Earth magic leaves an indelible mark on its users, causing people who study the tradition to increasingly appear to be made from the element they command.

It’s believed that this transformation is a consequence of learning the secret names of earth, stone, sand, and similar materials—names that, when spoken aloud, allow a caster to shape those substances and produce them from nothing.

Discovering the Earth tradition often results from communing with mad genies in places dominated by a form of earth, such as deep underground or in the depths of desert wastes. Genies impart their wisdom only with great reluctance, and thus many students make offerings of blood, jewels, and other treasures to entice the unruly entities into parting with the secret names they seek knowledge of.