We know less about Earth aura than we do about every school of magic built around it. This is true for most elemental paths developed in the Crude Age, where aurics first learned to manipulate nature, albeit for primitive uses like surfing clouds and summoning tidal waves.
This uncertainty creates a breeding ground for fanciful ideas, the kind that propagate in the dark, wet corners of academic minds. One such idea is that Earth aura — an abundant, naturally-forming compound we've studied for millennia — may not actually exist.
If there is any truth to the axiom "To live is to ponder", it is not absolute.
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Earthwitch
FantasyAnele is dying, but that's nothing new. As an Earthwitch with a shattered soul, she's spent most of her life trying not to, but lately, the void eating through her keeps growing. And now, she's caught the attention of something worse than death -- a...