Nature: Earth Gift List

The gift index includes a full index of all gifts in all suites, as well as an explanation of some of the terms used in these descriptions.

 

 

Earth Gift Descriptions

The following are the earth gifts in alphabetical order.

 

DIG
Suite: Earth Small [Ground]
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: Close (30 feet)
Area: 5-foot square
Duration: Instantaneous
Defense: Reflex (see text)
Nature Inhibition: No
You gesture, bringing your hands down sharply, and before you the earth gives way.
The area you choose immediately descends five feet. (Creatures gain a +2 bonus on attack rolls made against targets at a lower elevation.)
Make a natural attack against Reflex of any creatures in the area whose space does not extend outside the affected area. If you hit, the creature remains in the area; otherwise, the creature can move to any adjacent square.

 

DUSTSTORM
Suite: Earth Small
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: Personal
Area: 15 ft radius
Duration: Brief Combat (5 rounds)
Defense: None
Nature Inhibition: No
You slam your foot into the ground, and dust rises, obscuring vision.
The area becomes filled with dust and rocky debris. The dust obscures all sight, including darkvision, beyond 5 feet. A creature within 5 feet has concealment (attacks have a 20% miss chance). Creatures farther away have total concealment (50% miss chance, and the attacker can’t use sight to locate the target).
A moderate wind (11+ mph) disperses the dust in 4 rounds; a strong wind (21+ mph) disperses the dust in 1 round.

 

EARTHBIND
Suite: Earth Small [Ground]
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: Close (30 feet)
Target: One creature
Duration: Brief Combat (5 rounds)
Defense: Reflex
Nature Inhibition: Yes
You clench your fist in a creature's direction, and stone rises to hold them fast.
Make a natural attack against the target. If you hit, the target is immobilized for the duration.

 

EARTHGLIDE
Suite: Earth Modest [Ground]
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: Instantaneous
Defense: None
Nature Inhibition: No
You dig your feet into the ground, and the earth moves you as you command.
You slide up to your speed. Each square you leave becomes difficult terrain. (Forced movement, such as push, pull, and slide, does not provoke opportunity attacks.)

 

EARTHSHIFT
Suite: Earth Small [Ground]
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: Close (30 feet)
Target: One creature
Duration: Instantaneous
Defense: Fortitude
Nature Inhibition: Yes
You make a rapid slicing motion with a hand, the earth moves beneath the target's feet.
Make a natural attack against the target. If you hit, you knock the target prone and slide them up to 2 squares.

 

INDOMITABLE STONE
Suite: Earth Fair
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: Brief Combat (5 rounds)
Defense: None
Nature Inhibition: No
You infuse your soul with the essence of earth, and take on a stony appearance.
You gain protect and immunity to forced movement. (A creature with protect halves all physical damage taken.)
Your movement speed is reduced to 1 square (5 feet), and you cannot shift.

 

LANDSLIDE
Suite: Earth Fair [Earth, Ground]
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: Close (30 feet)
Area: 10-foot wide line from you to extreme edge of range
Duration: Instant
Defense: Reflex
Nature Inhibition: Yes
You sharply raise both of your hands, and the earth before you shudders and surges forward.
Make a natural attack against all creatures in the area. If you hit, you deal potency 4 earth damage; you deal half damage on a miss.
You push all creatures in the area 4 squares.

 

LIFT
Suite: Earth Modest [Ground]
Bending Time: Swift action
Range: Close (30 feet)
Area: One square
Duration: Instantaneous
Defense: None
Nature Inhibition: No
You make your hands into fists and raise them, and the earth responds in kind.
The target square becomes elevated by an additional 5 feet; this additional height is supported by a column of stone.

 

QUAKE
Suite: Earth Modest [Earth, Ground]
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: Medium (100 feet)
Area: 20 foot radius
Duration: Instantaneous
Defense: Reflex
Nature Inhibition: Yes
You stomp your foot, and the ground trembles beneath your strength.
Make a natural attack against all creatures in the area. If you hit, you deal potency 3 earth damage; you deal half damage on a miss.

 

QUICKSAND
Suite: Earth Modest [Ground]
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: Close (30 feet)
Area: 15 foot radius
Duration: Brief Combat (5 rounds)
Defense: See text
Nature Inhibition: Yes
You make a sharp twisting motion, and the earth obeys by twisting itself into quicksand.
You create a zone of difficult terrain.
When any creature that begins its turn in the zone, make a natural attack against that creature's Reflex. If you hit, the creature slides one square towards the center of the zone and is immobilized until the start of its next turn. If a creature begins its turn in the center of the zone, that creature begins suffocating.

