Earth elemental

Earth elementals were extremely strong elementals who rarely left their home plane.
==Description==
These elementals had a vaguely humanoid shape, with club-like arms made of jagged stone and a head made of both dirt and stone. Occasionally chunks of minerals, gems, or metals were set within their stony bodies.
 Their bodies typically moved at a slow, trodding pace.
==Personality==
Earth elementals were not especially intelligent. However, like all elementals, they instinctively resented any creature that conjured them from their home plane and bound them into its service.
==Biology==
Being elementals, these creatures did not require any air, food, drink, or sleep to survive.
==Abilities==
Earth elementals were capable of gliding through stone and dirt as though it were liquid, but only if they were unworked and non-magical. They were also capable of precisely pinpointing the location of nearby opponents, but only if they were standing on solid ground, a type of vision that was known as tremorsense.
Prior to the Time of Troubles, these elementals could not cross bodies of water. Thus they had to use their ability of burrowing through unworked earth to pass underneath the ground on which bodies of water stood.
Bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing weaponry were all ineffective against earth elementals unless they were enchanted. Prior to the Time of Troubles, they could only be damaged by weapons with a +2 enchantment or greater.
==Combat==
Earth elementals would use their brute strength when fighting an opponent, slamming against them. They were also considered to be living siege weapons, doing severe damage to objects and structures, but especially those made of stone or earth.
==Society==
===Summoning===
These elementals could be summoned to the Prime Material plane through use of the spells conjure elemental, conjure earth elemental, conjure lesser earth elemental, elemental servant, elemental summoning, summon monster III, and summon monster VI.
There were also magical items that could achieve this, such as a stone of controlling earth elementals, elemental gems. the Elemental Scourge in Kossuth's House, the laughing hare, the Zakharan instrument rababah of the dao (but only if played by a bard or rawunin), and the Tome of Twelve Seals.
In terms of divine magic, specialty priests known as earthwalkers were granted the power to summon an earth elemental once per day or incredibly powerful ones once per tenday by their deity Grumbar. Upon reaching a certain level of skill, earthwalkers summoned their first earth elemental in a religious ceremony called Brotherhood of Earth.
It was impossible to summon an earth elemental while in the phlogiston.
===Languages===
Earth elementals rarely spoke, though when they did speak they used the Terran language.
===Relationships===
Earth elementals were favored monsters of many deities within the Morndinsamman, acting as their divine servants. These deities included Berronar Truesilver, Clangeddin Silverbeard, Dumathoin. They were also servants of the exiled members of this pantheon, the duergar gods Deep Duerra and Laduguer.
In the gnome pantheon, these elementals were favored monsters of the deities Baervan Wildwanderer, Callarduran Smoothhands, Flandal Steelskin, and Segojan Earthcaller. Outside of pantheons, individual deities that favored earth elementals as divine servants included Geb, Grumbar, Rillifane Rallathil, and Sheela Peryroyl.
==History==
A svirfneblin cleric, Belwar Dissengulp, once summoned an earth elemental to protect his mining party from a drow ambush.
==Appendix==
===Appearances===
:;Adventures
::Scourge of the Sword Coast
:;Novels
::The Ring of Winter • The Council of Blades
::
::Sentinelspire
:;Comic Books
::Fools Rush In • Honor Among Thieves: The Feast of the Moon
:;Video Games
::Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn • Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal • Baldur's Gate III • Dungeon Hack • Icewind Dale • Neverwinter Nights • Neverwinter Nights: Tyrants of the Moonsea
:;Board Games
::Temple of Elemental Evil Board Game
:;Organized Play & Licensed Adventures
::Boltsmelter's Book
===Gallery===
Earth Elemental Concepts.png|An earth elemental from the city of Baldur's Gate.
NwN Earth Elemental.jpg|An Earth elemental as it appears in the game editor for Neverwinter Nights.
BGII - PC Forms - Earth Elemental.jpg|The Bhaalspawn can change shapes in Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn The Earth elemental is one of these.
BGII - Creature - Lesser Earth Elemental.jpg|The Puny lesser earth elemental stands short but ready in Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn.
BGII - Creature - Greater Earth Elemental.jpg|The Mighty Greater Earth Elemental stands tall and menacing in the game: Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal.
Summon earth elemental.jpg|Deep gnomes summoning a rather large earth elemental.
Elder earth elemental.jpg|Concept art of an elder earth elemental from Neverwinter Nights 2.
File:Screenshot 2021-02-18 MC1 - Monstrous Compendium Volume 1 pdf(22).png|An earth elemental and an air elemental from 2nd edition.
Earth-Cult Elemental AFR.jpg|A depiction of an earth elemental from Adventures in the Forgotten Realms.
Advance EElemental.png|Another depiction of an earth elemental.
===External links===
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===References===
Category:Creatures found in the Elemental Plane of Earth