Earth

Offensive

Use against objects

• Make material have more internal pressure, gain stiffness.

• Warp multi-layer materials by increasing internal pressure of one of the layers. Make mortar compress so bricks fall out.

• Enhance resonance/vibrations to become more destructive

• Foundation sabotage. Make the ground under an object settle unevenly, causing buildings to crack, towers to lean, and machinery get misaligned.

• Propagate fault lines. Fractures cause breakage, as if ice froze in a crack.

• Make material have less internal pressure, lose stiffness or sag under their own weight.

• Deform after impact. Permanently dent or cumple.

• Choke flow.

• Block lubrication.

• Prevent wicking, capillary flow.

• Increase decomposition due to water stagnation.

Use against a body

• Obscure vision through eye pressure

• Raise blood pressure, pounding pulse, headache, nosebleeds

• Breaths shallow through increased thoracic wall persistence and resist expansion

• Raise internal lung pressure.

• Raise skull pressure, cause headaches, confusion, seizure

• Stiffen joints and lose range

• Thicken capillaries, deaden fingers and toes, skin goes cold

• Snap ligaments. Connective tissue loses its glue as boundaries increase and snap from strain.

• Reduce blood pressure, cause dizziness, nausea, and fainting

• Muscles lose compression, causing stance to wobble and punches be less forceful.

• Block blood flow. Carotid restriction can cause blackouts and death

• Lymph choking, causing swelling and painful stiffness

• Block air exchange to lungs.

Offensive power ups

• Bones handle compression better. Knuckles don’t break in punches. Personally support larger weights.

• More endurance through more efficient muscle usage by enforcing boundaries between muscle groups without wasted co-contraction.

• Muscles move and reposition faster.

Defensive

Support defensive objects

• Strengthen materials to be stiffer

• Controlled crumpling. Make an object deform upon impact to prevent catastrophic failure.

• Block fluid seepage so water, smoke, nor corrosives can penetrate.

Defensive power ups

• Anchored stances, difficult to knock down or throw

• Strong skin. Cut resistant.

• Pain compartmentalization. Pain will not radiate and effect other areas of the body.

• Diffuse impacts so damage isn’t localized.

• Stop bleeding.

As a tool

Support objects

• Increase compaction and settling. Loose soil turns dense, gravel locks, sand packs, mortar sets faster

• Create gemstones/diamonds (rare)

• Weighting and anchoring. Make light structures behave heavy for transport or storms, then release.

• Make material have tighter internal hold. Harder metal. Harder wood.

• Loosen soil for agriculture and digging.

• Prevent cracking during drying for clay, plaster, pain, and mortar. Withdraw Earth so shrink stresses don’t set into fractures.

• Reduce stiffness to bend materials.

• Make porous materials hold their saturation longer.

• Waterproofing

Support a body

• Posture support. Easier to sit and stand longer without fatigue.

• Resist repetitive motion damage to joints.

• Stronger compression strength, lift heavy objects

• Make it easier to breath during stress and exertion

Healing

• Increase blood pressure

• Strengthen clotting

• Local anesthesia by isolating nerve conduction

• Keep planes of tissue separated during surgery

• Reduce dangerous pressure. Relieve compartment pressure in crushed limbs.

• Stop bleeding, stabilize internal bleeding

• Prevent poison spreading from a injection site

• Reduce swelling from lymph flow

Economic advantages