Earth Magic

Earth Magic: Physical attacks with stun effects, crowd control. In lore and dialogue this may be referred to as Gaiaism.

"Vonda the Earth Magic master was last seen in Jaanaford, but she avoids visitors! You may have to look for her a bit. Some say she makes her home in a cave behind a waterfall."

Earth Skill Tree

Active

Earth's Embrace	Increases damage resistance. Earth Specialization increases the duration.
Earthquake	Area of effect attack with a chance of knock down reduced by targets dexterity. Earth Specialization increases the knockdown duration and decreases the cast time.
Root	Reduce targets movement speed. Duration based on the relative earth attunement levels, skill level, and the caster's strength. The duration of the root will be decreased based on the targets strength. Earth Specialization increases the duration of the root.
Shield of Crystal	Summons a shield of crystal that increases max health and increases earth attunement. Earth Specialization adds damage avoidance. This spell is considered a shield spell, and only one shield spell can be active at any given time.
Stone Arrow	Ranged earth attack that can ignore armor and gains bonus damage based on the caster's strength. Earth Specialization reduces cool down and cast time.
Stone Fist	Close range earth attack that gains bonus damage based on the caster's strength. Earth Specialization decreases the cooldown and the lock time.
Strength of Earth	Increases strength. Strength of earth will not stack with Air's Embrace or Enlightenment. Earth Specialization adds a buff to how much can be carried.
Summon Earth Elemental	Summons an Earth Elemental
Torpor	Torpor causes the caster to become one with the earth. The caster will be unable to move, will act more slowly, but will be more difficult to damage by physical attacks and emerge in a more healthy state

Innate

Air Warding	Weakens attunement with the Air tree while increasing the resistance to the Air tree
Bulwark of Earth	Increases strength and damage resistance
Earth Attunement	Increases the power of Earth skills and resistance to negative Earth effects. Attunement is increased by training active Earth skills
Earth Magic Specialization	Earth Magic Specialization is the devotion of one's self to the school of Earth Magic. It increases the power of all Earth Magic while weakening your power and resistance to the opposing school of Air. In addition to the attunement gain, the Earth Specialization skill will impact each spell slightly in some manner. NOTE: Only one Specialization skill may be trained and one additional skill maintained at any given time or two may be set to maintain. Enabling training for a different specialization skill may set a specialization skill currently set to maintain to unlearn.
Sympathy of Stone	Increases damage avoidance and max damage deflection

External Reference

• This is extremely old and outdated information only for historical purposes: Magic, Combat, and Crafting Skills on the Shroud of the Avatar Forums