 

ROCK GAOL
Suite: Earth Fair [Earth]
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: Close (30 feet)
Target: One creature
Duration: Brief Combat (5 rounds)
Defense: Determination
Nature Inhibition: Yes
You clasp your hands together sharply, and a creature becomes encased in rock.
Make a natural attack against the target. If you hit, the target is encased in rock: the target gains disabled, immobilized, ongoing potency 2 earth damage, and is immune to other effects.
The rock created by this gift can be destroyed. It has your defenses and hit points equal to your healing surge value. If the rock is destroyed, the target's eject status immediately ends. The rock can be moved as though it were a creature.

 

ROCK PISTON
Suite: Earth Modest [Earth]
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: Close (30 feet)
Target: One creature, who must be within 20 feet of the nearest surface
Duration: Instant
Defense: Fortitude
Nature Inhibition: Yes
You punch, and the earth follows your example.
Make a natural attack against the target. If you hit, you deal potency 4 earth damage to the target, and you can push the target up to 20 feet away from the nearest surface.

 

SOOTHE EARTH
Suite: Earth Modest [Ground]
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: Close (30 feet)
Area: 20 foot radius
Duration: Instant
Defense: None
Nature Inhibition: No
Palm down, you gesture to the horizon, and the earth flattens itself.
Remove all difficult terrain from the area.

 

SPIRE BURST
Suite: Earth Fair [Earth]
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: Close (30 feet)
Target: One creature
Duration: Brief Combat (5 rounds)
Defense: Reflex
Nature Inhibition: Yes
You shoot your fist into the air, and the earth follows suit.
You create a wall of stone 1 square long and 3 squares tall that occupies at least one of the target's squares. This forces the target to move, but who decides where the target moves is dependent upon your attack roll (see below); regardless of who moves the target, the target must end in a space that is adjacent to the wall.
Make a natural attack against the target. If you hit, you deal potency 6 earth damage to the target, the target is immobilized for the duration, and you choose which direction the target moves. If you miss, you deal half damage, the target is immobilized until the end of its next turn, and the target determines where it moves.

 

STONE
Suite: Earth Small [Earth]
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: Close (30 feet)
Target: One creature
Duration: Instantaneous
Defense: Fortitude
Nature Inhibition: Yes
You slam your foot into the ground, producing a sizeable stone, which you then throw at your target.
Make a ranged natural attack against the target. If you hit, you deal potency 4 earth damage.

 

STONE SPIKES
Suite: Earth Small [Ground]
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: Close (30 feet)
Area: 5 foot radius
Duration: Brief Combat (5 rounds)
Defense: None
Nature Inhibition: Yes
You spread your fingers into a claw and lift, and tiny stone spikes emerge from the ground.
You create a zone of stone spikes in the area. The zone is treated as difficult terrain.

 

STONEFIST
Suite: Earth Small [Earth]
Bending Time: Standard action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: Brief Combat (5 rounds)
Defense: None
Nature Inhibition: Yes
You slam your fist into the ground and pull it out, now covered in stony plates.
You can make unarmed attacks as though you were proficient; your unarmed attacks gain a +2 power bonus to their potency, and deal half their damage as earth damage.

 

STONEWALL
Suite: Earth Small
Bending Time: Reaction
Range: Close (30 feet)
Effect: A stone wall, up to 5 feet high
Duration: Brief Combat (5 rounds)
Defense: None
Nature Inhibition: Yes
You gesture rapidly with both hands, raising a stony protrusion to protect yourself or an ally.
When you or an ally is targeted by a ranged attack, you raise a stone wall 5 feet high and 5 feet wide between your target and the source of the attack.
In addition, make an opposed natural attack against the triggering attack. If you succeed, the attack misses its intended target.

 

TERRA PLATE
Suite: Earth Modest [Ground]
Bending Time: Swift
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: Brief Combat (5 rounds)
Defense: None
Nature Inhibition: No
You encase yourself in earth.
Choose one type of heavy armor. You act as though you were wearing that type of armor for the duration.

 

TO GROUND
Suite: Earth Modest
Bending Time: Reaction
Range: Close (30 feet)
Target: One [Ground] effect
Duration: Instant
Defense: Determination
Nature Inhibition: Yes
You watch the flow of elemental energy, and move to counter it.
Use this gift as a reaction to a creature using an ability with the [ground] descriptor.
Make an opposed power check with the origin of the ability. If you succeed, the effect is countered. (A power check is d20 + your key ability modifier used for the ability set from which you are using this ability + your level bonus.)

 

WALL OF STONE
Suite: Earth Modest [Ground]
Bending Time: Standard
Range: Close (30 feet)
Area: Up to 5 squares
Duration: Brief Combat (5 rounds)
Defense: Reflex (see text)
Nature Inhibition: No
You take a low stance and bring both fists up, raising the earth.
You create a wall of earth and stone, which occupies up to 5 squares, with a maximum height of 20 feet. The wall lasts for the duration of this gift.
Make a natural attack against the Reflex of each creature in the area. If you hit, you decide which side of the wall the creature ends up on it; otherwise, that creature decides which side of the wall they are on.