Joey Thatch

Bring about a sudden, localized change in the land near you.

Essence Cost: Low
Range: Low
Cooldown: Low
Paired Action: Strike, rend, or otherwise dig around in natural earth; may prolong for increasingly greater impact.

• Intended change is Pitched by user, including its location, but must be thematically linked to their Paired Action. (Egs. Violently gouging a furrow yields a fissure; rhythmic slamming yields a quake; tearing away a handful yields a pillar, etc.)
  ≫ Changes start small, but prolonging the Paired Action greatly increases their scope. (Eg. A fissure might initially only be large enough to catch someone’s leg but wind up large enough to swallow a car)
• Changes revert as quickly as they appeared (the earth reknitting itself as needed). As a follow up Paired Action, user may perform a brief incantation or similar ritual to “cement” the change, giving it up to a High Duration (based on its innate stability) but increasing the ability’s Cost & Cooldown to Mid.

Essence Cost

Low

Range

Low

Cooldown

Low

Paired Action: Manipulate natural earth in a manner befitting the Pitched landform.

• Impact, including the explosiveness of the landform’s appearance where desired, scale Low–High with the intensity and/or complexity of the user’s Paired Action.
• Targeted earth returns to normal over a Low-Mid Duration scaling on the landform’s inherent stability.

Turn yourself to solid rock, rendering you nigh-invulnerable to most damage but also completely blind.

Essence Cost: Mid
Max Duration Mid
Cooldown: Mid
Paired Action: Aggressively tense every muscle in your body; relaxing in any way will end the ability.

• User becomes much less agile than usual but can otherwise move normally despite a HUGE increase in weight.
• Damage that can bypass Stoneskin should be handled intuitively. (Egs. A jackhammer, a psychic blast, drowning, etc.)

Essence Cost

Mid

Max Duration

Mid

Cooldown

Mid

Paired Action: Tense your body. You must continue to do so or Stoneskin will end prematurely.

• The user’s agility is reduced, but they are otherwise unencumbered.
• Certain threats may bypass Stoneskin’s protection as intuitive. (e.g. Jackhammer, psychic blast, drowning, etc.)

Perceive your surroundings via vibrations in the ground; far less effective when not used on natural earth.

Essence Cost: Low
Duration Low
Cooldown: Low
Paired Action: Close your eyes and impact the ground to send out a subtle pulse, then wait to feel its echo.

• Gives the user an internal map of their surrounding topography,including subterranean, as well as any moving people or objects in contact with the ground.
• The heavier the Paired Action, the greater the ability’s Range (up to High) but the slower the user receives information from it.
  ≫ Egs. A soft tap of the foot might have a Low Range but near-instantaneous feedback; a massive slam with a Rock Maul might have High Range but take minutes.
  ≫ Ability may be indefinitely prolonged via further strikes and waiting, proportionately increasing its Cooldown.
• Attunes the user to the affected patch of earth, boosting the power and speed of the next magic they target it with.

Essence Cost

Low

Range

Low–High

Max Delay

Low

Cooldown

Low

Paired Action: Impact the ground, then wait to feel the vibrations echo back.

• Range and delay both scale with the force applied through the Paired Action. (e.g. A tap of the foot would have a Low Range and a delay of mere seconds; slamming a heavy tool would have a High Range and a Low delay.)
• Questions may have up to High Impact, scaling on how prominent the target is (due to its size, weight, movement, etc.). (e.g. A single, stationary human would only afford Low Impact; a parked vehicle would afford Mid Impact; a terrain feature like a house would afford High Impact.)

Thin-soled sandals made of simple cord. Allows the user to cross hazardous or unstable natural terrain (anything from lava to wet sand) without any impediment or risk of injury, including all but the sharpest inclines.

• Provides a High Ward against natural, ground-based hazards (sharp stones, lava, quicksand, etc.).
• Boosts the owner’s agility on rugged terrain (Mid Impact).
• With a running start, the owner may slide across natural earth in a fully controlled manner akin to ice skating.

Heavy gauntlets of shaped stone, enhancing punching power to a Mid degree. When in contact with natural earth, may magically coat the gauntlets in it, hardening into a simple shape Pitched (pg24) by the user. Low Cooldown.

• Boosts the owner’s punching power (Mid Impact).
• Plunge these gauntlets into natural earth to magically coat them with it, hardening into a simple Pitched shape (Low Cooldown).

“Belt” of 8 stones, normally worn but which may be levitated away to orbit the user’s body at will. Orbiting stones may be launched as projectiles or used to block incoming attacks, though doing either expends the stone(s)used.

Quantity

Low

Lightness Boost

Low

• Orbiting stones may be magically launched as projectiles or intercept incoming attacks, expending any stone(s) used.

Lump of mysterious matter, magically reshapable by user alongside minor Pitched changes to its size, weight, composition, etc. Must always be composed of a single, solid material (rock, metal, mineral, or similar), and more complex results take longer to produce.

• The owner may magically sculpt this matter into any Pitched shape, changing its composition as they do so.
  • Must remain composed of solid, earthen material (rock, metal, mineral, etc.).
  • This takes up to a Low Duration, scaling on the Impact of the change.