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Here's the first big earth spell since Grey's Stone Gauntlet! Grey didn't have a very good grasp of earth magic in the dungeon exam, so the best he could do was stick together a bunch of rocks on his arm and make them shatter when he punched something. In this case, Bram uses earth magic to crack the ground under the air elemental and cause it to explode violently upward.

There's a bit of a challenge when thinking about earth magic compared to others. For fire, water, and wind magic it's very easy to imagine these elements appearing out of thin air when created by magic. For earth magic, it's most common to imagine the spell coming from the ground. It's a little more weird when earth appears out of thin air... for whatever reason. The most common earth spells of the top of my head are the classic earth spikes, causing an earthquake, making a hole in the ground, or throwing rocks. Kind of dull when you think about it, which is why I've designed earth mages to be close quarters fighters, and also made earth magic the main "enhancement" type of magic to spice things up.