Earth Elementals

Smaller earth elementals often resemble little rocky golems or clumps of animated earth stones arranged into a roughly humanoid shape with a face suggested by cracks and mineral veins. As they gain power they can become vast, towering constructs of rock: colossal golems, stony hulks, or tessellated forms where individual boulders float and bind together by earth magic. Unlike ordinary rock, their bodies are formed from raw earth energy, not merely weathered stone.

Earth Elemental pathfinder stats   Earth elementals possess the unique ability to burrow through the ground, passing seamlessly through soil and stone without displacing or damaging the landscape. In this state, they become one with the earth itself, though their burrowing speed is relatively slow compared to their surface movements.   They are completely immune to earth-aligned magic. Even the most powerful spells of stone and soil cannot harm them; in many cases, such magic only strengthens their form as they absorb its energy.   As true living beings of Earth mageic and ground they have a weakness to fire type magics. When they are hit by fire type spells it start to breack their body and weakened and causing more damage than it should.   Pathfinder Rule: Add vulnerability to Fire type spell   Battling an earth elemental on solid ground is especially dangerous. Their tremorsense allows them to track the faintest vibration, reading an opponent’s movements the instant they shift. This connection with the land lets them accelerate with surprising force, striking with the momentum of a living boulder. To face one underground or on terrain it commands is to fight against the land itself.

On the material plane, earth elementals grow by absorbing magical earth energy. Long standing leyline nodes can spawn exceptionally large elementals over decades. Growth patterns in metaphysical and divine realms remain poorly understood despite endless nourishment, elementals there show wide variation in size and form. Scholars theorize some are fixed by divine will, while others follow metaphysical laws not yet deciphered.

Earth elementals occur across the three principal planes:  

• Physical Realm Common near earth ley lines, mountain ranges, caverns, deep forests, and other places rich in terrestrial magic.
• Metaphysical Realm Found in the Realm of Earth and planes suffused with soil, stone, plant-rooted magic, or deep geomantic forces.
• Divine Realm Associated with Chikyu Goddess of Earth and Bardo God of Survival, where their essence carries divine stability and gravitas.

Their outward form and aura shift subtly depending on the realm of origin, though their fundamental nature remains rockbound.

Physical Realm Earth elementals feed on ambient earth mana: geomantic currents, leyline nodes, and mineral charged crystals. Drained crystals lose their earth attunement and revert to plain leyline stones. They are the slowest eaters among elementals, digesting energy over long spans.   Metaphysical & Divine Realms In planes abundant with earth essence, they simply absorb the surrounding substance to maintain and shape their forms.

Physical Realm Typically possess animal level intelligence: deliberate, territorial, and protective. They are patient and slow to anger, but relentless once provoked think immovable guardian rather than impulsive attacker.   Metaphysical & Divine Realms Larger elementals often display true sentience. Rather than speak, they communicate by striking or shifting their rocky bodies to produce resonant tones chiming, grinding, or drum like signals that convey meaning. They are calm, collective, and measured; warnings often precede violence, but if diplomacy fails their force is crushing and unyielding.

Earth elementals rely primarily on tremorsense they read vibrations through the ground and stone. This grants excellent awareness of movement and mass within their vicinity, especially anything in contact with the earth. They possess a limited, stone-based echo-sensation that gives rough spatial awareness up to a few dozen feet, but they are poor at detecting airborne or non-contact phenomena.   Other sensory notes:   Hearing Sensitive to vibrations and low rumbles through ground and stone.   Touch Perceive pressure, mass, and resistance; they judge an object’s size and force before handling to avoid crushing it.   Smell/Taste Absent.