Elemental Implement Schools, Part 2: Earth & Happy Birthday Blog!

This week I celebrate my blog’s first birthday! It’s grown in this time, earning so many new readers, and I also found the courage of creating my own Patreon page thanks to all those who follow me. I hope I am grown as an author and person too in the last year. My deepest thanks to you all!
And enjoy today’s post, that continues the one I began on Sunday.

Earth Implements

Earth implements are items related to earth, protection, wealth, and stability. Abjuration, conjuration, and transmutation are the most common powers associated with earth.

Implement(s): Armor, chisel, gem, hammer, nugget, pickaxe, shovel, stone.

Resonant Power(s): Each time the occultist invests mental focus into an earth implement, the implement grants the following resonant power. The implement’s bearer gains the benefits of this power until the occultist refreshes his focus.

Rock Armor (Su): The implement hardens its bearer’s skin. The implement’s bearer gains DR 2/adamantine for every 2 points of mental focus invested in the implement, up to a maximum equal to the occultist’s level.

Base Focus Power: All occultists who learn to use earth implements gain the following focus power.

Protective Slab (Su): As an immediate action, you can spend 1 point of mental focus to make one or more slabs of rock emerge from the ground or from a wall. The stone is 1 inch thick and its maximum total surface is equal to one 5-ft. square, and lasts 1 round per occultist level you possess. You could create, for example, a protective wall against attacks, a safe landing place on a cliff’s wall, a hold to break a fall, or stone steps to climb a sheer mountain.  At 5th level, you can reduce to half the stone’s surface to double its thickness, and at 10th, 15th, and 20th level you can do so once again (up to a maximum of 1/16 the surface for 16 times the thickness).

Focus Powers: In addition to gaining the base focus power, occultists who learn to use earth implements can select from the following focus powers when choosing the powers gained from their focus powers class feature.

Armor of Stone (Su): As a standard action, you can conjure an armor made of rock and stone on your body or on a touched creature. This behaves as a stone plate, with all the benefits and penalties conferred by a normal, non-magical armor of that type. You are considered proficient with it. The armor of stone lasts 1 minute, and its duration may be prolonged by spending more points of mental focus.

Earth Creation (Su): As a standard action, you may spend 1 point of mental focus to create a weapon or another item from earth and rock. The item’s volume cannot exceed one 1 ft. cube plus 1 for every 2 occultist levels you possess. It must be an item that can be normally be made of rock or earth, either raw or worked, but cannot be decorated neither be composed of separate parts: a stone club, a clay vase, or a brick are all available choices. The item lasts for 10 minutes for every occultist level you possess; at 10th level, you can make it permanent by spending another 2 points of mental focus. An item created this way can be used as normal, but has no magic qualities. It can also be used as an implement for your occultist spells and abilities.

Manipulate Earth and Rock (Sp): You may spend mental focus to move or manipulate the form of earth and rock in a 10 ft. cube per round, expending 1 point of mental focus per round. This function as move earth or stone shape, but can be used for tunneling (rocks in the way are not moved, but rather remodeled to allow passage). Dwarven elemental occultists use this power to create subterranean homes and ornate halls. You must be at least 9th level to select this focus power.

Rock Barrier (Sp): As a standard action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to  conjure a solid rock wall to protect you. This functions as wall of stone, except it last a number of rounds equal to your occultist level. You must be at least 7th level to select this focus power.

Statue (Sp): As a standard action, you can make yourself or another touched creature assume a stone form, as the statue spell. This effect lasts 1 minute for every point of mental focus you expend. You must be at least 11th level to select this focus power.

Transmute Rock and Metal (Su): As a standard action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus and touch one object made of earth, stone, or metal to transform it into another kind of earth, stone or metal. A stone could be transformed into a gold lump and vice versa, a steel armor into silver, or a brick into a block of iron. The transmutation lasts 1 minute for every occultist level you possess. At 7th level, you can replicate gems with this ability, and at 11th level, rare minerals and metals as adamantine or mithral (but not inherently magic materials as abysium).

Sacred Implement

Core of the Mountain

Deity Torag; Implement hammer; Opposition School air

Travel Through Stone (Su): As a standard action, you can spend 1 point of mental focus to hit a rock or stone surface and open a passage to teleport yourself up to a distance of 30 ft. per occultist level you possess, emerging from another similar surface. If there is not a suitable surface within range, this ability doesn’t work. You can bring along another creature for every 4 occultist level you possess.