquatic fenborn with a flexible armored spine and broad webbed feet.
Frostmole Frostmole are powerful burrowing fenborn with broad foreclaws and blood-vessel countercurrent systems that keep the digging limbs warm.
Knotstag Knotstag are stocky forest grazers whose antlers grow in dense interlocking forks.
Magmara Magmara are heavy quadrupeds whose mineral plates shed extreme heat.
Reedjaw Reedjaw are low-slung amphibious fenborn with broad crushing jaws and a reinforced chest used to force paths through dense reeds.
Reefknuckle Reefknuckle are broad-bodied crustacean-like fenborn with two reinforced striking forelimbs and smaller dexterous feeding arms.
Rimeback Rimeback are massive cold-adapted grazers with hollow guard hairs and a ridged fatty crest over the spine.
Observed beyond sanctioned battle
Earth describes stone, soil, mineral mass, compression, and the transfer of force through solid ground.